Billionaire businessman, Arthur Eze, says it will take God for an Igbo man to become Nigeria’s president.
The oil magnate told journalists in Ukpo, Anambra State after a church service on Sunday that the Igbo people do not love another and are not united.
Eze said he has enjoyed favour from people from northern Nigeria and is only concerned about having good leaders for the country.
“For the Igbo to be president, they must love themselves. Do they love themselves? The north is very kind. If you go to northern Nigerian, you will see churches everywhere. There are churches in Kano, Sokoto, Kaduna, Abuja and others yet they say there is hatred. Do we (Igbo) love ourselves?” he asked.
“Only God can make an Igbo man president. We shall pray to God to find an Igbo man who has character to help people. I would prefer someone who has conscience; somebody who will remember me. I don’t care where you come from.
“I went to the north, they didn’t know who I was. They gave me $12m for the construction of Kano TV in 1980. I didn’t have one naira then. It was the same thing in Katsina, Borno and Kaduna. Then, they put me in oil business. They didn’t care where I came from. Tell me any Igbo man who can do that?”
Eze recently said the Igbo should be grateful to President Muhammadu Buhari and the work he has done in the region despite not getting much support from the region in the 2015 and 2019 general elections.
