The Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) has renewed its calls for a president of South-East extraction in 2023, stressing that Southerners have for long been treated as second-class citizens in the country, IgbereTV reports
Speaking during an interview on Arise TV on Tuesday, the leader of the forum, Edwin Clark, condemned the maltreatment suffered by the South-East region as a result of the monopoly of leadership by the North.
He noted that any Nigerian averse to South-East presidency in 2023 was hypocritical, and poised to see the end of the country soonest.
The elder statesman, therefore, appealed that electoral decison in 2023 must be in recognition of the unity and development of Nigeria as a diverse country.
“My idea of zoning the Presidency to the South-East is well-known. No Nigerian will like to live in country where certain people believe that they have the only right to lead. The APC believes the 12 million votes by President Muhammadu Buhari might be eroded if it is zoned to the South. The PDP is also considering zoning to the North. This is unfair.
“Nigeria stood on three legs, and it has never been steady since one of the legs was destroyed during the Civil War. I unpacked all these facts in my forthcoming memoir ‘Brutally Frank’.
