Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide, OYC, has faulted a statement credited to the governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, on Igbo chance of 2023 presidency.
It could be recalled that El-Rufai had during an interview said zoning should be abolished in 2023 presidency, noting that all zone should be given a level play ground to participate in the election.
This is following much demands and deliberation that the next President of Nigeria should come from the South after President Muhammadu Buhari’s 2nd tenure elapse.
Reacting to El-Rufai’s statement, OYC, said El Rufai was a major beneficiary of zoning arrangement in 2015 Guber elections in Kaduna, adding that they are aware that El Rufai wants to be the running mate to a Christian Pastor and Professor of law.
The full statement reads below:
“Ohanaeze Ndigbo youth Council Worldwide wanted to ignore the recent vituperative tendencies of a lose canoon who is blinded by his ambition to become president by championing the abolishment of Zoning formula and gentleman’s agreement that had existed between North and South since 1999, but because of posterity’s sake, We wish to remind Kaduna state Governor,Mallam Nashir El Rufai, that Christians Prayers from Southern Kaduna will never allow him succeed in his presidential project.
“El Rufai was a major beneficiary of zoning arrangement in 2015 Guber elections in Kaduna, now wants to thwat the glaring opportunities for a Nigerian President of Igbo stock in 2023, we are aware that El Rufai wants to be the running mate to a Christian Pastor and Professor of law, who is studying the body language of the President to know how to navigate the storm at the appropriate time.
“We wish to debunk any insinuation and fears,in some quarters that the North will use Suspended Ruga settlements as a bait to negotiate with Southern Nigeria especially igbos on 2023 Igbo Presidency project in exchange for Ruga settlements as not only a huge joke but total fallacy, from assurances from credible and prominent Northern groups, what is expected of Igbos is to bring on the best Presidential material either a Sitting Governor or a former Governor from the South East that will rejig Nigeria’s potentials back on track as truly as the Giant of Africa not standing on mosquitoes legs.
