The Enone Youth Solidarity Movement (EYSM) has condemned the recent defection of some prominent members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of the Benue-South rerun election slated for February this year.
In a statement signed by its leader, Mr. Charles Achadu, the group described the defectors as unrepentant political saboteurs who lack integrity
The group urged people of Zone C of Bemue state to remain resolute on their decision to stand by former Senate President Mr. David Mark in the trying times of his political career. The group said it was pitiable that some of their elders in the Enone axis who have immensely benefited from Mark are being swayed by the carrot and stick antics of the APC in the state.
“When Senator Ameh Ebute’s political relevance was completely dwindled, it was through Mark’s influence and benevolence that he was made the Board Chairman of National Open University of Nigeria by Goodluck Jonathan. A position he still enjoys till date.
“Can Professor Jerry Agada point out any meaningful thing he did for the Idoma people when he was Minister of State for Education among other positions he has held both at the state and federal level? Of what relevance is Lawani to the Idoma people if after serving for eight years as the number two man in Benue state and was unable to influence any project in Zone C. It is completely laughable when men like him who presided over the looting of the Benue peoples’ commonwealth is now criticizing Mark and being celebrated by the APC,” the group said.
The group said those trying to deploy the state and external apparatus to foist a representative on the Idoma people would be resisted,mastersinger that the likes of Ebute, Agada, Lawani and others are sworn saboteurs of the collective aspiration of Idoma as a people and should be ready to accept the consequences of their actions when the cock finally comes to roost.
The group said “these men cannot deliver their polling units as they were all in PDP when the party lost the April 2015 elections to the APC,” and advised the APC to be extremely careful with such men derive pleasure in defecting to ruling parties.
The group has also condemned the recent kidnap attempt on former Minister of Interior and Director General of David Mark Campaign Organization, Comrade Abba Moro.
The group said the attempt was targeted at shutting the People’s Comrade up due to his outspokenness and doggedness in the campaign for the re-election of Mark, and called on the Nigerian Police Force to thoroughly investigate the case and bring the orchestrators of the mundane act to justice.
The group also urged the Enone people and the entire Idoma nation to put the detractors to shame once again by voting massively for the Okpokpowulu Ki’ Idoma come February 20, 2016.
