{"id":708651,"date":"2019-09-24T03:50:19","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T03:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/09\/24\/igbos-must-work-hard-to-produce-next-president-ngige\/"},"modified":"2019-09-24T03:50:19","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T03:50:19","slug":"igbos-must-work-hard-to-produce-next-president-ngige","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/09\/24\/igbos-must-work-hard-to-produce-next-president-ngige\/","title":{"rendered":"Igbos Must Work Hard To Produce Next President: Ngige"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_610778\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-610778\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-610778\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/1569297019_360_worry-and-confusion-trail-ngiges-statement-on-new-minimum-wage.jpg\" alt=\"Ngige\" width=\"220\" height=\"170\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-610778\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Ngige<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Chris Ngige, minister of labour and employment, has said the south-east must support the All Progressives Congress (APC) because the region won\u2019t be offered presidency at no cost.<\/p>\n<p>The minister said this on Tuesday while speaking in Anambra. Ngige stressed that the Southeast must stop \u201cshouting marginalisation\u201d as power is not given, based on sentiment and emotion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Igbo should stop shouting marginalisation. They should stand up and assert themselves to be counted. Nigeria belongs to all of us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEquity favours the Igbo to produce the next president of the country, but they must work hard and position themselves for it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe should stop political sentiments. Politicians don\u2019t give power based on sentiment and emotion. President Muhammadu Buhari has said he is favourable to an Igbo president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must support him and associate with the APC. Nobody will give you president of Nigeria in your bedroom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on threat to attack southeast leaders by the minister also said members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) outside the country, he said:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also:\u00a0Another Plot To Massacre Kinsmen Of Nnamdi Kanu\u2019s Underway: IPOB<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIPOB was registered by the late President General of Ohaneze Ndigbo, Dr Dozie Ikedife and other Igbo as a non-violent group,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is going on now in the group is not part of the work plan. I visited the United States of America recently, and I was welcomed by IPOB members.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey knew I fed and protected them when I was in office as governor. I have said it several times that Biafra cannot be achieved the IPOB way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>              &#13;\n                    <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Ngige Chris Ngige, minister of labour and employment, has said the south-east must support the All Progressives Congress (APC) because the region won\u2019t be offered presidency at no cost. The minister said this on Tuesday while speaking in Anambra. Ngige stressed that the Southeast must stop \u201cshouting marginalisation\u201d as power is not given, based [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":708652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-708651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Igbos Must Work Hard To Produce Next President: Ngige - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/09\/24\/igbos-must-work-hard-to-produce-next-president-ngige\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Igbos Must Work Hard To Produce Next President: Ngige - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Chris Ngige Chris Ngige, minister of labour and employment, has said the south-east must support the All Progressives Congress (APC) because the region won\u2019t be offered presidency at no cost. 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