An Igbo social-cultural group, Omaluegwuoku Progressive Initiative, has revealed that it has concluded plans to embark on a Nationwide campaign tagged Igbo kwenu 4 Asiwaju/Shettima in the thirty-six States of the Federation at the commencement of the formal campaign next month.
The National Coordinator of the group and a Federal Commissioner in the Federal Character Commission, Hon Ginika Florence Tor, made this known while unveiling their strategies to support Asiwaju and other APC candidates for the 2023 general election in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital.
The APC support group, which is currently rallying support for the party’s presidential candidate for the 2023 general election, Bola Tinubu, asked politicians of the southeast zone to get involved in the mainstream of Nigeria politics to actualize the Igbo presidency.
Hon Tor, who was speaking alongside other group leaders, further explained that it was time for people of the southeast zone to jettison regional politics and involve themselves in mainstream national politics.
She added that it was time for Ndigbo to stamp their presence at the center stage of the country’s political structure.
According to the Coordinator, “it is time for South East to get to the mainstream of Nigeria politics. We can’t be in zone A and expect to reap from zone B. We need to be involved in Nigeria politics to stop the perceived marginalisation.”
Tor also hinted that the group was initially rooting for a southeast presidential candidate but filed behind Tinubu’s candidacy when he emerged as the party flag bearer.
“Before the emergence of Sen. Tinubu as the APC presidential candidate, the record has it that Omaluegwuoku Progressive Initiative advocated for South-East presidency under the platform of APC.
“But Bola Ahmed Tinubu who is in no doubt a man of capacity, credibility, and competency, emerged, a man that can be referred to as tested and trusted; we were left with no choice but to give our full support,” she added.
Also speaking, a member representing the Oshodi/Isoko lol constituency in the Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon Jude idimogu, said the southeast geopolitical zone has a dazzling future under the Tinubu presidency.
Idimogu, the Deputy National Coordinator of Omaluegwuoku Progressive Initiative, listed the various appointment of Igbo stocks in Lagos State since 1999, saying that “the southeast zone has to come out of our political concon and interact with other regions and be fully involved in national politics.”
Also corroborating, FCT focal person on Social Investment Programme and Founder Rosebon Empowerment Initiative (REIN), Hon. Chinwendu Amba revealed that with the various intervention Programme of the APC-led government, it needed someone from the party to consolidate the game and achievement of the social investment programme, which is aimed at assisting the less privileged.
Referring to the Cash Grant of the APC-led government, Mrs. Amba stressed that the distribution of the Cash Grant was aimed at cushioning the impact of poverty and encouraging the growth of small-scale businesses in the country, adding that a vote for Asiwaju/Shettima is a vote to merge on the programme.
While convincing Nigerians of the need to vote for Tinubu in 2023, Mrs. Amba also pointed out that the social investment programme that the present administration designed as a strategy for enhancing social inclusion and a demonstration of the government’s efforts to bring succour and hope to the poorest of the poor and vulnerable members of the society.
She enjoyed her Igbo brother and sister from the southeast extraction to vote wisely during the forthcoming general election in 2023 to remain relevant in the country’s mainstream of the scheme of politics.
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