Tinubu Says Igbo Votes Are Important To APC, Confers With APC SouthEast National Zonal Chairman 

The flag bearer of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, recently held talks with the National Vice Chairman APC SouthEast, Dr. Ijeomah Arodiogbu, insisting that he would campaign assiduously in the SouthEast as the Igbos remain an integral part of the Nigerian nation and thus was important to the APC winning the 2023 elections. 

Asiwaju stated this when he conferred with the National Vice Chairman and a host of other notable SouthEast chieftains. 

Thanking Ndigbo for their support and assuring the region of their importance to Nigeria and his ambition of becoming President, Asiwaju noted that the Igbos were an integral part of Nigeria. He recalled his days as Governor of Lagos State, a state with the highest population of Igbos outside the SouthEast Region, noting the numerous contributions Ndigbo had made to the success of his administration and successive administrations after him, stating that nobody could write off the Igbo nation. 
Tinubu further stated that he had in his time as governor appointed a number of Igbos to his cabinet, a first by any state outside the SouthEast Region as well as the Lagos Civil Service. 

For him, the task ahead was getting the SouthEast to key in to the center and benefit immensely from the progressive policies of the APC, which has seen the SouthEast become a construction site in which a plethora of key infrastructure projects were ongoing. 

Responding, Dr Arodiogbu, thanked Tinubu for his magnanimity even in victory, describing him as a true leader and one prepared for the job. 

He assured the Presidential candidate of the zone’s support, insisting that zone had awoken to the treachery of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, which had betrayed the zone despite the massive support the zone had given to it in the past with little or no government presence in return as well as the failure of the zone to reward the zone with the presidential ticket for 2023.

Arodiogbu insisted that it was the APC that had rather catered for the region’s interests despite its initial rejection of the party in 2015 and 2019, however, the zone had now tasted of the policies of both parties and had now decided to pitch their interests with the APC.

Also in attendance were Ugo Agballah, State Chairman Enugu APC,Chief Basil Ejidike, State Chairman Anambra APC  and Princess Ada Ogbu, APC’s Senatorial Candidate for Enugu East Senatorial District.