By allying with the ruling party, the Igbo people might eliminate their region’s marginalisation and attain political empowerment, according to All Progressives Congress Chairman Abdullahi Ganduje.
Ganduje pointed out that only a military intervention prevented the Igbo people from producing a president in the 1980s.
“You know when your brother, Alex Ekwueme, was the vice president to our brother, Shehu Shagari,” Mr Ganduje said at the Ifeanyi Ubah’s empowerment rally held at Nnewi, Anambra State on Friday. “The body language was there, and if not that the military struck, your son, Alex Ekwueme would have become the president.”
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The APC chairman also said that by joining the ruling party, the Igbo community may achieve political empowerment and eliminate their marginalisation.
“I tell you this story because the road to political freedom is to key into the ruling party, and once you do that, marginalisation would be a thing of the past,” Mr. Ganduje said.
Even though the Igbo is one of Nigeria’s largest ethnic groupings, no one from the Igbo ethnic group has taken office as president since democracy was restored in Southeast Nigeria in 1999.
The Biafra Republic movement, which was sparked by Nnamdi Kanu’s leadership of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra in 2015, became armed in the area when soldiers acting under former President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration brutally suppressed it.
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In 2015, the military incursion claimed the lives of more than 150 protestors from the IPOB.
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