Group Advise Igbos To Shun PDP

 The Igbo Network For Change has strongly advanced reasons why  Igbos should reject the PDP in the upcoming general elections in the country in 2015.

 In a communiqué issued to newsmen shortly after an emergency meeting in Enugu, the group’s president, frankline Nkemdirim said it is high time Igbos reject the party and look for another political platform if intends to be a major players in the next political dispensation.

Nkemdirim advanced reasons why Igbo nation should paddle their political boat elsewhere

The communiqué reads in part “For those, who insist that it must be the PDP that will guarantee our political safety, they are dead wrong! Igbos has given so much to the PDP and what has the party given to us in return?

"The PDP is a party that has not offered the much needed opportunity for Igbos to actualize their political desires. Despite the enormous contributions of Igbo sons and daughters to the growth and development of the party, the PDP has continued to reward Igbos with political disappointments. The party has continuously disgraced Igbo leaders and has shown reluctance to offer Igbos its might and size to actualize its motive of producing the country’s President. 

 It continued “First, in 1999, it disgraced one of its founding fathers and a great son of Igboland, former Vice President Dr. Alex Ekwueme at the 1999 Jos Convention rejecting his presidential candidature in preference for an ex military non democrat like General Olusegun Obasanjo. 

“The party also used the position of National Chairman which it zoned to the South East to make a caricature of great sons of Igboland. The first victim was Chief Vincent Ogbulafor who was forced to quit when he was caught in the web of a deadly conspiracy spawn by anti Igbo conspirators in the party. 

“Next was Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo, who was shoved aside as national chairman of the party on the floor of the Eagle Square, Abuja just to satisfy the inordinate ambition of the party’s emperor! He was also removed for advocating reforms that could usher in internal democracy into the party.

It added that it is a pity that despite the political annihilation of Igbos, “it is obvious that some Igbo politicians remain in the party because  of percuniary gains”