Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State says the Igbo alone cannot produce the president of Nigeria.
He urged the Igbo to work together with other groups if they want to achieve that desire.
Okorocha who spoke in Owerri decried what he called “pull-down-syndrome among the Igbo” fearing that it may deny the South-East region the chance of producing a president of Igbo extraction in the nearest future.
Okorocha may be speaking in parables about himself and his presidential ambition knowing full well that he will never get the support of the Igbo because of his selfish disposition, and also lack of respect for his Igbo statesmen.
Okorocha said: It would be a foolish thought for any Igbo man eyeing the presidency of this country, at any time, to think that the Igbo only can make him president.”
“The Igbo don’t honour their leaders; they would rather rundown their leaders. The pull-him-down syndrome is high in Igboland.
“It is very unfortunate. Anytime I come out to run for the presidency of this country, I don’t suffer opposition from the North or South-West or South-South; it is only in Igbo land that I suffer it.
“So, it will be out of place for an Igbo presidential aspirant at any given period to think that the Igbo will make him president because Igbo do not value their own.
“They don’t value what they have, but value outsiders. It is in their character. It is in their nature.
“Read the newspapers and go to the social media, all the insults and attacks you get are all from the Igbo.
“They go to any length to run you down without caring about your good intentions and all the efforts being made to see that things work out fine for the people of the area.
“It is a problem and it didn’t start today. Go down the memory lane and you would discover that the pull-him-down syndrome in Igbo land didn’t start today.”