Group makes case for Igbo Presidency

A group operating under the aegis of Igbo National Council (INC) has pledged support for the people of South East geo-political zone of Nigeria to produce the next President of the Country in 2015.
In a communique issued at the end for the group’s meeting  in Owerri signed by Chilos Godsent, National President and Dr. Ekele Ikpegbu, National secretary, respectively, INC stated that these going back in the quest to make sure that an Igbo man takes over from President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan in 2015.

They maintained that Ndigbo have contributed immensely to the growth, development, unity and survival of Nigeria and constitute over 42.8 percent of the total population of the country.
They therefore insisted that they will massively mobilize the people of the geo-political zone and very many Nigerians both at home and abroad to support and vote somebody from Igbo nation come 2015 for presidency.  They demanded that the Abia state house of Assembly to monitor the affairs of governance of the Governor in order to end what they called the suffering of Abians. The group insisted that they have seized to recognize Chief Orji as the state governor and called on all Abians to see his programmes as illegal. INC beckoned on the Abia State legislature to begin the process of recalling all the civil servants of Abia state who where sacked from the state civil service for not being indigenes of the state.
Expatiating further, they described the action of the Abia governor as capable of causing trouble among the indigenes of other states, saying that some people who were sacked are married to Abia state daughters. Also, they frowned at the bad condition of roads in the south/east geo-political zone. They opined that the bad state of roads in the zone have contributed to the economic hardship in the zone.
They therefore urged the federal and state governments to start in ernest to respond to the ordeal of the people of South/East by re-constructing the roads in the zone for better living condition of the people.