{"id":70111,"date":"2022-08-12T10:26:48","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T09:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/tinubu-stop-stoking-ethnic-tension-ohanaeze-cautions-youth-group"},"modified":"2022-08-12T11:41:49","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T10:41:49","slug":"tinubu-stop-stoking-ethnic-tension-ohanaeze-cautions-youth-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-stop-stoking-ethnic-tension-ohanaeze-cautions-youth-group","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu: Stop stoking ethnic tension \u2013 Ohanaeze cautions youth group"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has declared that the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is free to come and solicit for votes in the South-East.<\/p>\n

DAILY POST recalls that a certain group, Coalition of South-East Youth Leaders, (COSEYL), had asked promoters of the Tinubu Presidency to keep off the zone.<\/p>\n

But the Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide, in a statement made available to DAILY POST on Friday, cautioned the group against stoking unnecessary political tension in the zone.<\/p>\n

In the statement signed by Mazi Okwu Nnabuike, the National President of OYC, he said it was unjustifiable for any person to ban Tinubu or any other person from soliciting for votes in the South-East.<\/p>\n

Okwu said the Ohanaeze would not sit by and watch any form of divisive politics, which he described as \u201cthe major factor that has kept Nigeria down for such a very long time.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Ohanaeze youths maintained that \u201cevery Nigerian reserved the right to campaign for candidates of their choice, by marketing such a person convincingly to the electorate.<\/p>\n

\u201cPolitics of bitterness and acrimony will not take Nigeria anywhere, especially as the country is presently operating at its lowest ebb. There is no doubt that the country has never been this divided and this is why campaigns should be on issues and not ethnicity.<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving said this, we make bold to say that Tinubu\u2019s promoters are free to campaign for him anywhere in Igboland.<\/p>\n

\u201cSimilarly, other presidential candidates should also have a smooth sail in taking their campaign to every part of the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cNdigbo remain a very accommodating tribe in Nigeria, known for their hospitality and we are never going to lose that status in spite of provocations.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll we demand from the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, is a transparent process through which Nigerians would freely make their choice.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe advise all interest groups in the South-East, under whatever guise, to exercise restraint and not take actions that would lead to regrets in the future,\u201d Okwu said.<\/p>\n

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