2015: APC slams Igbo’s endorsement of Jonathan

The All Progressives Congress in the South-East on Sunday hammered the underwriting of President Goodluck Jonathan to challenge in 2015 by a few pioneers of the Peoples Democratic Party in the zone, saying the individuals who advertised the support of the President were narrow minded people.

The South-East APC said that however Jonathan had the sacred right to challenge re-decision yet that that it was restricted to the "inadequate method" embraced by the individuals who supported the President.

Representative for the resistance party in the South-East, Mr. Osita Okechukwu, said this in an announcement to respond to the underwriting of the President as 'Igbo competitor' by a few pioneers of the Peoples Democratic Party in the South-East.

The PDP pioneers, on the stage of Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria, embraced Jonathan at a rally in Awka, Anambra State, on Saturday.

Okechukwu said those behind the Jonathan's underwriting for 2015 were "Ndigbo-Chop-Sand-Band of lawmakers who ache for to put all our investments tied up on one place, abandon the possibilities of president of Igbo extraction and subject the dedicated and venturesome Igbos to ceaseless poverty stricken status."

He included, "They over extend the stereo-kind of Ndigbo Chopping-Sand following after the common war, hence Jonathan's triumph will urge our peers, the Yorubas and the Hausas to join in hacking sand.

"Ndigbo-Chop-Sand-Band drummers are not intrigued whether President Jonathan performed or not, whether he respected the makes a guarantee to he made to Ndigbo amid the 2011 electioneering fight nor whether his presidential space hinders on the possibilities of our delivering a president of Igbo extraction in the closest future.

"Overall, why that exceptional there is no Environmental Impact Assessment, no private segment partner subsidizing, just N30bn Sure-P-Fund burdened from the individuals; and in particular, why the second Niger Bridge is not caught in the government plan, following, agreeing the drummers, Jonathan so cherishes Ndigbo."

Okechukwu's announcement included, "The Chop-Sand-Band feels that Ndigbo's memory is so short to overlook that it was His Royal Majesty, the Obi of Onitsha, Agbogidi, Igwe Alfred Nnaemaka Achebe, who in February not long from now, woke our dear President from profound sleep over the swear up and down to he made on the second Niger Bridge; whereupon flame administration methodology of Public, Private Partnership was instituted.

"On the other hand is it not entertaining that Prof. Chinedu Nebo, Minister of Power, one of the drummers, who talked of Grand Expectation Journey (GEJ), couldn't tell Ndigbo why the coal undertaking has not taken off-ground and what happened to the N927m, N1.7bn and N1.1bn planned for the study overview of Enugu and Gombe Coal in 2012, 2013 and 2014 individually?

"The redoing of coal was one of our Grand Expectation Journey, introduced on the guarantee made by Jonathan at the South-East PDP Zonal rally amid the 2011 electioneering crusade, yet he so adores Ndigbo."

The gathering communicated worries that Jonathan would be "designated" votes in the South-East in 2015.

"In whole, our apprehension is that the center fixing of decision, which is a choice on the execution of the officeholder, may not predominate as the Chop-Sand-Band are building a situation where President Jonathan, as in 2011, would be apportioned a great many votes in the South-East, without equivalent execution."