Former Arewa Youths President and ex-spokesperson of the National Association of Aircraft Pilots and Engineers, Isaac Balami, has asked Nigerians to trust the Igbo ethnic group with the power in the 2023 presidential election.
POLITICS NIGERIA reports that Balami, a chieftain of the Labour Party, said it will only be fair if Nigerians elect a president of Igbo extraction in the forthcoming 2023 election.
“The country does not belong to one tribe. The country belongs to all Nigerians. Those doing this things don’t know the dangers they are putting the country into. They do not know the implications. That’s why I have a lot of respect for the Afenifere. The leader, Pa Adebanjo has done something that in the next 100 years, the Yorubas will be protected by Nigerians when Obi wins. Why? Because after eight years of Peter Obi, if power needs to come back to the North, but tomorrow if the Yorubas said it’s our turn, trust me, Nigerians and even the Igbos, will say yes, it’s your turn. Because at some point, they were fair, they were just, and that is the only way to go,” Balami told This Day Newspaper.
“You don’t want them to leave the country. You don’t want to give them Biafra. Then if you want them as part of the country, you must give them leadership. You must trust them. It’s about equity and justice. It’s about fairness.
“You cannot have a country with this crisis, division and you want a particular tribe to dominate. There’ll be more violence.
“So anybody who loves this country should stop this nonsense. And wake up and tell each other the truth because the country is bleeding. There’s no place for us to go to.”
That they truth. But would they hear? That’s the only way out of the quagmire.