World Igbo Congress Endorse Labour Party, Says LP has Plans for a New Nigeria

The World Igbo Congress (WIC) has endorsed the Labour Party (LP) and its flag bearer, Mr Peter Obi, describing the party as a breath of fresh air that has the potential to bring back hope and to put in place the right policies to bring about the birth of a new Nigeria that will work for the masses and not the elite.
WIC, made up of Nigerians of Igbo extraction in the diaspora, said that its support for the LP, Peter Obi and his running mate, Yusuf Datti Ahmed was arrived at after a painstaking evaluation of the four major political parties jostling for supremacy in the 2023 general elections.
In a statement jointly signed by Prof Anthony Ejiofor, Dr Chris Ogara and Basil Onwukwe, Chairman, Secretary general and Public Relations Officer respectively, the group described the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and All Progressive Congress (APC) as two side of the same coin, adding that both PDP and APC “have proven since 1999 to be elitist parties that take turns in the catastrophic misrule of Nigeria. They have rendered the country comatose”.
The WIC regretted that the two major political parties have rendered the country comatose, and are still fomenting the age long religious bigotry and born-to-rule syndrome and are not showing signs of letting up, warning that “if any of them is voted into power, it will be one term too many and a straw on the camel’s back for this entity called Nigeria”.
The group stated that their endorsement of Labor Party was informed by the fact that LP “appears to provide a breath of fresh air and has all the potentials to put in place the right policies to bring about the birth of a new Nigeria that will work for the masses and not the elite”.
“The LP and its flag bearers bring to the table a sincerity of purpose that promises to catapult Nigeria to its pride of place in the comity of nations”, WIC further noted in the statement.
The group further explained that its endorsement of the LP was based on the fact that only the “Labor Party movement, out of the three leading parties has the interest of Nigeria as a nation at heart and is endorsing it to achieve its objectives” WIC. Therefore called “all Nigerians in the Diaspora who know what good governance is about and wish it for Nigeria to rise up and forestall any untoward strategies by the rogue powers in Nigeria to prevent ushering in a new Nigeria”.
WIC further urged Nigerians in diaspora to encourage their your wards in Nigeria to vote regardless of any stumbling blocks, adding that not voting means that one has surrendered to the business-as-usual syndrome, represented by the other political parties, stressing the need for Nigerians to be vigilant to ensure election integrity.
WIC equally made a passionate call “on all law-abiding people of the Southeast to ensure that there is no sit-at-home in the zone, noting that further sit-at-home “could potentially cripple the election process and throw that zone into the hands of their detractors just like it did during the last census that decimated the population of the Igbo”.
“A sit-at-home will also negate the efforts to release Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. All Igbo and their sponsors who are sowing this seed of anarchy are hereby warned to cease and desist. On our part, we will bring to bear the attention of the international community to ensure that Nigeria gets it right this time around”, the group further stated.
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