ID card: Northern leaders exonerate Okorocha14.07.2014. …opposition insists governor is guilty The Hausa community in Imo State, at the weekend, exonerated Governor Rochas Okorocha from any blame in the controversy surrounding the issuance of identity cards to northerners residing in the state. But the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, still insisted that the governor’s planned registration was condemnable. Speaking to newsmen over…opposition insists governor is guilty The Hausa community in Imo State, at the weekend, exonerated Governor Rochas Okorocha from any blame in the controversy surrounding the issuance of identity cards to northerners residing in the state. But the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, still insisted that the governor’s planned registration was condemnable. Speaking to newsmen over the weekend at the PDP secretariat, Owerri, during the presentation of 400 bags of rice to the Hausa community in the state to mark end of Ramadan fasting, the Seriki, Alhaji Baba Saidu Suleiman, explained that the governor never directed them to register their members residing in the state. The seriki, who was represented by Prince Suleman Ibrahim, explained that the decision was taken by the Hausa leaders to enable them monitor closely the activities of their members in the state. “We decided to join hands to know ourselves to enable us check infiltration because people were associating every Hausa person with Boko Haram insurgency. “So, the government did not direct us to register ourselves; it was a decision we took without any external influence,” he explained. He noted that Hausa, Igbo, Christians and Moslems in the state were living in peace. “We cannot live without the Igbo and they cannot live without us. Allah has joined us together,” he stated. However, speaking earlier, the Chairman of PDP in Imo State, Mr. Nnamdi Anyaehe, described the governor’s purported action as “criminal and unconstitutional.” He said that Nigeria, as the most populous country in Africa, has different religious, cultural and traditional beliefs, adding that “everybody should be allowed to practice his/her religion irrespective of the diversity.” The chairman expressed happiness that the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan had provided an enabling environment for people to practice their religion, saying that any attempt to cause disunity must be discouraged.

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The Hausa leader said they formulated the idea themselves in order to know who is who among the hausa community living in Imo state and monitor themselves to prevent infiltration by hoodlums, yet the PDP leader speaking at the same ceremony went ahead to lambast the Imo state government for ''discrimination''.
Na wa 0!

Make I buy land here 1st

We, Igbos, will use desperation for offices and destroy ourselves! They should be a limit for politicking! Before, it was Rochas islamizing Imo State, when it suited them, now is Rochas profiling the same Islamic people. This man Rochas, must be too powerful to have all these evil forces ganged against him tufikwa for Ndigbo!

Clerverly: We, Igbos, will use desperation for offices and destroy ourselves! They should be a limit for politicking! Before, it was Rochas islamizing Imo State, when it suited them, now is Rochas profiling the same Islamic people. This man Rochas, must be too powerful to have all these evil forces ganged against him tufikwa for Ndigbo!

^^^Abeg leave Ndigbo out of your tirade!

Since when has the actions and utterances of a few politicians and party members become the official position of an entire ethnicity?

IGBOSON1:

^^^Abeg leave Ndigbo out of your tirade!

Since when has the actions and utterances of a few politicians and party members become the official position of an entire ethnicity?

No matter the side we fall into, let us strife to condemn this "few" politicians when they err! The same reason, you will never see me criticizing Governor Chime!

Clerverly:

No matter the side we fall into, let us strife to condemn this "few" politicians when they err! The same reason, you will never see me criticizing Governor Chime!

Nwaniba who says they are not being condemned when they err?
Must you use whatever opportunity you have to insult Igbos while claiming to be Igbo yourself?

C0llynzO2:
Nwaniba who says they are not being condemned when they err?
Must you use whatever opportunity you have to insult Igbos while claiming to be Igbo yourself?

I am not here to debate, whether I am igbo or not. All I am saying is that, we should not allow these "few politicians" as espoused by Igboson in his post, to take the entire Igbo people as their collateral damages, in their lust for power! I care less on what happens in Imo State politically!

Rochas keeps making headlines for the wrong reasons, cant wait for 2015 when the iddiott will be kicked out of douglas house

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