Joe Igbokwe, Special Adviser to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on drainages, has taunted the South East region where he belongs that Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the president-elect, would rule Nigeria for eight years and hand over power to a northerner.

The issue of power shift created a major rift in the buildup to the 2023 elections, with some persons arguing that it was the turn of the South East to produce Nigeria’s president.

Many of those who made this argument lined up behind Peter Obi, Labour Party Presidential Candidate, who came third in the February 25 election.

However, Obi pulled a surprise by defeating his main opponents, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party and Tinubu, who ran on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in their strongholds.

Obi defeated Tinubu in Lagos and that has formed a major discussion ahead of the March 18 governorship election, which Labour Party has vowed to win.

Making a case for Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Igbokwe took to Facebook to appeal to Igbos in Lagos to cast their ballots for the incumbent Lagos governor.

According to him, the president-elect and former governor of the state had backed well-known Igbo businessmen in Lagos, saying that supporting Sanwo-Olu would be a way for them to repay Tinubu for his kindness over the years.

“President-Elect ASIWAJU BAT is a good friend of the Igbo and he did his best for prominent Igbo businessmen and women in Lagos including me. This is payback time and we should do this by voting for GOV SANWO OLU en-mass on March 18.”

There were a series of reactions, but a caustic remark from one Ejike Akunna apparently angered Igbokwe.

“Dash him your wife and daughters and enthrone him as your family deity. That’ll be adequate payback,” Akunna wrote.

Responding, Igbokwe said, “When I see the level of despicable abuses and calling of names coming from the South East young people I run away with the thinking that we Did not do our duties as parents. Shame has enveloped me from head to toes.

“Ejike Akunna jisieike, mark my words here: Asiwaju from 2023 to 2031 and another Northerner from 2031 to 2039. We will still be children of anger and children of hate and life goes on. We will be onlookers because we refused to play politics. Dazzol!!!”

Igbokwe, who was spokesman of the ruling APC in Lagos for a long period of time, came into political prominence after Tinubu appointed him when he was governor of Lagos.

Although Tinubu left government in 2007, every other Lagos governor till date has appointed Igbokwe into its cabinet.

Xscape1993:
Politics can make you loss your identity...Mr Igbokwe, you are doing well...it is well with your generation...

mrvitalis:
And Nigeria would still be a third world country by 2039 ...they don't even care about that , all they care is give us power then we would do our best ...no plan ,no dream , nothing

Maybe by 2039 we would be saying Igbos won't be allowed to buy up all of Ogun the way they bought all of Lagos

madridguy:
The nearest year anyone from the SE can win the presidential election is 2039.

MuchAdo:


Piiggidiot amaka

Awolowo family still own more lands in Lagos than all Igbos put together

mrvitalis:

Really ? Where exactly is the land ? If Igbos don't own much land in Lagos to make u shiver why are u all wailing

atiku4President:
How is North better than other parts of the country even with the long period they have clung to power?

It is not about where power goes, it's about how you transform the lives of people with it.

The last time I checked people in Katsina are not happier than those in Calabar or Enugu.

chokekachy:


https://dailytrust.com/joe-igbokwe-tinubu-will-rule-till-2031-then-hand-over-to-a-northerner/

Nlfpmod Mynd44

mrvitalis:
And Nigeria would still be a third world country by 2039 ...they don't even care about that , all they care is give us power then we would do our best ...no plan ,no dream , nothing

Maybe by 2039 we would be saying Igbos won't be allowed to buy up all of Ogun the way they bought all of Lagos

madridguy:
The nearest year anyone from the SE can win the presidential election is 2039.

mrvitalis:

Really ? Where exactly is the land ? If Igbos don't own much land in Lagos to make u shiver why are u all wailing