Enugu North Senatorial Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Eugene Odo, has condemned Ohanaeze Ndigbo, pan Igbo cultural group, for endorsing candidates for the 2019 general elections.
NAN reports that Odo, a two-time Speaker of the Enugu State House of Assembly, said this in Nsukka on Sunday at the flag-off of campaign by all the Enugu North candidates of the APC ahead of the 2019 general elections.
He said that Igbo had turned Ohanaeze into a laughing stock, noting that the Afenifere had not endorsed Vice President Yemi Osinbajo nor the Arewas endorsed President Muhammadu Buhari because they are social cultural groups.
The candidate noted with dismay that the pan Igbo socio-cultural group which ought to be father to all had stooped so low by endorsing candidates from People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and all also getting involved in political affairs.
According to him, Ohanaeze is speaking for itself and not on behalf of Igbo as the South-East people will vote for President Buhari to enable him complete ongoing projects in the zone.
The former speaker said that PDP government lasted for 16 years without any meaningful project in the south east, adding that APC administration had invested so much in the zone including second Niger Bridge, Enugu-Onitsha, and Enugu-Port Harcourt expressways.
He said that he was going to the senate to attract projects that would benefit the senatorial zone.
Odo said that his administration with Sullivan Chime from 2007 to 2015 constructed Opi -Nsukka road which is still the only road leading to Nsukka till date.
He expressed dismay that Enugu North was the poorest in terms of infrastructural development, promising that if elected, he would reticulate the Adada water scheme to supply portable water to the whole senatorial zone.
In his remarks, the immediate past governor of Enugu State, Mr. Sullivan Chime said that he came to introduce the candidates who were vying for various positions in Nsukka.
Chime said that the turnout in Nsukka showed that APC was in the right direction, adding that President Muhammadu Buhari had shown them a good example of leadership by cubing corruption to the lowest level in the nation.
Also speaking, the governorship candidate of the APC in the state, Sen. Ayogu Eze said that if God was not truly on their side, Enugu State would have fallen apart because of bad governance.
Eze said that Nsukka people in the helm of affairs had been recording success until when the present administration came on board, adding that if they kept quiet, things would spoil for the good people of the state.
He said that the era of money sharing had gone, adding that what they are agitating for was free, fair and credible elections.
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