Opinion: 2023: South-East Presidency Or Igbo Presidency?, By SKC Ogbonnia
Broadening the Igbo political map is a win-win. It will offer Nigerians a larger pool of aspirants to choose from. Besides a galaxy of presidential aspirants from the South-East, it would also address the aspirations of the South-South Igbo, particularly those in their prime…
The Igbo nation — that is, people sharing similar heritage, including culture, names, language, and religion — is beyond the South-East zone. But many political pundits, understandably, like to paint a marginal picture, and the gullible society, the Igbo not excluded, never hesitates to buy the gambit. This distortion has been perpetuated because of the fleeting nature of memory in the Nigerian state, where true history has been tabooed.
A defining muddle is that, of the seven Ohaneze states, only Delta and Rivers are in the South-South zone. The implication is that the indigenous Igbo communities in the area have found themselves in the minority among the ethnic nationalities that make up the South-South zone.
Make no mistake about this: The South-East is the only zone in Southern Nigeria that is yet to produce a democratically elected president. Therefore, embarking on the presidential project solely through prism of the South-East can be superficially plain. But the Igbo must be careful not to tempt a pyrrhic victory.
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