The Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) Alhaji Atiku Abubakar presidential candidate has once more come under attack from the top Igbo sociocultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo.
This time, the Igbo group urged Atiku to abandon any notion that the South-East will contribute significantly to his support in the general elections of 2023.
The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide Secretary-General, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, urged the PDP candidate not to “squander his time and resources for any reason in the South-east and Igbo-speaking areas of South/South and Middle belt” in a statement released on Tuesday.
He explained to Atiku that everyone who was swarming around him from the aforementioned areas was just after their money.
Even though Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, the PDP vice presidential candidate, is a true Igbo son, Isiguzoro claimed that he was in the wrong alliance.
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In 2019, “our people gave Atiku all of their support,” he continued, “but soon after the election, he left them to their fate and came back four years later.
“Now, he has even come out and admitted that he is just a candidate from the North. He should be aware that everyone who is swarming around him is shouting “Yahoo-Yahoo” at him.
“After his infamous Kaduna declaration that he only belongs to the North, Igbo political elites, including the PDP Governors, are aware that Atiku will lose in the Southeast without receiving the necessary constitutional 25% votes.
“Nigerians living in the North, West, South, and East face significant problems with hunger, unemployment, and insecurity. Any presidential candidate who plays the racial and religious card without demonstrating that they can pull the nation out of the social and economic abyss in which Nigerians find themselves will be disgraced at the polls.
“What Nigerians need right now is a national leader, not a sectional leader like Atiku,”
