The apex Igbo socio-political
organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has reacted to remark by the Vice President, Yemi
Osinbajo that the South West can produce the next president if they vote for
President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019.
The body said it was a pity that
Osinbajo “could accept to be used like a toilet tissue to prosecute this
precipitous political peregrination.”
National Publicity Secretary of
the body, Prince Uche Achi-Okpagha said such remark indicated that the
Buhari-led government was out to deceive the various regions into voting for
the ruling party in 2019.
Achi-Okpagha said the Buhari
government placed no premium on people of the South East.
Speaking with Vanguard, on
Wednesday, Achi-Okpagha said: “It is obvious from available and bleeding facts
that to trust the present government of PMB is to build on sand. I have no
reason also to doubt that this government does not place any premium on the
Igbo.
“The Igbo have suffered the worst
neglect and victimisation ever under this government. It is more disheartening
because the more we complain or unveil the deficiencies and discrepancies, the
more policies, programmes and appointments among others, are made with blatant
disregard to the chagrin of the lgbo.
“It was clinically laid bare by
the last recommendation of EFCC board members to the Senate without south-east
and south-south memberships. There is no gainsaying that apart from the statutory
ministerial appointment per state, the Igbo are nowhere to be found in this
government.
“Right from the outset of
Buhari’s government, he did not mince words or mumble on his resolve to skip
the south-east with her “five per cent” vote in 2015. It is therefore not in
doubt that any promise of Igbo presidency in 2023 by this government is a
complete and callous hoax on the Igbo nation.
“The insincerity of this
government has made her an enemy to the people and as Robin Hood would have it,
“there is no trust in a promise made by an enemy.
“It is a pity that the vice
president, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, a professor of Law and above all, an ordained
priest of the Most High God could accept to be used like a toilet tissue, to
prosecute this precipitous political peregrination.
“This is a government that is
pathologically replete with her deceptive embellishments. Note that neither
President Buhari nor any northern political stalwart has made a pronouncement
on the 2023 presidency.
“Instead, they have allowed some
cabinet members of Yoruba extraction, including Osinbajo and Fashola, to
dissipate energy to the effect that the south-west would have presidency in
2023.
“It is an orchestrated plot to
hoodwink the people of the two regions in order to elicit their votes.”
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