The Youth wing of apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide, has tackled former minister of transportation, Chibuike Amaechi, over his alleged assault on the chairman of the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee, INEC, Prof Mahmood Yakubu.
Amaechi had whereas showing on Channels Tv political programme on Thursday evening accused Mahmood of irritating the registration of recent political events.
He additionally described him as shameless and within the mould of former INEC chairman, Prof Maurice Iwu.
Amaechi didn’t additionally spare former President Goodluck Jonathan, accusing him of attempting to scuttle the zoning association within the nation.
However reacting to the claims, the Nationwide President of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide, Mazi Okwu Nnabuike, mentioned the likes of Amaechi needs to be hiding their faces in disgrace.
Okwu mentioned having introduced calamity upon the nation by their actions prior to now, Amaechi had no morality to criticise both Yakubu or the present President Bola Tinubu administration.
The Ohanaeze Youths President mentioned it was unusual that Yakubu, who has overseen among the best elections within the nation, may come beneath such assaults from Amaechi.
“It seems that Amaechi and his likes have forgotten that beneath Prof Mahmood Yakubu, sitting governors misplaced elections in 2023. Whereas some couldn’t go to the senate, sitting governors have even misplaced re-election bids.
“These are issues that was once uncommon in Nigeria’s electoral course of, however beneath Yakubu, Nigerians now know that anyone can lose an election.
“It’s also evident that a lot of the elections carried out by the fee have been validated by the courts, besides people who had problems with nominations arising from their political events.
“How else does Amaechi charge efficiency, besides the truth that his most well-liked presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar didn’t win,” Okwu queried.
He went additional to say that Yakubu had outperformed his predecessors in workplace because the return of the nation’s democracy in 1999, stressing that “he deserves accolades and encouragement from Nigerians of goodwill; what the fee wants is strengthened laws to excellent the methods placed on floor already.”
On the problems of the 2027 elections, Okwu additionally lambasted Amaechi for placing himself ahead to get the ticket of the African Democratic Congress (ADC).
He described the previous Rivers governor as a hypocrite and urged the promoters of the opposition coalition to be conscious of him.
“This is similar man who mentioned he labored towards Jonathan due to zoning, but he needs to place himself to get the presidential ticket of the ADC, whereas he’s from the identical South-South as Jonathan.
“If he’s an apostle of fairness and zoning as he claimed, why is he not supporting an Igbo man to emerge because the presidential candidate of the ADC, contemplating that down South, solely the South-East has not occupied the seat since 1999.
“How do you belief a person who tells you he’s an Igbo man at the moment, after which tomorrow, he’ll flip round to say it was all politics?
“It’s obvious that we’re coping with a desperado, whose solely anger is that President Tinubu defeated him in the course of the APC presidential major.
“He isn’t within the coalition to guard the curiosity of the plenty besides that of his inordinate ambition and quest for energy.
“Nigerians should say No to Amaechi and his likes; we have now had sufficient deceit; Nigerians are wiser now. Amaechi ought to retire to his group,” Okwu declared.
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