Senate 2015: Anambra Youth Group endorses Victor Umeh

Following the advocacy call to the Federal Government
of Nigeria by the National Chairman of the All
Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief Victor Umeh,
for the institution of an amnesty programme to
rehabilitate youth members of the Movement for the
Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB)
and the Biafra Zionist Movement (BZM), groups from
Anambra Youth extraction, identified as Ibezi Youth
Vanguard, has thrown their weight behind Chief Umeh,
admitting that many youths from Igbo extraction have
been misused by some Igbo leaders.

Recall that Chief Victor Umeh, in a press briefing at
Enugu, enjoined government to release
unconditionally, members of the pro-Biafra groups held
in cells across the country in the spirit of the national
reconciliation and as well urged Federal Government to
halt the prosecution of BZM members arrested in
Enugu and MASSOB members standing trial, in the
spirit of the amnesty.

He however likened MASSOB youths to the Niger Delta
militants who were granted amnesty by the
government, venting that the MASSOB youths were
misused by their leader, Chief Ralph Uwazurike.
Meanwhile, MASSOB, through its spokesman, Mazi
Chris Mocha described Umeh as a political jobber who
works against the interest of MASSOB, saying that the
movement doesn’t want amnesty but Sovereignty,
pointing out that MASSOB rejected Federal Government
Committee on amnesty programme in 2013.

The Ibezi Youth Vanguad in a release signed by its
National president, Comrade Chukwuemeka Okose
and the Publicity secretary, Ifeanyi Udoh tip Umeh as
the only honest man in Igbo land for his courage on
amnesty issue and as well declared him the best
candidate for Anambra Central Senatorial zone, come
2015.

“Umeh’s stand on amnesty reflects the wishes of Ndi-
Igbo especially the youths because our colleagues are
in various cells languishing. That is the kind of thing we
expect from our leaders, and not leaders who can
spend 4years in the senate only to come back with a
mobile and wireless toilet at the tune of N250m.

We want people that will be a voice and a father to the
youths. We have been pushed to the wall in this nation,
yet, nobody cares about us and that is why we need a
courageous leader like Ohamadike ndi Igbo in the
senate” it reads.