A coalition, Concerned Pan Nigerian Youth Alliance for Good Governance, has urged the President-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu not to neglect the few people in the South East who worked consistently for him in the presidential election.
The coalition made the appeal in a statement yesterday in Abuja jointly signed by Comrade Tyndale Oforbuike and Hafusat Abba national coordinator and secretary respectively.
They noted that while the President-elect won the polls some two-faced southeasterners are now lobbying their way to the President-elect’s cabinet.
They however cited Amb. Jerry Ugokwe, former Ambassador of Nigeria to Austria was one of the southeasterners who gave his all for Tinubu.
According to them “Amb Ugokwe has distinguished himself in Nigeria, especially while serving as an Ambassador of Nigeria at Vienna, Austria, where he helped to strengthen the unity of Nigerians living in Austria and when he came back from his foreign mission, he became an influential politician in Nigeria who stood for the truth and what he believes in no matter whose ox is gored and was also instrumental to the victories of Tinubu at the polls.
They noted that “Ugokwe an All Progressive Congress (APC) stalwart and a former member of the House of Representatives mobilised voters and urged the electorates to join the Bola Tinubu Project.’’
While the Tinubu candidacy was reverberating in the Political landscape of Nigeria, the group said so many southeasterners who did not understand his ideology, were informed about the potential of the President-elect via Ugokwe’s efforts, enlightening them about his capacity to deliver, and more Nigerians agreed with him.
“Unfortunately we now see those who are from the South East seeking relevance and trying to harvest where they did not sow especially those that never believed in the Tinubu Project abinitio but are lobbying their way. We are convinced that the President-elect knows those who genuinely worked for his emergence and would engage them to sustain the process already achieved.
“We call on Nigerians to remain calm and ensure that they continue to play their part towards to development and unity of Nigeria because the President-elect has assured that he will get to work from his first day in office to redeem Nigeria from the years of bad governance and bring back the years of a greater Nigeria,” the statement said.
The Coalition also called on the President-elect to consider the genuine agitation of members of the APC who are against the zoning formula for the 10th National Assembly leadership, because it would not be healthy for the Tinubu administration to start with rancour.
They added that national interest should supersede personal or ethnic interest, in the political calculations of the incoming Tinubu Administration. They also urged the President-Elect to give priority to the recurring issues of “security, and economy as a state of emergency is long overdue to be declared in these sectors.”
