Zikist movement launched for Buhari
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and it is on record that despite the truism that his excellencies dr alex ekwueme and dr ogbonnia onu were shoved aside in jos and kaduna presidential primaries respectively. ndigbo albeit voted overwhelmingly for the winner ex-president chief olusegun obasanjo of the south west who served for eight years1 zikist-buharist-movement zbm meant to be used to mobilise massive votes for presidential candidate president muhammadu buhari has been launched in the south-east1 a communiqu issued on sunday after the bso south-east summit by chief stanley ohajuruka and godwin onwusi south-east coordinator and acting secretary of bso said zbm remains a non-partisan movement launched to go beyond the party lines to scaling up votes for buhari1 the movement would carry out massive mobilization of apc members and non partisan ndigbo at home and diaspora for buharis re-election1 the communiqu read in part our study shows that the total membership of all the political parties apc pdp apga upp et al is less than 30 per cent of the electorate1 and that the turnout of registered voters in the previous elections has been very poor which makes it imperative that we have to mobilize in order to achieve 2019 massive vote for president buhari and 2023 presidential turn of ndigbo1 in this connection we today launch the zikist-buharist-movement zbm a non-partisan movement aimed at mobilising ndigbo both at home and abroad1 the zbm in the best tradition of the great zik dr nnamdi azikiwe want to reopen the ancient north-east political alliance which without the exclusion of any geopolitical zone earned ndigbo indelible laurels in the 1st and 2nd republics1 bso south east proclamation that 2023 is our turn to produce nigeria president of igbo extraction is based on equity natural justice and good conscience1 for it is our considered view that the rotation of president convention from southern belt to northern belt introduced by patriots in 1999 4th republic when nigeria returned to civil rule is for equity natural justice and harmony of our dear country1 it is based on equity natural justice and good conscience that we remind ourselves that since 1999 the south east geopolitical zone is the only geopolitical zone in the southern belt which has not presided over nigeria1 it was launched by the buhari support organisation bso1 it recalled that in 2010 and 2015 ndigbo repeated the same voting pattern by voting overwhelmingly for ex-president dr goodluck jonathan adding that it was clear that ndigbo supported their two southern brothers even when south west in 1999 refused to vote for obasanjo meaning that ndigbo has paid their dues1 the communiqu stated further bso south east in deep reflection asked ourselves what option in a scenario where two fulani-muslim brothers buhari and atiku are front liners in the 2019 presidential election who could the great zik choose if he were alive1 in answering this germane question we said two major critical issues will readily come to ziks mind one whom between the two of them has the support of the north two what is their programmes1 as a pragmatist the great zik would readily choose president buhari who has uncommon cult followership in the northern belt. this choice is based on the pragmatism that for us to achieve the igbo presidency we need buharis supporters not only in the north but nationwide1 on the second issue the great zik would be attracted by his excellency atiku abubakars promise to restructure the country in six months in office but as a pragmatist he will reason that it cannot be achieved by fiat-executive-order1 whereas the atiku restructuring mantra is appetizing the truism is that it cannot be done by fiat-executive order but by the amendment of the rigid 1999 constitution. all that glitters is not gold the sage says1 the statement said that apc and by extension president buhari was not against restructuring otherwise they could not have set up the malam el-rufia committee on restructuring and its report receiving attention1 on the issue of four years it said that buharis remaining four years after 2019 is cast on constitutional stone while atikus is at best pledge1 in summary we call on ndigbo both at home and abroad to join the zbm to actualise this noble objective of over 80 per cent massive vote for the performing president president muhammadu buhari it said1 the summit was attended by bso and apc chieftains including chief osita okechukwu of voice of nigeria von the director-general nigerian film commission mr chidia maduekwe national commissioner of national population commission mr ejike eze and national chairman of bso dr abubakar mahmood1 others are enugu state bso coordinator mr anike nwoga imo state bso coordinator adaobi obi enugu state apc publicity secretary mrs kate offor and the senatorial candidate of apc in enugu east prince lawrence eze. nan1