A group, Igbo Presidency Organization of Nigeria, IPON, has appealed to the North and the South West geo political zones to help the South East produce a Nigerian President from the Igbo extraction come 2019.
The group made the appeal after a town hall meeting in Aba, Abia state.
It also lamented that in the 57 years of Nigeria’s independence, the leadership of the country has been lopsided against Ndigbo.
Addressing journalists after the town hall meeting tagged; Towards the Re-awakening of Nigeria, – ‘The instrument of Igbo Presidency’, the National Chairman, Igbo Presidency Organization of Nigeria, Comrade Ikechukwu Mgborogwu, pointed out that the group had realized that power was not given but acquired and had decided to adopt a more globally accepted ways of acquiring power to the presidency of Nigeria by Ndigbo, through reaching out to sections of the country.
He said, “We believe in the indivisibility of the federal republic of Nigeria according to our Constitution. We, in IPON, are calling on our brothers from the North and West to join hands with the South East geo political zone to produce a Nigerian President of Igbo extraction in 2019.
“We are mobilizing in all the South Eastern states and beyond for this task. Presently, we are existing in more than 20 states outside the core Igbo states, including the support we have from our brothers in Diaspora.
“It is unfair that Nigeria, a nation made up of six geo political zones has maintained its presidency outside Ndigbo.”
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