Ohanaeze Ndigbo to unveil Igbo preferred presidential candidate month end

• Published date: 22 January 2023
• Publication title: Nigeria - The Nation

IGBO apex socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo will announce its preferred presidential candidate by month end, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, Secretary-General of a faction of the Igbo group, in a statement yesterday said: 'Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide has the consent of the apex decision-making organ, Imeobi Ohanaeze to kick start the procedures that will oversee the official unveiling of the presidential candidate Ndigbo will vote for in the 2023 presidential elections by the end of January 2023 in Umuahia, Abia State after series of consultative meetings with critical Igbo stakeholders especially governors from seven Igbo-speaking states.

'We have arrived on a consensus to commence the processes for the official unveiling of the preferred presidential candidate for Ndigbo in the 2023 elections, especially being mindful of the events that occurred during the 2015 elections and the consequences that followed up which brought up economic strangulation for Igbo traders, southeast political wilderness for eight years, the marginalization of the southeast in all ramifications that led to the rise of Biafra...