By Adadainfo
The Ohanaeze Youth Council (OYC) never congratulated the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the 2023 elections, Mr Bola Tinubu, because his victory was manipulated.
Igboayaka O Igboayaka, the national president of OYC, stated this in a reaction to a congratulatory message purportedly issued by one Okwu Nnabuihe on behalf of OYC.
Igboayaka described Nnabuihe as an ‘impostor’, and urged the general public to disregard him.
Adadareporters.com reports that Tinubu’s victory is being challenged at the presidential election tribunal by both Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi, and Mr Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party.
Ohanaeze youths, ahead of the general elections, declared their support for Mr Obi on the ground that the south-east region, for the sake of equity and justice, should be allowed to produce Nigeria’s president in 2023.
Comrade Igboayaka described Tinubu as ‘the president-elect of Prof Mahmood Yakubu’ (INEC chairman), noting that ‘Ndigbo will not accept an open electoral fraud committed by INEC chairman’.
He stated that, “Igbo youths cannot congratulate Bola Ahmed Tinubu who has charges in the United States of America hanging on his neck, not to talk of the stolen mandate he has obtained through the electoral fraud and irregularities that marred the 2023 presidential election.
“Igbo youths should keep their eyes on Mr Okwu Nnabuihe over his orchestrated sabotage of Peter Obi’s presidential victory. Mr Nnabuihe should know that he has murdered sleep and Ala Igbo won’t accommodate his continuous betrayal of the political interests of Ndigbo.
“Obviously, Bola Tinubu, Prof Mahmood Yakubu and cohorts have murdered sleep and they wouldn’t sleep anymore. They have planted the seed of anarchy, disunity and disintegration in Nigeria by holding back the mandate given freely by Nigerians to His Excellency, Peter Gregory Obi.”
On Okwu Nnabuihe’s statement urging the incoming administration to form an inclusive government as the only way of healing the wounds in the country, Igboayaka said the INEC chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, ’caused a national political instability, injured Nigeria to its bone marrow’, adding that, “The healing process, therefore, lies in returning the stolen mandate of Mr Peter Obi.”
He added, “Anyone thinking that Ndigbo will stand akimbo and watch or be part of a country where injustice and marginalization have been designed against them must realize that the political freedom of Ndigbo from this contraption called Nigeria must be pursued by every means necessary.”
