{"id":165262,"date":"2019-11-04T12:46:42","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T11:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=165262"},"modified":"2019-11-04T12:49:20","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T11:49:20","slug":"2023-why-president-must-come-from-south-east-iwuanyanwu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=165262","title":{"rendered":"2023: Why President must come from South East – Iwuanyanwu"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Elder statesman and member, Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu has said time has come for South east to rule Nigeria.<\/p>\n

Iwuanyanwu, on Sunday, speaking to newsmen in his hometown, Oguta, Imo state, said nothing would stop a president of Igbo extraction from emerging in Nigeria in 2023.<\/p>\n

The elder statesman lamented that the North has ruled Nigerians for too long hence 2023 is a time for South East region to produce a President.<\/p>\n

According to him, South East must produce the president in the \u201cinterest of equity and fairness.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cThe northern part of Nigeria has ruled the country more than the South. Presently, power is still in the North. In 2023, being eight straight years of the North holding unto power again, under the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, it is expected that power will shift to the South.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you come to the South, the South West and South South part of the country have both produced presidents.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is, therefore, the turn of the South East to produce the president of this country come 2023 in the interest of equity and fairness.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are among other things Senator Nzeribe fought for in his active days in the Senate, and the time has come for its realization. This is non-negotiable.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elder statesman and member, Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu has said time has come for South east to rule Nigeria. Iwuanyanwu, on Sunday, speaking to newsmen in his hometown, Oguta, Imo state, said nothing would stop a president of Igbo extraction from emerging in Nigeria in 2023. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":134342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[11471,2658,514],"class_list":["post-165262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-2023-election","tag-a","tag-igbo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/134342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}