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2023: South-East Politicians Can’t Be Trusted With Power, Says Joe Igbokwe

Gabriel Ntoka by Gabriel Ntoka
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Joe Igbokwe, the Special Adviser on Drainage and Water Resources to the Lagos State Governor, has said no politician from the South-East region can be trusted with power at the federal level for the 2023 presidential election.

Igbokwe, who is ironically from Anambra State in the South-East region, said this in an interview on Thursday.

There has been a clamour for the South-East to produce the next president of the country, with the Igbos yet to produce any president despite been one of the major tribes in the country.

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However, the All Progressives Congress (APC) stalwart said the Igbos must drop their agitation for the Biafra Republic in order to talk and meet with Nigerians from all walks of life.

According to him, nobody would grant any politician from South-East the Presidency on a platter of gold.

“If you want other Nigerians to vote for you, then you have to count how many bridges that you have built; bridges of understanding, bridges of communication, bridges of friendship,” Igbokwe told the Punch.

“I want to see your bridges and you want them to vote for you? Nobody is going to vote for somebody who will use that position to divide Nigeria.

“You cannot be talking about secession and talking about producing the President of Nigeria. We need to settle the issue first; we need to say, ‘Look, we have given up this demand for Biafra, grant us justice’.

“Today, Asiwaju (Bola Tinubu) is in the saddle. How did Buhari become the President of Nigeria? It was Asiwaju that wooed him in 2013 with Tony Momoh, with Baba Akande and they went to Daura to meet Buhari.

“They said, ‘Look, you scored 11 million votes in 2003, 11 million votes in 2007, 12 million votes in 2011. If I pull South-West, you will get 17 million votes and you will become President.

“They went there to build a bridge and the rest is now history and that was how Buhari that had lost hope became the President of Nigeria.

“Somebody connected, somebody had sleepless nights, somebody trusted.

“You will sit in one place and you are blackmailing other people, you are not making friends, you are not building bridges and you are threatening people.

“Drop your arms first and enter planes or luxurious buses to South-West and pledge your loyalty to the Federal Republic of Nigeria, that, ‘Look, we have been able to settle issues in our home, we need to be President, we have not been President since after the civil war…

“Once you have settled that you have dropped this agitation, that you are part and parcel of Nigeria and we see it in your action and deeds, I am not talking about myself but other Nigerians because the issue now is trust – we (Easterners) cannot be trusted. Even with the happenings in the South-East, our leaders are playing politics with it.”

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