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By Chijindu Emeruwa, Abia.
An Umbrella body, the Association of South East Past Presidents-General (ASEPP), has urged youths from the Igbo extraction, against heating the polity, ahead of the forthcoming 2023 general election in Nigeria.
This comes in a communique shortly after the quarterly meeting of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the Association of South East Past Presidents-General, that took place at Enugu, on Sunday.
It was jointly signed by the ASEPP national President, Mazi Omife I. Life, and the Secretary, Barrister Charles Nnorom, and forwarded to Global Times Nigeria, on Monday.
While reiterating their call on the Igbo youths to eschew any action or utterance that may smack of tribalism, ethnicity, or antagonism against any presidential candidate or party, now the 2023 main elections draw nearer, the Southeast Past President General, applauded Nigeria youths for their determination to enthrone a new political order in Nigeria through active participation in the coming general election in the country.
The Igbo association described youths as the engine room of any nation and noted that Nigerian youths as leaders of tomorrow have been too quiet and silent for too long in the face of reckless excesses and unbridled corruption of the Nigerian political class, and expressed delight that Nigerian youths have now woken from their slumber to take their back from spent, unproductive and corrupt politicians who have held the country to ransom for many decades.
On the current national clamor by Nigerian youths for a new political dispensation, the ASEPP enjoined Igbo youths to reciprocate the trust and goodwill of Nigerian youths in their kinsman by working in harmony with their counterparts in other geopolitical zones, while avoiding that could give tribal or ethnic coloration to their campaign for a president of Igbo extraction as personalized by TWO Peters – Peter Obi of Labour party and Peter Umeadi of APGA, both of who have hitherto enjoyed widespread national support and acceptance.
The umbrella body of the past Presidents-General further admonished Igbo youths to avoid any form of insult, threat, or castigation of candidates of any non-Igbo presidential candidate but rather engage in issue-based campaigns guided by the best socio-economic and political interest of Nigeria.
Continuing, the Southeast organization said, “the new spirit of national rebirth being espoused by Nigerian youths, We urge serving Nigerian politicians in various elective positions to move with the times by demonstrating honest and selfless service to the people they represent at various levels of the legislature”.
With particular reference to Igbo politicians, the ASEPP paid special tribute to the Senator representing Anambra South in the Nigerian Senate, Senator Uche Ekwunife for blazing the trail in a track record of performance and called on other Nigerian politicians to take a cue from her example for a better Nigeria.
The socio-cultural group further assured that the 4000 plus members of ASEPP will actively participate in the 2023 elections by coming out en masse to vote for the best candidate of their choice.
