Why South-East Is Not Supporting Atiku – Ohaneze

Ohanaeze Ndigbo’s Vice President, Chief Damian Okeke-Ogene, stated that Atiku Abubakar, the PDP’s presidential candidate, lost the support of the South East the moment he abandoned zoning.

Speaking to journalists in Awka, Damian noted that Atiku would have used the 2023 election as a payback time for the sacrifices Ndigbo made to him during the 2019 election.

He added that the two major political parties, the PDP and the All Progressives Congress couldn’t have fielded candidates from any other zone other than South-East.

In his words “If conscience is anything to go by, the two major political parties, couldn’t have field candidates from any other zone other than Southeast. Igbos are being persecuted by Buhari today because they gave Atiku during his last election 95 per cent votes.

“What former President Olusegun Obasanjo and others are doing today is what we had expected from Atiku who happens to be our in-law. That’s why it’s not good to vote according to sentiments.

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“Atiku would have known that the entire South-East sacrificed their votes and interest for him and see this election as a payback time. He wouldn’t have engineered and funded the no zoning campaign because we voted for him based on zoning

“Atiku would have been the greatest hero of our times if he had been in the fore front of championing it’s turn of the South-East. But if Atiku fails this election, he’ll go to the grave as unrepentant person, sorry to use that word, but it’s very unfortunate.”