National Publicity Secretary of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Uche Achi-Okpaga has said that the Igbo apex socio-cultural organisation does not regret its decision to support Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar against incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari.
Achi-Okpaga made the group’s position known in an interview published by Saturday Sun.
The group’s spokesman said that Buhari’s administration had shown at different occasions that it was not a friend of the South-East.
He said, “We don’t have any regrets whatsoever and we don’t owe anybody any apology. If we have another opportunity as Ohanaeze, we will still do what we have done. This government doesn’t place any premium on Ndigbo, so we did what we have to and dammed the consequences; we are sure that even if Buhari rules for eight years, he has no place for us, so why are we deceiving ourselves.
“He is a very practical person, he doesn’t have pretenses, and there is no choreography in his action. He has told you that he has no place for the people that gave him five per cent votes, and it has continued to be so in his appointments, in his statements, in his actions and his body language. Do you want the man to kill himself before you know what he has in mind or does he have to use razor blade to open his heart for you to see it? He has continued to show it at any given time, and at any slightest opportunity he will display his action and what he has in mind. So what else do we do?
“We are not regretting the action we have taken and if you start it afresh tomorrow, we will do the same; we are not regretting it.“
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