Igbos Must Unite With Other Tribes To Produce The Next President In 2023 – Moghalu
A former Deputy Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria and the Convener Of the ‘To Build A Nation’ platform, Kingsley Moghalu, has urged the Igbo community to shun all divisive tendencies as they work with other parts of the country towards producing a Nigerian president of Igbo extraction in the 2023 general elections.
He gave the hint on Monday, at the second Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu Annual Lecture at the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University (Anambra State University), Igbariam Campus.
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THE WHISTLER reports that he was the presidential candidate of the Young Progressive Party(YPP) in the 2019 elections, garnering a total of 21,886 votes.
He said that in order to produce an Igbo president in 2023, the Igbo nation should clear their name from every perceived mistrust as well as join forces with other parts of the nation.
His words read in part :” Ndigbo should pursue the agenda of both constitutional restructuring and the election of a competent, visionary Nigerian from the Southeast geopolitical zone as President of Nigeria in 2023 as a matter of priority, persuading, lobbying other parts of the country within the democratic context of the imperative of this approach in order to rebalance Nigeria along the lines of equity and justice.
“Ndigbo have approximately 30 million voters of Igbo ethnic nationality in the Southeast, the Northern states, and the Southwest. It is time for these votes to be organized and channeled in a more strategic manner.
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” I therefore beg to disagree with the view that Ndigbo should focus only on a campaign for restructuring and should be uninterested in the quest for the presidency. That is a defeatist approach, an implicit acceptance of a negative condition instead of a proactive struggle within a democratic context to overcome it.
“History is a tool for healing and nation-building. This is the approach taken in all developed countries with challenging histories such as Germany, Japan, South Korea, and the United States. The war must be addressed with recognition of the millions who died, and a simple and straightforward ‘I am sorry that this happened; I feel the pain of it all. Let us forgive’ from the leading actors of the conflict,” he added.
