{"id":74901,"date":"2020-07-18T21:15:18","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T20:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=74901"},"modified":"2020-07-18T21:15:18","modified_gmt":"2020-07-18T20:15:18","slug":"2023-south-east-presidency-or-igbo-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/articles-opinions\/2023-south-east-presidency-or-igbo-presidency\/","title":{"rendered":"2023: South-East Presidency Or Igbo Presidency?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m7058605864210087920\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\">By SKC Ogbonnia<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \">\n<div class=\"clear\">July 18, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Since zoning of political offices has become the order of the day in<br \/>\nNigeria, an equitable consensus would follow that Southern Nigeria\u2014the<br \/>\nIgbo in particular\u2014will produce the next president of the country, come<br \/>\n2023. But such zoning convention has begun to beg the question: Would<br \/>\nthe candidacy be open to the entire Igbo nation or would such<br \/>\nopportunity be limited to the South-East zone of Nigeria?<\/p>\n<p>The answer is a no brainer: The ticket ought to be open to the entire<br \/>\nIgbo nation of the Southern extraction. Here is why.<\/p>\n<p>The proponents of rotational presidency argue that the concept would<br \/>\nensure a sense of belonging among Nigeria&#8217;s disparate ethnic groups. Of<br \/>\nthe three Nigerian major tribes, namely, the Igbo, Hausa-Fulani, and the<br \/>\nYoruba; only the Igbo are yet to lead the country under a democratic<br \/>\nsetting.<\/p>\n<p>The Igbo nation\u2014that is, people sharing similar heritage, including<br \/>\nculture, names, language, and religion\u2014is beyond the South-East zone.<br \/>\nBut many political pundits understandably like to paint a marginal<br \/>\npicture, and the gullible society, the Igbo not excluded, never<br \/>\nhesitates to buy the gambit. This distortion has perpetuated because of<br \/>\nthe fleeting nature of memory in the Nigerian state, where true history<br \/>\nhas been tabooed.<\/p>\n<p>Besides Igbo indigenous communities in other states; the Ohaneze Ndigbo,<br \/>\nthe umbrella Igbo socio-cultural group, is a seven-state structure,<br \/>\ndenoting areas with sizeable Igbo population, namely: Abia, Anambra,<br \/>\nDelta, Ebonyi, Enugu, Imo, and Rivers states. The key offices are also<br \/>\ndistributed and rotated among the member states.<\/p>\n<p>For example, while the current President General of Ohaneze, Barrister<br \/>\nJohn Nwodo, is from Enugu State of South-East zone, the General<br \/>\nSecretary (Barrister Uche Okwukwu) and Vice- President General (Dr.<br \/>\nSylvanus O. Ebigwei) hail from the South-South states of Rivers and<br \/>\nDelta, respectively. Needless to mention that Ambassador Ralph Uwechue,<br \/>\nan indigene of Delta State, was the Ohaneze President-General between<br \/>\n2009 and 2013.<\/p>\n<p>A defining muddle is that, of the seven Ohaneze states, only Delta and<br \/>\nRivers are in the South-South zone. The implication is that the Igbo<br \/>\nindigenous communities have found themselves in the minority among the<br \/>\nethnic nationalities that make up the South-South zone. Therefore, if<br \/>\nthe presidency is to be zoned based on the existing six zone-structure<br \/>\nof Nigeria, a South-South Igbo of this generation cannot realistically<br \/>\naspire to lead the country, his or her credentials notwithstanding.<\/p>\n<p>The foregoing hypothesis was tested in 2007 when the South-South zone<br \/>\nlobbied for the presidency. The South-South Igbo, remember, were told in<br \/>\nunmistakable terms to explore such ambition whenever it is the turn of<br \/>\ntheir kith and kin in the South-East.<\/p>\n<p>It is on such backdrop that Pa Edwin Clark, the Leader of the<br \/>\nSouth-South zone, made the infamous (or rather the rational) statement<br \/>\nthat Dr. Peter Odili, a former governor of Rivers state, had no moral<br \/>\nright to encroach on the turn of the zone. Even though Mr. Odili was<br \/>\narguably the most compelling presidential aspirant of in the 2007<br \/>\nelectoral season, he was blackballed mainly because of his Igbo<br \/>\nheritage.<\/p>\n<p>The South-South Igbo must not be allowed to suffer a double political<br \/>\nwhammy. Having been sidelined by their South-South neighbors in 2007,<br \/>\nbased on ethnic orientation, it behooves the South-East Igbo to<br \/>\naccommodate their kith and kin in the race for the 2023 presidency.<\/p>\n<p>Make no mistake about this: The South-East is the only zone in Southern<br \/>\nNigeria that is yet to produce a democratically elected president.<br \/>\nTherefore, embarking on the presidential project solely through prism of<br \/>\nthe South-East can be superficially plain. But the Igbo must be careful<br \/>\nnot to tempt a pyrrhic victory.<\/p>\n<p>Politics is a game of number. We can take a cue from the political<br \/>\ngenius of our Hausa-Fulani counterparts. Despite their vastly disparate<br \/>\nethnic origins, the Fulani and the Hausa groups in the three Northern<br \/>\nzones have molded into a seemingly homogeneous political block. It is<br \/>\nnot surprising, therefore, that they show a united front in the<br \/>\ndifferent political parties whenever it is the turn of the North to<br \/>\nproduce the president.<\/p>\n<p>Though the North-West zone has dominated over the years, the people go<br \/>\nthe extra mile to ensure that the inherent zoning arrangement does not<br \/>\nforeclose the aspirations of the Hausa or Fulani-speaking people from<br \/>\nthe North-East. That is how recent doyens of the North-East politics,<br \/>\nsuch as Adamu Ciroma, Bamanga Tukur, Atiku Abubakar, and Nuhu Ribadu,<br \/>\nwere able to mount respectable presidential bids.<\/p>\n<p>Broadening the Igbo political map is a win-win. It will offer Nigerians<br \/>\na larger pool of aspirants to choose from. Besides a galaxy of<br \/>\npresidential aspirants from the South-East, it would also address the<br \/>\naspirations of the South-South Igbo, particularly those in their prime,<br \/>\nfor example, Patrick Utomi, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Ifeanyi Okowa, Tony<br \/>\nElumelu, Peter Odili, Mike Okiro, Chibuike Amaechi, and Nyesom Wike, to<br \/>\nname a few.<\/p>\n<p>Unity is power. A united Igbo front has a better chance of winning the<br \/>\nzoning debate, to begin with.\u00a0 Further, a Nigerian presidential project<br \/>\nanchored through the entire Igbo nation has the potential to unite the<br \/>\npeople towards common purpose. It can halt the defeatist trajectory of<br \/>\npostwar politics and de-Igbonization policy of successive national<br \/>\ngovernments, which have combined to fracture the Igbo unity to the point<br \/>\nwhere some never hesitate to deny their Igbo heritage either for<br \/>\npost-war survival or in exchange of political porridge. It can equally<br \/>\ninstill commonsense to those who use mere political affiliations or<br \/>\nboundaries to assume superior Igbo heritage over the others.<\/p>\n<p>Igbo bu Igbo! The hint is that the South-East and South-South Igbo share<br \/>\na common destiny in the Nigerian experience. And they ought to share<br \/>\ngood fortunes, as they did past misfortunes. For instance, the<br \/>\nSouth-East Igbo bore (or have continued to bear) the brunt of the first<br \/>\nNigeria coup, led by Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu, a South-South Igbo.<br \/>\nSimilarly, the South-South Igbo were not spared by the actions of<br \/>\nChukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, a South-East Igbo, who led the Biafran war.<br \/>\nThe bond between the two Igbo groups is not lost in the fact that they<br \/>\nhave sustained similar voting patterns in national elections, despite<br \/>\npostwar feuds, orchestrated by successive national governments.<\/p>\n<p>A Nigerian president of Igbo extraction will not only heal the wounds of<br \/>\nthe past, it is also a bold step in harnessing the country&#8217;s abundant<br \/>\npotential towards the greater good. It is an opportunity for equity and<br \/>\njustice. It is an opportunity to assuage the long-standing distrust<br \/>\nagainst Igbo-speaking people of Nigeria. It is a profound opportunity<br \/>\nfor the Igbo to reverse the downward spiral of distrust created among<br \/>\nthemselves by artificial post-civil war boundaries.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. SKC Ogbonnia, a former presidential aspirant, writes from Ugbo,<br \/>\nAwgu, Enugu State.<br \/>\nTwitter: @ SKCOgbonnia<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By SKC Ogbonnia July 18, 2020. 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