At a time when the Igbo's highest socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo is intensifying its backlash against Transportation Minister, Rotimi Amaechi, for suggeting that Igbos cannot produce the next president, it's own Secretary, Uche Okwukwu, has come out to back the minister. Okwukwu proclaimed his stance on the matter in a press statement on Monday. The recently suspended Ohanaeze offcial claimed that Amaechi's assertion is valid as Igbos' choice of candidate in the last election was their greatest undoing. He said, “Of course, whether we agree or not, politics is reality. By not voting for Buhari and denying him any presence in Igboland, we have to a large extent, by omission or commission, shut ourselves out of the presidency in 2023. To futher buttress his point, he argued "Even if you go to the convention of the APC, Igbo cannot win the primary in the APC. This is because they don’t have any senator, no governor, nobody in the APC. So, how will t...
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