A pan Igbo group, the Njiko Igbo Forum, on Tuesday called on the national publicity secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mr. Olisa Metuh to resign from office with immediate effect.
The Forum also asked the national chairman of the PDP, Adamu Mu’azu to throw in the towel, having failed to deliver the party even in his home state of Bauchi.
President of the group, Rev. Okechukwu Obiora, who addressed a press briefing in Enugu said Metuh’s actions in recent times had become a source of embarrassment to Ndigbo.
While describing the PDP spokesman as ‘political coward,’ he expressed surprise that he was already extending invitation to political associations even while the PDP was still in power.
Obiora said, “Olisa Metuh should honourably resign forthwith and come home; he lacks the idea needed to run that office; we can’t understand how the spokesman of the party in power should be weeping like a child even before the APC takes over.
“It is so embarrassing that Metuh has already declared the PDP dead to the extent of inviting political associations and individuals to come and help him out; so, he should return home and stop disgracing Ndigbo”.
He equally slammed various Igbo groups, including a factional Ohanaeze Ndigbo and the Anambra State Governor, Willie Obiano, for “hastily paying a congratulatory visit to President-Elect, Muhammadu Buhari”.
Obiora stressed that “we see it as huge dissapointment the way they are visiting Buhari in droves, with all the red cap chiefs; we are saying that the way they are running to Buhari is so petty, they are all looking for political appointments”.
While maintaining that the people of the South-East had no regret over their voting pattern in the presidential election, Obiora urged the politicians in the zone to avoid the temptation of jumping sheep to the All Progressives Congress, APC.
He urged them to remain steadfast in the PDP and re-strategize ahead of the 2019 general elections.
“We have nothing really against the person of Muhammadu Buhari; but we were not happy that he picked somebody from the South-West as his running mate; remember that a Westerner, in the person of Olusegun Obasanjo, served for two tenure of eight years; then President Jonathan from the South-South has been there for six years.
“Surprisingly, few years later, Buhari again picked Osinbajo from South-West as his running mate; so, we were wondering the place of Ndigbo in scheme of things in Nigerian politics”, he said.
The group equally called on the PDP to reciprocate the support it had received from the zone since 1999 by zoning its 2019 presidential candidate to the South-East.
“We also find it quite curious that the PDP is wooing Atiku Abubakar and Kwakwanso with presidential ticket; we consider such a slight on Ndigbo and it will not work”, he further stated.
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