The Igbo are not being marginalised in the country under the present administration of President Goodluck Jonathan.
Governor Theodore Orji of Abia state stated this in Umuahia on arrival from Onitsha after the ground breaking ceremony over the construction of the second Niger Bridge, saying that Jonathan had favoured Ndigbo.
He listed the upcoming second Niger Bridge, upgrade of Enugu to international Airport, appointment of ministers especially in the aviation sector, road rehabilitation and construction, including Onitsha – Enugu road and Enugu – Port Harcourt Federal High Way as some of the works of the president for the Ndigbo.
The governor described the claim by the APC that the Ndigbo was marginalised under this administration as “a distraction” by those that wanted the seat of other politicians “through lies and propaganda.”
Abia, he said, “is 100 per cent PDP and will repeat the victory come 2015,” adding that the South-east would do all it could to support President Jonathan.
Orji disclosed that the South-east had articulated their demands for the national confab, and that in Abia, their demands included resource control, revenue sharing formula, devolution of power, citizenship, boundary matters, issue of local governments, derivation formula, and review of executive, legislative and concurrent lists, amongst others.
