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Portable declares for presidency under two parties, shares campaign poster

Nigerian Afrobeats singer, Habeeb Okikiola better known as Portable has declared his intention to join the presidential race in what looks like ‘cruise’.

The music star made this known via his official Instagram page on Thursday, May 12, 2022 as he shared his campaign poster.

Portable is vying for the highest office in Nigeria under two political parties, the All Progressives Congress, APC and Social Democratic Party, SDP.

He described himself as a candidate running to become the youth president after listening to the cries of the people.

In the campaign poster which contains the logos of both APC and PDP, he wrote;

‘My fellow Nigerians I have heard your cry and I have decided to run for the post of the president of the federal republic of Nigeria. Let’s Get Nigeria moving again. Zeh”

He captioned the post; ”ZAzuu for youth president ?✅ Street Ti Take Over”

See his post:

A group, Igbos for Progressive And United Nationhood (IPAN) has advised the Igbo sociocultural group, Ohaneze Ndigbo, to stop blackmailing presidential hopefuls from other regions who declare interest to contest for the Office of the President in 2023.

IPAN in a statement made available to news men on Wednesday stated that even though it strongly believes that 2023 was the perfect time for a Nigerian President of Igbo extraction to emerge, it did not believe in arm twisting Nigerians to make an Igbo man President, or telling other aspirants from outside Igbo land to drop their presidential ambitions.

In the statement, the National President of IPAN, Comrade Lawrence Onuzulike stated that every Nigerian who meets the constitutional requirement to contest for the office of the President was eligible to do so regardless of the region he or she comes from.

It therefore stated, that no one should blackmail anybody from throwing his hat into the ring.

According to Onuzulike, “Ohaneze as pan-Igbo group should be at the forefront of rallying support for Igbo aspirants in their various political parties like IPAN is undertaking instead of advising or begging interested aspirants from other regions not to contest.

“I am aware that since 1999, an Igbo man has always contested in Nigeria’s presidential election even when some political parties zoned their presidential ticket to other zones. All we should be doing is simply to appeal to Nigerians both political elites and the masses to support Igbo candidates this time around for the sake of equity and fairness”.