US-based Nigerians who are passionate about the fate of the country
will no longer be subject to the intimidation of "do or die" Nigerian
politicians, ACN's gubernatorial candidate in Benue State at the
recently concluded elections, Steve Ugbah has said.
"Some of our political colleagues in Nigeria think those of us abroad
are so comfortable there that we cannot take the heat here (ie of the
Nigerian political scene,) this is our opportunity to tell them that our
destiny is in Nigeria also," Ugbah said in a telephone interview with
Empowered Newswire during the week.
According to him, Nigerians in the US and elsewhere in the Diaspora,
"are not just complaining for its sake, we are coming home to put our
money where our mouths are and to provide solutions."
Ugbah, 57, a university Professor in California for 27 years was
declared loser in the Benue State guber polls but he is challenging the
results at the Election Petitions Tribunal.
More significantly however his case and cause are now ammunitions in
the mobilization of a number of US-based Nigerian professionals, many of
whom are actively supporting him and advocating his cause here in
America after he was arrested recently on the orders of the Benue State
Governor Gabriel Suswan for alleged public incitement.
US-based Nigerians and groups here like the defunct US-PRONACO
chairman, Dr. Baba Adam, Ernest Ezeocha, the Executive Director of
the Nigeria Forum in California, Ugbah's wife, herself a Nigerian
professor here, Stevina Evuleocha, his sister Rosemary Akhidenor are
among several others here known to be actively involved in mobilizing
the US media, US government law makers, officials and other US-based
Nigerians to rise in defense of Ugbah after he was arrested.
read moreLabels: empowered news wire.
