“The purported endorsement of Atiku and PDP by some leaders of the South East for the 2019 general elections is an affront on the Igbo people who were frontline victims of the 16 years of the PDP misrule. It will be interesting to know what the PDP will be telling the Igbo people during the campaign.
The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, which made these points yesterday, Wednesday night, in reaction to the endorsement of Atiku by Ohanaeze Ndigbo for the 2019 Presidential election, said that the endorsement does not hold water, describing it as “an attempt to sell a discredited party to Igbo people.”
Speaking to news men at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja, the national publicity secretary, Lanre Issa-Onilu emphasized that the endorsement was an affront on the mentality of the Igbos.
“The APC considers Atiku and his PDP co-travelers as people who have lost any sense of shame.
“The South East people have three and half years of visible progress in terms of massive infrastructure and the thousands of common people who are benefiting from the social programme investments under APC to compare to the PDP’s 16 years of retrogression.
“We in APC are confident that the Igbo won’t be fooled by any group, by whatever name, to sell a thoroughly discredited party like the PDP to the very discerning Igbo people.”
