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The Igbo apex socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has appealed to stakeholders in the northern region to back its aspiration to produce Nigeria's next president in 2023. It has earmarked N10 billion to support any candidate of Igbo extraction that emerges for the presidential race, and has met with religious groups and clerics in the North. It has also promised to lobby all parts of the country for power shift to the South East region. The Ohanaeze delegation argued that there should be no more abusive words between the North and the South East, and that Igbo have investments worth over N1 trillion in the North and can take over from President Muhammadu Buhari. Shettima responded that it was good to negotiate when seeking political power, and that nobody achieved good results through threats. He stated that politics was about dialogue and negotiation and that people should rise above board.