Ohanaeze Youths Warn Atiku: Your Ambition Is A Threat To Nigeria’s Unity

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has been advised to abandon his presidential ambition in the interest of the Nigerian nation by the youth wing of the apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Youth Council (OYC).

Comrade Igboayaka O. Igboayaka, national president of the OYC, frowned at what he described as Atiku Abubakar’s “undue desperation” to pick the Peoples Democratic Party’s presidential ticket while speaking to reporters in Owerri, the capital of Imo State, on Monday.

While reacting to Atiku’s meeting with the PDP Board of Trustees (BoT) on Tuesday, March 15, 2022, to discuss his presidential ambitions, Comrade Igboayaka described it as a call that would lead to Nigeria’s disintegration.

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“PDP can’t afford to lose the 2023 presidency,” he quoted Atiku as saying, adding that the former Vice-President should know that “if PDP dares to give him a ticket in 2023 against South-East aspirants, the party will not only lose the election, but it will be an evidential call for Nigeria’s total disintegration.”

“Atiku Abubakar should study the history of the PDP’s formation, starting with G34 led by Dr. Alex Ekwueme before it became a political party, to see that the South-East has paid the ultimate sacrifice in the PDP more than any other zone in Nigeria.”

He went on to say that people from the south-east had helped to form, build, and maintain the PDP as Africa’s largest political party.

“Atiku Abubakar’s decision to run for the PDP is a call to disrupt Nigeria’s unity and peace, and such a move will result in national political disaster, anarchy, and tribal crises, sinking Nigeria.

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“If the PDP denies a presidential ticket to a South-easterner, the only thing over 50 million Igbo youths can do is vote massively for an APC presidential candidate from the South-East, and no PDP office or flag will stand erect in the South-East, from ward level to state level.” We’ll fight the PDP in the same way that Yakubu Gowon did to keep Nigeria united.

“The PDP must avoid using Atiku Abubakar, Aminu Tambuwal, and other selfish presidential aspirants from outside the South-East to disintegrate or destabilize Nigeria’s national unity,” Igboayaka said.

“It’s derogatory that Atiku Abubakar boasted about how he used Ben Obi and Peter Obi as running mates. If any Nigerian wishes to see Nigeria as the ‘Giant of Africa,’ as proposed by Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe (Zik of Africa), then it’s high time he dropped his presidential ambition and supported a credible and competent presidential aspirant from the South-East to build the Nigeria of Zik vision.”

“Atiku Abubakar must awaken his human consciousness and recognize that, of the six geopolitical zones in Nigeria, the South-East gave him the overwhelming majority of votes, prompting President Muhammadu Buhari’s current administration to refer to the people of the South-East as the “5 percent.” As a result, Atiku Abubakar and the PDP family owe the people of the south-east a debt of gratitude in the 2023 presidential election,” he added.