Veteran actor Pete Edochie has aired his opinion on the kind of president Nigeria needs ahead of the 2023 election Edochie said Bola Tinubu should leave the presidential position for someone who is younger and healthier.
The veteran actor also questioned while no one from the eastern part of the country has made it to the number position one in the country since 1960.
Nollywood veteran actor Pete Edochie has reacted to the presidential ambition of former Lagos state governor Bola Tinubu ahead of the general election in 2023. Edochie, during an interview with Newsmen said Tinubu was too old to become the next president of Nigeria as he raised concerns about the political marginalisation of the Igbo people.
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Responding to a question on Tinubu’s 2023 ambition, Edochie said:
Many people like Tinubu are too old and too weak to run for president. He (Tinubu) has been in power for a long time, until he was made the leader of the APC. But he should leave the position for those who are younger and healthier; let’s be honest.”
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Nigeria needs an Igbo leader The veteran actor, while lamenting why Aguiyi Ironsi was the only Ìgbò head of state since independence in 1960, said: “Ìgbò, Hausa, and Yorùbá are the major ethnic groups in Nigeria. Only once in the history of Nigeria has it emerged that an Ìgbò person became the head of state in Nigeria.
That was (former military head of state) Aguiyi Ironsi during the military government and his headship was short-lived. Since then, the North and the Yorùbá have been sharing power between themselves, apart from Goodluck Jonathan who isn’t even Ìgbò.”
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