"They (Igbo) should belong. They should join the party. They want to do things on their own and because they are Igbo, we should dash them the president? That was the reason I said, 'Is it turn-by-turn Nigeria Limited?' “With due respect to the Igbo, they fail to understand that when the South-West chose to remain on their own as opposition, they did not go near the power. To a large extent, the North, in terms of religion and culture, are closer to the South-West than to the South-East. When Ekwueme contested (for the PDP ticket), Chief Olusegun Obasanjo defeated him. “I know Nigerian politics. You chose your candidate who will be able to bring votes to you to win an election, not on a regional basis; not on a tribal basis. Is he going to be the president of the North, East, South-West, South-South or whatever? "If the Igbo wants to be president, then they must belong. If you don’t belong, then you can’t be the president.”– Alhaji Ismaila Isa Funtua (January 17, 1942 – July 20, 2020), Life Patron, Newspaper Proprietors Association of Nigeria (NPAN) and Chairman, Bullet Construction Ltd., January 3, 2020, addressing the subject of Igbo Marginalisation and the Nigerian Presidency. #historyville #hvquotes