The Senator said the All Progressives Congress can’t produce an Igbo President in 2023, adding that only his party, the Peoples Democratic Party can produce an Igbo President in the next election.
When asked about the possibility of an Igbo President in 2023, Abaribe said, “The man who the shoe pinches knows where it hurts. The Igbos are the people in Nigeria who make conscious efforts of setting anywhere else without hurting their host.
“At any point you have never heard that they kill and maim their host so they know how to aggregate everybody’s feelings, their customs, their laws, their norms, everything. And so, because of that we feel that the Igbo will understand you, will even have the time for you.
“Today, we don’t feel that this government have the time for anybody.”
“You will see a tremendous change starting with the fact that he will be able to or she will be able to manage our diversity,” he added.
Abaribe also said an Igbo President “is ripe in 2023”.
He, however, said, “We think that the party called APC is not set up to manage Nigeria properly and so it has to be our own party (PDP) that has been able to carry everybody along. And those of us Igbo within our party knowing that we have to play politics, talk to people, you have to be able to see your own point of view and buy into your vision are doing the consultations now.”
The Senate Minority Leader also said the PDP has not ceded the 2023 Presidency to the North because he has been part of all the “negotiations and the talks and I have never seen where there was any such ceding”.
Abaribe boasted that Nigeria would experience a turnaround within six months if he becomes President.
“I would if it falls on me; within six months, all these things would be a thing of the past,” he said.
