Okorie: Igbo Presidency not achievable under Buhari

A member representing Ohaozara/ Onicha/Ivo federal constituency of Ebonyi state in the House of Representatives, Hon. Linus Okorie, yesterday said it was a wishful thinking for people of South-East to believe that President Muhammadu Buhari would be truthful to Ndigbo 2023 project. This, he insisted that the body language of President Buhari would not make Ndigbo 2023 presidency achievable, saying Igbo presidency was not realizable under Buhari. Okorie noted that the intriguing power play both in the ruling APC and among the overbearing cabal would not allow Buhari to choose a successor from the South East zone.

He, however, challenged President Buhari to choose his running mate from the South-East as an indication that he would hand over power to Ndigbo after his tenure. Okorie said: “However, the truly controversial aspect of Chief Eze’s, otherwise momentous visit, was his public exhortation to Ebonyians “to vote Engr David Umahi as governor and President Muhammadu Buhari as President in 2019.

“The wishful thinking by Chief Arthur Eze that it’s Buhari that will hand over power to the people of the South-East is a mere political creation concocted to displace Ndigbo from the emerging political equation which the nomination of former governor Peter Obi entails, by the PDP. “The options now behoove on Ndigbo to choose between the shallow promise of Igbo Presidency and the firmed Vice Presidential slot in an avowed one term Presidency. Arthur Eze should first convince the Buhari’s APC administration to pick his running mate from the South-East as an indication of his willingness to relinquish power to Ndigbo.