2023 Presidency is a DNA test for Ndi-igbo in Nigeria ~ ABC Nwosu

Former Minister of Health, Professor Alphonsus Nwosu, has stated that the 2023 Presidency will be a DNA test for Ndi-igbo in Nigeria adding that the issue of restructuring is already a settled matter and if the country refuses to do it now, it will be done by force later.

The former Minister in a Video Conference with Elombah Television anchored in the United Kingdom also said that former governor of Lagos state, Bola Tinubu and former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar will not oppose the Igbo Presidency project in 2023.

ABC Nwosu added that Ndi-igbo in Lagos stood with Tinubu to become governor of Lagos state and in 2019, Ndi-igbo voted massively for Alhaji Atiku Abubakar when he contested to be President.

Professor Nwosu also recalled how Ndi-igbo agreed in 1999 to pave way for a Yoruba president in 1999 because of the June 12 crisis.

Speaking on restructuring, Nwosu said restructuring has been settled in the Aburi Accord in 1966 and resettled in 1995 National Conference (organised by the late Head of State, Sani Abacha) and further reaffirmed in the 2014 conference organised by former President Goodluck Jonathan.

Explaining further, the former Minister wondered how some people could say they do not understand what restructuring means.

“It could mean reordering, structuring is not a technical term so restructuring can’t be a technical term, it is to change a structure which is not working to one which is working”, Nwosu explained.

“We should do restructuring. On the presidency, when paternity is in doubt, it is only a DNA that settles it, many Igbos are feeling that the Presidency is like a DNA test for Ndi-igbo.”

Speaking confidently about the support Ndi-igbo will get in 2023, he said “You know that PDP was actually heading towards Ekwueme Presidency in 1999, it was obvious, it was at the last minute that the argument came that because of June 12, and no person objected except Abubakar Rimi.

“We don’t expect this kind of rancour, is it the South South that the Igbo gave their son bulk votes (Jonathan). No regret about it, people are saying he gave us nothing, we didn’t go there to withdraw money from ATM machine.

“We supported him because of good neighbourliness and we also decided to give Atiku massive votes.

“Is it Atiku that will mobilize against us, there are many friends of Ndi-Igbo in the North, and so we are not expecting that the North should say ‘over their dead body will an Igbo become President'”.

“Many of us have associated with Tinubu politically, we think that as 2023 approaches, the Igbo will do good politicking as they strive for the presidency to reach out to everybody but, Igbos are not afraid, from 1967, when they made up their minds to do something, they will do it.

“If they contest, because it is a DNA test and it comes out and tells you that either you are the father or you are not the father.

“When we strive for that Presidency will know those who want us, those who like us, those who don’t like us, those who are saying with their mouths that they like us but in their heart they dislike us, if you don’t try it you would not know.

“When it was time to let two Yoruba candidates run in 1999, the igbos have no problem in allowing that, and so if Tinubu a die hard NADECO decides that he will be the person to stop Igbo Presidency, we will know, we will see that and we are not afraid of that, let your heart not be troubled at all.

“There are three things Igbo are considering, who is going to run for them, what is he going to achieve and how is it going to be done.

“There will be people who will approach Tinubu and I speak personally, that there was a time Ndi-igbo in Lagos made up their minds, we are going to support Tinubu to be governor no matter what was thrown at him, so, if he now decides that the same people who stood by him at his worst hour, we record it for him, there will be no problem.”

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