2023: 85 Coalition Groups endorse Anyim, canvasses for S/East Presidency

 

 

A Coalition of 85 Support Groups, under the aegis of the United for Better Nigeria Initiative (UBNI),  have unanimously endorsed the Presidential aspiration of former Senate President Anyim Pius Anyim, in the forthcoming 2023 General election.

 

The Coordinator General of the Group Mrs Nkoli Mkparu  made the  declaration on  Tuesday during a formal reception for  over 80 Support Groups into the initiative.

 

She said that the National Executive Council  of the  Group received the recommendations of the Committee that assessed the potentials of other aspirants across the region, and unanimously resolved to adopt Senator Anyim as preferred aspirant

 

The Groups include  Arewa Sai Anyim, Nyja     Malaysian for  Anyim, and United Mobilisers     for  Anyim, S/East Students for Anyim, Enugu    for Anyim, South-East Professional Anyim,

Business Forum for Anyim, Team Anyim for

President,  Anyim We  Want, Gombe for

Anyim Jigawa for Anyim, Plateau for Anyim,    Kogi for Anyim, FCT for Anyim, Bauchi for

Anyim, North Day Yes to Anyim, Ebonyi

women for  Anyim, Anyim Students Support     Groups and Delta for Anyim among others.

Receiving the Groups  on Tuesday in Abuja, Mrs Nkoli Mkparu, Coordinator General, United for Better Nigeria Initiative (UBNI), said this is the time for a President of Igbo extraction was now.

 

She said that UBNI held consultations and meetings across chapters, zones within and outside the group and visited some major stakeholders from different geopolitical zones

 

“We interacted with presidential aspirants of South-east extraction, before and after they evidently declared interest to contest in the 2023 general elections.

 

“We set up a committee to collate and shortlist presidential aspirants of South-east extraction and to recommend the presidential aspirant to adopt and support during the 2023 presidential election.

 

“To get a credible person who will work to reposition, refix, rebuild, and return Nigeria to its glorious past remains a task which UBNI volunteered to be part of in the next political dispensation.‘’

 

She opined, ” these groups who share in the same ideology, passion and commitment that the next president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria should come from the South east and must be credible and well acceptable personality,’’ she said.

 

The Group Coordinator said that the support for Anyim is inevitable because we deemed It fit and is morally right to have a south-east president.

 

Earlier in a speech, Mr Usman Sulieman, Coordinator of Northern Supporters of Ndi-Igbo for President 2023, said so far Nigeria had seen the leadership qualities of the North and the South which belonged to three major ethnic groups except the East.

 

Suleiman, therefore, said that justifiably and non negotiably, there was the need to also see the leadership qualities of the South-East as well.

 

“This because peace, progress and justice will never be attained without justifiable rotational leadership, so we need to support the south-east to become president ”

 

Contributing Mr Kayode  Odayemi, Coordinator, Omo Egbe Anyim Rere, also drummed up support for Anyim, adding that “we are behind him and by God’s grace he will be president come 2023 because he is ready for the job.

 

The Zonal Cordinator of South/South zone Mr Finecountry  Iyioku,  said so far the only zone yet to be tested for presidency is the South-East .

 

He therefore called on all regions to give the South East a chance to Nigeria experience a positive turnaround in all spheres.