South-East politicians urged to stop embarrassing zone by begging Buhari for positions

Kinsmen of Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State coming under the auspices of Maka Odinma Anambra, have requested the Governor and other South-East leaders to stop embarrassing the zone by seeking to get positions in the incoming administration of Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, who they refused to support in the March 28 presidential election.

The Igbo social-political pressure group in a press release signed by its secretary, Emeka Nwazue, noted that it was shameful that the governor pledged to give support to the same man whom he had earlier labeled a ‘jihadist’.”

‎They called on “Governor Willie Obiano and other leaders of the South-East to stop embarrassing the zone by their cavalier and shameless attempt to jump onto the Buhari victory train, which they naively refused to board only few weeks earlier.”

The group’s criticism is coming on the heels of last Friday’s visit by Governor Obiano to President- elect where he pledged the support of the entire South-East to the incoming administration and asked for the zone to be incorporated into the scheme of things under Buhari.

‎But in a swift reaction to this visit, Maka Odinma noted, “We wonder whether it was the same man who throughout the electioneering period urged his party members not to vote for a Jihadist and a party belonging to the Hausa/Yoruba ethnic nationalities.

“It is either Governor Obiano’s mathematics does not add up, or in a desperation to display unbridled loyalty, he mixed up the figures. Pray, if he pledges to give the General the same 100 percent support which he said he gave to President Jonathan before, during and after the general election, then it goes without question that he obviously gave General Buhari zero support during the election that won him victory”.

“For a man who openly said before the election that any Igbo who vote for APC is a bastard and an enemy of Biafra, and who also used machinery of his government to suppress the interests of General Buhari and his All Progressives Congress (APC) candidates in both the presidential, national and state assembly elections barely one month ago, to seek to benefit from his perfidy clearly fore-grounds the new abyss into which leadership appear to be sinking in the South East geo-political zone, especially Anambra,” it stated. The socio-political organisation continued, “There is everything wrong in attempting to Nicodemously foist on himself the leadership of the Igbo race, or it’s elected officials – as his posturing during the visit suggested – especially as those who assiduously worked for the glory which he seeks to appropriate, such as Governor Rochas Okorocha, Senator Chris Ngige, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu and the Hon. Afam Ogene, amongst others, have not embarked upon the kind of booty-begging adventure which he undertook. “As a matter of fact, we urge Gov. Obiano to remain in the All Proressives Grand Alliance (APGA), which he steadily decimates with each passing day, instead of seeking to pollute current attempts at strengthening the APC in the South east geo-political zone,” it added.