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How An Igbo Man Can Be The Next President - Rotimi Amaechi Reveals, Sends Message To IPOB

How An Igbo Man Can Be The Next President - Rotimi Amaechi Reveals, Sends Message To IPOB

Rotimi Amaechi

Influential politician and chieftain of the ruling All Progressive Congress, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, has revealed what the Igbos should do to become the next president of the country.

Speaking while delivering the 12th Convocation Lecture of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, the Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, on Wednesday, urged the Igbos to have a ‘handshake’ across the Niger by voting President Muhammadu Buhari into office for a second term in 2019, to enable the South East have a shot at the seat of Presidency.

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According to Daily Sun, former governor of Rivers State, who made this disclosure yesterday at the university’s auditorium, said if Igbo continues to play regional politics by embracing sectional political parties without a national broad base, they will continue to produce regional politicians like senators and governors, while the presidency will continue to elude them.

Speaking on the topic: “The Igbo in the politics of Nigeria,” Amaechi described the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), as regional parties, which cannot give the Igbo the presidency, but will only make them continue to cry for marginalisation.

He said the vote for President Buhari for a second term and the APC are the surest way to fast track the president of Igbo extraction.

He noted that any other Northerner that takes over from Buhari in 2019, will definitely be in charge for eight years, but if Buhari goes for a second term, he must vacate office after four years, giving better a chance for the Igbo man to take over as president.

Going down memory lane, he traced the history of the Igbo people from the middle years to the era of Trans Atlantic Slave trade, the colonial and post colonial era and the issues of Igbo identity and Igbo emotionalism, which he described as the two main issues that have impeded Igbo political advancement in Nigeria.

He advised separatist groups like the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to move forward and embrace Nigeria’s unity, reminding them that the civil war had ended long time ago. He said it is necessary to teach children the effects of the civil war, so they can learn from history.

Amaechi said the Buhari administration is reconstructing several roads in the South East while almost all the important Igbo cities like Enugu, Owerri, Umuahia, Aba, Awka and Onitsha are captured in the existing Calabar-Lagos railway project and the Port Harcourt-Maiduguri standard guage new railway projects approved by the president.

“Igbo people should focus on solutions, not recriminations. In what political direction should the Igbo go? Let the quarrel with the North, real or imagined stop. Let us join hands as one people to chart the way forward for a brighter future for Nigeria.

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“We need to examine very carefully the Igbo trajectory and learn crucial lessons of history. We have an incredibly proud past, a rich political heritage forged in the most difficult circumstances. We must, therefore, focus on constructing the path to a proud future.

“The theatre of politics for the coastal and inland states of Eastern Nigeria before colonialism was in Bonny, and for the colonial and post colonial politics of Nigeria, it was in Lagos. Jaja of Opobo excelled in Bonny, while Zik excelled in Lagos.

“Why is Abuja politics so difficult for the Igbo to play? Perhaps, we are on the wrong track and employing the wrong paradigms. The Igbo nation should engage with others and immerse itself fully in national politics, just like Jaja and Zik did.

“The handshake across the Niger celebrated recently in Enugu by Nzuko Ummunna and Ohanaeze Ndigbo is welcomed, but a handshake across the Benue is most desirable now,” he said.

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