Abdullahi Ganduje, the Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, said that the Igbo could put an end to the marginalization of their region and achieve political empowerment by aligning with the ruling party.
Ganduje noted that the Igbo were on the brink of producing a president in the 1980s, thwarted only by a military intervention.
“You know when your brother, Alex Ekwueme, was the vice president to our brother, Shehu Shagari,” Mr Ganduje said at the Ifeanyi Ubah’s empowerment rally held at Nnewi, Anambra State on Friday. “The body language was there, and if not that the military struck, your son, Alex Ekwueme would have become the president.”
The APC chairman additionally stated that the Igbo community has the potential to put an end to marginalization and attain political empowerment through their involvement in the governing party.
“I tell you this story because the road to political freedom is to key into the ruling party, and once you do that, marginalisation would be a thing of the past,” Mr. Ganduje said.
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Since the restoration of democracy in 1999, Southeast Nigeria, predominantly inhabited by the Igbo ethnic group, has yet to see one of its own ascend to the presidency, despite the Igbo being one of Nigeria’s largest ethnic groups.
The resurgence of the Biafra Republic movement, reignited by Nnamdi Kanu’s leadership of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra in 2015, transformed into an armed conflict in the region following a violent crackdown by soldiers under the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari.
The military intervention resulted in the deaths of over 150 IPOB protesters in 2015.
(Peoplesgaette)
