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.... ....   Home  |  Cover Stories  |  National Newsreel  |  Politics  |  Business  |  Sports  |  World  | Contact Towards a better life for the people Search The Archives   Cover Stories National News South West Niger Delta South East North Politics Business Sports World Viewpoints Features   ..... NATIONAL NEWS 2007: S-East leaders restate commitment to Igbo presidency Tuesday, August 17, 2004 ENUGU — SOUTH-EAST political leaders rose from a meeting in Enugu Sunday night affirming their unflinching commitment to the election of a Nigerian president of Igbo extraction come 2007 and threatened to sanction those Igbos who offer themselves for the “political balkanization” of Igboland. In a four-point communique signed by a former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Chief Edwin Ume-Ezuoke and Dr. Francis Egu, Chairman and Secretary of the South East Political Leaders Forum, the Igbo politicians condemned what they described as “complete desecration of the electoral system in Nigeria by the subversion of the popular will of the people as expressed through the ballot box.” They deplored the inability of the nation’s judiciary to redress the electoral frauds allegedly committed during the last general elections “timeously and judiciously,” and resolved to fight assiduously for the restoration of the sanctity of the ballot box through the reform of the electoral process. Affirming their unflinching commitment to the election of a Nigerian president of Igbo extraction in the next dispensation even if it means aggregating all their political interests on one platform, the political leaders, however, rejected what they described as “the political balkanization of Igboland.” “We reject the political balkanization of Igboland and shall impose sanctions against any Igbo who lends himself or herself as an agent to this unpatriotic act,” they threatened. Among prominent politicians from the zone at the parley held at the independence layout residence of the National Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief Chekwas Okorie, were a former presidential aspirant of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), Chief John Nnia Nwodo, Chief Edwin Ume-Ezuoke, Chief Chekwas Okorie, Col. Ike Nwosu (rtd), Group Capt. Joe Orji (rtd), Air Vice Marshal Canice Umenwaliri (rtd) Chief Onwuka Kalu, Barrister Maxi Okwu, National Secretary of the Conference of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP); and John Okam.   Home  |  Cover Stories  |  National Newsreel  |  Politics  |  Business  |  Sports  |  World  | Contact © 1998- 2004. Vanguard Media Ltd.

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