PDP Dead Forever If It Zones 2023 Presidency North – Ohanaeze

Apex Igbo sociocultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has warned the Peoples Democratic Occasion (PDP) that its makes an attempt to zone the presidential ticket to the north will result in its ugly finish.

Ohanaeze was reacting to the decision by the Northern States Governors’ Discussion board with Northern Emirs and Chiefs on Monday in Kaduna which vehemently rejected the clamour for energy shift.

Spokesman of Ohanaeze Alex Ogbonnia, in a press release, stated the PDP can as effectively think about itself useless endlessly if it proceeds to zone the presidential ticket to the north.

It recalled there was a gentleman’s settlement between the north and south in 1998 to rotate energy, an association the physique has been stored to the letters till now.

Ohanaeze berated northern leaders to plotting to retain energy at a time the area was consumed by banditry, terrorism and insecurity.

It identified the north regardless of producing a lot of the nation’s leaders has remained underdeveloped and sluggish, a difficulty it stated ought to have been the main target of northern leaders as in opposition to searching for political energy in any respect time.

Elements of the assertion learn: “A gentleman settlement was reached on the NUC Convention Centre, Abuja in 1998 between the North and the South. The Late Dr. Chuba Okadigbo spoke for the complete South and Alh. Abubakar Rimi, additionally of blessed reminiscence spoke for the North.

“It was agreed that after Gen. Abdulsalam Abubakar because the Head of State, that the presidency ought to shift to the South. That accounted for the emergence of the presidential flag bearers of the mainstream political events from the South West. Chief Olusegun Obasanjo revered the settlement and handed over to the North within the particular person of Musa Yar’Adua. Once more, Goodluck Jonathan, a Southerner, revered the gentleman settlement and handed over to the North within the particular person of President Muhammadu Buhari.

“Due to this fact, the least that’s anticipated from the North is a present of profound gratitude to the complete South for his or her giant coronary heart, equanimity and sportsmanship.

“Moreover, it’s within the curiosity of each Nigerian that there must be a paradigm shift to governance strategies. Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide unequivocally stands with the 17 Southern Governors and any black leg amongst them will incur the wrath of historical past.”

Warning in opposition to the north’s agenda to stay in energy past 2023, the physique added: “The exponents of this agenda, of their jaundiced calculations, consider that it’s a positive approach of regaining energy from the All Peoples Congress (APC).

“Expertise would have taught them that to zone their presidential place to the North is an orchestrated requiem for the celebration; as a result of extra PDP Governors and grassroots will certainly desert them.

“Could we remind the PDP that the Southeast has made unquantifiable sacrifices for PDP starting from the time of Dr. Alex Ekwueme.

“If by the use of politics with out ideas the Southerners in PDP place their private slim pursuits over the curiosity of their folks, the decision of historical past will certainly be harsh on them.

“Ohanaeze Ndigbo led by Ambassador Professor George Obiozor reiterates that the bane of Nigeria is uncooked injustice particularly focused in opposition to the Igbo and till we start to wean ourselves of the Igbophobia and fairly harness particular person and group resourcefulness, creativity, ingenuity and initiatives wherever they’re discovered, Nigeria will stay on the downward spiral”.

Ohanaeze warned that the remarks by the northern leaders had been indicative of a bleak future for Nigeria.

The physique added: “It’s most regrettable that the North are undisturbed that Nigeria is quick collapsing below its management. The Discussion board failed to acknowledge that in the intervening time, Nigeria is confronted with probably the most precarious omens stuffed with uncertainty, doubts, insecurity and bloodshed.

“The chairman of the Northern States Governors Discussion board, Governor Simon Lalong can attest that the folks of Plateau State had by no means in historical past witnessed the variety of deaths as has taken place below his watch as governor.

“The banditry in Zamfara, Katsina, Kaduna and Jigawa States is terrifying. Benue State has was a killing subject. The states of Yobe and Borno are worst hit by the menace of Boko Haram; and many others. A number of faculties within the North couldn’t open due to kidnappers and hundreds of thousands of youngsters are on the road as beggars.

“The Nigerian forex has misplaced its worth. Unemployment has skyrocketed; and Nigeria has grow to be the poverty capital of the world…..and the Northern Governors, the Sultan and the Emirs as an alternative of searching for answer to Nigerian issues had been busy strategizing on learn how to retain energy in 2023. That is most unconscionable, to say the least.

“Let it’s made abundantly clear that if Presidency is a panacea to folks’s issues, the North would have grow to be the Netherlands of Africa.

“It is because the North had Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Yakubu Gowon, Murtala Mohammed, Shehu Shagari, Muhammadu Buhari, Ibrahim Babangida, Sani Abacha, Abdulsalam Abubakar, Musa Yaradua, Muhammadu Buhari, but the issues of the North are on the rise”.

Whereas restating its full solidarity with the place of Southern Governors, Ohanaeze defined that the Governors’ place was merely restating the plain.