President Buhari is the best option for southeast people - Sylvester Okonkwo

- Sylvester Okonkwo, the Anambra central senatorial candidate of the APC, says the party remains the best option for the socio-economic development of the southeast region

- Okonkwo says Igbos are guilty of negative perception of APC due to lack of confidence in the political leadership in the zone

- The senatorial aspirant notes that Igbo elite lied when they said APC is a northern party without realising that the party is their easiest step towards producing the next president in Nigeria

Sylvester Okonkwo, the Anambra central senatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says voting the party and President Muhammadu Buhari remains the best option for the people of south east.

Okonkwo said in spite of the propaganda and lies by opposition parties about APC, the party remained the best option for the socio-economic development of the region.

Speaking with newsmen in Awka on Wednesday, January 16, Okonkwo said Igbos are guilty of negative perception of APC due to lack of confidence in the political leadership in the zone, The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.

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According to him, the Igbo elite lied when they said APC is a northern party without realising that the party is their easiest step towards producing the next president in Nigeria.

“The Igbos should naturally be the people in the vanguard of Buhari’s campaign so that they become president after him.

“Our regional interest is in voting Buhari, who had in the past three years started actual construction of the second Niger Bridge with the release of N33 billion which the PDP government did not do in the past 16 years.

“It is on record that Buhari has completed the Zik Mausoleum while construction work on portions of federal roads are ongoing in the zone; yet, this is the same man who does not love the Igbos,” he said.

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Okonkwo said Igbos should seek to know the viability of the PDP’s claim of producing the next government when 23 states are already under the control of APC, while the opposition party only control 12 states.

"When Buhari wins on February 16, the next thing you will hear is that APC rigged the election.

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“PDP lied that they will win the election and my people are buying into it hook, line and sinker,” he said, urging the people of the zone to disregard the lies and vote massively for the APC.

While noting that the wealth of Nigeria is not in the oil sector but in the human capital, Okonkwo promised to propose legislation to deepening the nation’s ICT broadband, if elected.

He promised to work with the Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC) and the federal government to create a new broad band that would re engineer ICT development and create employment for youths.

“Nigeria needs men with passion to create the enabling environment that will kick start the real economic development.

“When broadband deepens, youths who are into internet frauds, will seek better ways of making e-money,” he assured.

Meanwhile, Senate President Bukola Saraki has called on northwest people to vote Atiku Abubakar for 2019 presidency claiming President Muhammadu Buhari was tried but he failed.

The Cable reports that the Senate president said this at the kick off of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential campaign in Sokoto state on Monday, December 3.

Saraki called on the people of the northwest to be ready to cast their votes for Atiku. He said described Atiku Abubakar as the man that can bring food to the table, fight security, and unite Nigeria.

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