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The Presidential Campaign Council spokesman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the southeast, Dr. Josef Onoh, has taken a swipe at the Director General of the Voice of Nigeria, Mr. Osita Okechukwu, described him as a vacuum that never added value to the political party that brought him to the limelight.

Onoh’s outburst was a sequel to Okechukwu’s television appearance, on Monday morning, where he prevaricated on his definite stand on his support for the APC Presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

Onoh said it was unfortunate that some of the Igbo politicians, particularly those of the APC stock have refused to support Bola Tinubu for president when it was Asiwaju that fertilized the APC with which the gladiators used as a vehicle to climb the ladder of Nigeria politics.

He said that those Igbo politicians hanging on the fence such as Okechukwu and the Minister for Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige were betrayers who benefited from the APC but refused to give back to the party that threw them up.

According to Onoh, “As my uncle, I find Osita Okechukwu as an embarrassment for being unable to take a stand and going against the same party that gave him everything. So he is now branding APC and PDP as the same thing, selling bad products to Nigeria? It means that Okechukwu appointed by the APC is part of the bad product that the APC sold to Nigeria. So, as a bad product, he is incapable of telling Nigerians what a good product is.

“Without the Asiwaju-led meagre that produced the APC, Okechukwu would not have held the position he is holding today. His actions and that of Chris Ngige whom Asiwaju supported immensely during his period of abduction and today he refused to adopt Asiwaju. These little attitudes by some respected southeastern political elites are what make other ethnic groups feel that the Igbo cannot be trusted. These are negative influences that always trying to dominate.

“Politics is not about ethnicity or religion; If most Christians were born and raised in a Muslim nation they would be Muslim, and if most Muslims were born and raised in a Christian nation they would be Christian. This means religion is mostly cultural and not spiritual.”

He noted that the Labour Party presidential candidate campaign strategy has set a political bandwagon that reduced the presidential election to imply ethnicity.

“Clearly, it is an indication that he wants to be just the president of the Igbo and not Nigeria. His Campaigns are indicative that he wants to be the president of Ndigbo alone and different churches in Nigeria. The Labour Party presidential candidate always talks about saving money but has never told us what he will use the money to do. Any government that’s all about saving money without spending it is only out to impoverish its people.

“I’m however disappointed that most of the Igbo elders that we had looked up to as youngsters to make a change have failed to lead by example, but are all hanging on the fence.

Osita Okechukwu particularly entered into a vacuum and is leaving a vacuum. His character is a vacuum and Asiwaju cannot appoint a vacuum to replace a vacuum.

His appointment by the APC government to fill a vacuum ended up creating a bigger vacuum. Hence his vote, mandate and support for Asiwaju are not required.

“I urge the southeast to see past politics of emotions, irrespective of our political difference I will always hold Peter Obi in the highest esteem for he has helped place the southeast on a Progressives pedestal, he will forever be our pride and I can never deny that he brought vibrancy to Nigeria politics and created a significant impact that won’t be forgotten. We all in the BAT PCC including the incoming president Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu will always hold him in high esteem.

“Like John, the baptist was a forerunner for Jesus Christ’s entrance to the earth, God set John apart for this mission before he was even born. John’s entire life focused on this one mission—to prepare the way for Jesus’s message to the world.

“Such is the responsibility His Excellency Peter Obi has been saddled with and when it’s time for the southeast to occupy the presidency the entire nation shall support and we will be grateful to the immense contribution our own John the Baptist in the person of Peter Obi has made, but today isn’t his time nor our time, politics is about negotiations and sadly the south-east failed to unite and negotiate with the rest of the ethnic groups that make up Nigeria, hence we need to support Tinubu and go back to the negotiating table and take our place soon,” Onoh charged the south-east.