AHEAD of the 2015 presidential election, Igbo youths have vowed not back President Goodluck Jonathan’s re-election bid unless he fulfills his 2011 campaign promises to the South-East geo-political zone.

According to the youths, of 10 promises, the President as of now is only tackling one and appears bent on shifting the rest to his second term, which they said was not fair.

In a chat with Vanguard, Evang Elliot Uko, President of Igbo Youth Movement, IYM, an amalgam of 42 Igbo youth groups, said Jonathan had not really appreciated the massive support Ndigbo gave him in 2011.

His words: “We expected massive industrial and infrastructural development. We are not seeing that. We thought he would keep his promises. From the way things are going, it is clear that only the Enugu International Airport could materialize before 2015.

“He promised us at Enugu Stadium, at Imo, Ebonyi, Abia and Anambra campaign rallies, 29 months ago, that we would see a functional seaport at Onitsha and Oguta, power plant at Oji River, dry inland port at Aba, second Niger bridge, re-work on the Enugu-Onitsha road, Enugu-Port Harcourt road, etc. But we suspect he wants to shift all these to his second term; that is not fair.”

We want him to establish a South-East office in his office and review weekly the fulfillment of his promises to Ndigbo if he wants a second term. He will have problems with his second term dream if he does not fulfill all the infrastructural promises he made to Ndigbo. That is the truth.

“We gave him 100 per cent support in 2011; we will only repeat that, if he fulfills all his infrastructural promises to the South East. He is our man but he must not take Ndigbo for granted. We are on ground and we know the grumbling of our people.

We believe we are doing him a big favour by giving him early warning signal. Ndigbo are not happy with the delay tactics of shifting every thing to his second term.

Those telling him that Ndigbo are dead meat are only deceiving him. We want him to fulfill his promises to Ndigbo. We plead with him to watch again the video of his campaign rally at Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium in March 2011 and remember all the promises he reeled out one by one. Our people are waiting expectantly.

“Ndigbo paid a heavy price for supporting him. Igbo votes saw him through and gave him the needed 25 per cent in 24 states thereby averting a run-off.

In anger over 800 Igbo souls were slaughtered as the results of the polls were announced, only the 10 youth corpers were compensated, nobody remembers the 800 Igbo lives lost in gruesome decapitations in Kano, Bauchi, etc in April 2011.We made him President, we will do it again, if he endeavors to fulfill his promises to our people.

“We also want him to hand over power to an Igboman. He should reciprocate our massive support. It is only fair he does. We also want him to protect lives and properties of Nigerians resident in the North. We note an improvement and pray that sanity eventually returns to the North.

We also want him to set up a committee to work out the modalities for the convening of a National conference to restructure Nigeria along the lines of true federalism. Promises made in 2011 must be kept before talk of second term.”

LAGOS — AHEAD of the 2015
presidential
election, Igbo youths have vowed
not back
President Goodluck Jonathan’s
re-election bid
unless he fulfills his 2011
campaign promises to
the South-East geo-political zone.
According to the youths, of 10
promises, the
President as of now is only
tackling one and
appears bent on shifting the rest
to his second
term, which they said was not
fair.

We want him to establish a South-East office in
his office and review weekly the fulfillment of
his promises to Ndigbo

Ayekotoo: BY CLIFFORD NDUJIHE
LAGOS — AHEAD of the 2015 presidential
election, Igbo youths have vowed not back
President Goodluck Jonathan’s re-election bid
unless he fulfills his 2011 campaign promises to
the South-East geo-political zone.
According to the youths, of 10 promises, the
President as of now is only tackling one and
appears bent on shifting the rest to his second
term, which they said was not fair.
In a chat with Vanguard, Evang Elliot Uko,
President of Igbo Youth Movement, IYM, an
amalgam of 42 Igbo youth groups, said Jonathan
had not really appreciated the massive support
Ndigbo gave him in 2011.
His words: “We expected massive industrial and
infrastructural development. We are not seeing
that. We thought he would keep his promises.
From the way things are going, it is clear that
only the Enugu International Airport could
materialize before 2015.
“He promised us at Enugu Stadium, at Imo,
Ebonyi, Abia and Anambra campaign rallies, 29
months ago, that we would see a functional
seaport at Onitsha and Oguta, power plant at
Oji River, dry inland port at Aba, second Niger
bridge, re-work on the Enugu-Onitsha road,
Enugu-Port Harcourt road, etc. But we suspect
he wants to shift all these to his second term;
that is not fair.”
We want him to establish a South-East office in
his office and review weekly the fulfillment of
his promises to Ndigbo if he wants a second
term. He will have problems with his second
term dream if he does not fulfill all the
infrastructural promises he made to Ndigbo.
That is the truth.
“We gave him 100 per cent support in 2011; we
will only repeat that, if he fulfills all his
infrastructural promises to the South East. He is
our man but he must not take Ndigbo for
granted. We are on ground and we know the
grumbling of our people.
We believe we are doing him a big favour by
giving him early warning signal. Ndigbo are not
happy with the delay tactics of shifting every
thing to his second term.
Those telling him that Ndigbo are dead meat are
only deceiving him. We want him to fulfill his
promises to Ndigbo. We plead with him to watch
again the video of his campaign rally at Nnamdi
Azikiwe Stadium in March 2011 and remember
all the promises he reeled out one by one. Our
people are waiting expectantly.
“Ndigbo paid a heavy price for supporting him.
Igbo votes saw him through and gave him the
needed 25 per cent in 24 states thereby
averting a run-off.
In anger over 800 Igbo souls were slaughtered
as the results of the polls were announced, only
the 10 youth corpers were compensated,
nobody remembers the 800 Igbo lives lost in
gruesome decapitations in Kano, Bauchi, etc in
April 2011.We made him President, we will do it
again, if he endeavors to fulfill his promises to
our people.
“We also want him to hand over power to an
Igboman. He should reciprocate our massive
support. It is only fair he does. We also want
him to protect lives and properties of Nigerians
resident in the North. We note an improvement
and pray that sanity eventually returns to the
North.
We also want him to set up a committee to work
out the modalities for the convening of a
National conference to restructure Nigeria along
the lines of true federalism. Promises made in
2011 must be kept before talk of second term.”

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/07/no-support-for-jonathan-in-2015-unless-igbo-youths/

Those telling him that Ndigbo are dead meat are
only deceiving him. We want him to fulfill his
promises to Ndigbo. We plead with him to watch
again the video of his campaign rally at Nnamdi
Azikiwe Stadium in March 2011 and remember
all the promises he reeled out one by one. Our
people are waiting expectantly.

FSU: These are faceless Igbo-Yoruba youths. All genuine Igbos stand with GEJ

In anger over 800 Igbo souls were slaughtered
as the results of the polls were announced, only
the 10 youth corpers were compensated
nobody remembers the 800 Igbo lives lost in
gruesome decapitations in Kano, Bauchi, etc in
April 2011.We made him President, we will do it
again, if he endeavors to fulfill his promises to
our people.

FSU: These are faceless Igbo-Yoruba youths. All genuine Igbos stand with GEJ

FSU: These are faceless Igbo-Yoruba youths. All genuine Igbos stand with GEJ

Dudu_Negro:

So far there are three contenders to the Presidency

1. A possible SW candidate under APC
2. A possible NW candidate under APC
3. GEJ as an incumbent on PDP.

Igbo youths are issuing empty threats to intimidate Jonathan. Beside Jonathan, I don't see anyone else they will vote for and APC does not need the SE to win national 2/3.

pullyacap: I laff in Mandarin on reading this!!! Now the scales are falling off d eyes of some people. A wholesale endorsement of an apparently failed entity whose present score is 1/10 by d Ndigbos is bewildering. Now the likes of Rochas,Annie Okonkwo,Osita Izunaso,Ngige who are daring n very pragmatic as to truthfully locate the fact that GEJ/PDP is just using d Igbos to feather their own nest have become justified.

If at all GEJ must get an Igbo vote in 2015,it must be on merit/performance n not on some base considerations being presently bandied around by some people.

The part that says GEJ shd hand over to an Igbo man is wishful thinking IMHO,u pipo shd take yrselves seriously and stand up to fight yr own battles rather leaning on a helpless individual himself to make claim to d presidency and @ d same time wanting Biafra-a call which patently makes pipo suspicious of yr truest intentions politically

Emperor_007:



^^^


Be serious, minus SE , SS, and MB ( middle belt ), the North and SW would give APC 2/3?


Hmmmm, SE makes almost 25 % of the population in all 36 states, except Lagos where is estimated to be above 45%. This is not rocket science.





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FSU: These are faceless Igbo-Yoruba youths. All genuine Igbos stand with GEJ

Dudu_Negro:

First, SE is not even 15% of the national population.

Second, because no one else in Lagos is chest beating about their numbers except ibos, it is easy for you to believe in your own trumpeted claims but I should remind you that Hausa has a higher population than Ibos in Lagos.

Third, SS is not a culture, tribe or ethnicity. SS has two ruling parties, ACN and PDP.

Fourth, MB is not an ethnic group, as long their governors remain in the NGF, their voting will follow suit.

Fifth, APGA is dead! So beside voting a Yorubaman, an Hausa/Fulani or GEJ, whoelse is Ibo youths going to vote for?

0monnakoda: Funny chaps they want a seaport

Emperor_007:




^^^


You just confirmed to me that you are not serious, based on your first sentence .


Please, what do you think is the correct population %tage rating / standing ( not fictitious census figure ), of 6 ( six ) major tribes in Nigeria?





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Dudu_Negro:

Soon as they get it we build a water gate at Jebba for farmland conservation in upper Niger basin..