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The All Progressives Congress says contrary to speculations, it is not opposed to the aspirations of the Igbo nation.

The party said this while responding to an ultimatum issued to it by the youth wing of a Pan-Igbo group, Ohaneze Ndigbo, that the APC must apologise to the entire Igbo community for branding the former Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika (retd.), a Boko Haram sponsor, or prepare to be shunned at the polls in 2015.

In a statement issued by the APC South-East, spokesperson, Mr. Osita Okechukwu, it assured the Igbo, especially the Ohaneze Ndigbo Youth Wing that its aim was the welfare of all Nigerians, irrespective of the part of the country they originate from.

The APC said its National Chairman, John Odigie-Oyegun, did not accuse Ihejirika of sponsoring Boko Haram but only called for an investigation into the allegation levelled against him by the Australian negotiator, Dr. Stephen Davis.

The APC said, For the avoidance of doubt, what our National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, said was that President Goodluck Jonathan should invite the International Criminal Court to investigate and prosecute Senator Ali Modu Sherif and Lt-Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika (retd.), consequent upon the allegation levelled by the Federal Government negotiator, Dr. Stephen Davis. Nigeria is a signatory to the ICC and it seems Boko Haram has overwhelmed Mr. President.

The APC in league with other Nigerian patriots is of the candid view that unravelling the masterminds, sponsors, allies and sympathisers of the monster called Boko Haram, is a sure bet to stamping out the insurgency.

This is what our great party is patriotically demanding, and we sincerely reassure Ohaneze Ndigbo Youth Wing that we mean well. We have no apology to tender to anybody.

The party added that it acted in the best tradition of democracy by asking Jonathan to invite the ICC to investigate and prosecute Sheriff, Ihejirika and any other person found culpable.

It said, It needs to be stated that the Federal Government of Nigeria more than a week after Daviss startling allegation has neither made a rebuttal statement nor dismissed the Australian.

Mrs. Marlyn Ogar is the spokesperson of the Department of Security Service, she is not Dr. Reuben Abati or Mr. Labaran Maku presidential spokesman and Federal Government spokesman respectively. To say that her statements recently are more or less unprofessional and less than transparent is a food for thought for Ohaneze Ndigbo Youths and their co-travellers.

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Were not anti-Igbo, says APC