The All Progressives Congress, APC, has alerted the people of South-East of an alleged plot by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to feed them with what it called ‘stomach infrastructure’.
That is interpreted as plan to heavily bribe the people to vote for the ruling party in the 2015 general elections. APC alleged that the plot to bribe the Igbo arose after the Ekiti State governorship election, which the party woefully lost to the PDP.
It added that the former governor of Imo State, Ikedi Ohakim, had been drafted as the arrowhead of the ‘project’. APC spokesman in the South-East Zone, Osita Okechukwu, who
raised the alarm yesterday, said that it had come to the notice of the APC that the PDP had perfected a grand plan to flood the country with cash, aimed at inducing voters, starting from the zone.
Okechukwu said: “This is the aftermath of the Ekiti State gubernatorial election, where PDP’s candidate, in spite of his lessthan- transparent record, triumphed over a performing governor via splash of cash, in what is dubbed ‘stomach infrastructure’.
“Our information has it that to lead the Induce- Voter-Squad for the South- East is ex-governor of Imo State, Chief Ikedi Ohakim, who has already relocated to Imo from self-exile in Abuja.
“Ohakim has started by apologising for mismanaging Imo State, without accounting for the missing funds. His next move is to tour the South-East to lure the good people with handouts, so that they will not judge President Jonathan for his poor performance, but for immediate benefits.
“We must remind our people that Ndigbo are yet to recover from similar President Jonathan’s Stomach Infrastructure handout, which caused an embarrassing rift between the former president of Ohaneze Ndigbo, the late Ambassador Ralph Uwechue and South-East governors.
“APC South-East, therefore wishes, for the umpteenth time, to appeal to the hardworking and enterprising Ndigbo not to fall into the ‘Stomach Infrastructure’ trap simulated by a government that failed woefully to include the 2nd Niger Bridge in the federal budget, failed to revamp the Enugu coal industry, failed to reconstruct federal roads, failed to fix electricity and that in controversial circumstances handed over Enugu Distribution Company to Interstate Ltd,” he warned.
