Apex Igbo socio – cultural group, Ohaneze Ndigbo on Monday called on the leadership of the ruling All Progressive Congress, (APC) to react to the report of zoning of the party’s presidential ticket to Southwest
In a statement signed by the Secretary General of Ohaneze Ndigbo Worldwide, Okechukwu Isiguzoro, the group emphatically said the party would face it’s doom if it denies Ndi Igbo Presidential ticket of the party in 2023.
The statement reads, “Ohanaeze Ndigbo worldwide has cautioned politicians to stop fighting dirty over the 2023 presidential tickets of political parties, as it appears that after President Mohammadu Buhari signed the electoral bill into law, it appeared that they have resorted to fake news and causing confusion in all the political parties.
” Our suspicion has been reinforced by the antics of exponents of dirty politics, through their recent news flying in the social media, which is one of the numerous strategies, craftily designed by desperate politicians to destroy the ruling party and pitch the various southerners against each other, then cause confusion and put the ruling party in disarray ahead of APC convention and subsequent primaries and General Elections”.
“We have reached out to appropriate authorities in APC over the reportedly micro zoning of its presidential ticket to a particular zone ( southwest) and also the similar news that President Buhari had sacked the Buni led APC caretaker committee, they need to clear the air on the zoninig of the Presidential ticket to the southwest.
” All Igbo Presidential hopefuls from the seven Igbo speaking states, are still in the race for the APC Presidential ticket and Ohanaeze outreach committee on 2023 Igbo presidency project will pick presidential forms for all intending Igbo presidential hopefuls whether in PDP or APC, from the seven Igbo speaking states including Anioma in Delta and Rivers”.
“We call on southwest presidential aspirants to play by the rules, except if they have chosen to play dirty, we are happy that Afenifere had endorsed 2023 for Ndigbo, likewise, the Pan Niger/Delta organization,”
“Exclusion of Igbo from the 2023 presidential election through the extraordinary anti-Democratic techniques and tactics in APC Presidential primaries is an open invitation for chaos, anarchy, and violence.
“With the high level of insecurity and insurgency in the country, denial of Igbo presidency in 2023 will sink Nigeria and her potentials, a country which Igbos have built since 1960 independence as such denial of Igbo, will be an ill wind that will blow nobody any good”.
