PRESIDENCY 2015: IGBO WILL NOT VOTE FOR APC UNLESS THEY CHOOSE AN IGBO CANDIDATE - Orji Uzor Kalu We are working very hard at our mission to have a Nigerian president of Igbo extraction in 2015. The Nigerian state must acknowledge the necessity of a president of Igbo extraction. Nigeria has been 53 years old and an Igbo man has only been head of state for 6 months. The Igbo have remained a major pillar of the ruling party. In this connection, our marginalisation is clearly not in sync with our proven abilities, capacity, patriotism and contribution to the evolution of the Nigerian state. Today, we are blatantly marginalized. The south-east needs a sixth state for the sake of fairness and equity. People are looking the other way. Without truth there can be no justice and you cannot have a sustainable state. There must be sincerity of purpose. If Nigerians don’t see something wrong in the present lot of Ndigbo then we clearly have a problem. I am canvassing these positions on deep conviction and with the end of the civil war several decades ago Nigeria must prove to us that our marginalization today is not linked with that fratricidal conflict. In any major political project on the scale of what we are discussing there are always pockets of dissent. Okorocha wants to be in APC, but I don’t think APC is the answer to the nation’s challenges or desired progression. Except the APC nominates an Igbo as their presidential flag-bearer then the Igbo will vote for them….(general laughter). But let me warn that the Arab Spring might be a child’s play compared to the kind of revolution that may sweep Nigeria if politicians don’t change their current ways and genuinely work for the socio-political transformation of Nigeria.
Posted on: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 14:11:02 +0000