As the heat of the 2023 general elections election hits up and the people of the Southeast region yearn to produce the next Nigerian president in the 2023, the Ohanaeze and Igbo Elders Forum, have embarked on lobbying Northern elders, to support their cause.
Details of the meeting are still sketchy but sources say the lobby is intended to influence the Sultan who is expected to speak to others on why the Igbos should produce next President.
“We are watching the North; the Fulani are not relenting. Power is not just given; one has to struggle for it.
“We reached out to the Sultan of Sokoto and some other people, and we have had a meeting with him (Sultan). He is very influential and they (people in the north) listen to him,” a source say.
Recall that the Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) had demanded the arrest of a former governor of Anambra state, Chukwuemeka Ezeife and other Igbo elders over the alleged aggressive way they were championing an Igbo Presidency.
The CNG, in a statement by its spokesperson, Abdul-Azeez Suleiman, had said the Igbo could not be trusted with the presidency.
Meanwhile, the leader of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, Ralph Uwazuruike, is said to have explained to the leadership of Igbo Elders Forum why he is supporting the presidential ambition of Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State in 2023 against an Igbo man.
