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The Concerned Igbo Stakeholders Forum (CISF) has urged the Vice Presidential candidate of APC, Sen. Kashim Shettima, to withdraw his statement that Peter Obi can only be president in Igboland.<!--more-->

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The Leader of the Forum, Mr Chukwuma Okenwa, made the call for the withdrawal in a statement he issued to newsmen in Enugu on Sunday.

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It would be recalled that Shettima, who is also a former Governor of Borno, said this when he featured as a guest on Channels Television’s ‘Politics Today’ on Friday.

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Okenwa said that it was rather regrettable that one who is seeking to serve as the vice president of Nigeria under the ruling APC could be this divisive.

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According to him, what kind of capacity is he (Shettima) referring to for a former governor (Obi) who completed his two terms in Anambra, just as his principal, Sen. Bola Tinubu, did in Lagos State?

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He said: “Does Nigeria now have regional presidents, where the various ethnic nationalities have their own presidents?

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“It is more disheartening coming barely a week that Rabiu Kwankwaso said that the northerners will never vote for an Igbo man, they will rather support their own.

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“Why all these divisive cards, rather than focusing on the real issues of development?

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“Does that confirm the claim in some quarters that an Igbo man can never be allowed to be president under One Nigeria?”

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Okenwa noted that the forum wanted politicians and political parties to focus on real issues of development and pulling the nation out of poverty, unemployment and under-productivity.

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“Objectively speaking, we do not need divisive statements in a country where the cords that bind us together are continuously weakened through the divide and rule strategy of the ruling class.

“A stitch in time saves nine,” he added.