January 9, 2015
Press Statement
February Polls: “Forget The South East”,PDP Tells APC
Says Buhari Has Nothing Good To Offer
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described APC’s cap in hand
scouting for South East votes as will-o’-the-wisp, sheer delusion and a
mid-day feverish dream, asking the party to forget the zone as
South-Easterners will deliver 100 percent block vote to the PDP in
February general elections.
PDP National Vice Chairman, South East, Col. Austin Akobundu in a
statement on Saturday said “the South East apart from being an
impregnable forte of the PDP, the APC’s ideology of lies, deceit,
divisiveness and violence is a vexatious stigma that makes support for
it a cardinal sin among the peace loving people of the zone. ”
“One thing is sure. There is no place for the APC in the South East,
so they should not hope to get any vote from the zone. The bitter
truth for the party is that the five states of the South East are
solidly in support of the PDP and will deliver a block vote for
President Jonathan and all our candidates in the February elections. We
therefore wish to advise the APC, its Presidential candidate as well as
other candidates not to waste energy in the zone,” the party said.
Stating that “there is no way the South East will choose the APC, which
represents anarchy and violence in place of the PDP, which has
>> brought stability and development to the country in the last 15
>> years”, the ruling party said APC Presidential candidate, General
Muhammadu Buhari will be humiliated in the elections as he has nothing
positive to offer the electorates in the zone in particular and the
nation in general.
“When Buhari was military head of state, he did not remember the South
East for any concrete project. The only legacy his draconian rule left
for Ndigbo was the unjust hounding and jailing of credible South East
leaders such as former Vice President Alex Ekwueme and former Governor
of the old Anambra state, Senator Jim Nwobodo through a heartless
Kangaroo trial that threw justice to the dogs. The extra judicial
killing of innocent citizens is scar that even hyssop can’t wash ”, the
PDP said.
Arguing that ‘Igbo adighi ahapu ebe a na-echi ozo, gaba ebe a na-aru
agwu’, meaning; “no one leaves a princely gathering with prospects of
well being, for the house of exorcisms with accompanying gnashing of
teeth, ” the statement said the South East is solidly PDP.
It therefore advised the APC not to be deceived by the Imo state
Governor , Rochas Okorocha and other axial politicians to believe that
it has structures in the zone, describing them as a lone voice in a
distant ‘ ajo ofia ‘ the evil forest.
” For the APC, a party that holds no promise for the South East either
in its unofficial defacto conclave or in its de-jure leadership
structure or even in its tentative basketing of offices if the miracle
of winning power at the centre ever happens, the people will ill afford
a train that leads to nowhere.
The PDP further added that it remained the pre-eminent party in Imo
State with formidable structures and very popular candidates saying
that the citizens are eager to vote out the Governor and end the misrule
of the same state by APC