The Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, has cautioned former President, Goodluck Jonathan against contesting the 2023 presidential election.
MASSOB was reacting to speculations that some governors are attempting to stress Jonathan into contesting the 2023 presidential election.
But the APC Caretaker Chairman, Mala Mai Buni had dismissed claims that the {party} was making an attempt to persuade Jonathan to contest in 2023 on its platform
described the insinuation as a hypocritical transfer aimed toward inflicting a political discord amongst folks of the Southeast.
A press release by the group’s chief, Uchenna Madu additionally urged Bola Tinubu, National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State against working for the president.
He additionally alleged a plot to sideline and frustrate folks of the Southeast from producing Nigeria’s subsequent president.
According to Madu: “Former President, Goodluck Jonathan and his Ijaw kin ought to be smart sufficient to discern this refined and hypocritical transfer of Arewa governors. The Sultan of Sokoto, the Aso villa cabals, the frontline emirs, the Arewa opinion leaders, and Islamic gurus, each Nigerians, and foreigners, are completely conscious and systematically pushing for a Goodluck Jonathan one tenure administration.
“Their final political intention is to sideline and frustrate the golden probabilities of Igbo man or Southeast zone to emerge as president of Nigeria.
“MASSOB also warns Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State to bury their presidential ambitions in 2023 because it is solely and sacrosanct for the Southeast zone to produce the next president of Nigeria.”
Madu insisted that the Southeast ought to be allowed to provide Nigeria’s president in 2023.
“It is not about sentiment or selfishness to support the Southeast zone; it is the turn of the Southeast zone to produce the next president of Nigeria according to the zoning arrangement,” he added.
