President Buhari Promises Igbo People a Fair Share

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday restated his administration vow to keep to its campaign promises to the Southeast geopolitical zone, asserting that the region would get its fair share.

Buhari assured the region through his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, while receiving Igbo youths under the aegis of Coalition of Southeast Youths for Buhari (COSYB), who went to Abuja to declare their support for him.

 He thanked the region for proving mischief-makers wrong that he no longer enjoys the support of Southeasterners.

 The president also stated that his administration would do everything in its powers to keep the country together, adding that those trying to destabilise the country were only wasting their time. 

He pledged that the roads, Second Niger Bridge as well as critical infrastructure in the region will be fixed by his administration.

Leader of the coalition, Steve Anyata, in his remark, said they visited ASO Rock to declare support for the Buhari administration.

He thanked God for bringing the President back home safely from his medical vacation in London.

Anyata said the solidarity rally was principally organised to provide Igbo youths with an open platform to, “as a bloc, counter the inhumane demonstrations by a handful of sponsored elements calling for your return or resignation.

“Second, our rally was also intended to drum the total solidarity and support of all of our own from the southeast geopolitical zone for you at a time we reckoned the nation was going through trying times occasioned by your sad, but unavoidable, fatherly absence.

“We also intended to achieve through the platform of the rally to say a word of prayer for you and to pledge our loyalty to you and the Nigerian federation.”

The group which comprises several youth groups across the five states of the Southeast, however urged the President to take the quit notice issued to the Igbo in the North by Arewa youths serious, expressing optimism that with Buhari’s return, the issue would receive his immediate attention.