APC will capture S’East states to end Igbo marginalisation – Ganduje

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Abdullahi Ganduje, on Thursday, said the perceived marginalisation of the Igbo could be blamed on the fact that the five South-East states are governed by different political parties, rather than one.

Therefore, he said the ruling APC was determined to capture most of the South-East states, starting with Anambra, which is governed by the All Progressive Grand Alliance.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Ganduje spoke while receiving the leadership of the Kano State Correspondents’ Chapel of the NUJ led by its Chairman, Aminu Garko.

“The North, South-East political zones are all claiming that they have been marginalised. The South-East geopolitical zone is saying the same thing. But what we are telling them is that the marginalisation has been created by them.

“How can you have five states ruled by four political parties? What will be your political bargain?” Ganduje queried.

He said the APC was working very hard to ensure that it spread its tentacles beyond Imo and Ebonyi states, by winning more of the South-East states.

“Next year, there will be Anambra, which has been a state governed by APGA for many years, but we have introduced a new scheme. We want to start with Anambra. Already, we have Ebonyi and Imo. Now, we are encroaching into that zone to ensure that we capture most of the states. And if we get what we want, we capture all the states,” Ganduje said.

He also boasted that victory was sure for the APC in the September 21 Edo State governorship election as well as the November 16 Ondo State poll.

Ganduje said, “I believe our campaign is in high spirits; we are getting ready for that (Edo) election and we believe we will be able to recover our state.

“This is because it was an APC state, but because of internal bubbles, we lost it to the PDP, but we are sure we will recover that state.

“For Ondo State, it’s already an APC state, and when the former governor died, he left a number of problems, but we were able to resolve those issues.

“We conducted primaries, we succeeded in getting the person that they want.

“If we win Edo, we will be getting an additional state for the party. It will be 21 states out of 36.”