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Igbos have no ‘moral standing’ to cry marginalization as long as they remain outside our party- APC

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Buhari not the issue, Oyegun says, as APC governors gather

The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has stated that the people of the South East will continue to have no “moral standing” to make the case for their marginalization as long as they remained outside the fold of the APC.

The party therefore urged them to move into the APC and ‘make meaningful contributions’ in order for their lot to change.

National Chairman of the APC, John Odigie-Oyegun, made this argument Thursday, supported by former Senate President, Ken Nnamani, in Abuja, during a reconciliation meeting to pacify the aggrieved aspirants in the recently conducted Anambra governorship primary.

Following Oyegun’s call to Igbos to seize the opportunity of improving their fortunes by joining the APC, Nnamani buttressed the point in detail.

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He said, “I totally agree with him (Oyegun) especially on the issue of marginalization that you do not stay under the rain when it is pouring heavily and start crying because nobody will observe. Unless you go into the ruling party and make meaningful contributions, you will then have a moral standing to ask ‘why don’t we have this or that?

These comments echo President Muhammadu Buhari’s July 2015 interview where he expressed similar sentiments. Asked about inclusive governance, Buhari had controversially said, “I hope you have a copy of the election results. The constituents, for example, gave me 97% [of the vote] cannot in all honesty be treated on some issues with constituencies that gave me 5%.”

In a related development, Oyegun, while inaugurating the APC’s 48-member campaign council for the Anambra elections, further advised the South East to join the party, saying it was the ‘most viable route’ to an Igbo presidency.

“We must change the narrative in the South East and we must start with Anambra because the APC represents the most viable route for any south east person to the presidency of this country”, he said.

The APC chairman also welcomed the former Deputy National Chairman to the now-collapsed Ali Modu Sherrif-led faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr Cairo Ojougbo, to the party, saying his presence in the committee showed that he had a lot to contribute to the development of the party.

 

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  1. Balarabe musa

    September 29, 2017 at 5:54 am

    Exactly, you can be out of a ruling party and expect the party to bring meaningful development to your region, it’s the region that vote them and have them ruling in their states that will enjoy the dividends of democracy via apc

    • seyi jelili

      September 29, 2017 at 6:40 am

      Politics shouldn’t be like that, whether a state is not supporting the federal government ruling party doesn’t mean they should be marginalised after all buhari is the president of Nigeria and not the president of the regions where apc governs alone, if buhari brings giant development to their states, that may convince them to join the apc and not by compulsion

      • JOHNSON PETER

        September 29, 2017 at 6:59 am

        Seyi, this is Nigeria, go with the reigning party and enjoy support or you are against and you stay on your own.

  2. JOHNSON PETER

    September 29, 2017 at 7:00 am

    Oyegun is not a matured politician sincerely, I see reason why Tinubu wants him out as apc chairman

    • yanju omotodun

      September 29, 2017 at 11:37 am

      What has he done for him to be called immatured , he is only inciting wide coverage of apc in all states of the federation which is normal.

    • Anita Kingsley

      September 29, 2017 at 2:36 pm

      The man has always been an Idiot. I just lost the last respect I had for APC because of this nonsense. APC is confused

  3. Anita Kingsley

    September 29, 2017 at 2:35 pm

    This is insane! Is this campaign for more Igbo supporters or what exactly can we say this is?! I pity the APC and their ways of luring people to joining the party

  4. Animashaun Ayodeji

    September 29, 2017 at 2:48 pm

    Well, it’s the truth, anyone who’s not comfortable with the way APC is handling things should join the party to effect the change s/he wants. It makes no sense complaining when you’re not a member of the party.

    • Abeni Adebisi

      September 29, 2017 at 2:53 pm

      You’re also insane with APC, CLEARLY! Is this supposed to be an open invitation to everyone to join the party or their way of intimating Igbos to join APC? This is wrong a government should be fair to its people, not this partial treatment.

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