The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, on Thursday informed that he was “seriously consulting” to run for President in 2023.
Ngige stated this while featuring on Channels Television’s Politics Today, monitored by Mega Icon Magazine.
He said, “I told my constituents that were urging me on last December that I will do some consultation and that I will speak to them in April, during Easter. So I am doing my consultations”.
The former governor of Anambra State stressed that he was “qualified” to be President although he is yet to inform President Muhammadu Buhari.
According to him, some Nigerians, including a former Inspector-General of Police, have asked him to run.
Ngige, who also represented Anambra Central Senatorial District in 2011 noted that he wasn’t running based on regional sentiments.
“If I’m going to run, I won’t run because I’m Igbo,” he said. “I will run as Chris Nwabueze Ngige, a Nigerian citizen, from the South-East of Nigeria, precisely Anambra State, and from a local government called Idemilli South and a town called Alor.
“I am not going to wear a toga of Igbo President. I’m of Igbo extraction but very qualified to be President of Nigeria”, the minister said.
