The immediate past majority leader of Imo State House of Assembly, Dr. John Egbuchulam, yesterday insisted that Ndigbo had all it takes to produce the president of the country in 2015, stressing that the tribe should not be taken for granted ahead of the elections.
Egbuchulam, who is the chairman of the United Pro­gressives Party (UPP), Imo State, was speaking at the in­auguration of the party’s offi­cials for Mbaitoli Local Gov­ernment Area of the state.
According to him, those who said they had endorsed President Goodluck Jona­than on behalf of Ndigbo did so out of selfish consid­erations, thereby reducing Igbo to mere onlookers and bystanders in the Nigerian project.
The former lawmaker de­scribed Ndigbo as the only progressive and patriotic people in Nigeria, who were seen in virtually all the cities across the country,
He stated that by popula­tion, the Igbo were greater in number than other tribes de­spite the census figures that favoured the North.
According to him, the UPP would field a presiden­tial candidate of Igbo ex­traction, adding that any aspirant seeking to have the support of the Igbo must be ready to genuinely define the stake of the tribe if elected.
On Imo governorship election in 2015, the former majority leader boasted that UPP would give the people of the state a governor that would wipe away their tears.

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