The group accused PTDF of insincerity and a deliberate try and deny certified Igbo graduates from taking part within the scheme meant for all areas within the nation.

The Chief Government Officer of the organisation, Obinna Nwagbara made this allegation in an announcement made accessible to journalists on Tuesday in Abuja.
Nwagbara was reacting to a media report credited to at least one Mr. Mustapha Bello that no centre had been chosen for the South-East on account of insecurity within the area.

It was gathered that 8, 800 candidates have been shortlisted and scheduled for interviews in 5 centres throughout the nation.

Obinna faulted the explanation given by the company as flimsy and unjustifiable, including that the group would do all the pieces inside the regulation to withstand the plot.
The assertion stated, “We view as unpatriotic, provocative and repulsive, the clear design by the Petroleum Know-how Improvement Belief Fund (PTDF) to exclude candidates from the South-East area in its 2022 Abroad Scholarship Scheme (OSS).
“A report in Vanguard newspaper of Thursday, Might 26, 2022, had credited Mr. Mustapha Bello with saying that the 8,800 candidates who certified for the interview section of the train could be interviewed throughout 5 totally different centres.
“Based on the report, candidates could be interviewed in Abuja, Port Harcourt, Ibadan, Kaduna and Bauchi. The PTDF by way of Mr Bello introduced that no centre had been chosen for the South-East on account of insecurity within the area
“On the floor, the excuse appears believable however when probed deeper, one would perceive that much more is at play right here and all patriotic Nigerians should be involved about this horrible growth. Sure, there’s insecurity within the South-East area and we discover that very unlucky contemplating how peaceable the area has been till just lately.

“We think about the stories of the lack of human lives and palpable stress within the area very disturbing; nobody ought to need to stay underneath concern or function on legal guidelines made by non-state actors. These are information and as a physique, Youth and College students Advocates for Improvement Initiative, YSAD, has serially condemned acts of brigandage and killing within the area. We had additionally made a number of calls to authorities at federal and state ranges to transcend rhetoric and act to revive the much-needed sense of order within the area.”
The group maintained that if insecurity was the explanation as cited by PTDF to exclude the South-East area by denying candidates from the zone a centre the place they’ll current themselves for an interview, then the entire train ought to have been cancelled nationwide.
He famous that there’s a pandemic of insecurity throughout Nigeria.
The assertion, due to this fact, known as on well-meaning Nigerians to stand up and resist an alleged try and get rid of certified Igbos from a scheme focused at graduates from throughout Nigeria.
“It’s unusual that the PTDF can’t discover a appropriate area in the entire South-East for its interview however would go forward and interview candidates in Kaduna State the place based on stories within the Cable newspaper of April 20, 2022, 259 Nigerians misplaced their lives within the first quarter of 2022 following 31 assaults by numerous felony teams,” the assertion added.