Nkire urges Igbos to join APC

A member of the All Progressives Congress National Caucus, Chief Sam Nkire, has urged Igbos in Nigeria to take advantage of the continuous registration exercise of the APC to join the ruling party.
Chief Nkire spoke after a meeting of Abia State stakeholders of the party on how to boost membership of the Igbos in the APC.
He said the APC was the surest means of producing a Nigerian president of Igbo extraction.
He added that what Igbos laboured in vain for in the Peoples Democratic Party for a long period of 16 years would be achieved in a shorter time if more people from the region joined the APC.
The Abia State born politician, who is a former National Chairman of the Progressives Peoples Alliance, also predicted that not less than seven states, including Delta and Rivers States, would fall to APC by the 2019 general election if more Igbo speaking people join the party.
Nkire advised his Igbo brothers and sisters still in the PDP, both elected and non elected, to seize the opportunity of the present crisis in the party and “jump out of the sinking ship before it is too late”.
He particularly told the people of Abia State to troop out in large numbers in order to be counted among participants in Nigeria’s mainstream politics.