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The (APC) North West Zonal Youth Leader, Abdulhamid Mohammad, has urged Igbos across the country to vote for the presidential candidate of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, in the 2023 presidential election.
Mohammad gave the admonition in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kaduna, on Tuesday.
He said the call became necessary considering what the APC presidential candidate did for the Igbos in Nigeria.
According to him, no other presidential candidate has done what Tinubu did for the Igbos.
“It is time for them to pay back by voting massively for him in the upcoming general elections,” he said.
Mohammad described Tinubu as a “detribalised” leader, adding that when the Igbos “left the South East in droves, they were welcomed into Lagos,” by the APC presidential candidate, who was the governor then.
The youth leader added that the APC presidential flag bearer gave the Igbos “an avenue to flourish” in their various businesses.
“Unlike in the South East where traders are forced to sit at home by hoodlums, the blueprint laid by Tinubu made Lagos a conducive atmosphere for the Igbos to conduct their businesses without any hindrance.
“Tinubu ran an inclusive government and was among the pioneer governors who started appointing non-indigenes as state executives, as many Igbos have benefited from such administrative initiatives.
“He appointed an Igbo man from Anambra State, Ben Akabueze, as Commissioner for Economic Planning and Budget for eight years from 1999 to 2007,” he said.