A pro-democracy group, Campaign for Democracy, CD, has come hard on the people of South-South geopolitical zone for their lack of support for South-East cause, despite the zone’s massive and unprecedented support to ex-President, Goodluck Jonathan, a son of the
South-South.
South-East Chairman of the group, Dede Uzor Uzor, stated this yesterday in a statement he issued in Umuahia, the Abia State capital, accusing the South-South of abandoning their South-East brothers to their fate when both zones were supposed to be united and jointly pursue their cause.
Uzor stressed that the lack of solidarity shown by the South-south will be a wrong way of paying back the South-East people for the massive and unprecedented. Support accorded their
son, Jonathan, when he sought to become President and during his second-term bid.
He argued that over 90 percent of Ndigbo wholeheartedly supported Jonathan’s second term bid, an action that “has made Ndigbo look like political orphans under the present administration.”
The pro-democracy group called on South-South leaders to speak out against numerous injustices perpetrated by the Federal Government against the South-East, particularly the continued incarceration of the the Radio Biafra Director and leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu.
CD regretted that since Kanu was detained by the Federal Government on October 17, 2015, South-South leaders
have not shown any concern in the efforts to secure his release.
It went on to request South-South leaders to apologise to Ndigbo over the obnoxious policy of abandoned property which dispossessed millions of Igbos of their hard-earned property after the Civil War.
While calling on the people of the South-South and South-East zones to always see themselves as “one and the same people”, the group advised them to resist any attempt by outsiders to “sow seed of discord between them”.
It also called for unity and stronger economic ties between both zones, arguing that if the abundant natural resources replete in both zones are properly harnessed, “no zone in Nigeria will match them by all standards.”
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