The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described the purported endorsement of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party presidential candidate for the 2019 general election as reported by some newspapers as an insult to the Igbo people.
Lanre Issa-Onilu, spokesperson for APC, in a statement on Tuesday evening, said the Igbo people were “frontline victims of the PDP’s misrule in 16 years.
“The APC considers Atiku and his PDP co-travellers as people who have lost any sense of shame.
“The purported endorsement of Atiku and PDP by some leaders of the South-east for the 2019 general elections is an affront on the the Igbo people who were frontline victims of the 16 years of the PDP misrule.
“It will be interesting to know what the PDP will be telling the Igbo people during the campaign.”
On the contrary, the APC spokesperson claimed the South-east in the last three years has seen visible progress in terms of infrastructure.
“The South-east people have three and half years of visible progress in terms of massive infrastructure and the thousands of common people who are benefiting from the social programme investments under APC to compare to the PDP’s 16 years of retrogression.
“We in APC are confident that the Igbo won’t be fooled by any group, by whatever name, to sell a thoroughly discredited party like the PDP to the very discerning Igbo people.”