reiterated that it was not opposed to President Goodluck Jonathan
running for presidency in 2015, as he has the constitutional right to
contest.
The party was reacting to the endorsement of President Jonathan as
Igbo candidate by the People's Democratic Party (PDP) South-East
political leaders, during the Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria
(TAN) rally in Awka, Anambra State on Saturday.
Notable PDP Igbo political leaders, including Chairman of the
South-East Governors Forum, Governor Theodore Orji of Abia State;
Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu; Josephine Anenih, who represented Nigerian
women in the zone; billionaire businessman, Arthur Eze; former Anambra
State Governor, Peter Obi and Deputy Speaker of the House of
Representatives, Emeka Ihedioha, who spoke on behalf of the South-East
caucus of the National Assembly had united in asking the President to
contest.
Reacting to the rally in a statement by its spokesman, Osita
Okechukwu, the APC South East said that while it was not opposed to
the inalienable and constitutional rights of Jonathan to contest, it
was "opposed to the scant strategy adopted by 'Ndigbo-Chop-Sand-Band'
of politicians, who crave to put all our eggs in one basket, foreclose
the chances of a president of Igbo extraction and subject the
hardworking and enterprising Igbos to perpetual beggarly status.
The statement reads further: "Ndigbo-Chop-Sand-Band drummers are not
interested whether President Jonathan performed or not, whether he
honoured the promises he made to Ndigbo during the 2011 electioneering
campaign nor whether his presidential slot impedes on the chances of
our producing a president of Igbo extraction in the nearest future.
"Otherwise, how come that up to date there is no Environmental Impact
Assessment, no private sector counterpart funding, only N30b
Sure-P-Fund taxed from the people and most importantly, why the 2nd
Niger Bridge is not captured in the federal budget, since according to
the drummers, Jonathan so loves Ndigbo?
"The Chop-Sand-Band thinks that Ndigbo's memory is so short to forget
that it was His Royal Majesty, the Obi of Onitsha, Agbogidi, Igwe
Alfred Nnaemaka Achebe, who in February this year, woke our dear
President from deep slumber over the promise he made on the 2nd Niger
Bridge; upon which fire service approach of Public, Private
Partnership was enacted.
"Or is it not amusing that Professor Chinedu Nebo, Minister of Power,
one of the drummers, who talked of Grand Expectation Journey (GEJ),
couldn't tell Ndigbo why the Coal project has not taken off-ground and
what happened to N927m, N1.7b and N1.1b budgeted for the study survey
of Enugu and Gombe Coal in 2012, 2013 and 2014 respectively? The
Revamping of Coal was one of our Grand Expectation Journey, premised
on the promise made by Jonathan at South East PDP Zonal rally during
the 2011 electioneering campaign, yet he so loves Ndigbo!" APC South
East stated.
The APC group added, "In sum, our fear is that the core ingredient of
election, which is a referendum on the performance of the incumbent
may not prevail, as the Chop-Sand-Band are constructing a scenario
where President Jonathan like in 2011, would be allocated millions of
votes in the South East, without commensurate performance."
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