The Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) has advised the South-East people not to contest in Nigeria’s 2023 presidential election.

MASSOB reasoned that it would be extremely difficult for any Igbo person to win the election.

Speaking on the phone with our correspondent on Wednesday, February 26th, 2020, the MASSOB Director of Information, Sunday Okereafor, said the political calculation in the country had never favoured Igbo people to produce the President since after the Nigerian civil war.

Okereafor said notable Igbo people like Alex Ekwueme, Chuba Okadigbo and Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu failed in their quest to become the president in the past.

He said,

The Igbo are already thinking of 2023. Some of them are preparing to contest the 2023 presidential election. They should forget it because it is a gamble that can never work.

The fact is that there has been a gang-up against Ndigbo that they will never get to the position. The gang-up has been there for the past 50 years and there is nothing anybody can do about it.

Okereafor said the struggle for Biafra would continue until it was achieved, adding that 2023 presidency was a distraction to the people of the South-East.

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