“Nigeria will start progressing day Igbo person becomes president”– Kanayo O Kanayo

Veteran Nollywood actor, Kanayo O. Kanayo, has expressed his belief that Nigeria’s progress as a nation is tied to the emergence of an Igbo president.

According to him, the country will begin to experience meaningful development and growth when a person from the Igbo ethnic group assumes the highest political office in the land.

According to Kanayo,

“Being an Igbo means that I come from a side of the country that speaks a dialect just like the Hausas, Fulani, and others.

“It also means to me that I’m a special person created that everything I touch prospers. When we [Igbos] are called the Jews of this part of the world, it means a lot. And to whom much is given, much is expected. A tree by the road is the one that receives the knife cut.

“We’re in the market place always and we dance beautiful dances. That’s who the Igbos are. So we become the envy of other people.

“An Igbo man starts his business with kiosk today, give him the next one year, he turns it to a shop. From a kiosk to a shop.

“It’s here. Spit into our hands by a force we call Chukwu Abiama. You can’t take it away. So we would continue to be the envy of other people.

“I remember during the elections last year, some people said the Igbos want to take over Lagos. How can we take over Lagos? For what when we have an ancestral home we come from?

“The day you give an Igbo man the presidency of this country, that is the day Nigeria will discover why it is Nigeria. Economically, people would begin to say Hallelujah.”