2023: Support group nominates Ken Nnamani for presidency
2023: Support group nominates Ken Nnamani for
presidency
By Dennis Agbo The Ken Nnamani
groups in the diaspora have nominated former Senate President, Ken Nnamani as
the most desirable candidate from South East to run for 2023 Nigerian
President.
The coalition said that Nnamani was
most qualified because of his antecedent and experience of leadership in
national administration. The groups cited Nnamani’s role in the country’s
critical era of alleged third term agenda of former President Olusegun Obasanjo
and how he scuttled it, as a test case of his strong and unwavering character
to preside over the country’s affairs.
The groups’ Chairman, Lawrence
Odoemelam in a statement said that with the Igbos clamouring for a Nigerian
President from the southeast, Nnamani fits into the cap for different reasons.
He said that Nnamani ensured the stabilization of the country’s democracy, and
has shown a strong affinity to good governance. “He is one of the outstanding
sons of Igbo land who had the overwhelming support of his members in the senate
during his tenure. Nnamani is of the view that in a multicultural and
multi-religious country like Nigeria, credible elections provide platforms for
different constituents of the republic to continue to collaborate to promote
the good of all. “He also said that democratic societies survive the inevitable
crisis of politics only if managers of state institutions deliberately uphold
the rules of law and the norms of fairness, justice, and equity. “Nnamani
carved his name in gold, on the sands of time, when he rejected a World
superpower nation’s lobby to declare the 2007 Presidential election as flawed,
to pave way for himself as the Senate President, to become an interim
President. His vision has been of service and delivery to the people, as
against power intoxication and incompetence,” Odoemelam said. Nnamani was
elected to the Senate from the Enugu East Senatorial district of Enugu State in
2003 and served as President of the Senate from 2005 to 2007. The Ken Nnamani
Center for Leadership and Development was launched in 2008 at Abuja to
facilitate qualitative and transformative leadership and development in Africa.
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