{"id":83238,"date":"2021-07-06T10:18:39","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T09:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=83238"},"modified":"2021-07-06T10:18:39","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T09:18:39","slug":"ohanaeze-wants-southern-govs-to-micro-zone-2023-presidency-to-south-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/ohanaeze-wants-southern-govs-to-micro-zone-2023-presidency-to-south-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohanaeze wants\u00a0Southern Govs to micro-zone 2023 presidency to South-East\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has urged the in the interest of fair play and justice.<\/p>\n<p>Spokesman for the Ohanaeze, Alex Ogbonnia, who said the group backed the southern governors\u2019 position that the region should produce the president in 2023, said the region must be magnanimous in conceding the presidency to South-East.<\/p>\n<p>The governors had met on Monday in Ikeja, Lagos State, to deliberate on the state of the nation.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting came eight weeks after their last meeting in May 11, 2021, in Asaba, Delta State, where they banned open grazing and advocated restructuring, among others.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the governors declared support for rotational presidency, saying the next president should come from the South.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Ohanaeze Ndigbo spokesman, Ogbonnia, commended the governors, saying, The truth is that there have been a gentleman agreement between rotation or alternation of the Presidency between the North and the South.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n\u201cHowever, in commending the southern governors for that resolution, Ohanaeze is urging them to be magnanimous in conceding to South-East the Presidency. The South-West had a shot the South-South had a shot; and in each occasion the Igbo gave them total support.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo justice, equity and fairness will demand that they concede the Presidency to the South-East. So in thanking them, we are going step ahead to urge them to consider the South East to have a shot at the Presidency.<\/p>\n<p>On open grazing, he said the September deadline was a welcome development, adding, \u201cOhanaeze will also urge the South East Governors to follow it up with action.\u201d<\/p><\/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>The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has urged the in the interest of fair play and justice. 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