Tobi Adebayo
The Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG), has said that the people of South-East are not “sincere and cannot be trusted with power.”
CNG said this in reaction to a statement by a former Anambra State Governor, Chukwuemeka Ezeife on the 2023 Presidency.
Ezeife, at an event, had said that the Igbo people were ready to “kneel, prostrate before other ethnic groups” in order to have their support for an Igbo Presidency.
“So I found Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo and other groups in this place talking about the need for federal character. If you do it that way, there will be unity, if there is fairness, equity, justice, you will have unity and progress.
“In the absence of those, you see where we are now. It is not a matter of giving us president, we don’t give, you have to work for it, the Igbo does not prostrate.
“The Igbo man does not kneel down but this time, we are prepared to kneel to every part of Nigeria, every group, every ethnic group in Nigeria, we are prepared to even prostrate because we believe in this country,” Ezeife said.
2023 presidency: “Igbo are ready to kneel for everybody”, says Ezeife
Reacting in a statement by its spokesman, Abdul-Azeez Suleiman, on Monday, CNG said that the North will not be deceived by Ezeife’s remark.
“Igbos have, by their conduct, denied themselves the opportunity to be trusted with power in the near future.
“It is deceptive for them to make such overtures after having encouraged and supported Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, and the atrocities committed against other Nigerians, particularly northerners by his IPOB.
“If the Igbo must prostrate to anyone, they should prostrate to Kanu as the North has come of age and shall not be deceived or fooled any longer,” the statement read.
