Young intellectuals from the
South-East, under the aegis of Ochie Igbo organization, have condemned the
endorsement of President Muhammadu Buhari for a second term in office by some
Igbo politicians of the All Progressives Congress (APC) extraction.
Recall that the Igbo leaders in
the APC, who endorsed President Muhammadu Buhari for second tenure, however,
demanded that Buhari should pay them back in 2023 by supporting a president of
Igbo extraction in that year.
But in a statement signed by Dr.
Chukwuma Orji and Theophilus Nwoba, the Ochie Igbo’s National President and
Secretary respectively, the group said: “in the face of the free fall in
democratic governance, rising insecurity and wanton killings and destruction of
property, we are shocked and utterly disappointed by the action of some
so-called leaders of South-East caucus of the All Progressives Congress (APC)
who endorsed President Muhammadu Buhari for 2019 in spite of the gory
enactments in the country.
“We hereby register our
condemnation of the show of shame displayed by these APC politicians at a
period of great national grief, particularly to a President that has not
condemned in strong terms or shown any sign of distaste for the mayhem and
bloodletting allegedly committed by the murderous and marauding herdsmen.
“We are equally appalled by the
chicanery of those ‘item seven’ politicians in APC for situating their
endorsement of President Buhari on a plea for Igbo presidency in 2023.
The painful aspect of their
ignoble excursion to the presidency is that the South-East APC leaders
unwittingly support the despotic inclinations of the president, who continues
to hold the ideals and tenets of democracy in utter disdain, especially in the
area of federal appointments.”
“Consequently, in the light of
the foregoing, Ochie Igbo makes bold to state that the endorsement by APC
charlatans from South-East is nothing more than a fraudulent political
transaction borne out of sheer hypocrisy and naivety.”
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