APC React To Bomb Attack

After last week bomb attack on the national secretariat of the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the All Progressives Congress (APC) South East zone has reacted to the incident.
The APC’s reaction was contained in a statement issued on Sunday by its spokesman, Osita Okechukwu, a copy obtained by Daily Independent. 

The party called on the Inspector General of Police (IG) to urgently set up an investigation panel to fish out those behind the incident.

The state spokesman said Ohanaeze Ndigbo’s secretariat reminds its members of a common bond heritage and symbol of the Igbo nation, noting that they were really angered by such sacrilegious act. 

The party pleaded with the IG to use his good office to bring those responsible for the nefarious act against the Ohanaeze Secretariat to book before more harm will be done.

“Sir, it may interest you to know that the secretariat has never been attacked until the leadership of Ohanaeze Ndigbo refused bluntly to endorse President Goodluck Jonathan for re-election. Since November 2014, intense pressure has been mounted on the leadership of Ohanaeze led by Gary Enwo Igariwey, to endorse Mr. President, which they resisted in the collective interest of Ndigbo. Bizarre events which followed the rational decision of Ohanaeze Ndigbo to reject the endorsement of President Jonathan, in what we dub a non-partisan posture, were legion.  

One of these bizarre events is the factionalization of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, a once cohesive, dynamic and the mouth piece of Ndigbo. Second, was the double speak of the splinter Igbo Leaders of Thought led by Professor Ben Nwabueze, which tongue-in-cheek said, ‘We are fully aware that Jonathan’s administration has not seriously addressed the core promises and commitments made to Ndigbo during the 2011 election campaign. In spite of this, it is in the best interest of our people that he be re-elected,” South East APC stated,” the statement reads.

 

The country’s major opposition party, however, revealed that it holds strongly the old age epigram that the main ingredient of election in liberal democracy is the referendum on the performance of the incumbent, hence, reliance on the flimsy religious sentiment of Islamization of Nigeria cannot produce anything tangible.  

“Accordingly, we do not think Ndigbo or indeed Nigerians have the leisure to reward a president who failed to fix the East-Road, 2nd Niger Bridge, Mambilla Power Plant, Enugu Coal, the 3 Greenfield Refineries awarded at a whopping cost of $23 billion and who out of unbridled corruption crashed the Naira,” the party said. 

It would be recalled that the national secretariat which is located at No 7 Park Avenue, GRA, Enugu, was reportedly attacked by yet to be identified persons with an object suspected to be Improvised Explosive Device (IED), resulting in the destruction of the building and some other important items. 

 

It was initially reported that Ohaneze Nidigbo, the apex Igbo socio-cultural group rejected the endorsement of President Goodluck Jonathan to re-run for the second term in the number one office in 2015.