Chief Tobby Anumaka, patron, Okpoko Igbo, a pan Igbo socio-cultural organization and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has urged the Igbos to bury their political differences and unite with others in the country to actualize a Nigerian president of Igbo extraction.
Commending the defection of Igbos across the southeast to the governing All Progressives Congress, he said Buhari's emergence as President of Nigeria was by divine providence to rescue Nigeria from total collapse inflicted on it by the previous PDP-led Federal Government.
He advised Nigerians especially the Igbos to pray for the quick recovery of President Muhammadu Buhari while also calling for unity for the actualization of Igbo presidency.
Below is an abridged version of his chat with Daily Sun.
Excerpts:
A member of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu has condemned the recent cross carpeting of some of his party members in the South-East to the APC, describing them as unserious politicians. What is your take?
Iwuanyanwu was among the founders of All Peoples Party (APP), but later crossed over to PDP immediately the party won the presidential election and he was made member of the BoT of the party. So, he has no moral right to condemn those towing the same path. It is a good development that Igbo politicians are joining the APC to boost our chances of clinching the presidency in 2023. Our democracy rotates around ‘the winner takes all’ mantra and we must be part of the winners. Those that are criticizing this government should realize that APC is on a rescue mission because Nigeria was gradually sliding into complete collapse before President Buhari showed up. So, if we had planned well when we had the oil boom, by now we won’t have this economic crisis.
Are you saying that with the hardship in the country, Nigerians will vote for APC again?
Yes, I acknowledged that there is hardship in the land and there is no doubt that Nigerians are suffering but we must also realize that President Buhari is not the cause. It is as a result of many years of lack of planning of which he was not a part. We did not plan well during the era of oil boom and we are facing the consequence now that the price of oil has gone down. Our past leaders lacked vision, hence we have nothing to fall back on. A lot of laudable projects that would have sustained the economy such as the Ajaokuta steel, Kaduna and Aba textile mills, just to mention a few were abandoned. If these multi nationals companies that folded up were in operation, they would have employed over 300,000 Nigerians.
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