Igbo traders, traditional rulers back Jonathan, Agbaje

TO ensure that President Goodluck Jonathan continues “his great successes and achievements” the Igbo in Lagos, under the umbrella of Igbo Traders’ Association, at the weekend vowed to support him for a second term. 

   Also, traditional rulers from the zone on Monday endorsed the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for Lagos State, Mr. Jimi Agbaje.

   The spokesman and Secretary of Eze Ndi Igbo in the Diaspora, Eze John-Greg Okey Ezebuadi (Ogboroagha Ndigbo I), announced the endorsement in a communiqué after a two-day meeting of the traditional rulers at the palace of Eze Hyacinth Ohazulike, chairman of the Igbo Supreme Traditional Heads in Lagos.

   Speaking at a meeting of the traders to support President Jonathan, Chairman of the occasion, Ban Akah, an engineer, pledged that every member of the association would never disappoint Jonathan in the election, as they are ready to work with him. 

  Also speaking at the epoch-making event of the traders’ association in Lagos, Executive Secretary of the Petroleum Training Development Fund (PTDF) and Convener, Goodluck Good Governance Group (G4), Femi Ajayi, while thanking the traders’ associations for their support, passionately pleaded with them to  “vote wisely for Jonathan and the PDP.” 

  The traditional rulers regretted that despite the support given the incumbent regime of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state, their people had enjoyed no collateral benefits.

  Instead, according to them, Igbo indigenes and businesses had been at the receiving end of harsh government policies.

  They reportedly recalled instances of the unceremonious deportation of indigent Igbo people from Lagos.

   Agbaje, in his response promised that a PDP government under him would strive for the welfare of every citizen in the state, indigene or non-indigene.