By Jacob Ogodo, Abakaliki
As the jostling for the coveted seat of the president is about to set, Presidential Campaign Posters of former Senate President and former Secretary of the Government of the Federation, Senator Anymi Pius Anyim has flooded, Abakaliki, Ebonyi state capital and Social Media.
The campaign posters tagged Progress 2023 has the picture of Anyim. The campaign posters have gone viral.
The posters were powered by a group known as Nigerians Ask for Anyim with facebook and twitter names as piusanyim2023 while www.nigeriaask4anyim.org and info@nigeriansask4anyim.org is its website.
The Nigerians Ask for Anyim 2023 campaign organization is said to be championed by a former House of Reps member in the state.
It could be recalled that Prominent politicians from the South-East recently met and resolved to unite across party lines to work for the emergence of Nigeria’s president of Igbo extraction in 2023.
They met under the auspices of South-East Political Leaders at Sen. Orji Kalu’s Camp Neya country home in Igbere, Bende Local Government Area of Abia State.
The leaders implored “all the political parties to cede their presidential tickets in the 2023 general election to the southeast.”
They opined that such gesture would be “in the interest of justice, equity and national unity.”
They also resolved that the zone, “with substantial presence in every part of the country”, would give bloc vote and full support to any of the two major political parties that nominated their presidential candidates from the zone.
In a communique, which was read to journalists by the former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Sen. Pius Anyim, stated that a president from the zone “will work to unite and develop every part of the country.