The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has described as untrue the statement credited to Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrosheed Adewale Akanbi, that the Igbo cannot be trusted with the office of the Nigerian presidency.

Ohanaeze noted that Oba Akanbi’s attack on the Igbo was not based on any verifiable evidence but rather on self-serving interests.

Oba Akanbi had, in a statement issued through his Chief Press Secretary, Alli Ibraheem, said that “no Nigerian will feel secure in the hands of a leader whose ethnic attachment deprived other Nigerians of their rights”.

He further accused the Igbo of “preventing people from the other parts of the country from acquiring properties in their domain”, adding that “the style by the Southeasterners is barbaric”.

Reacting to the allegations on Tuesday, Ohanaeze President General, Prof. George Obiozor, described the accusations as untrue, and advised Oba Akanbi to “undergo some tutelage under some more experienced cosmopolitan urbane intelligent monarchs”, stating that a well-adjusted traditional ruler is known by being open-minded towards all, especially people of other ethnic groups that may be found in his domain.

Obiozor in a statement issued through the National Publicity Secretary of Ohanaeze, Chief Alex Ogbonnia, said, “It is self-evident that Nigeria is a beleaguered country that urgently needs nation-building; inflammatory and incendiary remarks from monarchs and the highly placed are antithetical to peace and unity of Nigeria.

“In promoting his preferred candidate, he has committed a fallacy of hasty generalisation when he stated that ‘the style by southeasterners is barbaric; the Igbo cannot be trusted with power’, among others.


“Surely, such prejudice, innuendo and vitriolic group vilifications against the entire Igbo nation is most unreflective of a royal father whose primary duty is to sow seeds of unity in his kingdom and beyond. For the avoidance of doubt, the Igbo are adventurous nation builders; they are found in all parts of Nigeria and beyond.

“The wild claims that the Igbo prevent people from the other parts of the country from acquiring properties in their domain or have an obnoxious policy of depriving other Nigerians of their rights cannot be substantiated. On the other hand, it is inconceivable that a group that builds modern houses in all parts of the country will prevent other ethnicities from building in their homestead.

“One would think that the morbid fabrication of falsehood is terrible mischief, only for the uninitiated. What else? Oba Akanbi is drawn to his paradox, where he acknowledged the damage done to the Igbo during the Nigerian civil war and at the same time condemning the agitation by Igbo youth, such as the ESN for their clamour for inclusiveness based on equity and justice after about 53 years of the Nigerian Civil War,” the statement read in part.

Kingozymandias:


Seun this proponent of tribalism has come today again to disparage my tribe

helinues:
Should Apc win the 2023 president with a Yoruba candidate

President - SW
Vice President - NE
Senate president - NW/SS
Speaker- NW/SS
Chief Whip or CJ is the next highest position left for SE.

A region that refused to play their Politics maturely the way others have been playing it. How a majority tribe relegated to that level should be one of the new discovery wonders in the world

Idiko1:
I am really flabbergasted that some goons will face sudden death in Nigeria if Biafra or Republic of Igboland is actualized yet these shifty fools will make a comment of hate towards Ndigbo. I really want to fight some of these loudmouthed imbeciles in a battlefield to see how they would defend their backwater enclaves.

Bendeco02:

who dash monkey banana?

The earlier you realize that south west is going back to opostion politics the better for you.

Bendeco02:

who dash monkey banana?

The earlier you realize that south west is going back to opostion politics the better for you.

No south west presidential candidate can collect APC ticket from Amaechi.. Know that and know peace.

simpleseyi:


We were in opposition for 16 years of PDP, yet all your parents were trooping down to Yoruba land to be able to survive hunger and poverty

Ndimkpurummiri:
His Majesty has spoken let Okoro who is not happy to go and drink sniper

simpleseyi:


Okay. But I hope you are not talking about those that taught your grandparents a terrible lesson between 1967 and 1970. You should have learnt from your grandparents' mistakes nah. Abi you want to end up being sacrificed to the Yoruba gods of Ogun, Sango, Aiyelala and Esu Odara

simpleseyi:


Okay. But I hope you are not talking about those that taught your grandparents a terrible lesson between 1967 and 1970. You should have learnt from your grandparents' mistakes nah. Abi you want to end up being sacrificed to the Yoruba gods of Ogun, Sango, Aiyelala and Esu Odara

simpleseyi:


We were in opposition for 16 years of PDP, yet all your parents were trooping down to Yoruba land to be able to survive hunger and poverty