I’m a prophet sent to liberate southeast region - Chris Ngige claims
- Chris Ngige, the minister of labour and employment, says prior to the 2015 presidential elections, he predicted that President Buhari will win the poll overwhelmingly and it came to pass even though it seemed impossible
- The minister predicts again that President Buhari will win the 2019 presidential election convincingly
- Ngige says the shortest way to get the presidency for the Igbo in 2023 is for the southeast to give Buhari maximum support in the 2019 general elections
Chris Ngige, the minister of labour and employment has described himself as the prophet sent to liberate Igbo people of the southeast region from the political control of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Ngige made the statement on Tuesday, January 1, when addressing stakeholders and candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the Muhammadu Buhari campaign office in Awka, the Anambra state capital, The Punch reports.
He said prior to the 2015 presidential elections, he predicted that Buhari would win the poll overwhelmingly and it came to pass even though it seemed impossible for Buhari to win the election.
“I’m a prophet the Igbo should listen to. I said it in 2015 and I am saying it again to Ndigbo that Buhari will win the 2019 presidential election convincingly, "Ngige said.
"It will be good and in the interest of the Igbo if we give Buhari another four years. By then, it will be ‘a pass and pass out’ for him instead of giving these sugar-coated PDP deceivers the chance to come and destroy and take this country to the precipice again.
“Those who abandoned the party at the last minute, thinking the party would not win any election would, live to regret it.
“We should give President Muhammadu Buhari maximum support in the 2019 general elections, that is the only and shortest way to get the presidency for the Igbo.
The minister urged the people of the southeast not to be swayed by the promise of restructuring made by Atiku Abubakar of the PDP, alleging that the promise was a deceit.
He also said Atiku’s claims that he would do one tenure and go was another deceit, noting that no Nigerian would do that.
"President Olusegun Obasanjo agreed with some ex-generals who made him President that he would only do one term but we all saw how he wanted to do a third term," he said.
“Restructuring by the PDP is a proper deceit because the issue of restructuring is a constitutional matter. Nobody can do it unilaterally without recourse to the National Assembly. Restructuring is a broad area.
Ngige urged the southeast to unanimously support and vote for Buhari at the polls to stand a chance of producing the Igbo the presidency slot in 2023.
Meanwhile, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential campaign organisation has described President Muhammadu Buhari’s 2019 New Year speech as ''pathetically empty.''
The party said the president could not articulate any concrete commitment on any sector of Nigeria during the speech.