2023: Ohanaeze Youths wants S/East Govs to join APC

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Samuel Ugbor, Abakaliki

The apex socio-cultural youth organisation in Igbo land, the Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council, on Monday, urged Governors of the South-East zone to as a matter of urgency, join the ruling All Progressives Congress.

Claiming that the People’s Democratic Party had no genuine agenda for the region, the youth group said there was no need for leaders of the zone to continue to hob-nob with the PDP, saying the main opposition party only milked Southerners during elections and dump them, soon after elections.

The Secretary General of the highest socio-cultural youth body in the zone, Mr Nnabuike Okwu, stated this after its virtual meeting with leaders and other critical stakeholders of the region, on Monday.

The call came 48 hours after it was rumoured that Ebonyi State Governor David Umahi, had concluded plans to defect to the APC, abandoning his party, the PDP.

According to the group’s scribe, “Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide, after their consultative virtual meeting, on Monday, with Igbo leaders and elders, has been mandated to start mounting pressures on the South-East Governors to abandon their political parties, especially those in the People’s Democratic Party, to join the mainstream ruling party, the All Progressive Congress, without further delay.

“OYC urges the Governors to defect, because there are no political benefits for the South-East to continue to remain in a political party that has no respect and value for Igbos,except milking their votes during elections through deceitful mediums and fake promises, and manipulative politicians.

“Historically, Igbos had never been in the opposition party since 1960, more importantly, Igbos deserve better deals and only through active roles in mainstream political party, can bountiful dividends of democracy and put come to the Zone. The continuous exclusion of South-East zone from Federal  Government’s crucial political appointments and landmark projects are attributed to Igbo’s absence in the mainstream politics, and Igbo youths want this unpleasant situations to end and urge South-East Governors to embrace APC and decamp without further delay.

“OYC calls on South-East Governors to so the the political future of the Igbos and collapse three States into APC before the APC’S National Convention, in other to control their States’ structures.”

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