BY OKONKWO EZE

ONITSHA—The Pan-Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo,  has adopted the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, as the political party for Ndigbo.

Consequently, the group resolved to join forces with the All Progressives Congress, APC, and other existing parties in the country.

President of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Anambra State chapter, Elder Chris Eluemuno, who disclosed this yesterday in Awka, said the Igbo race needed to have its own political platform as the Yorubas who established the APC.

‘’If Igbos must have its fair share in the scheme of things in this country, it must h ave its own political party under which it will negotiate on any matter,” Eluemuno declared.

He described APGA as an Igbo party which all Igbos must work hard for its success, stressing that the need for Ndigbo to maintain a political platform could not be over-emphasized, now that APGA had been able to provide such a platform for all Igbos to identify with.

He said the just concluded Anambra State gubernatorial election result was a reflection of the will of the people of Anambra State, even as he admitted that although the people of the state loved Senator Chris Ngige, they did not want to follow him to APC which had been identified with the Yorubas.
Elder Eluemuno also called for a stronger co-operation between the South-South and South-East zones of the country.

On 2015 Presidential election, Eluemuno called on all and sundry to support President Goodluck Jonathan for a second term of office, adding that the President had done so much for the South-East and the nation in general.