A pressure group, the Progressive
Yoruba Youth Congress, has revealed what giving support to the presidential
candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, will cost the
South West in 2023.
According to the group, it will
hinder the return of the presidency to the southern part of Nigeria.
Addressing a press conference in
Lagos, the national president of the group, Kola Salawu, urged the South West
to reject the PDP and its candidate.
The group said, “South West does
not need to go back to oblivion again and we must rise up to protect this
ongoing progress and support the one who has brought development to the zone.
“When President Muhammadu Buhari’
s tenure ends in 2023 after he wins the 2109 elections, power will return to
the southern part of Nigeria and that is just some four years away.
“We never can tell what will
happen then as the highest ranking person in this government from the south is
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. It may just be his turn.
“We urge all sons and daughters
of the South West to be politically awake and choose wisely in the forth-coming
elections as the decisions we make will determine if the region will continue
to enjoy the true benefits of good governance or we go back to the days of
total neglect.
“During the last PDP-led Federal
Government, the South West was completely neglected. The area with the highest
number of intellectual professionals was denied any meaningful position in the
top hierarchy of political office holders.
“At some point, there was nobody
from the South West occupying any of the top ten positions in the country.
“They pushed for alliances with
other political parties across the country to form the new All Progressives
Congress (APC).
“They mobilised the South West to
vote the new party which ultimately resulted to victory the APC at the polls.
“Politically, the APC has taken
care of the interest of the South West tremendously. The Vice President and the
Deputy Speaker of the House of Representative is from the South West. There are
68 ongoing road projects in the zone.
“It is obvious to all that there
is a huge difference in what the South West got under the previous PDP
government and what they are getting now.
“The master stroke was the
recognition of June 12 as Democracy Day and the honor given to Chief MKO
Abiola, something that even the Olusegun Obasanjo government refused to get
done.
“To our amazement, when the PDP
were going to have their convention in 2017 to pick their new party executives,
the party agreed to zone the party chairmanship position to the South West but
alas, that did not happen, the position was given to the South- South.
“After their party presidential
primaries where Atiku Abubakar emerged candidate, he picked Mr. Peter Obi from
the South East geo-political zone as running mate.
“It was reported in the news
media that the PDP has decided to give the position of Secretary to the
Government of the Federation (SGF) to the South West. This is very laughable.”
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