Northern Group Drums Support For 2023 Igbo Presidency

A Northern group, the Association of Arewa Community in Igboland (AACI) has called for support for the emergence of an Igbo as president of Nigeria in 2023.

The National President of the group, Alhaji Mohammed Umaru, who made the appeal in Umuahia, described Igbo people as “accommodating”.

Umaru harped on the unity of the country and stated that it was important to support the Igbo people actualise their presidential ambition come 2023.

According to him, the group is a non-political organisation made up of members from all the northern states living in the South-East geo-political zone.

“The North, West, and South-South have all ruled the nation as executive president. This is the time we should give our consent for an Igbo executive president.

“Our people should give them benefit of the doubt to lead the country in the next political dispensation and if they perform well we can allow them a second chance.

“We, all the northern people living in Igbo land are highly in support of an Igbo executive president. Here, we live and earn our living in Igbo land and we will like to continue to live as an indivisible entity to work and operate our businesses,” he said.

He, therefore, appealed to the Igbos to unite and produce a detribalised person that would contest the 2023 presidential election while expressing optimism that other political zones would support the agenda.