Southeast group urges Ndigbo to join voter registration exercise

An Igbo organization, the Igbo Agenda Dialogue, has begun a voters registration campaign, calling connected the radical of the portion crossed Nigeria and successful the diaspora to get afloat progressive successful the ongoing elector registration workout to regain their governmental relevance successful the country.

In an unfastened missive addressed to Ndigbo, the National Chairman of the group, Chekwas Okorie, urged Igbo radical everyplace to hole for the coming elections by becoming much politically progressive and participating afloat successful the antiauthoritarian process.

He reminded the Igbo assemblage that its colonisation successful Nigeria is wide believed to beryllium the largest among the country’s taste nationalities, noting that Igbo radical are the astir geographically dispersed taste radical successful Nigeria.

Okorie pointed retired that contempt the alleged nonaccomplishment of successive Nigerian governments to behaviour a nationalist colonisation census since 2006, studies conducted implicit the years bespeak that Igbo radical marque up astir ninety 9 percent of the colonisation successful the Southeast geopolitical zone.

He added that the aforesaid studie...