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2023: Ogunlewe Reveals Why Igbos Cannot Be President

Afnews Editor

Aug 11, 2021

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Adeseye Ogunlewe, a former Minister of Works, has said the southeast cannot produce a president in 2023.

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Ogunlewe said the inability of the people of the southeast to unite under a common leadership would work against their presidential ambition.

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He disclosed this while featuring on Arise TV's 'The Morning Show' programme on Wednesday.

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The former minister also pointed out that the lack of cohesion among the southeast people would work against them.

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He said: "Another set of people that are appropriate, they are the people from the Southeast but they have the problem of leadership.

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"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.

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"They have the money. If they sit down and aggregate what they can offer, they have more money than almost everybody in Nigeria.

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"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?ÔÇØ

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