Boko Haram, a threat to Igbo 2015 presidency bid- Chukwumerije says

ABAKALIKI — Senator Uche Chukwumerije representing Abia North Senatorial district, Abia State in the National Assembly said Wednesday that the aspiration of the Igbos to clinch the Presidential seat in 2015 was gradually taking a strange dimension as it was now being threatened by activities of the Boko Haram sect, which is targeting same objective.

Senator Chukwumerije disclosed this while presenting a paper, entitled Path to Group Rehabilitation, at the 2011 Igbo Day celebration in Abakaliki.

The Senator, who charged the Igbos to be collective in their presidential aspiration, affirmed that the activities of Boko Haram were targeted at capturing the Presidency after the expiration of President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration in 2015.

He called on the Igbos not to relegate their ambition to the background even as he stressed the need for unity, oneness and sameness of objective as the key factor to the realization of the Igbo dream.

He said: “The issue of militancy in the Niger Delta has yielded them the Presidency. If you watch what is going on now, the activities of a politicized illegal activities of a group called Boko Haram are a proper determination to win the second round of Presidential election in 2015, is again playing out itself.

“Igbo nation must produce the Presidency in 2015 and all hands must be on deck to achieve this noble task. To implement this, a 20 man committee should be constituted including the five eastern governors to look into the challenge of getting the Igbo Presidency in 2015.

“My submission is that, it is the fatherly duty of Ohaneze to device means of constructive engagements with our youths as members of our large family and stop behaving like the proverbial victim of somebody stung by a bee who flees at a mere hum of a house fly.

“Today, we push the goal further and further away in which we choose to remain onlookers as mere party chairmen and secretaries. He who looks at the wind will never sow, the Bible says, in any case who knows. The dialectal pendulum of Nigeria’s group power politics may swings the Presidency to our side sooner or later but such opportunities can only come if we remain as a group.”

Other speakers, including Loretta Aniagolu and Prof. Okoro Ijoma, called for unity of Ndigbo even as they stressed the revival of Igbo language as vehicle for cultural rejuvenation.

Aniagolu advocated for the setting up of regional economy as well as introduction of sanction system against erring political office holders from the zone, and further called on the five governors of the South East zone to come together and reconstruct the bad roads in the zone and not wait for the federal government indefinitely.

Local News Trend, Nigeria (Filed Under: Abia State/Security)

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By Peter Okutu

-Vanguard (Nigeria Newspaper)

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