The state Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Marshall Okafor Anyanwu, said this in Owerri, the state capital. Anyanwu explained that the decision to join other progressives to form APC was taken in the best interest of the people of the South-East zone.
The chairman argued that the decision did not mean that APGA would cease to exist. He said: “This doesn’t mean that APGA has stopped to exist as a political party, it will remain an identity of the Igbo.”
Anyanwu added that there was need to consult wide and seek collaboration of Nigerians sympathetic to the cause of our Igbo.
According to him, APGA’s acceptance and strength in the zone are still not enough to secure a front role in the affairs of the country as one of the tripods on which the country stands. He said: “The governor took a plunge to save Ndigbo from political encapsulation.
We cannot achieve our political ambitions under APGA. We need to take urgent and drastic measures to save our people from further marginalisation and our governor has taken the lead and should be supported.
“APC is a place where the Igbo aspiration will be realised. “It is absurd to notice that the South-East has no place in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, because after voting for President Goodluck Jonathan the zone has nothing to show for it and you expect us to still remain in that party.
It is unrealistic. “We have a population of about 30 million people and still playing second fiddle.
Today no Igbo man occupies any frontline position. We don’t have the position of the Senate president, Speaker, Chief Judge, Vice-President and National Chairman of the ruling party.
“The era of selfish politics is gone. With the arithmetic of the setting in APC the possibility of an Igbo man becoming the President, the Senate president or occupying any other exalted position is quite possible.”
THE NATIONAL MIRROR
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