Chuks Ibegbu, the immediate past spokesman of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has warned of the dangers of denying Igbo nation Nigeria’s presidential seat in the upcoming 2023 general elections in the country.


Ibegbu gave the warning during an enlarged meeting with Nigerian socio-cultural and political youth groups’ leaders held in Umuahia, on Friday.

The Ohanaeze chieftain noted that Igbos will feel they are not part of Nigeria if denied the opportunity, calling on the citizens and political actors to rally round the Igbo nation for the interest of justice, equity and fairness.

“The youths, in particular, may be more restive and no amount of force can check their anger this time, and I advise political parties to zone respective presidential tickets to the southeast of the Igbo extraction”, he also added.


On purported endorsement of ex-Nigerian Vice President, Atiku Abubakar for 2023 Presidency by Senate Minority Leader, Enyinnaya Abaribe, and other notable Igbo leaders, Mazi Ibegbu, noted that Abaribe did not endorse the Peoples Democratic Party chieftain as was rumoured.

According to the Igbo chieftain, “Atiku visited the Senate caucus and there was no time they endorsed him”.

Ibegbu also called on Nigerian electorates to be prepared to use their voting power to effect a positive change in their lives.

He equally admonished Nigerians to be conscious of their electoral power and use it to bring in good leaders and chase away bad ones.

“This is the first revolutionary move to conscientise the Nigeria electorates”, he submitted.

Source: https://dailypost.ng/Ohanaeze-chieftain-Ibegbu-warns-against-dangers-of-denying-Igbos-2023-Presidency

This Ohaneze are more like a joke

Their utterances are looking more like a deliberate way to saboteur SE interest in 2023 presidency

There are no dangers, except to the southeast themselves. Tell them to stop digging up their own grave and re-arrange themselves politically.

helinues:
This Ohaneze are more like a joke

Their utterances are looking more like a deliberate way to saboteur SE interest in 2023 presidency

SHUT UP!!!

YOU SHAMELESS CHEAP PAID AGENT!!!

Very arrogant tribe. While others are busy canvassing for votes, they are waiting for presidency to be hand over to them as if it's okrika wears. They know it's gonna be hard for an ibo man to convince other Nigerians to vote for him hence why resorting to blackmail which won't earn them anything.

Their super senator is already romancing with a fulani man, atiku. Same people who called others fulani slaves for supporting buhari oo.

Ibos? They aren't ready yet..

Ohanaeze are jokers. Igbos like Abaribe have already started queuing behind Atiku Abubaker and Ohanaeze hasn't seen it fit to call him to order, yet they're threatening Nigeria when it is clear that it's Igbos themselves that are sabotaging their chances, especially within the PDP they love so much.

Real jokers. Las las all of dem go still endorse Atiku. All these talk na sakamaje grandstanding.

You see them now...

This people I no know wu talk jargons pass between dem nd Zazu Portable....


Go dey threaten everybody...

Bluntguy:

What are you reporting him for? Read your comment again. You didn't make sense in the first place so shut up like he asked you to.

Me singing weeknd- I saw you crying in a crowded room.

Your people are not interested in becoming President, rather they just want to be anti - Tinubu and Buhari..

Too them, that's better than occupying the Presidency.

Make we hear word

In all honesty Igbo deserves the next presidency...they should be given chance to rule too..haba

SOUTH EAST: IS IT NOT TOO LATE?

I have read the recent transmissions by Senator Bukola Saraki directed at my Igbo tribe. I have deliberately kept mum on this as I had earlier resolved to speak less on Igbos as regards the 2019 Elections and 2023 Presidency having said quite a bit. 

However seeing as some of my brethren have swallowed the cheap bait, I will chip this in just to keep the reality before us, at least for posterity sake. Truth is bitter but it's still the best medicine. 

My people say; 'He who does not remember where the rain started beating him, will not remember where it stopped'. 

REWIND TO 2014. 
A new National Party was being conceived. Political Parties, political players and Regions were being wooed to the new alliance. 

'We' Igbos (read South East) vehemently refused to touch it even with a long pole. We packaged, sold to ourselves and bought the baseless propaganda that it was an Islamic alliance that would birth an "Islamic" and "Hausa" Party. Simply because those our brethren heavily invested in the PDP at the time were afraid of losing their vested selfish interests.
Till today I'm still trying to fathom the basis for that wicked and twisted deceit especially as many of those Igbo elites who sold that dummy have since ported to the same APC.

We failed to even identify with that new Alliance. Hence the Party, APC was birthed without any remarkable input from us or presence. The few amongst us who aligned were called all kinds of names and abused to high heavens by us even when they were proven right afterall.

Thus the few Igbos who were part of it were at best fringe players as they didn't have the required clout to make serious demands and do the necessary political wheeling and dealing required in Politics to strike the hard bargains since politics is all about interests and numbers. They were even suspect, so much so that it was only their personal political sagacity that gave them whatever they got.

That Party went on to win the Presidential Election which in truth, most of us never believed it could or would, because of our half baked permutations and poor understanding of Nigerian politics. But it did. 

Curiously we turned up at the fore front of telling this same Party how it should share it's 'spoils of war'. We became hypocritical moral champions with an over bloated sense of entitlement. Who does that, in all political reality and practicality? But we did, even while vehemently and vociferously still refusing to shift our position, style and rhethoric.

We dug in. Supported every bad thing and person against the Party, the elected President and the Administration while denying any and every good done to and for our Region.

Fast forward to where we are today. Almost four years after the 2015 misadventure, we have stayed put at 2015, refusing to move forward, refusing to shift grounds, refusing to play pragmatic politics, telling ourselves the same lies we cooked and bought in 2015 and some more. 

Now barely 5 months to another election, we have started again saying "APC cannot give Presidency to Igbos in 2023". "Buhari cannot hand over to an Igbo man because Buhari hates Igbos". "APC is deceiving you", bla bla bla.

Of course. We will believe Saraki, who has only but a fanthom dream of becoming President and whose only known record is selfishness but we can't believe Buhari who's already President and who has a record of voluntarily picking two great Igbo sons as running mates in the past? Chukwu aju.

It is interesting and vital to note here that the PDP which many of us still proudly support and adore was in power for 16 solid years and in those years there were 4 Presidential Inaugurations and on none of those was an Igbo man found worthy by the PDP of even Vice Presidency and we are still bold to say it is the APC that has not even finished one and a half tenure that doesn't want to give power to Igbos. Odi nma. 

NOW; Seriously, let's be sincere. As things stand today politically, why would the APC even hand power to us Igbos in 2023? 
On what grounds? 
On what records?
On what politics?
Is power given to anyone? 
Is it an appeasement or a gift? 

The APC is a political party. The main focus of a political Party is to hold power and keep it to enable it deliver on its agenda. So if the APC reads that the SE does not want the Presidency or does not have the capacity to help them win and keep power, they will stick with the regions that can and work with individuals who are interested. 

Make no mistake, I have always said, I do not blame us Igbos for the decision majority of us took in 2015. It's our right. But continuing to pretend that it was other regions, Buhari or the APC that made us do what we did then or remain where we are today is purely self deceit and I refuse to play that ostrich game. 

As far back as 2014, I and many others made that argument that Igbo Presidency was very feasible in 2023, ONLY under under the APC, ONLY IF we did a couple of things right politically. I personally continued to speak loudly on that even after the 2015 elections until when I realized that we were not ready to play the politics that was required and now I dare say it may be too late. Or is it not? Time will tell.

For now, we can continue to tell ourselves that we cannot hold the Presidency of Nigeria. I heard and read many of our brethren go from PDP to Biafra/seccesion (read IPOB) to Referendum to "Igbos do not need Presidency but Restructuring" etc forgetting that all that didn't lie squarely with us alone. We think other regions are not reading our body language?

I really don't care what Saraki writes or says because they've all come to realize that it's very easy to play us like a flute. So like Saraki, like Fani Kayode, like Fayose, like Atiku, even Jonah Jang of all people, they keep playing us.

I've learnt not to bother myself anymore to avoid unnecessary mentions from nonentities.
As some of us have said, it's good governance we want, even if only one village will be producing the Presidents. So be it.

Ka Chineke mezie okwu. 

Danger

Na by threat now.........

Worry about the imminent destruction of igbos by Ipob antics...the world is in a state of war, if you bring war to your home...your mom, dad, sisters, kids will die. Nobody gives a fck, pity and warn yourselves. The battlefield will be in your home.

Mumu people

You want to rule Nigeria using threats and blackmail. Kole wek! Stop abusing other tribes, respect them by and reach out to them. That’s the way forward.

So, Igbos insist on Micro zoning, they want it on a silver platter. Igbos are indeed Jokers

M

Lol Atiku is greedy and does care he still has loot stolen from his time as A.P to spend on another futile attempt to become Nigeria's number one citizen.

Mr. Chuks Ibegu write to jagaban and then get back to us with his reply

All parts of the country should be fully represented in Nigeria government.

But, to what end do people seek for political positions?