Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu, the governor of Abia State, has stated that if the Peoples Democratic Party, or PDP, wins the 2023 election, he needs to know what is on the table for the Igbo.
Ikpeazu noted that every region of Nigeria, especially the South East zone, deserves to have a voice in the PDP when he made this statement during the grand finale of the Abia @ 31 anniversary celebrations.
The governor pointed out that the South East region has suffered under the All Progressives Congress, APC-led administration since there are no representatives of the region in the service chief hierarchy or at any other levels of decision-making in the nation.
Ikpeazu further noted that he has no apology to make to anyone if his call for the party to be sensitive to the yearnings of the South East is being misunderstood.
His words: “As we board the train of PDP today,we need to know what is on the table for Abia people and Ndigbo.
“Every part of Nigeria including the South East needs a voice in the PDP. This is the way to go because we have suffered under the present APC government where no South East man in the hierarchy of service chiefs and all levels of decision making in Nigeria.
“The day the decision was made for the South East to have operation python dance,nobody from the South East was there to explain to us that it is just a joke.
“If the call for my party to be sensitive to the yearnings of my people makes me look like the cry of a child,so be it.”
Insisting that he is not in a hurry to leave the PDP, Ikpeazu drew the attention of the leadership of the party to the need for security,national cohesion and inclusiveness.
“I am an important member of the PDP. We are not in a hurry to leave PDP, but as a leader of the Igbo,I want to draw the attention of my party to the fact that there are three things the leadership of Nigeria needs.
“One is security ,we need to arrest the slide in terms of insecurity. We need to fast track socio economic development and national cohesion and inclusiveness.”