By Next Year Igbos Will Take Over From Fashola – APGA Leader Umeh

In a brave and controversial statement, All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) leader Chief Victor Umeh told reporters that come 2015, Lagos will be under the APGA flag.

APGA Chief Victor Umeh 

Umeh, who gave an interview to The Punch reporters, said in 2015 Lagos elections only 2 million votes are needed to gain the gubernatorial position, and, with over 10 million Igbos and half that number sympathetic with the APGA cause, there is more than a high chance of this becoming a reality.

More excerpts of the discussion are below:

You talk about capacity; how many supporters does APGA have in Lagos?

If democracy is about the electorate, APGA has what it takes to win elections in Lagos. The Igbo in Lagos today are more than 10 million, not to talk of other non-indigenes, who are not loyal to the APC. Although not every Igbo man will vote for APGA, but those who we know as our potential supporters and sympathisers are more than five million. If what is required to get to Alausa is about two million votes, which no one has surpassed, APGA will get it. Election is not about the elite; it’s about the ordinary people who will go out and cast their votes.