Ndigbo will dump PDP if Atiku gets ticket – Ohanaeze

Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide has berated former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar’s comment on him winning the 2023 People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential ticket as a political miscalculation and boastful mistake.

Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, Secretary-General, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide said that in 2019, Ndigbo showed enough loyalty to the PDP and Atiku and the present predicaments and penalties facing the South-East today, was the 2019 Igbo support given to Atiku and PDP, adding that in 2023, Igbos will dump PDP if Atiku wins the PDP tickets.

Ohanaeze said that Atiku’s comment, “Have I ever failed to get the ticket? I’m confident that I will still get it,” which he made during a visit to former President, Olusegun Obasanjo is a nostalgic belief that has decorated him as a desperate politician swimming against the political currents and tides of the moment, adding that he has misread the mood of the nation ahead of 2023.

Isiguzoro said that Atiku’s boastful nature and the miscalculation of the political arithmetic of the current situation in Nigeria may retire him from partisan politics in 2023, adding that if Atiku continues, he will surely taste the venom of Nigerians in the PDP primaries and disgrace that awaits him.

“Atiku has the constitutional rights to aspire to for the office of President in 2023, but one had expected him not to rock the boat now that the odds are against him based on his age and his region.

“He should not fight dirty or appear desperate for the presidency, rather it’s time for him to voluntarily quit partisan politics and take his rightful place in history as an Elder statesman without being dishonoured and disgraced.

“Ndigbo had expected that Atiku Abubakar should support a younger person, for 2023, especially after the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike openly denounced Atiku’s proposal, for him to be his running mate in 2023.

“This is enough message and signal to him that 2023 is exclusively reserved for a Southern President, and Atiku should search his conscience and support an Igbo in the PDP primaries to avert a disgraceful end of his political career.

“The Southern Nigerian leaders and Governors have vowed that it’s unhealthy for another Northerner to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023.”

He said that Ohanaeze Ndigbo in alliance with other ethnic groups will ensure that any political party that refuses to zone their presidential ticket to the South will suffer in the 2023 presidential election.

Isiguzoro said that Ohanaeze appreciates the unity of purpose demonstrated by the Middle Belt and Southern leaders, on speaking the truth and establishing the fact that based on equity and fairness in the spirit of one brotherhood that 2023 should be exclusively reserved for the Igbo to halt the disintegration adherents and factors threatening the corporate existence of Nigeria beyond 2023.

He said that based on this circumstance on the ground, any promotion of Northern continuation after eight years of President Buhari from any individual is callous, voracious and selfish.

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Isiguzoro said that Ohanaeze appreciates the unity of purpose demonstrated by the Middle Belt and Southern leaders, on speaking the truth and establishing the fact that based on equity and fairness in the spirit of one brotherhood that 2023 should be exclusively reserved for the Igbo to halt the disintegration adherents and factors threatening the corporate existence of Nigeria beyond 2023.