NEWSCOMMENTS By Vincent Ujumadu Awka—

POSSIBLE alliances for the 2019 presidential election are already in the works with the former Presidential Adviser on National Assembly Matters, Alhaji Kashim Imam, saying deliberate efforts would be made to ensure that the next president of the country comes from either the South-East or the North-East, the two zones that had not produced president. Imam made the suggestion in Awka during a reception hosted by secretary of the Alhaji Makarfi-led faction of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Ndii Obi, for Senator Jim Nwobodo, who received honorary doctorate degree at Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University weekend.

He said as the traditional ally of the Igbo, the North would support the emergence of a Nigerian president from the South-East, adding, however, that the people of the South-East and North-East should sit together to decide which of them should take it first, since they were the only zones that had not held the office in the country. More importantly, he said, the Igbo must decide to speak with one voice on the issue, regretting that one of the reasons the presidency had eluded them was due to the apparent disunity among politicians from this part of the country. According to him, once the Igbo made up their minds to produce the president and became serious about it, they should count on the support of the North.

He said: “Traditionally, the North had been the ally of the Igbo. In the very bitter experience of the Nigeria civil war, there was no single Igbo who returned to the North after the war and did not find his  property properly kept for him. “There was no single incident of abandoned property in any party of the North and so, there had always been a cordial relationship between the Igbo and the North. “In the First Republic, the political alliance that really worked was between the NCNC owned by the Igbo and the NPC owned by the North. The same was also true during the Second Republic when the northern-dominated National Party of Nigeria, NPN, had an alliance with the Igbo-dominated Nigeria Peoples Party, NPP. “However, it is regrettable that when most politicians got  fed up with the PDP and formed the APC, most of our Igbo friends did not see the need to join us in APC and rather decided to put all their eggs in one basket.”

Addressing the gathering, Nwobodo, who was among notable Igbo politicians that had joined the APC in recent times, called for unity among the Igbo. Throwing a challenge to his fellow Igbo politicians, Nwobodo said: “We have to work hard to get the hearts of our people, irrespective of their party affiliation. The problem we have in Igbo land is that we don’t love ourselves and we don’t even respect our leaders, like the Yoruba do. “Igbo people should stop quarrelling among themselves and my prayer is that God will give us somebody who can unite us.” In his speech, the host, Senator Obi said the common goal of every Igbo should be to emphasize on those issues that would make Igbo land great, irrespective of the political party they belong to.    

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/04/seast-neast-produce-next-president-kashim-imam/

Another round of ethnic brainwashing about to set in.

By the way, kashim imam is an associate of ATIKU.

he is indirectly saying it's the north east. only added south east cos he was in awka.

Na wetin them dey do. Na thier work.

how about whoever tf has the best candidate after rigourous drilling n debates produce the best candidate

Political thinking has taken over the mind of our leaders....who and who will be president....which and which area will produce the next president...with little or no thinking about the welfare of the larger populace.

We are just breeding everyday more and more politicians who think of nothing but the next election...rather than statesmen who should be thinking of the next generation..

May God have mercy on this nation..

God bless the Nigeria.

NIGERIAN ARE DYING OF HARDSHIP YOU ARE HERE TALKING ABOUT THE NEXT PRESIDENT SENSELESS AND WICKET LEADERS.

Now I see yhu. Continue Sir

Early deceit, they have started to feed us with deception.. buy am sell am ..MMM politics.

Jabioro:
Early deceit, they have started to feed us with deception.. buy am sell am ..MMM politics.

Bros, the thing tire me. He even had the effontery to say that the north is a core ally of the igbos.

when election don dey reach, politicians dey loose their shame.

tosin2013:


Bros, the thing tire me. He even had the effontery to say that the north is a core ally of the igbos.

when election don dey reach, politicians dey loose their shame.

Na so, I see am.. South east and South West, must united to deal with this monsters.. we can have our internal disagreements let it be our family affair but for outsider to come in set us against each other.. I no go gree.