Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide, a social-political organisation, has urged Nigerians, especially ndi Igbo to support the 2023 Igbo Presidency.
The group, in a statement on Wednesday signed by Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, and Mazi Okwu Nnabuike, President General, and Secretary General, respectively, appreciated elder statesmen of other ethnic groups who have so far supported the 2023 Igbo Presidency agitation.
Noting that the 2023 Igbo Presidency was gaining momentum over Biafra in the country, the group expressed optimism that the dream would become a reality and urged members of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, to jettison the Biafra agitation and rally behind Igbo Presidency come 2023.
It disclosed that a national committee on Igbo Presidency would be inaugurated on November 1, 2019.
The statement read further: “Prominent statesmen and leaders across-the-board had pledged support for 2023 Igbo Presidency. This shows that after the inauguration of 2023 National Committee on Igbo Presidency project by November 1st 2019, we will have more Nigerians to support the Igbo.
“We appreciate the Afenifere leader Pa Ayo Adebayo, the Ijaw leader Pa Edwin Clark, Alhaji Balarabe Musa, Maj-Gen Ishola Williams, PDP BOT member, Chief Ebenezer Babatope, and millions of Nigerian Youths, for their collective bargaining for a Nigerian President of Igbo stock in 2023.
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“We are pursuing the 2023 Igbo Presidency project from the master plan designed by late Chuba Okadigbo in 2003, before he became the then running mate to President Muhammadu Buhari in defunct ANPP.
“In this cause Buhari assured Igbo in 2003 in Umuahia, that he was destined to hand over power to an Igbo Man. 20 years after by 2023, he will surely do that.
“IPOB is projecting the 2023 Igbo Presidency project unknowingly and we should desist from self-destructive tendencies.
“We know that IPOB will support the 2023 Igbo Presidency project, just like they supported the 2019 election after its initial refusal, changing from” no referendum, no election” slogan, to ” it’s done and Dusted.
“When the chips are down, IPOB will lead Igbo Presidency project as a means of negotiation and compensation.
“We are urging respected Igbo leaders to guide 2023 Igbo Presidency project. Igbo youths are fully in charge, with huge funds to execute the assignment”.
