The South-East zonal chapter of All Progressives Congress, APC, on Sunday accused Igbo leaders who are opposing the probe of former President Goodluck Jonathan of desecrating the traditions of the Igbos.

The party said the Igbo leaders who are supporting the former president, have flouted 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 faulted President Muhammadu Buhari’s planned probe of the Jonathan administration.

They stressed that limiting the probe to Jonathan’s government was an indication that Buhari was being influenced in his anti-graft campaign.

Reacting to the development, however, 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’, the South-East APC spokesman wondered why Jonathan’s defence is being championed by Igbo leaders, rather than the ex-president’s Ijaw kinsmen.

The statement read in part, “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 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, Professor Ben Nwabueze, in any form denied the mindless, pervasive and unbridled corruption which governed ex-president Jonathan’s regime. We stand to be corrected. Then why splash us with the mud?”

Okechukwu also condemned the Ohanaeze Ndigbo scribe’s argument that Buhari should extend the probe to the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo.

He 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.

According to Okechukwu “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.vanguardngr.com/2015/08/opposing-jonathans-probe-is-desecrating-igbo-traditions-seast-apc/

Let them support him.

Goodluck Jonathan is not relevant, will never be relevant and the history books will never judge him well. So, for those in support of him, they have a place in the dungeon of irrelevancy.

Birds of a feather they say flock together, so it is only the thieves in the East that will not support a probe against Good luck Jonathan.

That's good jare! Waiting for some gullible Biafra almajiris to come and label them as "EFULEFU". Awon weree

Okay......

Let's see....

Igbos are not opposing any probe. In fact they want the probe, however they want the probe to start from 1999, to ensure that the exercise does not have a victimization colouration

no one is saying that Jonathan should not be probed but you must also probe Obasanjo who spent billions of dollars on power without giving Nigerians light

Thieves defending thieves

OfoIgbo:
Igbos are not opposing any probe. In fact they want the probe, however they want the probe to start from 1999, to ensure that the exercise does not have a victimization colouration

Why should the probe start from 1999? What's wrong with someone probing a government he inherited? So Buhari should be blamed for Jonathan's inability to probe the previous government? Let's say PDP took over leadership in Lagos and decided to probe Fashola, would you have been advocating a probe from 1999?

Make them dey support the irrelevant ogogoro master. Pathetic human beings

thiS
man osita okechukwu again,why insulting your elders, we never forget your lies about transfer of book haram in the south east pls don't sell your brothers because of small yam porridge from APC. www.vanguardngr.com/2015/06/apc-refutes-alleged-relocation-of-boko-haram-detainees-to-anambra/

Nigerians and the US want to get to the roots of the Halliburton scandal and examine what one Aisha Buhari was involved in, in the whole episode.

Concentrating on GEJ's regime will not give us the opportunity to look into the Halliburton episode.

Starting from 1999 will expose what was done under a Yoruba president, Hausa/fulani president and Ijaw president, and that is the fairest way to go. Any attempt at ganging up against the Ijaw president bythe North and SW will not be supported by two zones of Nigeria. Simple and short

Igbos have not said that GEJ should not be probed. All we are saying "PROBE EVERYONE" including APC members like Amaechi, Tinubu, OBJ(halliburton and PHCN).Nobody should be a sacred cow. All the Igbo ask is that you do to Okeke as you do to Okorie, in fairness and equity. If Igbo and SS fold their hands and allow only GEJ to be probed, then it means that Easterners have agree to be 2nd class slaves and we say "tufia kwa!"