We’ll be left with no option than joining IPOB if Igbo Presidency fails – Nwodo

Former national chairman of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo, said that Ndigbo would be left with no other option but to join Nnamdi Kanu’s IPOB to seek Biafra secession from Nigeria if Presidential power does not shift down to the South-East.

Nwodo, who was responding to the call by an elder statesman, Alhaji Tanko Yakassi, for Igbo presidency in 2023, lamented that Ndigbo have suffered grievous marginalization in Nigeria and should be given a chance to produce a president for the sake of equity and national unity, adding Yakassi’s call is very fair and that is the correct thing.

The former governor in an interview with newsmen on Tuesday, also said that despite the fact that the South-East region is more patriotic than any other geopolitical zone in terms of economic development of the nation, the South-East geopolitical zone has been persecuted for over 50 years.

In his words, “Yakassi’s call is very fair and that is the correct thing. In the first republic, the country was led by Tafawa Balewa, in the second republic, it was led by Shehu Shagari.

And then, those of us in PDP made a very strong case to move the presidency to South East, because even the military people were all from the north, apart from Aguiyi Ironsi who presided over for a very short time. “We managed to convince them at the party and Olusegun Obasanjo and Alex Ekwueme contested.

That was when Obasanjo won and after his tenure, he handed power to another northerner, late Alhaji Musa Yar’Adua who unfortunately died in office and the Vice president completed the tenure. President Muhammadu Buhari will complete his eight years in office by 2023.

Following equity, the presidency should come to the South-East because Obasanjo was president for eight years, now Yemi Osibanjo is also the vice president and would finish his eight-year tenure by 2023.

Nwada Ugochinyere Onyechere reporting, Obinwannem News