POLITICS DIGEST – The Southeast for President 2023 (SEFORP2023), has called on major political parties in the country to field only candidates from the Southeast geopolitical group as their presidential candidates.
According to them, it became necessary to enhance the unity of Nigeria and enthrone the spirit of equity, justice and fairness.
Speaking in Umuahia at the weekend during the end of year meeting of the body, the Abia State coordinator of the group, Mrs. Precious Kalu, asked Southeasterners to extend hand of fellowship to other geopolitical zones on the issue, stressing that the organization was preaching out to the North and other southern regions to solicit for their support towards giving a southeasterner a shot to Aso Rock in 2023.
She explained that SEFORP2023, with other similar groups and individuals, would ensure that the best candidates emerged from the Southeast for the major political parties from whom the Nigerian electorate would make their choice.
Said Kalu, “Our vision is that by 2023, the President of Federal Republic of Nigeria will come from Southeast zone; and our mission is to make sure that every political party, especially the two major political parties and or any third force will cede their presidential candidates to the South East zone”.
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According to her, SEFORP would ensure that the Southeasterners work in concert with all the major political parties to cede the presidential slot to the most viable and the most qualified candidates.-
The SEFORP2023 Abia State coordinator pointed out that the group has found it necessary to chart a roadmap and framework for building the Nigerian nation anchored on the universal principles of equity, justice fairness.
This, she maintained, was the only panacea for peace, stability, unity and harmony of the country, stressing that a country where equity and justice were the yardstick for governance would enthrone rapid and sustainable economic growth, diversification, and enhanced economic development as well as transformation.
“This is the message we preach loudly and clearly to all Nigerians and friends of Nigeria to enthusiastically embrace and practice with full, unalloyed commitment and patriotic zeal.
“Historically and geographically, Nigeria sits on a tripod namely – the North, East and West. Under both variants of civilian/democracy and military government regimes that have ruled in the post-Independence Nigeria, since 1960, Ndigbo of the present southeast geo-political zone have literally been political on-lookers.
The apparent total exclusion of Ndigbo, an important part of the national tripod from the national leadership equation has become quite a troubling matter of grave concern to well-meaning Nigerians.
“Equity and justice naturally demand that Nigeriann of Southeast, Igbo extraction who have greatly assisted the emergence of other tribes in Nigeria’s leadership, deserve visionary treatment and given space to produce the next President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, come 2023,” Kalu said.