APC candidate in Ebonyi States says Ndigbo have not done enough to warrant presidency in 2023

ALL Progressives Congress (APC) Federal House of Representatives candidate in the Ikwo/Ezza South federal constituency of Ebonyi State Chinedu Ogah has castigated his kinsmen saying not enough Igbos voted for President Muhammadu Buhari to warrant them being given a shot at the presidency in 2023.

Mr Ogah, who lost the recent election in his constituency standing as an All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, expressed disappointment that some notable politicians and a diplomat from the region worked against the interest of President Muhammadu Buhari. He added that subsequently, the APC might not be predisposed to ceding the presidency to an Igbo person come 2023.

 “The votes recorded for President Buhari in the southeast are not enough for us to demand that an Igbo should be made president on the platform of the APC in 2023. Don’t forget that a ranking senator from the zone led a delegation to Mr President and they promised that they will deliver him in the southeast if he supported them to win their elections, yet at the end of the day, they disappointed him.

“Do you know that even a serving Nigerian ambassador who hails from the southeast, worked against President Buhari? He was busy before and during the election telling the electorate to vote for Atiku Abubakar but when he noticed that Buhari was winning, he ran away.

“You can see that we are not ready for a Nigerian president of Igbo extraction come 2023 based on our attitude to Mr President and the APC,” Mr Ogah added.

Mr Ogah maintained that he won the House of Representatives election in Ikwo/Ezza South federal constituency but alleged that the Independent National Electoral Commission rigged the election in favour of the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party. He expressed confidence that he will reclaim his mandate at the election tribunal.