UGOCHUKWU EKE
Relying on the allegation made by Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki the Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youths wing have called on President Muhammadu Buhari to tell Nigerians if he has a power hand-over accord with the National leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.
Ohannaeze youths was reacting to the recent revelation by the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki that Tinubu is giving his support for Buhari because he promised to hand over to him in 2023 if he wins the 2019 election.
The group’s position was contained in a statement by their acting National leader, Dr. Kingsley Dozie and the Deputy Publicity Secretary, Mr. Okey Nwachukwu, where they asked President Buhari to clarify on the issue.
Ohanaeze youths asked, “President Buhari to come out clean and explain to Nigerians his unpatriotic hidden pact with Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu concerning the 2023 Presidential election as alleged by the senate president”.
The Igbo youth group said that the explanation is very pertinent as the 2019 general election is around the corner,stressing that President Buhari will soon be asking for votes from the Igbo extraction in the run up to 2019 general election”.
Ohanaeze youths said, “We are not taking the revelations of the Senate President, Saraki without due consideration on the interest and place of Ndigbo in Nigeria in the political sphere of the country”.
The group then gave Buhari, “Between now and first week of September 2018, to make public his pact with Senator Tinubu or Igbo youths will declare the APC an anti Igbo party and enemies of Ndigbo and Nigerians at large”.
The statement reads, “If the duo Senator Bola Tinubu and President Buhari are actually sensitive to the plights of Ndigbo, they will not be silent at such a provocative and dangerous ploy to throw away equity and deny Ndigbo of their turn to pilot the affairs of this nation come 2023 after all our tolerance in the midst of continued provocations”.
“More so, if the APC leaders actually believe in one cohesive, indivisible and indissoluble Nigeria, they will not be contemplating returning power to the Yoruba at the expense of Ndigbo taking into account all the sacrifices Ndigbo have made to keep Nigerian unity unbroken”.
“For the records, Igbo youths will not support any presidential candidate that toils with the unity of Nigeria by deliberately failing to restructure this country as demanded by majority of Nigerians which is the only hope of rescuing this country from its pitiable condition”.
