The Osita Chidoka Campaign Organization calls on the Federal Government and security agencies to apply caution in handling matters related to agitations by the people of the South East region and it also caution against any act that may lead to further confrontation with the people and aggravate the already tensed-up situation in the region.
Chidoka stated this in a statement his campaign organisation issued to the media on Sunday stating that there was need for everyone to pause and reflect on the issues affecting the south east stressing that the use of force is not the solution.
The statement stated: “The southeast has legitimate concerns; concerns that have been with us as a nation, for decades. Officials and agencies handling the matter must understand that this agitation has been a lingering issue, existing long before those leading it today were born. Silencing or subjugating them as individuals do not hold the answers, addressing the issues does.”
While commnding President Muhmmadu Buhari for openly agreeing during his recent address to the nation, that there are “legitimate concerns” and that “every group has a grievance”, the gubernatorial aspirant posited on the need for all parties concern to discuss this pressing issues so as to nip the issue of marginalization and other matters affecting the south east region to the bud.
It stated: “It is therefore, our take that the time has come for stakeholders in our nation to directly address these concerns. One of the ways to work out a mode of peaceful co-existence in a federation is when the underpinning issues of marginalization, repression and lack of opportunity being raised by any group; are fundamentally addressed without any forms of ethnic or political colorations.”
Chidoka also promised that he will stand shoulder to shoulder with the oppressed and the deprived in the society, and also the “Igbo voice” will be restored in its rightful place.
The Eagle online reports that Osita Chidoka is contesting the November 18 gubernatorial election in Anambra under the umbrella of the United Progressive Party.
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