The youth arm of the top Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide (OYC), has blamed the South-East Governors for the poor performance of presidential hopefuls of Igbo descent in the two major political parties’ recent presidential primaries.
The governors sold off the people’s pride and fate, according to a statement issued by the group’s President-General, Mazi Okwu Nnabuike.
He was responding to threats from the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) and other groups that a war had been declared on South-East delegates to the Peoples Democratic Party and All Progressives Congress presidential primaries for taking money and betraying their brothers.
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However, Nnabuike asked MASSOB to focus their anger on the governors and not the delegates.
“It is wrong for anyone to say the delegates should be punished. Nobody should touch any of the delegates to the PDP and the APC national conventions,” he said.
“The real enemies of Ndigbo are the governors who ordered the delegates to vote for non-Igbos. It is a show of shame that the South-East governors could not muster votes to at least show the rest of the country that we are serious with the demand for a Nigeria President of Igbo extraction.
“Instead, they traded off our pride with their selfish interest. They have by this singular act shown themselves to be the real enemies of Ndigbo. We, therefore, call on the MASSOB and ASETU to direct their anger towards the governors, who must tell us what happened to Igbo votes during the conventions. Any attempt to attack the delegates is an exercise in futility and would be resisted.”
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