ABUJA—AHEAD of the February 16 general elections, President Muhammadu Buhari-led All Progressives Congress, APC, and the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, have intensified efforts to grab the about seven million votes of Ndigbo in northern part of the country.

While attempts are made to ensure that Buhari get the endorsement of Ndigbo in the north, there appears to be disaffection among the leadership of Ndigbo in the area over what they described as grand plot by a former national vice chairman of PDP, South, Nze Ozichukwu, to hijack the Atiku’s campaign in the north.This development, it was gathered, has made the Igbo leaders in the area to contemplate endorsement of President Buhari despite the general adoption of Atiku by the parent body of the apex socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo.

It was alleged that the suspended secretary of the Igbo apex group, Mr Okwukwu had embarked on recruitment drive with the support of one of the ministers from the South-East to pay a visit to President Buhari at the Presidential Villa with the aggrieved Igbo leaders in the north to declare their support for the President despite the Ohanaeze endorsement of Atiku.

A source privy to the development in Ohanaeze leadership in the north told Vanguard on condition of anonymity that a powerful group led by one of the ministers from Southeast has embarked on aggressive consultations and money was moving to swell the support base of President Buhari but such move has been resisted.

The person who described the unfolding development as “dangerous concerning Ndigbo support in the north,” said: “There is a campaign going on for the endorsement and support for Buhari. The reason is that those not elected as leaders in the north now hijacked Atiku’s campaign, both Ohanaeze Ndigbo and Igbo Delegate Assembly.The source accused Nze Ozichukwu Chukwu, former national vice chairman of the PDP of assembling some people in Abuja to hijack the Atiku campaign

Continuing, the source said: “Igbo leadership in the north has met and agreed to make open declaration in support of Buhari, this is an underground move. There are powerful people behind it. As we talk, money is moving and the leadership is resisting the attempt. “Ozichukwu is busy using Atiku’s wife and people that are not part of the leadership here in the north. The seven million votes is about to go down the drain. In the next few weeks, if nothing is done, the aggrieved people will dump Atiku

The source further claimed that meetings were held in Abuja in the minister’s residence and in Minna, Niger State to woo people for President Buhari. The source alleged that the expelled Secretary of Ohanaeze was in Abuja to endorse Buhari, adding: “If things don’t go right, there will be tsunami.” When contacted, President of Igbo Delegate Assembly, Chi Nwogu, said his group was not a political group to be engaged in politics. He said every Igbo person respects the decision of Ohanaeze and that if the President of the Federal Republic invites them, they would honour the invitation to hear him out, though he said that to his knowledge, there was no invitation before him

On the endorsement of Atiku by the Ohanaeze leadership, he said: “There is something you should know. Since Ohanaeze is involved and there is no crisis in the election of the President General, anything he says is binding on Igbo people. Before this political era, Ohanaeze had no problem.” Also reacting to the alleged attempts by the Buhari camp to invite them to the State House, he said: “If the president of the Federal Republic wants to see you, you will not say no, but I am not aware of that as at now.” On the allegation of attempts to hijack the Atiku campaign structure in the north, former PDP boss, Nze Ozichukwu said: “Well I am not a member of the executive of Ohaneze and I am not involved in the leadership of the Igbos in the north. This is the season of blackmail and people will want to seek relevance by dropping names. I am not in the mood to engage anybody.”

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BUHARI HATES IGBOS, IGBOS HATE BUHARI BUT LETS CLEAR YOUR DOUBTS you doubting Thomas, if you are an ATIKULATED IGBO man in the North press like button

No fight anywhere. Igbos, east west north ,south and middle/central are Atikulated Obidiently.
Those ones looking for money are just hustlers. Dem go chop buhari/Nigeria money for nothing.

Absolutely disillusioned the lbos supported Johnathan in 2015 election and buhari won.So supporting Atiku now doesn't make any different.For betterment,They rather stick to this NO Referendum NO Election

Why the fight? I thought the APC said that the Igbo is insignificant and inconsequential to Buhari's plan?
Thought they said the 11m million registered voters in the South East is too small to make Buhari win or lose.
7 million Igbo in the north knows who guarantees a better future for them and won't be distracted.

kutchs:
Why the fight? I thought the APC said that the Igbo is insignificant and inconsequential to Buhari's plan?
Thought they said the 11m million registered voters in the South East is too small to make Buhari win or lose.
7 million Igbo in the north knows who guarantees a better future for them and won't be distracted.

You guys are very funny.The igbos clearly voted against Buhari in 2015. Were the 7 million northern Igbos sleeping then or was it that they coincidentally had totally different opinions from their south eastern brothers?You guys like deceiving and overrating yourselves. Its not 7 million, its 700 million.

igbos are for atiku and GMB knows this fact

oyebanji44:
the lbos supported Johnathan in 2015 election and buhari won.So supporting Atiku now doesn't make any different.

Exactly, that's why your drunken dullardindho gworon chewing smelly skeletal farozident should stop parading all over east looking for who to vote him, knowing fully well that Igbo votes dont count.

Tell him to stop hustling for Igbo votes, he did it without Igbo votes, he should do it again rather than wailing.

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Politicians with a lot at stake are courting the votes of all Nigerians while delusional beings from hungry APC online urchinswho have no access to the ApC politicians they support parochially believe Igbo votes are "inconsequential"

abduljabbar4:


You guys are very funny.The igbos clearly voted against Buhari in 2015. Were the 7 million northern Igbos sleeping then or was it that they coincidentally had totally different opinions from their south eastern brothers?You guys like deceiving and overrating yourselves. Its not 7 million, its 700 million.

This one must be a political illiterate.

LOL!

No be only 7m na 70 million

No state in north has up to 1 million non indigene register voters.

Destiny34:
LOL!

igbos are for atiku and GMB knows this fact

helinues:
No be only 7m na 70 million

No state in north has up to 1 million non indigene register voters.

have you been to Kano and Kadunna?

No be only 7 million, na 70 million. Deluded people

What Nigerians don't understand about the Igbos is that no single individual can direct anybody where to vote. If you like call the leaders of Igbo community or eze ndi Igbo in the North, he is just an individual and can not influence their vote.

The truth is that any party can give them money which will be shared but in reality no Igbo man can vote for Buhari. APC may win elections in SE but not presidential or Gubernatorial election.

Buhari does not need 5%ers

I thought the entire Ibo population in the North will be 700Million

Those in Lagos and SW like 600million

Some people are genetically foolish sha

The entire SE region is 8.2M but Ibos voters in the North alone are 7million

There are probably a highly significant number of igbo voters outside the region as well as in igboland.

Is it a good or bad? It remains to be seen.

But It is why we have voted for every winning president since 1999.

It only took a coalition of six regions to take us to opposition.
And the guy that won did it with just 2 million votes difference.

Unless buhari is going to muster that same coalition as he did in 2015, then this election could be interesting.

abduljabbar4:


You guys are very funny.The igbos clearly voted against Buhari in 2015. Were the 7 million northern Igbos sleeping then or was it that they coincidentally had totally different opinions from their south eastern brothers?You guys like deceiving and overrating yourselves. Its not 7 million, its 700 million.

2015 majority of Igbos and other tribes from south in the north didn't vote, many returned home before the election, because of how hostile north was then, north was against Jonathan a they see Igbos and others easterners as prime target, Igbos were threatened, many retured to east, those that decided to stay send down their families, and once you leave location of registration the PVC will useless, this time around is north vs north, such fears in 2015 doesn't exist today, by this time last election many Igbos and other southers were returning home

raumdeuter:
I thought the entire Ibo population in the North will be 700Million

Those in Lagos and SW like 600million

Some people are genetically foolish sha

The entire SE region is 8.2M but Ibos voters in the North alone are 7million

Otondo Lagos alone is 43% of voters registration in southwest, when you minus Lagos then you will see how low you guys are, Ekiti has lowest voters registration in Nigeria, even Bayelsa has more voters than Ekiti, Ebonyi alone almost double Ekiti, Lagos is a cosmopolitan state largely dominated by non indigenes, total voters registrations in southeast today is 10million, Southwest is 16.2 million registered voters, Lagos alone is 6.5 million, when you minus 6.5 from 16.2 million remaining is 9.7 million, you can see Igbos in the east has more numbers than typical Yoruba states, Igbos in the north are higher than Yorubas, state like Kano, Abuja, Plateau, Kaduna, Benue etc.

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2015 majority of Igbos and other tribes from south in the north didn't vote, many returned home before the election, because of how hostile north was then, north was against Jonathan a they see Igbos and others easterners as prime target, Igbos were threatened, many retured to east, those that decided to stay send down their families, and once you leave location of registration the PVC will useless, this time around is north vs north, such fears in 2015 doesn't exist today, by this time last election many Igbos and other southers were returning home

You guys will not kill me oo.

Okay, we are patiently waiting for your 70 million votes. In fact the 3 million igbos killed during the civil war will also resurrect and vote atiku

CyynthiaKiss:

This one must be a political illiterate.

coming from someone whose ancestors were decieved by ojukwu into thinking their small army could defeat Nigeria and thus making them lose their lives in millions while he was enjoying himself in Côte devour
Coming from someone whose brain was hacked by a nobody, Nnamdi Kanu who made you believe he will have Trump and Putin nuke Nigeria, someone who gave you a fake currency and made you foolishly believe you can use a biafran passport to travel anywhere in the World.

Denton027:

You can make your points even in the worst hindsight of tasteless humor without insulting the dead... much less 3 million souls... Stop been a brain dead aboki slug for once in your worthless life.

I am not insulting the dead. Im just tring to show you how unreasonable you sound. Pdp recieved a lot of votes in 2015 in the Northern region. What happened to those that voted them? Was there any significant electoral violence in the North compared to places like Rivers, Delta and akwa Ibom?

Like i said, even the 3 million dead igbos and the ones in Asian prisons will come back to join the 700 million Nothern Igbos to vote out Buhari

CyynthiaKiss:
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Speechless? good

abduljabbar4:


Speechless? good

Me specheless?
Go and read my modified comment and keep enjoying your IDP camp.

Being amajiri is curse.

CyynthiaKiss:

What you fabricated sounds more realistic than the ist picture I attached below waiting for 72 virgins.
Talking about war, look at yourself and look Igbos, Who is currently going through perpetual hell which only God knows when the fire will stop burning you, Who is better ?.. Your guess is as good as mine.
Igbos are not fighting you, rather the world is laughing at how you are swallowing yourselves into extinction.
Ask Boko guys .
The fire that is burning your people is unquenchable.
Tell me, did shekaw also abduct your mother as his second wife? Tell me if your mother is a victim, let us hit the street and shout " Bring back our mothers " then after the protest we will we go back to our different houses and laugh at your political stupidity while shekau keep doing his good job.

Watch your back, the monster your created won't rest until your people cease to exist. It's not a threat, it's a promise.
Ask Abubakar shekau

Accept my sympathy bro.

Disclaimer: This is not meant to mock the Igbos or celebrate the unfortunate thing that happened during the civil war but to pass a message to this young lady right here who seems to be a fan of Boko Haram's inhuman activities.

Total persons killed by boko haram = approximately 30,000.

Total biafrans killed by the federal army and hunger = 3,000,000 (three million)

3,000,000÷30,000 = 100

In essense, boko haram needs to kill us a hundred times more than they have already done before they can equal what the federal army did to your grandparents. Unfortumately, Boko haram can hardly attack small villages now, Thank God.

Talking about mockery, the average person from my region doesn't die in prison in foreign countries for selling drugs. We dont have cultists like you do. We didnt get scammed and led to our early graves by a 40 year old who cares more about his dog. We are not trying so hard to associate with Foreigners like the way your people want to be jews at all costs, disgracing yourselves at the international level. We are not known for mass exam malpractise. We are not known for 419, drug trafficking or prostitution and most importantly. majority of us are not from baby factories