Igbo 35m Votes Won’t Be Taken For Granted Again, Says Okorie

The convener and national chairman of the Igbo Agenda Dialogue (IAD), Chief Chekwas Okorie, has declared that the votes of the vast Igbo voting population in Nigeria will never again be taken for granted or without conditionalities.

Okorie, a founding national chairman of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), made the declaration at a press conference in Enugu.

To this end, he said they have resolved to reset Igbo political engagement in Nigeria by establishing the Igbo Agenda Dialogue.

He said with a voting force of about 35 million voters, their place of pride, relevance and respect will be restored without firing a shot.

Chekwas noted that the group was inaugurated on 27th August, 2025, adding that it is a non-partisan political and pro-democracy organisation of the Igbo people in Nigeria and the diaspora.

“We have further resolved that never again will the votes of the vast Igbo voting population in Nigeria be taken for granted and without conditionalities. We resolved to reset Igbo political engagement in Nigeria by establishing the Igbo Agenda Dialogue, which was inaugurated on August 27, 2025.

The IAD is a non-partisan socio-political and pro-democracy organisation of the Igbo people in Nigeria and the Diaspora. Its motto is “One For All, All For One”.

It is designed to be the Igbo political grid structured in the form of Nigeria’s electricity grid.

“Cognizant of the fact that Igbo people have a massive network of associations, unions, professional groups, etc, in Nigeria and in the diaspora;

“And knowing that it is on record that there are Igbo communities in all the 196 countries on the world map, we have undertaken to connect and link up all known Igbo groups, associations, unions, etc to the IAD grid for effective communication, feedback and action within the shortest possible time as the case may be.

“We are happy to report that we are greatly inspired and encouraged by the outpouring of excitement and enthusiastic responses from across the world already,” he stated.

He emphasised that IAD shall mount a robust campaign to persuade every Igbo person with the voter card to actively participate in all democratic processes wherever they reside in Nigeria.

“Similarly, since it is a known fact that the Igbo people who leave outside Igboland are more in number by a reasonable margin, let us also resolve that an aggregate number of those who will register and participate in the 2027 general election in the rest of the states of Nigeria will not be less than 15 million voters,” Okorie said.