Northern Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN), has threatened to
stop the campaign of any Igbo presidential candidate in the North ahead of the
2023 general elections.
The group claimed a prominent Igbo group also made a similar
threat not to allow any Northern presidential candidate hold a rally in any
state in the South-East.
Isah Abubakar, President of NYCN, made the threat on Monday
in Kaduna while reacting to claims by the Igbo socio-political and cultural
organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide opposing the candidacy of Atiku
Abubakar, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), presidential flag bearer who recently
emerged its presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections.
Reacting to Atiku’s victory, the statement explained that
Ohanaeze, had in a statement through its Secretary-General, Mazi Okechukwu
Isiguzoro, said the PDP presidential candidate would never become Nigeria’s
president.
No Igbo person will be allowed to campaign and project
Atiku’s presidential agenda in the region, PDP, the main opposition political
party in Nigeria has reduced itself as a Northern party.”
According to him, Ohanaeze rejected Atiku’s candidacy,
alleging that his emergence as PDP’s candidate was a plot by what he called
“unpatriotic Northerners” against the Southern part of the country.
Comrade Isah Abubakar, however, lampooned Ohanaeze for
attempting to stoke mutual hatred, and ethnic division among Nigerians, by
coming out openly to condemn the transparent process that threw up Atiku as
PDP’s flagbearer ahead of next year’s presidential election.
He alleged that Ohanaeze as a group, has turned itself into
an agent of disunity, whose stock in trade, he added, is to incite Nigerians of
varying ethnic, religious and political creeds against each other.
The President of the group urged South East elders to
quickly call Ohanaeze to order and forestall the possibility of other regional
ethnic groups issuing the same kind of violent threats to politicians from the
South East for the corporate existence of the country.
He assured that if they do not do the needful, the youths in
the North may be forced to also take drastic action against South East
presidential candidates, saying, “We won’t allow them to set their foot on our
land. Otherwise, the consequences will be grave. It is time radical and ethnic
chauvinistic groups like the Ohanaeze are cut to size.”
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