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PVF Igbo summit on Nigeria's 2007 presidency now Friday
AFP
PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria
Petroleumworld.com 06 15 06A summit of ethnic Igbo leaders from southeast Nigeria seeking to forge a consensus ahead of 2007 polls has been postponed, the organisers said Wednesday.
The summit originally slated to hold in the southeastern city of Owerri on Thursday will now take place on Friday, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim announced in a statement.
Bright Nwelue, a spokesman for Imo state government hosting the summit, told AFP the postponement was due to "logistics considerations."
Nigeria, Africa's most populous country with some 130 million people, will go to polls in April 2007 to elect a successor to President Olusegun Obasanjo, a Yoruba from the southwest, who will have completed two terms.
Several ethnic groups -- including the Igbo, the Hausa from the north, and the minority people of the oil-rich south -- are jostling to present their candidates for the vote.
In previous presidential elections in 1999 and 2003, the 40-million-strong Igbos, the country's third largest ethnic group, failed to agree on a single candidate.
AFP 14 2015 GMT 06 06
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