As Nigerians prepare for 2015 general elections, the Igbo apex ruling body, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, said yesterday that the All Progressives Congress, (APC) has no Igbo agenda, vowing 90 percent of Igbo would vote for President Goodluck Jonathan.
Anambra State chairman of the body, Elder Chris Eluemuno said in Awka, “If you look at APC manifesto, you find out that Igbo man has no place in it. Buhari is not a friend of the Igbos”.
He added that when the APC presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari was the military head of state, he executed a teenage Ibo boy for allegedly smoking Indian hemp at Enugu.
“He also detained Dr. Alex Ekwueme, first vice president of Nigeria in the maximum prison for carrying coal while ex-president Shehu Shagari was under house arrest then”, he continued.
On President Jonathan, he said that aside his achievements, Jonathan and his family have Igbo blood.
He said, “Jonathan and his family are our blood, they have Igbo connection and heritage”.
Adapted from Newswatch
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