The People's Democratic Party's (PDP) Alhaji Atiku Abubakar is the only model the Ndi-Igbo can follow to win the presidency, according to the Coalition of South East Support Groups for Atiku.
This was said yesterday in Enugu at the opening of the South East coalition group by the coalition's national coordinator, Chief Ejikeme Odumegwu.
Asserting that with Atiku Abubakar's candidacy, they can right the wrong and bring back peace and growth in the country, Odumegwu urged all PDP members in the South East to band together and support him in 2023.
The only hope for an Igbo president in 2027, according to Odumegwu, is with Atiku. He advised Ndigbo not to waste their political energies on impulsive, ill-planned political actions and momentary fury.
While calling on the group to be focused on Atiku/Okowa project, reminded them that “the coalition group is to coordinate, sensitize and educate the people of South East on the reasons and circumstances of emergence of Atiku Abubakar and his Vice as PDP flag bearer.
“We in the PDP must be united especially in the Southeast to deliver AtikuAbubakar as president come 2023 because it is only of this template can Ndi-lgbo secure more chance of getting to the presidency than throw away our political energy to an inchoate and uncoordinated political moves and frenzy of the moment.
“We are not going to engage in the usual jamboree campaign but in a grassroot mobilisation built on a pragmatic mass base.
“All hands must be on deck down to each polling booths to ensure the victory of AtkuAbubakar in 2023 to dislodge the impeding and disastrous carnage of the APC choice of 2023, which is a ticking time bomb, waiting to explode our unity, peace and progress.
“There is no rational for a Muslim/Muslim ticket. It is an insult to our sensibility and offends whom we are and what we believe in as a people. It is a direct attack on our strength and believe, and tactically portends that our political process can be ignored.
“With Atiku Abubakar’s candidacy we can right the wrong and restore peace to this nation,” he said.