Ikpeazu: Some of IPOB’s grievances are valid — they should be addressed squarely

Okezie Ikpeazu, governor of Abia state, says some of the grievances of the proscribed Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB) are valid.

IPOB, a secessionist group, has been linked with attacks on security agencies and facilities in the south-east, the most recent being the attack on Owerri Custodial Centre and police command.

Speaking on Arise TV on Tuesday, Ikpeazu said some of the “issues raised” by IPOB should be addressed.

He said it is only when those concerns are acknowledged that elected officials will be granted solid ground to preach the gospel of Nigeria’s unity.

The governor expressed his opposition to the strategy IPOB uses in pushing for its demands. He urged the group to table its grievances in a civil manner.

He said: “I have taken my time to listen to some of these issues raised by IPOB: issues about injustice, issues of marginalisation, issues of trust deficits within the polity called Nigeria as it concerns people from south-eastern Nigeria. And I think some of those are valid issues and they should be addressed and spoken to; they should be addressed squarely. So that everybody and those of us that are in government today can have a foothold within the south-east region to continue to promote the unity of Nigeria.

“I do not subscribe to the strategy of IPOB in pursuing their goals. And the reason is because I’m yet to see the end of the tunnel from where I’m standing and I do not like to take a plunge in the dark. We must engage and discuss the issue which is bothering them and everybody and we can’t continue to pretend as if these issues are not valid.


“Equal rights and justice is an indelible right of all citizens and if through impunity and carelessness we allow a group of people to begin to feel like they’re not rightly represented within the polity, it creates a lacuna where people are no longer confident in the government to protect them and take care of their interest within the polity. There’s bound to be agitation one way or another. Some of these reactions may extrapolate to levels that may undermine national convention and unity.”

The increasing insecurity in the region spurred south-east governors to establish Ebube Agu, a joint security outfit that was announced on April 11.

https://www.thecable.ng/ikpeazu-some-of-Igbos-grievances-are-valid-they-should-be-addressed-squarely

Hmmm ok

Oga don dey get sense

Nigga trying to sweet-talk IPOB into accepting EBUBEAGU. Nice try.

Igbos agitation has gone way beyond mere marginalisation of the SE.

The main point is that most Igbos are now tired of Nigeria and its imbalances. They want out.

The minimum that I suspect Igbos may tolerate is a new federal Constitution with resource control,right to self determination and referendum solidly engraved in such a constitution.

Otherwise, ideally Igbos are now outrightly asking for referendum and Biafra.

Finally,. They are all coming around to the issues.
Whether you are igbo or not, if you look at the igbo experience in Nigeria and find nothing foundamentally wrong, you are not just biased, you are evil!

For more than half a century, since the end of the war, political power brokers in the country have turned Marginalisation and humiliations of the igbo into national sports..., And few Nigerians of other ethnicities speak up against this.

Gani Fahwemi when he was alive used to be the only non igbo going to court to fight obvious cases of marginalisations against the east. Everybody else felt the east deserves it... They're entitled to their opinions, the Igbos are entitled to their revolt..

We have come to the stage where something must give... At most, Buhari will be there for two more years and he will then set the country on fire with his succession politics and it will be all man to his tent.. The Evils of the Nigerian state against the Igbos are unforgivable..

Foolish ipob terrorists

uptimum123:
Foolish ipob terrorists

Typical Fulani Dunce !

the federal government won't listen as long it is not herdsmen grievances

I am for unity of the country only if each individual ethnicities and cultural differences are respected and their rights not truncated. If not the balkanization of this contraption will prove beneficial

Upon how he is a collosal failure.
This is how Abaribw finance Ipob but for 16 years he keeps fooling your father's to return him to the senate without initiating a single project.

Freestainworld:
Oga don dey get sense

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Shawnnn01:
Upon how he is a collosal failure.
This is how Abaribw finance Ipob but for 16 years he keeps fooling your father's to return him to the senate without initiating a single project.

Is abaraibe the minister for works or your president? ,the people he is representing are happy with him and all of igbo land is PROUD of him, we know that if we have two like him, we will not be where we are now, keep your advice and fake concern to yourself

There is lesson to learn from what the governor have said.

First is hope, second Umahi now Ikpeazu u see wat force and violence can do in Nigeria, no one takes you serious unless you start killing

It is a shame to be addressed as a Nigerian, am not happy been seen as a Nigerian

What he said just fell on deaf ears.

Gradually the scales are falling off, sense is swimming in and reality setting in.

A structure built on the pillar of injustice, favoritism, nepotism, sectionalism, religious imbalance and gross deception with falsehood, such as Nigeria, is only taking time, except the key actors wake up to reality and do the needful.

If that was how foolish Igbos on NL kept their advice n concern of buhari Tinu Osinbajo Fashola Aregbe n Co I might have considered your request but fools like you want to have opinions over those I listed but you do not want other Nigerians right to have opinion on the failure ruling igbo land. You see say your papa head no correct.

mbaise1000:
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Is abaraibe the minister for works or your president? ,the people he is representing are happy with him and all of igbo land is PROUD of him, we know that if we have two like him, we will not be where we are now, keep your advice and fake concern to yourself

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Shawnnn01:
If that was how foolish Igbos on NL kept their advice n concern of buhari Tinu Osinbajo Fashola Aregbe n Co I might have considered your request but fools like you want to have opinions over those I listed but you do not want other Nigerians right to have opinion on the failure ruling igbo land. You see say your papa head no correct.

It's mad people who will rush to call others mad and fools who believe others are fools, if you are a little more intelligent you will reslise that there are three groups of people that are not entitled to their opinion, they are mad people, dead people and fools, so if I did tell you to keep your opinion to yourself, it simply means you fall into one of those groups and as you just proved, I am always right on that

Nobody can ignore the truth for long.