S’East leaders’ endorsement of Atiku an insult on Igbo people- APC

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has reacted to the endorsement of presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, by Igbo leaders.

The ruling party described the development as an affront on the Igbo people, who it describe as the “frontline victims of the 16 years of the PDP misrule.”

Leaders of prominent Igbo groups including Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Igbo leaders of thought, had on Wednesday at ‘N’digbo 2019 and Beyond’ meeting, held in Enugu endorsed the PDP candidate and his running, Peter Obi, who is from the zone.

But responding in a statement by its national publicity secretary, Mallam Lanre Issa-Onilu, APC said it will be interesting to know what the PDP will be telling the Igbo people during the campaigns.

He said, “The APC considers Atiku and his PDP co-travellers as people who have lost any sense of shame. The purported endorsement of Atiku and PDP by some leaders of the South East for the 2019 general elections is an affront on the Igbo people who were frontline victims of the 16 years of the PDP misrule.

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“It will be interesting to know what the PDP will be telling the Igbo people during the campaign. The South East people have three and half years of visible progress in terms of massive infrastructure and the thousands of common people who are benefiting from the social investment programmes under APC to compare to the PDP’s 16 years of retrogression. We in APC are confident that the Igbo won’t be fooled by any group, by whatever name, to sell a thoroughly discredited party like the PDP to the very discerning Igbo people.”

By Ebere Ndukwu. . .

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