'No Igbo Man Will Be President In The Next 20-Years'

      

A prominent Calabar-based lawyer and former president-general of Igbos in Cross River State, Chief

Onyebueke Fidelis Obi, has said it will be difficult for an Igbo man to become president of Nigeria.

According to him, an Igbo man will not rule Nigeria in the next 20 years, National Mirror reports.
Onyebueke, who disclosed this while fielding questions from newsmen in Calabar at the weekend, said there was pronounced disunity and infighting among the Igbos which would make it difficult for them to make any kind of progress in politics.

“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,” he said.

This is not the first time, an Igbo man will be making this point. Sometime in November 2014, the President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Gary Enwo-Igariwey, had said an Igbo man cannot be President of Nigeria because of lack of unity in leadership roles.
Last year, the founder of the Igbo Youth Movement (IYM) and Deputy Secretary of the Igbo Leaders of Thought (ILT), Evangelist Elliot Uko had accused President Goodluck Jonathan of misusing the turn of the Igbos.