Ngige says Igbo president realisable in 2023
- The political discourse on the 2023 presidency is one that has refused to die down
- Commenting on the issue, Labour minister Ngige said he 2023 Igbo presidency project was realisable
- Ngige, however, noted that it was premature to begin politicking for 2023, adding that his comments and choice of a presidential candidate will be unveiled after May 29, 2021
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The minister of labour and productivity, Dr Chris Nwabueze Ngige, has said that the 2023 Igbo presidency project was realisable.
The minister said this in an interview with Daily Sun published on Thursday, August 20.
Ngige, however, said he would not want to dwell so much on it since the incumbent, President Muhammadu Buhari, is yet to complete the first half of his second tenure.
The minister said it was premature to begin politicking for 2023, adding that his comments and choice of a presidential candidate will be unveiled after May 29, 2021.
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"I don’t want to discuss the chances because I am not discussing the Presidency and who is filling it next now. I feel it is unfair for the incumbent who has not done up to halftime," he said.
Ngige, who was former Anambra State Governor from May 29, 2003, to April 16, 2006, also represented Anambra Central senatorial district from 2011 to 2015 before joining the Buhari administration as labour minister.
He also spoke about his position on zoning the presidency, noting that the All Progressives Congress (APC) has an agreement on zoning, though it was not included in the party's constitution.
"But the idea of whether there should be rotation and zoning and no rotation and zoning, for me, is a simple matter. It is a gentleman’s agreement. The American constitution, you don’t have everything written in it.
"It is not written in our constitution, but for me, it will make for stability, fairness and everything if it rotates back to the South. I was in PDP, we practiced it, and it makes for stability and everything. So, we didn’t have it in our party constitution.
"We the framers of the constitution agreed that it is something that we will do. I was one of the wise men that did the APC constitution headed by Chief Segun Osoba. And that is what we agreed on; that we don’t need to insert it. But there are things that are done by gentleman agreement," he said.
The minister also noted that there are people in the south who are capable of replacing President Buhari in 2023 in terms of merits.
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Meanwhile, the apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has vowed to go all out for the actualization of a Nigerian president of Igbo extraction in the next presidential election scheduled for 2023.
Legit.ng gathered that the group, which has always clamoured for the restructuring of Nigeria expressed optimism that God would make the actualization of an Igbo president possible.
The apex Igbo organization further said that if it was decreed by God that an Igbo man would become Nigeria's next president, the babbling of some groups masquerading as champions of their interest would not count.
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