Group Warns Against Planned Protests In Umuahia And Abuja Against Orji And Son

A prominent group, Coalition of Southeast Youth Leaders (COSEYL), on Tuesday, February 18, cautioned protesters in Abuja and Umuahia over their planned protest against former governor of Abia State and Senator, Theodore Orji, and his son, Chinedum Orji, the Speaker of the Abia State House of Assembly to cease and desist from doing so.

The group made this known in a statement signed by its President, Mr Goodluck lbem and Secretary General respectively and available to media houses in Tuesday.

COSEYL in its statement urged the people not to allow themselves to be used as agents to destabilize the Democratic process in the country adding that all the allegations levelled against Senator T. A. Orji and his son, Engr. Chinedum, are false, baseless and unfounded.

The statement read in parts; “Our attention has been drawn to a protest on Wednesday 19 February,2020 by the opposition in Abia state against our distinguish Senator Theodore Ahamefula Orji and his family over a baseless and unfounded allegations by some disgruntled opposition elements who wants to take advantage of our gullible youths and women to cause disaffection and destroy the peace and tranquility been enjoyed by Abians and its residents”

“It is very unfortunate that some people believe the drugs sold to them by some miscreants and haters of Abia to be true and factual. People should learn to think and reason when they read some stories.
It is not every story that you swallow line and sinker. Only a brainless individual will believe such falsehood by Ochendo Global enemies.

“These protesters and their sponsors are anti-democratic forces and enemies of Ndigbo and we will flush them out from Abia state.”

COSEYL further added that; “Former Senate President of the 8th Senate, Senator Bukola Saraki was accused of corruption but when he’s matter came to court, the took their time to look into the matter and the court discovered that he was falsely accused of all those wrongdoings.

“He was discharged and acquitted. It is only the court that has the constitutional rights to trail any matter or case. The media is not the court. Senator T. A. Orji and his family are innocent of all these allegations.

“The petitioners falsely accused him of embezzling all the allocation sent to Abia state. In their petition, they told the EFCC that he never paid salaries, pension and did not perform any government function (s).

“Only misfits will write such a petition. We call on those who have been brainwashed by these criminal group called ‘Save Nigeria Group’ to immediately jettison the protesters and go about their normal business.”