The All Progressives Congress in the South-East on
Sunday accused Igbo leaders who are opposing the probe of former President Goodluck Jonathan of desecrating the traditions of the Igbos.
It said the Igbo leaders who are supporting the former
president are in breach of the traditional admonition which forbade Igbos from identifying with thieves or alleged thieves.

Several Igbo leaders, including Prof. Ben Nwabueze,
Chairman of the Igbo Leaders of Thought, and the
Secretary-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Joe
Nwaorgu, had in recent times kicked against President
Muhammdu Buhari’s decision to restrict the planned
probe to Jonathan’s administration.
They believe that Jonathan’s government should not be
probed unless other previous federal administrations are included.

However, reacting to the development, the South-East
APC, in a statement by its spokesman, Mr. Osita
Okechukwu, told the concerned Igbo leaders to stop
desecrating Igbo tradition by supporting Jonathan.
In the statement titled ‘Stop desecration of Igbo tradition,’ Okechukwu wondered why Jonathan’s defence is being championed by Igbo leaders, rather than the ex- president’s Ijaw kinsmen.
Part of the statement read, “The South-East Zonal Chapter of the All Progressives Congress calls on Igbo leaders, in the name of defending our dear ex-president, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GCFR, to stop the desecration of the long standing Igbo tradition and by extension, our revered ancestors.

“Our worry is that the timeless Igbo tradition, which
admonishes us not to steal, and not to defend nor
associate with rogues or even alleged rogues, is being
flagrantly breached by prominent Igbo sons, crying more than Ijaw sons and daughters.
“We are yet to locate any sentence where any of them,
even our revered icon, erudite and constitutional lawyer,
Prof. Ben Nwabueze, in any form denied the mindless,
pervasive and unbridled corruption which governed ex-
president Jonathan’s regime. We would like to be
corrected. Then why splash us with the mud?”

Okechukwu equally condemned Nwaorgu’s argument that Buhari should extend the probe to the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo.
The South-East APC spokesman accused Nwaorgu of deliberately blocking a planned meeting between Buhari and Ohanaeze Ndigbo before the elections.
According to Okechukwu, Buhari conveyed his request for the meeting, where he intended to “chart the way forward with Ndigbo,” in a letter forwarded to the Ohanaeze Ndigbo secretariat in November 2014.
“May we appeal to Chief Joe Nwaorgu and his cohorts, if actually the interest of Ndigbo is what they are fighting for, to climb down from their high horses, drop their ancient stereotypes and stop the hate narratives and embrace the true position that Ndigbo stands to gain more from President Buhari’s regime, if ever we gained from our massive support to former president Jonathan.
“Failing which, Chief Joe Nwaorgu and his cohorts, may
wittingly or unwittingly confirm the allegation that they –
Ndigbo ultra-defenders of Jonathan – were beneficiaries of presidential campaign slush funds,” Okechukwu added.

The South-East APC argued that “Ndigbo like all hard
working groups in the country,” stand to gain more from
Buhari’s administration than Jonathan’s, which it accused of dispensing patronage to cronies.
The party added that the Igbos are more likely to realise
their wish to have one of their own as president of the
country through Buhari.
Okechukwu added, “The Igbo ethnic merchants and
gossip-terrorists, who bandy all manner of conspiracy
hate theories against President Buhari, must come to
terms that an eight-year tenure of the man of uncommon integrity is the surest route to actualisation of president of Igbo extraction, given the zoning convention.”

http://www.punchng.com/news/jonathans-probe-igbos-wont-identify-with-thieves-says-seast-apc/

Good.....

Fools. When did Ben Nwabueze say Jonathan shouldn't be probed?

yawns!!!

Ohanneze enjoyed part of the national cakes during GEJ administration and are trying to cover it be stopping the probe!!!

There's nothing like APC in South East. People making noise are only attention seekers.

Onye pu gi uzo baa ohia, ka gi ohia eche! Okechukwu respect your elders especially the prof.
common sense should tell you that any reasonable probe should start at least from 1999 if not earlier as suggested by the Prof. This is to expose everybody involved in this plaque. Probing Jonathan ' s regime will only expose the small theives at the same time celebrating the GOD FATHERS who institutionalised corruption in the country. In probing GEJ, the north are targeting igbos whom we know worked with GEJ for only 6 years!( 6 years when everybody is exposed to a lot of information about the government, check the population of naira land around 1999-2007 and compare with now, 80% of this boys we witness here on a daily basis does not even have a fone)leaving OBJ and his boys( who are now architects of change in Apc) that ruled from 1999 to 2007 when we were all just waking up from sleep,Atiku and his boys who now control national assembly, these are the people that set the template for GEJ'S govt,they are the richest in Nigeria presently, they control part of this government and seems to be bigger than the govt of baba.
99%of politicians in Nigeria are dirty including you (okechukwu).hence the need to start a probe from the root.

stickncarrot:
There's nothing like APC in South East. People making noise are only attention seekers.

My brother I tire ooooooo, Buhari is yet to appoint any of the rablerousers to any office yet they are ranting