APGA Urges Buhari to Implement Conference Report, Carry Ndigbo Along

The national leadership of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) has urged the president-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, to consider earnestly the implementation of the decisions taken at the National Conference convened by the outgoing administration of President Goodluck Jonathan last year.

The confab report which has been approved by the National Council of State is waiting for implementation and there are fears that with President Jonathan losing his second term bid, the incoming All Progressives Congress (APC) administration may ignore the document.

But speaking with journalists in Umuahia, the National Chairman of APGA, Chief Victor Umeh, said the confab report held the answer to the myriads of unresolved national issues and it would be in the interest of Buhari to implement the report in order to build a truly united nation.

He pointed out that Nigeria has been a country where a lots of injustices have been allowed to flourish over the years, and if Buhari fails to make a conscious effort to reverse the situation with the confab report, his administration would run into troubled waters.

“Buhari will not succeed if he wants to preside over the nation with all the injustices. He should adopt the report of the National Conference,” he said.

The APGA leader counseled Buhari to treat every part of Nigeria with equity irrespective of the level of support he got from each section of the country, saying: “He must demonstrate that he is going to be president of all Nigerians.”

Specifically Umeh urged the president-elect not to take vengeance on the South-east zone for not giving him enough support with their ballots, explaining that the political exigencies of the time dictated the behaviour of Ndigbo voters during the March 28 presidential poll.

He therefore stated that it would be wrong for Buhari to toe the path of past military administrations in the country that formulated policies directed at holding down Ndigbo since the end of the civil war.

“Buhari should not see Ndigbo as his enemies because we follow a line of action that we thought would help us recover lost grounds,” the APGA national chairman said, adding that the president-elect should make conscious efforts to court Ndigbo instead of alienating them.