By Nwabueze Okonkwo
Notable Igbo leaders, including retired army
generals, led by the former President-General of
Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Dr Dozie Ikedife, have appealed
to the president-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari,
to give Ndigbo their pride of place in his in-coming
administration, not minding that Ndigbo did not give
him massive vote during the just concluded
presidential election.
The leaders, who made the appeal during a private
visit to Buhari, confessed that the people of the
South-East voted heavily for the PDP and not very
much for the APC, thereby creating the impression
that the president-elect was not supported by the
Igbo.
Disclosing this to newsmen at his Nnewi home,
yesterday, Ikedife declared: “Our private visit to the
president-elect was to let him know that he is the
president for all and that he has to accommodate
people from the South-East in his administration,
whether they voted for him or not, afterall, Ndigbo
are not saying that he did not win the election”.
Ikedife noted that the purpose of the visit was to
appeal to Buhari not to leave the Igbo in the cold in
his appointments and infrastructural development
because of the low support he received from the
South-East during the presidential election.
“We have people who are capable, qualified,
hardworking and technocrats who can work with
him in Igbo land. We have people like the former
Governor of Abia State, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, very
brilliant and very respectful. We have Oscar Udoji
and other people of high integrity and dedicated
politicians like Dr Chris Nwabueze Ngige. And there
are people who worked tirelessly for the APC to win
in the South East, people who did not vie for any
elective position, no matter the low number of
votes they attracted because of the overwhelming
South East support for the PDP. It is important that
these people should be accommodated”, the Igbo
leader said.
He noted that while it was a known fact that the
National Executive Council, NEC, of the APC had
done its zoning as to who got what, the Igbo should
be well accommodated and not to be left to pick the
crumbs.
Ikedife explained that personally he was too old to
be given any strainous appointment and that he
could only play on the win. He said all was to
protect the interest of the Igbo as an Igbo leader.
On Buhari’s reaction to their request, he said the
president-elect was friendly and appreciated the
visit but did not say outright that he was going to
grant the request or not “since we did not sign any
contract with him.”

www.vanguardngr.com/2015/05/ikedife-ex-ohanaeze-boss-leads-ndigbo-to-buhari-pledges-igbo-loyalty/

Hmm

Buhari never abhors hatred towards the igbos, he loves you all despite not voting for him...

He would surely carry the igbos along because he is the president of NIGERIA and not the president of North and southwest..