{"id":776532,"date":"2020-01-04T17:20:21","date_gmt":"2020-01-04T17:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2020\/01\/04\/what-igbos-must-do-to-clinch-2023-presidency-buharis-associate\/"},"modified":"2020-01-04T17:20:21","modified_gmt":"2020-01-04T17:20:21","slug":"what-igbos-must-do-to-clinch-2023-presidency-buharis-associate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/01\/04\/what-igbos-must-do-to-clinch-2023-presidency-buharis-associate\/","title":{"rendered":"What Igbos Must Do To Clinch 2023 Presidency: Buhari&#8217;s Associate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure style=\"width: 477px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Funtua.png\" alt=\"Ismaila Isa Funtua\" width=\"477\" height=\"464\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ismaila Isa Funtua<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>An associate of President Muhammadu Buhari, Ismaila Isa Funtua, says the only way for the south-east to get presidency is to review its ways of playing politics.<\/p>\n<p>While speaking on Saturday when he appeared on The Morning Show, a programme on Arise Television, Funtua said the Igbo do not play inclusive politics and they like \u201cdo things on their own.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Funtua, the life patron of the Newspapers Proprietors Association of Nigerian (NPAN) stated further that Moshood Abiola, who presumably won\u00a0 the 1993 presidential poll, was able to defeat Bashir Tofa in Kano, his state, because \u201che embraced everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey should belong. They should join the party. They want to do things on their own and because they are Igbo, we should dash them the president? That was the reason I said is it turn by turn Nigeria Limited?\u201d Funtua said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re talking of politics, which is an issue of votes. My very good friend of blessed memory, MKO Abiola defeated Bashir Tofa in Kano. Was MKO Abiola from Kano? But he defeated Bashir in his own town Kano. Why? Because the man played politics, he embraced everybody.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also:\u00a02023: Only Igbo Presidency Will Guarantee Peace In Nigeria: Ex-Minister<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you send him an invitation for anything, if he is not there, his representative will be there and he will play his part. You cannot sit down and say because you\u2019re an Ibo man, there is no fairness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith due respect to the Igbo, they fail to understand that when the south-west chose to remain on their own as opposition, they did not go near the power. To a large extent, the north in terms of religion and culture are closer to the south-west than to the south-east. When Ekwueme contested (for the PDP ticket), Chief Olusegun Obasanjo defeated him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know Nigerian politics, you chose your candidate who will be able to bring votes to you to win election, not on regional basis, not on tribal basis. Is he going to be the president of the North, East, South-west, South-south or whatever?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the Ibo wants to be president, then they must belong. If you don\u2019t belong, then you can\u2019t be the president.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>              &#13;\n                    <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ismaila Isa Funtua An associate of President Muhammadu Buhari, Ismaila Isa Funtua, says the only way for the south-east to get presidency is to review its ways of playing politics. 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