South-East APC Presidential Aspirants Should Indicate Interest- Jideofo-Ogbuagu
As political parties are gradually driving towards who to present as candidates for the 2023 Presidential Elections, presidential aspirants of South-East extraction on All Progressives Congress (APC) platform in 2023 have been called upon to indicate interest in contesting for the office on APC platform.
Dr Chinedu Jideofo-Ogbuagu, National Coordinator, South-East APC Presidency Project 2023 made this call in a press statement made available to newsmen in Abuja, warning that delay in expressing serious interest in the 2023 Presidency is dangerous.
The national coordinator in the release hinted that one sure thing was that power was not given to anyone but taken by someone. “A second sure thing is that South-East Nigeria has thousands of credible and capable individuals for Presidency of Nigeria.
Furthermore, he affirmed that the third sure thing was that conceding 2023 Nigerian Presidency to the South-East would not be doing the region any favours, adding that both APC and Nigeria need President of South-East extraction for their unity, growth and sustainability.
He said: “Presidential aspirants of South-East extraction on APC platform in 2023 must now indicate interest in contesting for the office on APC platform.
“Contesting for Nigeria’s presidency is not for the faint-hearted nor is it for the reticent or ambivalent.
“In respect of presidential aspiration by South-Easterners on APC platform, it also requires individuals who must submit themselves to scrutiny by South-East APC members before the best of them will be presented to both APC and general Nigerian electorate for them to vote for South-East’s considered choice of presidential candidate.
“Any South-East APC person who thinks that he or she could win APC presidential ticket or win Nigeria’s presidential election without first getting majority of South-East APC endorsement, must be naive. Such wayward thinking belongs in the past, it never worked and it will never work for any South-Easterner.
“This is the time for 2023 presidential aspirants of South-East extraction on APC platform to let South-East APC members – through South-East APC Presidency Project 2023, to know that they are seriously interested in contesting for Nigeria’s presidency on APC platform in 2023.”
