Why presidency eluded Igbo in 1979 –Ucheaga, NCPN Secretary (1)

By Dickson Okafor
Former National Secretary of the defunct National Centre Party of Nigeria (NCPN) and an accomplished legal practitioner, Chief Johnny Ucheaga has revealed how the late nationalist and one of the founding fathers of Nigeria’s Independence, Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, known as Zik of Africa, declined the offer made by the then military regime to hand over to him in 1979. 
He said that if the Zik had accepted the offer, the Southeast would have produced the first executive presi