Ohanaeze Attacks PDP Over Secondus’s 2023 Presidency Comment
The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council (OYC), Monday, condemned the
national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Uche
Secondus, over his statement that the party had thrown its 2023
presidential ticket open.
The condemnation followed Saturday’s
comments by Secondus that the party’s presidential ticket for 2023 would be up for grabs by all party members.
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The Ohanaeze youth wing’s reaction followed a perceived ploy to
marginalize the Southeast region perpetually not to produce Nigeria’s
president since the nation’s return to the civil rule in 1999.
The Ohanaeze youths, in a statement by its national president, Mazi
Okechukwu Isiguzoro, which was made available to THE WHISTLER in Owerri, described Secondus’ comments as a pointer that the PDP had no respect for the Southeast, and called for sanctions against any
Southeasterner that ‘accepts to be a presidential running mate in 2023’.
According to him, “The OYC describes the recent vituperative rhetoric of the national chairman of the PDP that the 2023 presidential ticket was going to be an open contest as an affront to Igbo and affirmative evidence that the PDP has no regard for Igbo after they had milked their votes in the last 21 years of democracy.
“It’s cleverly designed and clearly seen to all that the 2023 Igbo presidency project has been murdered by the PDP. It’s obvious that the PDP doesn’t need Igbo votes in the future, its sheer betrayal of trust and Igbo are not fools.”
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Similar calls for the zoning of the presidency to the Southeast have
been advanced by chieftains of the ruling party, the APC.
The director general of the Voice of Nigeria, Osita Okechukwu, in a recent
programme in Enugu, canvassed the zoning of the party’s presidential
ticket to the region for equity and fairness.
It is believed that majority of Igbo people would support any political party that zones its presidential ticket to the zone to end their alleged age-long marginalisation.
