Igbo Presidency 2023: 'Anybody Promising SE Nigerian Leadership Is Joking' - Ojukwu's CoS

 

Col Emma Nworah Nwobosi, a one-time Chief of Staff to Late Dim Chukwuemeka Ojukwu has asserted that "anybody promising president of Igbo extraction in 2023 is making jest of the people of the South East".

AllNews reports that Nwobosi, who holds the prestigious title of Ogene Obosi kingdom in Idemili North local government area of Anambra state stated this in a recent interview with Sun News Online.

"Our status as a country is nothing to write home about, Col Nwobosi lamented.

"Things have so degenerated that sometimes, one would feel ashamed saying that he is a Nigerian. Look at current appointments in Nigeria, from the beginning to the end, they are all northern Muslims.

"I was laughing when I heard our people saying and believing that in 2023 an Igbo man will be made president.

"When a president in power does not allow you to hold the post of a messenger, then, you believe that in 2023, he will make you president.

"Sometimes, I do not like discussing the affairs of this country, because, they make me feel sick in the stomach.

"When we did the coup in 1966, they were saying it was Igbo coup, when they saw Yoruba Major, Hausa and others who participated.

"When we executed the coup, I had a Lieutenant officer from Urobo, who was part of it. 

"Nigerians wouldn’t accept or tell anybody what caused the coup and the civil war; they would only say it’s an Igbo coup."

He continued:

"As far as I am concerned, and considering how things are moving presently, there is no hope for Nigeria having a president of Igbo extraction in a foreseeable future.

"Anybody promising president of Igbo extraction in 2023 is making jest of the people of the South East.

"You must count one before you count two. How could a people, who hate you so passionately today that they find it difficult giving you post of a messenger will come out the next day to give you presidency. How could that happen?

"My 82-year-old gray hair cannot deceive me.

"If at my age, I will still discuss or believe that kind of talk, I must be a foolish man.

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"An average Fulani Muslim will only tell you what you will like to hear at any point in time in order to deceive you and hold firm to power; and it is left for people with shallow mentality to believe.

"I am not being pessimistic; but as far as 2023 is concerned, Igbo presidency is elusive."