By Sam Oditah
Uturu (Abia), Dec. 20, 2020 The sixth World Igbo Summit (WIS) has called for the amendment of the Electoral Act to make it mandatory for political parties to enshrine the Rotation of the Presidency Clause in their Constitutions.
The call formed part of the nine-point communique issued at the end of the two-day summit held at the Gregory University, Uturu (GUU) in Isuikwuato Local Government Area of Abia.
The summit urged the National Assembly members from the southeast to lobby their colleagues from other zones for the amendment, which would compel the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to make such a clause a condition for the registration of parties.
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Igbo leaders, elders, and academics across Nigeria and in the Diaspora rose from a summit at the weekend with a call for an enabling law compelling all political parties to insert rotation of presidency clause in their constitutions.
This was contained in the communiqué issued by participants at the end of the sixth World Igbo Summit held at Gregory University Uturu, Abia State.
It was chaired by a former Chief of General Staff, Commodore Ebitu Ukiwe (rtd.) with several prominent Igbo leaders in attendance either physically or virtually.
The communiqué was endorsed by Senator Ike Nwachukwu, Prof. George Obiozor, Prof. Greg Ibe, Mrs. Josephine Anenih, and the Director-General of World Igbo Summit Group, Dr. Ifedi Okwenna, who read the document to journalists at a post-summit press conference.
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Notable Igbo sons and daughters have begun moves to elicit the support of other regional blocs for the realization of south east presidency project in 2023.
They therefore called on every Nigerian to key into the project, saying time has come for the country to produce its next president from the zone.
The Igbo leaders spoke at the just concluded 6th World Igbo Summit which took place at the Gregory University Uturu, Abia State over the weekend.
Themed “Enduring Future for Ndigbo: Expectations and Challenges”, the Summit was essentially aimed at reawakening the Igbo consciousness and ensuring that Ndigbo become more organized and cohesive, making their voices, demanding for restructuring Nigeria and networking for Nigeria’s presidency of Igbo extraction, loudest.
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The World Igbo Summit was established in 2015, with the aim of bringing together Igbo leaders, elders, great minds, intellectuals, critical stakeholders, business moguls and political leaders yearly to brainstorm on issues bothering the zone, with a view to finding solutions.
The summit’s objective is to foster cohesion among Igbo leaders to ensure effective coordination and responsiveness to the yearnings of Ndigbo.
Speaking during the opening ceremony of the 6th edition of the summit, which was held recently at Gregory University Uturu, the Director General of World Igbo Summit Group (WISG), Dr. Ifedi Okwenna said, “the summit has become a platform to develop the strategic formula for engagement of each segment of the Nigerian society, to achieve our agenda going forward, based on mutual trust, respect, and shared understanding”.
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