A Senior
Special Assistant to Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State on Event
Management, Mr Chido Obidiegwu, has inaugurated a movement, “One-on-one
Nigeria,” for the re-election of President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019.
Obidiegwu made the disclosure
on Tuesday at a briefing at the Nigeria Union of Journalists Press Centre in
Awka, Anambra State.
Accompanied by a former All Progressives Grand Alliance presidential
aspirant, George Okoye, Obidiegwe said his campaign for Buhari was in the
interest of the Igbo.
He said, “‘One-on-one Nigeria’ is an independent network of
Ndigbo determined to achieve Igbo PresiThis
we do through a massive awareness to convince Ndigbo that four years of
President Buhari is better than eight years of any other person for us to
achieve this dream via a project tagged 4 is better than 8.”
Obidiegwu, who recalled
the travails of the Igbo since the end of the Nigerian civil war, said the Igbo
were not ready to play the opposition anymore in the country’s polity.
He commended Buhari for
infrastructural development in the South-East, saying that the President had
shown goodwill to the people of the area.
Asked whether his action was
not antithetical to the All Progressives Grand Alliance that had fielded a
presidential candidate, Gen John Gbor (retd.), Obidiegwu said his movement
had nothing to do with political parties, stressing that, “Our resolve is
driven by President Buhari’s past, his values, orientation and disposition.”
He said, “Buhari began serious
work on the long-abandoned Second Niger Bridge, the long abandoned Enugu-Port
Harcourt Expressway, the Zik Mausoleum, Ariaria Aba Independent Power Project.
dency by returning President Buhari for a second term.
These,
among other projects the Igbo yearned for over 16 years, could only be realised
under President Muhammadu Buhari.
“We in One-on-One Nigeria are
resolute and unequivocal in our support for this 2nd tenure.”
He added, “Successive military and civilian administrations could not
do much to elevate the Igbo spirit as desired and deserved. It only took
President Buhari who the Igbo rejected at the polls to address some of their
key desires abandoned by previous regimes.
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