As the clamor for 2023 Presidency gathers momentum, a political pressure group known as; Coalition of All Nigerian Support Groups has drummed support for a Nigerian President of South East extraction.
The Group drawn from various states across the federation also urged the convener of The New Nigeria Group, Mazi Sam Ohuabunwa, to make himself available to run for the presidential office come 2023.
Speaking during a solidarity visit to Mazi Ohuabunwa in Arochukwu LGA of Abia State, the Chairman of the group, Mr Ifeanyi Mark stated that Nigeria was founded on regional structure and the structure has remained the basis for sharing political office since the country gained Independence in 1960.
He noted that the South East Region has been denied the opportunity to produce a president like other zones that have taken their turn.
Mr. Mark insisted that the only way to ensure justice and equity in the country will be to allow some one from the zone to be the president of Nigeria since the zone had yet to produce an executive president.
The Chairman of the group however said that Mazi Ohuabunwa is the man for the job owing to his wealth of experience, Integrity and meritorious track record adding that he will savage Nigeria from economic quagmire.
He said, “The next President of this country should come from the South East zone. The zone has been a major partner in the Nigerian project,other zones have had their share so this is the right time to give the South East a sense of belonging in this country for fairness, equity and justice. 2023 is a litmus test for Nigeria.
“What we want is a president that can conduct government business unusually and responsibly out from the normal norm that has put us in quagmire. We want a president that can change things and today, we have found one of them in the South East in the person of Mazi Sam Ohuabunwa.
“He is a tested technocrat, a man of integrity and character, that is why we are urging him to run for president come 2023.
“We promise to support him irrespective of any political party he might want to pitch his tent with”.
Also lending his voice, the National coordinator, South East For Presidency 2023, Rev. Okechukwu Obioha called on
all political parties in the country to consider ceding their presidential tickets to the South East.
He said, “Our vision is that by 2023 the president of Nigeria will be of South Eastern Nigeria extraction
“We want to make sure that every Political party, especially the two major parties and any emergent third force will cede their presidential tickets to the South East zone.
“To achieve our goal we intend working at persuading like minds across the country to support our vision just like we have supported presidential candidates from other zone in the country to succeed in the past”.
Responding Mazi Sam Ohuabunwa, assured the group that he will heed to their call to run for the presidential election in 2023.
He said the call to run for the office of the President is divine as he had heard from God that his services is needed to reposition the Country.
Ohuabunwa who identified four major challenges facing Nigeria to include poverty, corruption, injustice and insecurity, said the approach to solving them include tackling the issue of poverty which will largely solve the problem of corruption, while solving the Injustice challenge will largely deal with insecurity challenges.
