Ambassador Professor George Obiozor, President General of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, has responded to the nominations of the presidents of the main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party, and the ruling All Peoples Congress for the 2023 elections.
Despite the widespread agitation for the region to produce the next president based on equity, justice, and fairness, as well as in the spirit of the North-South presidential rotation, the South-East presidential aspirants in the two mainstream political parties had lost in the primaries with some not receiving any votes.
In elections that were allegedly “dollarized,” or held for the highest bidder, former vice president Atiku Abubakar of the North-East defeated former Lagos State Governor Bola Tinubu of the South-West to become the PDP’s presidential candidate.
However, Obiozor, who had kept quiet regarding the results of these primaries, finally spoke out on Saturday morning in a statement titled, “What does Nigeria want from Ndigbo?”
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According to the former Nigerian ambassador to the US, “Now it is clear that the Nigerian national political elite have successfully orchestrated to deny the South-East an opportunity to produce the president of Nigeria come 2023.”
Some Nigerian leaders have gone above and beyond what we expected by perpetrating this plot against Ndigbo.
Obiozor, who is recovering in a hospital in Dubai, claims that Nigeria has failed the Rotary Club International’s four-way tests because it has intentionally committed injustice. The four-way tests are as follows: First – Of the things we think, say, or do: Is it the TRUTH? Second, is it FAIR to all parties involved? Will it foster GOOD WILL and better relationships, third? In the fourth place, “Will it be BENEFICIAL to everyone concerned?
He expressed his conviction that this political scheming would ultimately result in “a Pyrrhic victory for those who rejoice and celebrate injustice,” while urging Ndigbo not to cry too much and to wait for history’s judgement.
Obiozor, who made his statement through Dr. Alex Ogbonnia, National Publicity Secretary of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo, thanked Nigerian statesmen and patriots from all over the nation for supporting the idea that the South-East should become Nigeria’s president in 2023. This idea was based on Nigeria’s demonstrated history of rotating power between the north and the south as well as the commitment to equity, justice, and fairness.
