Igbo must Fight for 2023 presidential election- senator Ngige

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, has called on the people of the South-east to fight for the 2023 presidency and not wait for it to be given to them.

Ngige spoke following the recent revelation by the Senate President Bukola Saraki that former Lagos State governor Bola Tinubu was scheming to be handed power by President Muhammadu Buhari after a second term in office.

The minister, who spoke to journalists weekend, said there was nothing wrong in Tinubu aspiring to become the president of Nigeria, but it behoves the people of the South-east to struggle for it, when power shifts to the south in 2023.

Ngige said politics is a game of numbers and one must look at the configuration of the electoral strength in Nigeria. He said most of the electoral strengths was concentrated in the North-west that has seven states of Katsina, Kano, Jigawa, Kebbi, Sokoto, Zamfara and Kaduna.