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General News of Sunday, 24 January 2021

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Tinubu's ambition threatened as southeast APC reveal plan for Igbo presidency

Imo state governor, Hope Uzodinma Imo state governor, Hope Uzodinma

Apparently determined to produce President Muhammadu Buhari's successor, the southeast leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC), have said the emergence of a Nigerian president of Igbo extraction must be achieved in 2023.

The Nation reports that the Imo state governor, Hope Uzodinma, the former Senate president, Ken Nnamani, the minister of labour and employment, Senator Chris Ngige, the minister of science and technology, Ogbonnaya Onu and Sharon Ikeazor, spoke on Saturday, January 23, in Awka, the capital of Anambra state.

Legit.ng gathered the new move by the power brokers within the APC in the southeast may have reduced the chances of the national leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, to succeed Buhari in 2023.

The governor and the ministers spoke during the southeast meeting of APC at the Olivia Montage Hotel in Awka, which was attended by the leaders of the party in the zone.

Governor Uzodinma while addressing the APC members, said if Ndigbo were serious about getting the presidency in 2023, the journey must begin with the governorship election in Anambra state.

He said what Ndigbo was seeking in Nigeria was justice, fairness and equity, adding that they would not get it through ethnic politics in the country.

In their comments, Ngige, Onu, Ikeazor and Nnamani, said the time to get Igbo presidency was now, starting with the Anambra election in November.

The APC leaders said Ndigbo must be at the centre in 2023, adding that Ebonyi state had joined APC while efforts were in top gear to get other southeast states to the mainstream.