A pro-democracy and civil rights advocacy group, the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), has accused the current hierarchy of the leading opposition political party in Nigeria, the Peoples Democratic (PDP), of engaging in a choreographed suicide mission by hatching and implementing active but corrosive and toxic anti-Igbo antics by withholding the zoning of the Presidency in 2023 to the South East to assuage the longstanding systematic and systemic marginalisation of the South East of Nigeria in the political scheme of things.

HURIWA also accused the Rivers State Governor, Mr. Nyesom Wike, of inflicting irreparable damage to the sole of PDP by hijacking the party’s National Secretariat due to the overwhelming selfish ambition he is nursing to corner the slot of the candidacy of the party for the 2023 Presidency, just as the Rights group accused political weaklings amongst some corrupt minded Igbo elite of conniving with the Rivers State’s governor to plant “Igbophobia” amongst the highest echelons of the PDP.

HURIWA said the fear of the unknown was driving Governor Wike’s ambition to seize the Presidential slot of PDP because he was mortally afraid that should his arch political rival, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, gets the Presidential slot of the APC and wins the 2023 Presidency, then, certainly, he, Governor Nyesom Wike, could face political persecution by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission over alleged financial indiscretion as the governor of Rivers State since almost eight years now.

The group also carpeted the Rivers State governor for criticising Mr. Peter Obi for quitting the heavily cash compromised PDP.

HURIWA which commended the former governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi, for displaying highest sense of conviction and political principles to walk out of the collapsing political house called PDP due to the alleged stinking cash-and- carry animalistic tendencies within the leading opposition political party which is bent on chasing away the South-East from her fold because having used and dumped the region, the party now wishes to become a slave of the North or of Mr. Nyesom Wike.

HURIWA affirmed thus: “These two tendencies of Atiku Abubakar and Nyesom Wike have combined to ensure that South East of Nigeria does not get her deserved pride of place in the party they had laboured for over the past twenty years even at the risks of suffering some of the harshest policies of marginalisation and political apartheid from the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration for the last seven years because the South East has since 1999 been voting en masse for the PDP.”

HURIWA has also commended the immediate past Senate Minority Leader, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, for abandoning the PDP because of the anti-Igbo sentiments and the antics of divide and rule, just as it said the PDP has lost the support of the South East of Nigeria and would pay dearly for this sabotage of the political right of the South East of Nigeria.

HURIWA recalled that Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe had tendered a letter to the Senate President indicating that he has just resigned from his position even as this was sequel to his resignation from the PDP under which he was elected to the Senate in 2019. Abaribe announced his resignation in two separate letters – one addressed to his Ward Chairman and the other to the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, dated 24th and 26th May, 2022 respectively.

HURIWA praised the Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe and Mr. Peter Obi for showing courage and determination to stand for justice, truth, social and political ideological principles and for taking a long walk away from the house of scam that the People’s Democratic Party has suddenly become.

The group told the PDP that its only redemption was to concede the slot of the President of Nigeria in the 2023 General election to the South East of Nigeria, in line with the provisions of the constitution of the party.

HURIWA said zoning of offices by political parties was a fulfillment of Section 14(3) of the 1999 Constitution of the federal republic of Nigeria as amended which speaks to the issue of respecting Federal Character principles in the allocation of offices and projects in the federation.

HURIWA said it offends the principles of natural justice and national unity that Igbo that has one of the three largest population of Nigeria has been treated with the short-end of the stick through the connivance of the Hausa/Fulani North and some reactionary elitist elements of the South West extraction for their selfish agenda which is undermining National cohesion.

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