By Anolu Vincent Senior Correspondent, Owerri
Barely one month after the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, reportedly endorsed President Goodluck Jonathan for the 2015 presidential race, a chieftain of the Mega Progressive Peoples Party (MPPP), Onyedika Paulinus Asiegbu, insists that the apex Igbo umbrella body, acted like a pressure group due to selfish interest.
Asiegbu said the endorsement could neither be a barrier, nor a deterrent to any Igbo politician who wants to face the president in the forthcoming election.
Speaking with Sunday Independent at the party’s secretariat in Owerri, shortly after the inauguration of a new MPPP executive for the state, Asiegbu, a former governorship candidate of the party, insisted that Ohanaeze Ndigbo, although a symbol of Igbo identity, has no powers to restrain any Igbo presidential contender from exercising his fundamental human right to vote or to be voted for in any election, as long as he is constitutionally qualified.
