The President of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Nnia Nwodo, has said Nigeria will encounter a turnaround in fortune if an Igbo man becomes the country’s President in 2023.
The President said this in a congratulatory message forwarded to Nigerian-born Kelechi Madu, the recently appointed Minister of Justice and Solicitor General in Alberta.
In the congratulatory message, Nwodo said Madu’s remarkable achievement in Canada goes to show that if an Igbo man emerges President in 2023, Nigeria will witness transformation. He pleaded with Federal Government to stop neglecting and victimizing the Igbos so that the could harness their latent creative potentials for the good of all Nigerians.
He said: “Ohanaeze Ndigbo is highly honoured by the exploits of Kaycee Madu in far away Canada as an Igbo son. Mr Madu had contested and won a seat into the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, representing the electoral district of Edmonton-South West from where he was appointed and sworn in as Minister of Justice and Solicitor General by the Premier of Alberta, Jason Kenney, on April 30, 2020.
“On behalf of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, I commend the sterling qualities of Mr Kaycee Madu, as well as other Igbo sons and daughters who have excelled so much outside the country, such as the recently appointed first black Vice Chancellor of Leeds Trinity University in the UK, Prof Charles Egbu, and many others.
“The exploits of Igbo sons and daughters both within and outside the country are indices of the cerebral capability and ingenuity of the people which Nigeria could exploit to advance its development.
“The Federal Government should stop marginalising and victimising the Igbo in the country so that the latent creative potentials could be harnessed for the good of all.
“Nigeria would witness a turn around in her fortunes if a president of Igbo extraction was allowed to emerge in 2023.”
