ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide has restated its stand that the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, should be rejected at the polls in 2023, insisting that he cannot make Nigeria better.
This is following the PDP’s zoning arrangement of throwing it open before its presidential primary election, unlike the All Progressives Congress (APC), that zoned the position to the Southern Nigeria.
In a statement on Sunday by the Secretary-General of the apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, the PDP should not be trusted having breached its own constitution.
He said, “Anyone who breached the gentleman arrangement by our patriots for a rotational presidency between the North and the South as enshrined in our consciousness to balance equity, inclusiveness, national peace, and stability of the country does not mean well for Nigeria.
“2023 is the turn of a Southern presidency and attempts by the opposition party to ride on ethnicity and religious predispositions to get power will plunge Nigeria into the abyss of disintegration.”
“Atiku Abubakar’s desperation is not healthy for the Northern region as the North has seen total neglect, poverty and insecurity.”
Isiguzoro advised the North to free itself “from the illusion of ethnicity and break the spells of deceit which the PDP and Atiku are using ahead of the 2023 election.
He said, “It’s only a southern Presidency that will unify the country and end the insecurity challenges in Nigeria, not Atiku Abubakar.
“Nigerians were enthusiastic about how to dethrone incompetence in governance with a strong, competent, and healthy President in 2023.
“The nightmarish episode of a sitting President always on medical tourism in Europe, and Asia must end with President Buhari in 2023.
“PDP and Atiku should remain in opposition until they are ready to accept that principle of zoning in PDP’s constitution should be respected and obeyed before seeking power in the future”.