Emeka Ihedioha, a former governor of Imo State and the deputy speaker of the House of Representatives, has come under fire from the Ohanaeze Youths Council (OYC) for allegedly planning to betray Ndigbo in the upcoming general elections in 2023.
According to OYC, Ndigbo would only pardon him if he made a U-turn and went back home to develop his own land.
Igboayaka O Igboayaka, the group’s national president, expressed remorse for the former governor of Imo’s decision to turn political betrayer in a statement that was made available to Newsmen.
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The group lamented that the Imo politician could do anything in his bid to pull down Mr. Peter Obi to satisfy his principal, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.
The statement partly read, “Emeka Ihedioha has chosen the road of slavery than path of freedom in order to succeed in pulling down Peter Obi; it is a task he must carry out, to satisfy his master, the man he washes his pant in Sokoto. Ihedioha should earnestly quit from washing the pant of his political cronies in Sokoto and relocate back home to be part of ‘Take Back Nigeria Project’ led by Mr. Peter Obi.
“To this effect, therefore, the gift we must collectively give Emeka Ihedioha in Imo State is to make him politically redundant and orphan. So a person who sabotages Ndigbo must have learnt a historical lesson, and such lesson must be to send him to politically oblivion even if he had rigged the PDP’s primary election and become their flag bearer in 2023/2024 Imo Guber,” the statement read.
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The council, however, questioned why he was even proclaimed the victor of the 2019 Imo election in the first place and cautioned the PDP that granting the former deputy Speaker the governorship ticket for Imo State for the 2024 governorship election would equate to the party’s automatic failure.
The group claimed that Ihedioha had manipulated both the primary and general elections to win every position he held in Imo State, from governor to the House of Representatives.
“It’s truism that the 2019 Imo Guber election was not in any way won by Emeka Ihedioha; he rigged in the three local governments in Mbaise. If he says otherwise, we challenge him to produce the ballot papers of his vote from Ahiazu, Aboh, and Ezinihite Mbaise to see if it will correspond with the figures they presented to INEC.
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“Within the constitutional framework, Emeka Ihedioha did not merit INEC’s initial pronouncement as the winner of 2019 Imo election. His purported winning was a function of both ballot rigging and financial inducement (he paid to have his way).Therefore, such has no moral justification to challenge Hope Uzodinma’s Supreme Court ruling. Unfortunately, we live in political system where kettle accuses pot of black colour.”
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