The South East may have began campaign for the 2023 presidency.
The move was intensified last weekend, in Jos, the Plateau State capital, when a group under the aegis of South East For President (SEFORP) 2023, awakened the consciousness of the Igbo extraction in the state.
Inaugurating members that would drive the message home at the grassroots, National Coordinator of SEFORP, Rev. Christopher Obioha, said come 2023 the South East would produce a President that would lead the country to greatness.
Obioha said the forum was embarking on a peaceful appeal to the conscience of Nigerians who believes in equity, justice and fairness to the plights of the South East region which has been denied equal representation in the governance of the county.
His words, “Our movement is an advocacy, an appeal to the conscience of the people, to see that it is the turn of the South East to produce the next president.
“We have embarked on this publicity because if we don’t make noise about it and ask for what rightfully belongs to us, Nigerians will think we are not interested,” Obioha said.
On his part, chairman of the occasion, Rev. Patrice Ikwueme All’OM, said the South East has waited as though they do not have identity in the nation called Nigeria.
All’OM said the Igbo must walk together alongside other Nigerians who believe in fair play, for the dream to be actualised.
Earlier in her remarks, the Plateau State Coordinator of SEFORP, Mrs. Adamma Obikili, said out of the six zones that make up Nigeria, the South East is the only zone that is yet to have a short at the presidency.
“There are six zones in Nigeria and five zones have had a short at the Presidency which leaves only the South East zone.
“We extend our hand of brotherhood to the other zones, to join us in this quest for a true one Nigeria, where everyone has a sense of belonging of equity, justice and fairness,” Obikili said.
