South-East insists on 2023 presidency; Peter Obi says Nigeria’s biggest problem Is leadership failure

Leaders of the apex Igbo socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo have converged on Owerri, the Imo State capital in South-East Nigeria to discuss issues affecting the Igbo race.

Top on the agenda is to produce the President of South-East extraction in 2023, the release of Nnamdi Kanu from detention, insecurity in the zone and the sit-at-home order by the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB.

The discussions were at the gala nite organised by the Governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodinma in honour of the President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Professor George Obiozor.

Professor Obiozor appealed to all political parties to zone their presidential tickets to the South-East. He also urged President Muhammadu Buhari to exercise his prerogative of mercy and order the release of Nnamdi Kanu and other Igbo youths in detention.

Governor Uzodinma, says justice, equity and fairness under a united Nigeria is what the Igbos demand.

Hopefully, the meeting will give a new direction for Igbos as the 2023 presidential election approaches.

The former Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi and presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party has identified Nigeria’s biggest problem as leadership failure.

“If I am to say what Nigeria’s biggest problem is, you can see that it is leadership failure,” he said when he made an appearance on a private television on Sunday.

“What we are experiencing now is the cumulative effect of leadership failure over the years. A leadership that has failed to look into the future and invest in the future.

“So, what Nigerians want to see is a leader who has the competence and capacity to start tackling the innermost problems affecting our country, starting from the issue of cohesion and unity, we are so divided today as a nation so there’s a need to bring us together”.