2023: Any Igbo around Atiku, is only after his pockets - Ohanaeze opines

Ahead of the February 2023 Presidential poll, Ohanaeze Ndigbo worldwide, says every Igbo around the PDP Presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, are only after his pockets.

The foremost Igbo socio-cultural body, made the declaration in an electronic statement sent to Fresh Angle International this morning, Tuesday October 18.

The statement e-signed by the Secretary-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, advised the PDP Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, “not to squander his time and resources for any reason in the South-East and Igbo-speaking areas of South/South and Middle Belt”.

The statement added: “When they (Igbos around Alhaji Atiku Abubakar) are satisfied with the resources yanked out from him and his running mate, Governor Okowa, many of them will disappear from Nigeria with an alibi for emergency medical tourism and those who couldn't travel, will conceal in their Abuja or Lagos residential homes or hotel rooms, because many of them cannot risk of coming home with another crooked tales of Atiku Abubakar and most of Atiku's men from the South-East are terrified of the Igbo youngsters, they used as hooligans in 2019 and abandoned them to the hardship and penury in the face of this economic slumps and pandemic without palliative care are wiser and have been transformed into Biafra agitators.

“For these abandoned Igbo youths, it's is payback time for corrupt politicians of Igbo extraction supporting the enemies of Ndigbo. We wish to remind Atiku Abubakar, that according to Igbo tradition and culture, it's a taboo in Igboland for a visitor to boost having Igbo children without telling us about the relationship between him and the mother of his Igbo children or her way about, it's a sacrilege and he should not repeat his Enugu's declaration of having Igbo children, he should avoid issues that will worsen his relationship with Igbos.

“Igbo political elites, including the  PDP Governors, know that Atiku will lose in the southeast without getting the required constitutional 25% votes for losers, after his infamous Kaduna declaration of dishonor that he belongs to the North only " Nigerians from the North, West, South, and East are encountering severe hunger, unemployment, and insecurity challenges, any Presidential candidate dwelling on ethnicity and religious cards, without showing evidence of rescuing the country from the abyss of economic crisis and social dilemma Nigerians found themselves, will be disgraced at the polls". Atiku Abubakar has declined to learn from his 2019's severe setback, this time around he should genuinely challenge his Igbo advisers and caucus team flocking around him, for a road walk in their villages and countryside without security and see the flimsy excuses that will follow it”.

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