PSC to Igbos: Move to mainstream politics or forget presidency



Ahead of Saturday gubernatorial and state assemblies elections, the Presidential Support Committee (PSC) has told Nigerians especially the Igbo extraction to join the mainstream politics or forget about being president in the nearest future. 


The Committee which called on all Nigerians from across the 36 states to vote for All Progressives Congress (APC) gubernatorial and state assembly candidates in Saturday  elections, urged the Igbos to stop being in opposition perpetually if they hope to become president of Nigeria, noting that if they continue the way they are going, they will remain losers in the Nigeria political context. 


Addressing a press conference to celebrate President Muhammadu Buhari’s victory in the presidential poll, the Director, Media and Publicity of the Committee, Engr Muhammad Kailani, tasked people from the six geopolitical zones to join hands in taking Nigeria to the next level, particularly by ensuring all states returns APC candidates as their governors.  


“Northerners should go back to ensure that all our APC governors and state assemblies members are voted in on Saturday. The Igbos should come to the mainstream of politics otherwise they would continue to be losers. 


“Democracy is a game of numbers that is why President Muhammadu Buhari won the just concluded presidential election due to massive votes delivered to him from the North. Southeast delivered two per cent votes of about 433,000 votes, Southwest delivered  25 per cent votes, which is one million votes, while the North alone gave over five million votes for Buhari to win the elections. We Northerners, our population is our strength.”


Speaking on rejection of the last Saturday presidential poll outcome by the People’s Democratic Party candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Engr Kailani challenged the PDP candidate “to go to court and give lawyers and judges their own share (of the money), if he is not satisfied with the poll’s outcome. 
“The court option by Atiku is not in national interest, but rather, a futile attempt to heat up the polity.”

Kailani, who urged Atiku to accept the result of the elections in good faith for the nation to move forward however said: “he (Atiku) should congratulate himself  for getting over 11 million votes from Nigerians, because his stand on national issues seems to have portrayed him as capitalist with a desire to reap where the masses should be fairly accommodated.
“Atiku is claiming that he has evidence to prove that the presidential election was rigged against him in favour of President Buhari.  This assertion is in sharp contrast to election observers who went round the polling booths,” he added. 

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