Why Igbos can’t produce President in 2023 – Ex-minister, Ogunlewe

 

A former minister of works, Adeseye Ogunlewe has said that the igbos will not be able to produce the next president of Nigeria because of their ‘lack of unity’.

Ogunlewe made this comment on Arise TV’s ‘The Morning Show’ programme on Wednesday. He added that said the Igbos must invest in party politics to stand a good chance at the next general election.

The 77 year old APC member said; “Another set of people that are appropriate, they are the people from the southeast but they have the problem of leadership,”.

“They are so endowed that they are spread all over Nigeria and they can gather a lot of votes, but they are too divided. An Imo person, an Enugu person, an Ebonyi man will not listen to themselves.

“They have the money. If they sit down and aggregate what they can offer, they have more money than almost everybody in Nigeria. But have you seen one person from the south-east that said ‘I am interested in the presidency, I will start to campaign all over Nigeria immediately, raise money for me?’ and influence the structure of the party?”

“You must invest in that structure, you must be able to determine who is going to be part of that structure because they are the ones to do the zoning, they are the ones to do the convention to pick a presidential candidate, so if you are not part of them, you are out. So if any easterner is interested, let him start now to invest in the structure of the party.”, he said.