Chief Onyebueke Fidelis Obi, a Calabar-based legal practitioner and former president-general of Igbo community in Cross River State, over the weekend said that no Igbo man can become president of Nigeria in the next 20 years;
NATIONAL MIRROR reports
Speaking to newsmen in Calabar, Obi said, ”The Igbos have neither a united political interest nor front that would enable them take over power.” An Igbo presidential candidate would not garner much votes beyond the Igbo nation”.
”I can tell you emphatically that, at least, in the next 20 years, an Igbo man will not rule Nigeria. Who will vote for him? When the late Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe campaigned to become president of the country many people in the South- South geo-political zone and elsewhere never voted for him. Perhaps, northern part of Cross River and few wards in Delta and Akwa Ibom states did, even in Rivers State”.
