2015: Group Wants Igbos To Vie For Presidency

A pressure group, Progressive Igbo Youths, has called on the political elite in the South-East to produce a presidential candidate for the 2015 general elections.

Addressing newsmen in Enugu on Sunday, the National Coordinator of the group, Mr Adolphus Ude, said it had become expedient for the Igbo to take a shot at the presidency.

According to him,“Politics is agitation. We, the Igbo youth, are coming together to agitate for our rightful position in Nigeria.For more than 12 years, one party has been ruling the country without any meaningful position for the Igbo race.’’

He said the country had always been guided by a tripod but that one leg of the tripod had been weakened politically by the others.

Ude said that the group, with branches in all the states of the South-East, would mobilise the entire zone and beyond to support any candidate who emerged from the zone.

The coordinator said that posterity would not be kind to the Igbo elite if they betrayed the confidence bestowed on them by failing to produce a candidate for the election.

He said the group was canvassing for Senator Chris Ngige to return to Anambra as governor in the forthcoming gubernatorial election in the state.