Nigeria: 2023 Power Shift: AYCF Yerima is not speaking alone—Obiekwe

 

Nigeria: 2023 Power shift: AYCF Yerima is not standing alone—Obiekwe

President of an Igbo socio-cultural group in Abuja, Nigeria, Igbo Gburu Gburu, Comrade Emma Obiekwe, has said that the leader of a Nigerian Northern group, The Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF) Shettima Yerima, was not speaking alone when he said that the North still wants the presidency in 2023 and will not cede power to the South. 

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Yerima had noted in an interview with a Nigerian platform that the south is in charge of the economy and they have everything, so why would they (South) want to take away the only thing we have. What would you call that?

Yerima’s comment has generated some controversies with some Nigerians standing against Yerima.

In a private conversation on Tuesday, Obiekwe said that Yerima was speaking the mind of the Northerners.

Don’t think that he is alone. No. He is speaking the minds of the Northern majority and they will stand by him. Who do they trust to give power to?”, Obiekwe said.

President of the AYCF, Shettima Yerima, said in an interview with Vanguard on Tuesday that it irritated the entire North for some southern politicians to think Northerners would leave power for them in 2023. 

Yerima had said in the interview: “How can you think we will cede power to the South in 2023? The North still wants the presidency. The south is in charge of the economy and they have everything, so why would they want to take away the only thing we have. What would you call that? 

“Even if we are ceding power to the south in 2023, we should be considering people like Orji Uzor Kalu. He is someone the north trusts and the Northern elders will give him their full support. Most Nigerians don’t know that Kalu’s incarceration emanated from conspiracy and betrayal from his party, the APC.”