…Calls on Peter Obi to step down and join hands with progressive forces
Anambra State Youth Solidarity Movement (AYSM) has called on the presidential candidate for Labour Party Mr. Peter Obi to step down and join hands with progressive forces in negotiating the political future of ndi-Igbo
AYSM made the call today 23rd November 2022 through a release signed by Mr. Emeka Ikemefuna and Uloka Chukwubuikem
Spokesmen of the group.
According to the release; following the very timely, strategic and historic treatise released by the erudite professor, the Executive Governor of Anambra State, Prof. Charles Chukwuma Soludo, on the future of the Ndi Igbo in the political calculations of Nigeria, the irate mob were unleashed after the thinker and doer of our time with an impeccable record of having the capacity to direct ndi Igbo aright – little wonder in 2015, he was made the chairman planning and strategy committee Ohaneze Ndi Igbo world wide.
Gov. Soludo stated the facts as if it were not minding whose ox is gored. It takes a lot of courage and political will for any politician from southeast extraction, to make the very firm, bold and factual statements as Governor Soludo did. This timely intervention by the prudent thinker (soludo), has given leeway to other prominent Igbo leaders who for the avoidance of the shameful macabre dance by the untamed mob swallowed their hallowed bank of wisdom and refused to air an opinion on this matter, now to come forward with critical thinking and analysis, the constant question remains, “what is the place of Ndi Igbo in the political gimmicks of Nigeria?”
Four things are crystal clear on this issue and must be dispassionately analysed.
1. History repeats itself only to those who do not learn from history. Ndi Igbo must now wake up and adopt the political sagacity and gusto of late Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, of which it seems our Yoruba brothers have learnt quickly and are now implementing. The zikist politics of bridge building gave Ndi Igbo our best chance in the political history of Nigeria. When an Igbo man was President of Nigeria in the ’60s, and another Igbo man as Senate President, the same zikist politics of alliance gave Ndi the Vice Presidential and House of Reps Speakership slots in 1979. That is what Ndi has forgone for wishful thinking and mob action which has repeatedly gotten us nowhere!
2. Let’s not be emotional about it, no Igbo man can be President of Nigeria without a formidable alliance with at least an arm of the other major regions that made up Nigeria. In the early ’60s and late ’70s, ndi Igbo understood this point quite frankly and maintained a robust relationship with our northern brothers whilst the Westerners maintained the “we no free” posture that Ndi has suddenly adopted lately. Our brother Peter Obi does not have this alliance and knows very well that an irate social media mob does not and cannot make him President.
Truly, Peter Obi’s presidential sojourn is a sabotage to Ndi Igbo. What he has only succeeded in doing is increasing APC’s chances of winning the election by depleting the votes of the southeast for PDP. The implication is that the Southeasterners will have to stay out of power for a minimum of another 16 years. Because after Tinubu (if he wins), power would return to the north for another 8 years leaving Ndi Igbo out for another 16 solid years. If Mr. Peter Obi truly loves ndi Igbo, he should step down forthwith and strategize with other well-meaning Igbo elites in charting a way forward for Ndi Igbo. We repeat, the presidency is not won on the premise of wishful thinking and hullabaloo of an untamed mob, who probably does not even understand the need for a pathway for ndi Igbo in their quest for the topmost seat in Nigeria.
3. Peter Obi (if he steps down) and of course Ohaneze Ndi Igbo and other prominent Igbo leaders must now without any further delay, engage seriously with the frontliners in the forthcoming presidential election, and secure bankable negotiations for Igbo political renaissance and pathway to the presidency of Nigeria!
4. The irate mob is hereby advised to desist from hauling insults and threats on the Executive Governor of Anambra State, members of his family and other very well-meaning and prominent Igbo leaders, whose opinions differ from theirs. Truth is truth no matter how long it takes, in this case, in few months, the facts will be bare for all to see, feel and almost touch!
Any form of abuse will no longer be tolerated and will be greeted with a corresponding response. Chief Bode George, a prominent Lagos/yoruba politician and Pa Adebanjo the Leader of Afenifere are strongly opposed to the presidential ambition of Bola Tinubu, yet, no yoruba mob has attacked them, not once! In the coming days, you will hear more from us.
