Igbo youths give condition to support PDP

The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide has revealed how they are going to deal with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) should the party fail to allocate its vice presidential candidate for the 2019 general election to the South-East.

Alleging that the PDP had perfected plans to deny South-East the vice presidential slot in its convention scheduled to hold in Port Harcourt on Saturday, the youths vowed it was going to ‘sink’ the opposition party should they go ahead with the alleged plot.

The threat was contained in a statement the Igbo youths released in Abakaliki on Thursday after its emergency meeting. They urged the national executive of the party, the South East governors and other key stakeholders within the PDP, to ensure that the vice presidential slot is zoned to the South-East zone.

On how they are going to deal with the PDP, the youth said they would mobilise the people of the zone to vote for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2019 presidential election.

“We had an emergency stakeholders meeting in Abakaliki today 4th October 2018, with 44 affiliated (Youths and students) groups and deliberated extensively on 2019 and the state of Igbo nation.

“It was learnt that PDP had perfected plans to deny the South East, the vice presidential slot which they plan to zone to the South West after the primaries.

“We see this plot as wickedness and political treachery against Ndigbo who had paid dearly for the survival of PDP since 1999. We are warning the leadership of PDP not to toy with the people of the South-East regarding the vice presidential slot or be prepared to lose the votes of Igbo youths in the 2019 presidential election.

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“Igbo Youths will only vote PDP in other elections such as gubernatorial and senatorial elections in Abia, Ebonyi and Enugu but will wait to sink PDP in the presidential election if they deny the South East the vice president position after their primaries.

“Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide and her affiliated groups hereby reaffirm that many south east politicians are qualified for the post,” the statement read in part.

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