Socialite and businessman Paschal “Cubana Chief Priest” Okechukwu has set tongues wagging in the South-east, urging Easterners to support President Bola Tinubu’s re-election bid, while hinting that backing him could finally deliver an Igbo president.
The Imo State Director of the City Boy Movement (CBM) made the explosive appeal in a video he shared on Instagram Wednesday, amid rising tensions over the fate of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).
The video showed a South-east monarch appealing to Tinubu to either release Kanu or return him to Kenya, a call made during the 2026 National Traditional and Religious Leaders Summit on Health at the State House Conference Centre, Abuja.
Cubana Chief Priest argued that securing Kanu’s release would require political support from the South-east for Tinubu, stressing the monarch’s presence in Abuja ensured the President got first-hand accounts of the region’s grievances.
He said, “His (the monarch’s) last words, Mr President, we will do all we can, but please hear our cry, Bola Tinubu. The message is obvious. God bless you, your royal highness, for partaking in Nigeria. If your highness did not participate in Abuja, how Asiwaju wan take hear this message.
“If you say dem no record this video play for una, them for call his royal highness sell out say him don go collect money. Alignment is key, we no fit fight the government, Asiwaju go free MNK, his royal highness don put am for baba body.”
He told Igbos to reassess their political position, pointing out that Tinubu won the 2023 election with minimal support from the South-east.
“Let’s get along with Nigeria, last election, Tinubu won without the southeast, he will win again. So why not give him the votes so he can do what we ask of him in return?
“Hopefully, he will hand over power to an Igbo man. He made Buhari, a Hausa man, president; he made himself a Yoruba man president. What makes you think he won’t make an Igbo man president if we clearly support him for one more term? Igbo best stake is on Asiwaju, think it out. Man has the best political structure in the country to win the election, so we don’t waste our votes.”
Cubana Chief Priest, who had previously warned that Tinubu would get less than 10,000 votes in the South-east if Kanu remained jailed, has now U-turned, calling on Easterners to rally behind the president.
He slammed the idea that Igbos supporting Tinubu are “traitors,” reminding his audience that Yorubas also back Peter Obi.
He encouraged compatriots to join the CBM and back a candidate with a structured platform for strategic gains and a brighter future.
