Can we say the Igbo community knows what they are doing?
During the end SARS, the students Nationwide complained and condemned the present government.
At that time All Campus Show surveyed the Igbo Campus students on how they felt about the current state of things, the killings, and the hike in market products; most talked about the injustice in marginalizing the Igbos in Nigeria and the refusal of zoning the President to the East.
Now the opportunity to make the Igbo man emerge has come to their doorstep, but can we say they fail woefully with the records we got from the PDP and APC primary elections?
In a speech Chief Patrick Osagie Eholor, the President of One love foundation, otherwise known as Ultimate equal, democracy observer General sent a strong message to the Igbo Campus students to picture how their future is being planned by their selfish leadership and ask them to take over and do the right thing.
Chief Patrick narrated that in the just concluded APC Presidential primaries.
"Ebonyi State had 39 delegates in the APC presidential primary election that just ended. Out of that figure, Engr David Umahi got 38 votes; Dr Ogbonnaya Onu got 1 vote making it 39. Imo had 52 delegates."
"Rochas Okorocha got zero. Emeka Nwajiuba got only 1 vote. Where did Imo votes go? They simply voted for Tinubu of the Yoruba extraction. Anambra State had about 100 delegates, Ikeobasi Mokelu from Anambra got zero vote. Where did Anambra votes go? Simply they went to Tinubu and Amaechi."
"They didn't vote for a South Eastern aspirant. Abia had about 100 delegates. They didn't vote for a South Eastern aspirant. They voted for Sen. Dr Ahmed Lawan of the North East. Enugu had about 50 delegates. They didn't vote for a South Eastern aspirant. They possibly shared their votes to Tinubu and Amaechi
"Tomorrow, South East will be chanting the song of marginalisation when it's clear that apart from Ebonyi State, other South East States are a sellout in the struggle to have South Eastern persons grabbing presidential tickets of major political parties in Nigeria. This they replicated in the presidential primary of the PDP. Only Ebonyi State delegates delivered a South Easterner --- Sen. Anyim Pius Anyim 100 percent. Anambra, Enugu, Abia and Imo States sold theirs. It's important that people of the South East who aren't into politics note this. When we talk about the state that has interest of the Igbo at heart politically, only Ebonyi State comes to mind."
"With this kind of mentality by the other four South East States, the Igbo man doesn't stand a chance into the Aso Rock apart from a situation of the Yar'dua and Goodluck Jonathan repeats. In the Enugu-Onitsha expressway construction project linking the West African states, Ebonyi State constructed its own portion. Enugu and Anambra States did away with theirs. Today, these sections are almost in a state of impassability. I hope Igbo people are taking record of this so that by tomorrow, whoever is complaining should know the quarters to take their complaints to."
Finally, he adds that,
"Igbos are the ones marginalizing themselves and when the judgement comes to fore, Ebonyi State should be excluded from the statistics of the South East States that are mercantile in politics and anti Igbo political movement and philosophy."
He ends his speech by congratulating Ndi Ebonyi for their exemplary outings they have undertaken so far.