2023 elections provide chance to halt looters from gaining power again – Ohanaeze Ndigbo

Ohanaeze Ndigbo has said the 2023 general elections provide a chance for Nigerians to halt imperial looters from governance in the country.

The Igbo socio-cultural group stated this on Thursday while it called on the electorate to be weary of “Nigerians that looted the treasury and are again gearing up to gain access power at various strata”.

Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, Secretary-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide in a press release made available to Daily Independent in Abakaliki noted that some actors with ethnic chauvinism and jingoism have craftily conceived a masterpiece by gambling on the ignorance of unenlightened Northern populace in alliance, plotting to cruise to power in 2023.

“But the only impediments and hurdles are how to hoodwink and trick the Southeast and Niger/ Delta voters into the blasphemous union of looters.

“Nigerians know that before the 2003 elections, Former President Olusegun Obasanjo lost control of the PDP party structure to his erstwhile Vice President Atiku Abubakar when the latter allegedly used the then Governors to bolster his chances of winning the 2003 elections against President Obasanjo”.

” It’s an open secret that Obasanjo knelt and stooped low to beg Atiku Abubakar his Deputy before he could return and win his re-election in 2003, Obasanjo should open up to Nigerians, and tell them the truth about what transpired in the Privatization exercise led by Atiku Abubakar during his tenure”.

“A man who is claiming to unify the country but couldn’t find any possible way to unify the PDP, a man who has dismissed the opportunity for a southerner to replace Iyochia Ayu as PDP National Chairman rather he plotted the return of Wabara to spite the southeast who is a champion of anti-Southeast agendas.

“If Obasanjo could kneel for Atiku his Deputy in 2003 why is Atiku finding it impossible to beg Southern and, Middle belt Governors and leaders, who are resisting the injustices and atrocities committed by Atiku Abubakar by arm twisting the PDP zoning principles that favour the southeast for his gains”.