The group also noted that the full political rehabilitation of the South East Zone into Nigeria’s political power distribution remained the most glaring area yet to be addressed.
Addressing newsmen in Enugu during the inaugral launching of the group’s movement intended to achieve the full political integration of the South East in Nigeria’s power distribution with particular regard to the office of the President of Nigeria, its chancellor, Dr. Walter Oji said that Nigeria’s power rotation has been a North to South and South to North arrangement.
He said that with the arrangement and with the incumbent president coming from the Northern region and serving out his second tenure, the position of the president is obviously to rotate to the Southern regiom which consists three Geo-Political zones, including the South West, South South and the South East.
“It is trite that South-West zone produced former president Olusegun Obasanjo while the South-South zone produced former president, Goodluck Jonathan.
“There should be no doubt, there should be no question and there should be no equivocation about the rightful demand by the South East zone to produce the next president”. All political parties are called upon to zone their presidential candidate to the Southeast”, he said.
He maintained that the push for an Igbo president is not going to be easy as power is usually not given but taken.
He however noted that the group has commenced handshake across the Niger and Benue and a real time outreach within the Atlantic coverage of its Southern neighbours and that it is prepared to commit unlimited amount of financial and human resources for the actualization of the noble cause.
He explained that the realization of a president of Igno extraction would mean respect for the concept of power rotation and zoning which is not new.
“It has been part of our culture and is embraced by all Nigerians and political parties as a means of ensuring equity, justice and fair play in power distribution” he said.
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