‘PDP Must Compensate South East With Presidential Ticket In 2023’
The Ohanaeze Youth Council, Thursday, tasked the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party to zone its presidential slot to Southeast or face the wrath of the youths.
OYC’s national president, Comrade Igboayaka O. Igboayaka, stated this during the National Congress of Ethnic Nationality Youth Leaders of Nigeria held in Abuja.
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The only way PDP could reciprocate Ndigbo for their 24-years of relentless sacrifice was to give her presidential ticket to them, he said.
Igboayaka said, “By October next year, political primaries must have been concluded. If PDP failed to cede their presidential ticket to an Igbo candidate in 2022, none of their offices will stand in Igboland, no gathering of PDP members, none of PDP flags will be seen hanging in Igbo land.
“It’s not a threat, it’s a reality, an order that must be enforced by over 30 million Igbo youths. It must be done to keep Nigeria one.”
He regretted that, “Ndigbo are the only tribe that have served PDP since 1999. The Igbo bloc vote was given to PDP in 1999-2003 to President Obasanjo, President Musa Y’aradua in 2007, and President Goodluck Jonathan in 2011- 2015.
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“PDP ticket to an Igbo candidate is a gesture of appreciation over the sacrifices of Ndigbo. A servant who laboured for his master for 24, yet his master failed to settle him, such master should be stoned. We shall stone PDP if they attempt to truncate Nigeria’s sovereignty by denying Ndigbo its ticket.”
Igboayaka rebuked Northerm Governors’ Forum for refusing to cede the presidency to the south.
In his words, “They are few Fulani political power mongers who want to drag the Middle-Belt into their illusion for them to produce Nigeria’s president in 2023.
“It’s idiotic to include Taraba, Benue, Nassarawa, Pleatue, Bauchi, Jigawa, Kogi, Kaduna, Kwara states that have had a fair share of Fulani herdsmen’s killings and kidnapping in their so-called imaginary 2023 presidential dream.
“With the quest of Fulani political cabal to retain power in 2023, if they dare it, it’s an indication that Nigeria at 61 this year will be the last independent day the entity called Nigeria will celebrate.”
