2023: Zone presidency to South-East, leaders urge all political parties

Leaders of the South-East geopolitical zone, comprising leaders across party divides, have called on all political parties in the country to zone the position of President to the South-East for the sake of justice, fairness and equity in the 2023 general election.

The leaders in a communique issued at the end of the bipartisan meeting of south-east leaders held on Tuesday, at camp Neya, Igbere, Abia State, also called for change of security architecture of the country to curtail the menace of banditry, kidnapping and killings across the country.

The South-East leaders in the communique jointly signed by Senator Orji Uzor Kalu and Senator Ike Ekweremadu, commended President Muhammadu Buhari for his infrastructure regeneration drive across the five states in the South-East.

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They maintained their position for a united, indivisible and prosperous Nigeria.

According to them, Ndigbo was not in support of secession and ultimately any secessionist group (s).

The leaders added that the south-east as a major geopolitical zone and Ndigbo, being one of the three predominant tribes in Nigeria, must take its rightful position in national polity.

They further stated that the Presidency had rotated between Northern and Southern Nigeria and among the various geopolitical zones.

They said that the South West and South South geopolitical zones in the southern part of the country had produced the President of Nigeria in the persons of His Excellency, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, and His Excellency, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, “hence as power is expected to rotate to the South in 2023, the leaders noted that the South East is the only zone in the South that has yet to produce a President of Nigeria in the current democratic dispensation.”

They said the South-East zone was united and indivisible in advancing the cause of the region and Ndigbo.