Resist PDP, Others, Whose Guber Candidates Are Not From Abia North – Group Tells Abians

Few weeks to the governorship election, a concerned group of Abia youths under the aegis of Abia Reformation Movement (ARM), has kicked against Abia North being sidelined by some political parties in their choice of gubernatorial candidates.

The group in a press conference held in Umuahia on Thursday, accused the ruling PDP, Labour Party, Young Progress Party and Ukwa La Ngwa elders of collaborating against the people of Abia North whom the charter of equity recognises as the next in line to take hold of power.

Speaking on behalf of the Abia Reform Movement, Comrade Ibeawuchi Kalu, the founder and Director General of the group, noted that the ‘collaboration’ of some political parties in the state to zone their governorship ticket outside Abia North is selfish and divisie and would amount to anarchy and tribal hatred if allowed to continue.

The group called on Abians to resist all political parties whose governorship candidate are not of Abia North extraction.

Kalu noted that the stand of the group was not being sponsored by anybody but out of concern for justice to be upheld. However, he mentioned that they have the nod of stakeholders of Abia North.

He hinted that the people of Abia North will likely have a consensus governorship candidate before the election day as plans are ongoing.

“The movement is a child of necessity, born out of the need to speak out against evil. Nobody is masquerading behind this organisation. We are doing this out of concern for the need to respect our ancient landmark; Abia Charter of Equity” Kalu said.

“The conspiracy between the incumbent government of the PDP and some other political parties, like LP, YPP, et al, in collaboration with some revisionist groups like Ukwa la Ngwa and their cohorts to keep power from rotating back to Abia North is selfish, divisive, clannish, retrogressive, dishonorable, wicked and unacceptable to the generality of Abians of all divides and across political spectrum. This, if allowed will enthrone anarchy, chaos, tribal hatred, divisiveness and under-develop the state. This must be resisted by all patriotic Abians.

We are therefore calling on all Abians of good conscience to resist the PDP clannish rule that has cast the Abia Charter of Equity under the moving bus by massively voting against the PDP and other political parties that fielded governorship candidates not from Abia North extraction, and with the tendency to foist another Ngwa man to continue the retrogressive rule already well established by Okezie Victor Ikpeazu is unacceptable. Proactive steps must be taken to return the state back to the template created by our founding fathers who fought for the creation of Abia State.

We are calling Abians to come together irrespective of political parties and join us to return the government back to Abia North through the Abia Charter of Equity already negotiated for us by our founding fathers. Abians of all divide must say No to PDP and the other political parties together with their collaborators with whom they are today trying to destroy the fabrics of peaceful coexistence in the State. Abia State does not belong to the PDP. Enough is Enough.

We are calling on Abians of good conscience to consider only the political parties that fielded governorship candidates from Abia North like APP, ADP and SDP as working in the spirit of Abia Charter of Equity and therefore are compliant to our dictum of equitable power rotation principles for good governance in the state.

We are calling on Abians of good conscience to join hands with ARM to preserve, protect, and defend the pristine principles of Abia Charter of Equity for good governance in our state” the press statement read in parts.

READ THE FULL STATEMENT CO-SIGNED BY; Comrade Ibeawuchi Kalu (Director General); Comrade Sam Egwuatu, State secretary; and Comrade Ndubuisi Onyekwere, State Publicity secretary.

INTERNATIONAL NEWS CONFERENCE BY ABIA REFORMATION MOVEMENT (ARM) ON THE STATE OF POLITICS IN GOD’S OWN STATE DELIVERED ON THURSDAY 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 2023 IN UMUAHIA BY THE LEADERSHIP OF ARM.

Protocols.

Recent political developments in our state has pitched the leadership of our pristine ancient provinces in the dirge of political tussles of which group should produce the governor of the State in 2023, which situation has brought together Abia patriots under the aegis of Abia Reformation Movement, ARM to step in to protect, preserve and defend our common heritage as Abians.

Abia Reformation Movement is a group of patriotic Abia youths who can no longer stay by the sides and watch selfish leaders under various proclivities to continue to destroy our ancient landmarks and heritage in the name of politics of divide and rule and in the process tend to revise and rewrite history.

We can no longer watch as revisionist group like Ukwa la Ngwa and their cohorts who enjoy State sponsorship take up the atrocious task of redrawing and rewriting history leading to repartitioning our ancient landmarks to give unearned and unsolicited dominance to a section of the Abia geopolitical entity. This must stop.

Abia State was a creation of pristine ancient provinces of Aba, Bende, Isiukwuato, and Afikpo divisions. With the creation of Ebonyi state took away the Afikpo province and therefore leaving us with Aba, Bende and Isiukwuato provinces. Whereas Ukwa and their Ngwa cousins later became known as Old Aba province, Bende division and Isiukwuato Umunneochi axis were generally referred to as Old Bende division or province.

For the purpose of power sharing, Abia State was later subdivided into three Senatorial zones of Abia North, Abia Central and Abia South during the time of the return of democracy in the year, 1999. Gubernatorial power sharing has also been allowed to follow the theology of the Senatorial zones whereupon Abia North was the first to take through Dr. Orji Uzo Kalu, Abia Central took next through Chief Theodore Orji and lastly came Abia South through the incumbent, Dr. Okezie Victor Ikpeazu.

With the expected completion of the tenure of Okezie Victor Ikpeazu, by May 2023, the baton of leadership of the State is expected to and should return to Abia North to begin a new cycle of seamless power shifts across the state. This seamless power shifts across the Senatorial zones is what was contemplated by the Abia Charter of Equity principles for governing the state by our founding fathers.

The conspiracy between the incumbent government of the PDP and some other political parties, like LP, YPP, et al, in collaboration with some revisionist groups like Ukwa la Ngwa and their cohorts to keep power from rotating back to Abia North is selfish, divisive, clannish, retrogressive, dishonorable, wicked and unacceptable to the generality of Abians of all divides and across political spectrum. This, if allowed will enthrone anarchy, chaos, tribal hatred, divisiveness and underdevelop the state. This must be resisted by all patriotic Abians.

We are therefore calling on all Abians of good conscience to resist the PDP clannish rule that has cast the Abia Charter of Equity under the moving bus by massively voting against the PDP and other political parties that fielded governorship candidates not from Abia North extraction, and with the tendency to foist another Ngwa man to continue the retrogressive rule already well established by Okezie Victor Ikpeazu is unacceptable. Proactive steps must be taken to return the state back to the template created by our founding fathers who fought for the creation of Abia State.

We are calling Abians to come together irrespective of political parties and join us to return the government back to Abia North through the Abia Charter of Equity already negotiated for us by our founding fathers. Abians of all divide must say No to PDP and the other political parties together with their collaborators with whom they are today trying to destroy the fabrics of peaceful coexistence in the State. Abia State does not belong to the PDP. Enough is Enough.

We are calling on Abians of good conscience to consider only the political parties that fielded governorship candidates from Abia North like APP, ADP and SDP as working in the spirit of Abia Charter of Equity and therefore are compliant to our dictum of equitable power rotation principles for good governance in the state.

We are calling on Abians of good conscience to join hands with ARM to preserve, protect, and defend the pristine principles of Abia Charter of Equity for good governance in our state.

Long live, Abia Charter of Equity
Long live, Abia State.
Long live, The Federal Republic of Nigeria.