By ONWUKWE EZERU
A chieftain of All Progressive Congress and a two time speaker of Abia State House of Assembly Rt. Hon. Stanley Ohajuruka has advised Ndigbo to support and vote president Buhari to victory in 2019 to pave way for Igbo presidency in 2023.
He gave this advice during a media Interaction with newsmen in Umuahia saying “Ndigbo should see ahead and study the political terrain in Nigeria. I am advising that we should support president Buhari for a second tenure and that will pave way for the Igbo presidency in 2023. If you vote for another Northerner in 2019, he would want to do a second tenure in 2023 thereby rubbing us the chance that year “We should be wise in our political permutation”. He advised.
Hon. Ohajuruka a former Federal House Member urged Nigerians not to listen to the antics of the former president of Nigeria Chief Olasegun Obasanjo over his call for president Buhari not to run in 2019.
“Obasanjo is entitled to his opinion. He was not perfect in his regime when he was a president of Nigeria. It was during his reign that as the speaker Abia House of Assembly, I led Abia to a hunger strike to protest high level marginalization and infrastructural decay in the South-East. I am not joining issue with Obasanjo but I want to let the public know that he was not a perfect president.
Rt. Hon. Ohajuruka who is currently a board member Institute of Agricultural Research Ahmadu Bello University said he cannot assess the achievements of Governor Ikpeazu until he finishes his first tenure.
“Ikpeazu is one million times better than Senator Theodore Orji who did not do anything to raise the status of Umuahia as the capital of Abia. Senator Orji’s administration in Abia State was the worst” he said
“My advice to Abians is for them to return to All Progressive Congress and cast their votes for its candidates. APC is the ruling party and therefore we should key into its programmes and share from the National grid”.
On the one billion US dollars approved by the National Executive Council for the fight against Boko-Haram, former Federal Lawmaker said it was a welcome development pointing out that security of lives and property of Nigerians is very paramount and therefore any money spent to ensure peace, should not be questioned.
