digbo, Prince Uche Achi-Okpaga

National Publicity Secretary of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Prince Uche Achi-Okpaga, tells IHUOMA CHIEDOZIE that President Muhammadu Buhari was not fair to the Igbo in 2017

President Muhammadu Buhari’s supporters have started campaigning for his reelection. Do you support his second term bid?

l think President Muhammadu Buhari should embrace retirement because politics or the business of governance no longer looks good for him going by his earlier declaration that he wished he were younger. Recall when he said “At 72 there is a limit to what I can do.” Also recall that he recently celebrated his 75th birthday. I would encourage him to look for a younger politician from the North.

What is your assessment of President Buhari’s attitude towards the Igbo in 2017?

The President’s attitude, interest or concern for the Ndigbo is visibly cosmetic. Yes! No matter how he, or any of his political foot soldiers, may want to defend it. His last minute consideration of Ndigbo for appointments is a political gimmick to keep them in suspense in lieu of 2019. Bear in mind it is just consideration for now, not appointment yet. I have never observed any fairness from Buhari towards Ndigbo since his days as military head of state in 1983 up till now. Buhari disappointed the Igbo when he quickly deployed soldiers with armoured tanks against our youths who were exercising their fundamental human rights and yet he was reluctant to address the case of his Fulani herdsmen, who are still raping women in tens and hundreds, killing and pulverising farms and villages. Yet the Federal Government is said to be encouraging agriculture. What an antithesis! When your source of livelihood is destroyed, you are, as described in the Holy Bible in the book of Revelation, living but you are dead. The Federal Government can negotiate with the world acclaimed second deadliest terrorist group, Boko Haram, but cannot negotiate with the lgbo youths who were merely throwing tantrums and asking for a better standard of living. Is the Buhari government fair to the Ndigbo when it stopped work on the second Niger Bridge? Is the President fair to us when he looked the other way while officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission embarrassed, harassed and arrested the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Innoson Group, Chief Innocent Chukwuma, over a matter that was pending in court? What of the hurried arrest of Senator Pius Anyim while a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation like him who was said to have ‘re-grassed the desert’ was first given a clean bill by the nation’s chief law officer, before he was subsequently indicted by the Senate and the Vice President’s panel?


Is it fair to cut off the entire South-East region from the National Security Council? I can go on and on and you can call visible and observable facts hate speech, l have no apologies whatsoever. President Muhammadu Buhari has not been fair to Ndigbo.

Do you think the Igbo will vote for Buhari in 2019?

Those who would want to vote for President Buhari are free to exercise their franchise. Personally, l did not vote for him in 2015, neither will l in 2019, chiefly on the grounds of age. By now he should be an elder statesman and a veritable counsellor to his adherents.

Is it late for Buhari to change the way Igbo feel about him? What should he do to address this problem?

So long as there is life, there is hope. However, some things are better left unsaid. On the eve of Christmas a friend said we should forget about unity in Nigeria, for now, and focus on faith, peace and progress. l quite agree with him lock, stock and barrel. I sincerely identify with Atiku Abubakar’s assertion that Buhari’s government has divided the country more than ever. I would say it has divided the country even more than the civil war and unwittingly threading the verge of precipitous political peregrination. Debates on the subject aggravate the people the more. As for whether there is anything Buhari could do to change the way that the Igbo perceive him, he should appoint a service chief from the South-East or make an Igbo man, minister of the Federal Capital Territory.


How will you assess President Buhari’s performance, particularly in the fight against corruption and the economy?

The fight against corruption under this government is more like window shopping. Nobody fought corruption. Instead, they gave corruption a new dressing, so that virtually all the assumed corrupt ones under the umbrella have crossed over to embrace the broom with which to dispel the EFCC and her sister agencies. What a soft landing. Concerning the economy, by now you must have been abreast of the beer parlour slang of buharimania or buharitime. It simply means time of hardship. Even in the said corrupt and looting days of the former administration, Nigerians were adjudged among the happiest people in the whole world. Now, every mistake or deficiency of this administration is heaped on the former government.

What are the Igbo expecting from President Buhari in 2018?

We are not expecting miracles from Buhari. We are not oblivious that soldier will come and go, the barracks remain. Let me hazard optimism that the physical manifestations of President Buhari’s humane side will come very soon



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The National secretary of ohaneze is mad

Hopeless man

Can you imagine

So we should have allowed that madness of Nnamdi KANU and his foolish followers to persists.

sarrki:
The National secretary of ohaneze is mad

Hopeless man

Can you imagine

So we should have allowed that madness of Nnamdi KANU and his foolish followers to persists.

@sarki.I did not read ur epistle.with everything going on in ds country @ d moment xspecially at d political scence.youth like u should be ashamed of urself.u think by bringing ds topic on,u can divert d attentions from ur paymaster dead list?it's just unfortunate.All d money you ve made for supporting evil in 2017 shld b enuf for u to start a reasonable biz in 2018.pls brother.u don't ve to continue like ds.

sarrki:
The National secretary of ohaneze is mad

Hopeless man

Can you imagine

So we should have allowed that madness of Nnamdi KANU and his foolish followers to persists.

How a full grown man like you would be so obsessed about a man your age is a mystery!
So Kanu is the cause of your badluck in life abi?

DLondonboiy:


How a full grown man like you would be so obsessed about a man your age is a mystery!
So Kanu is the cause of your badluck in life abi?

Lol, the young man might be gay. Cos only an homosexual can be this obsessed about another man. So advise him to come out of the closet instead of masking his love for Kanu with hate..

sarrki:
The National secretary of ohaneze is mad

Hopeless man

Can you imagine

So we should have allowed that madness of Nnamdi KANU and his foolish followers to persists.

You should convincingly disprove his claim. If you can't, then you're the mad and hopeless 'creature' here.

ONYE'ARA!

sarrki:
The National secretary of ohaneze is mad

Hopeless man

Can you imagine

So we should have allowed that madness of Nnamdi KANU and his foolish followers to persists.

”go and tell Buhari that he is a mad man”- nnmadi Kanu

Hofbrauhaus:


Lol, the young man might be gay. Cos only an homosexual can be this obsessed about another man. So advise him to come out of the closet instead of masking his love for Kanu with hate..

Sarrki is this true? Is there anything you are not telling Nairalanders?

Sarrki, come on. Ohaneze has gone mad again. Oldmen thinking with there anus

Buhari doesn’t know what he did..

Even children in the east now know nigeria and Nigerians hate them.

The biafran dreams has successfully been instilled in the younger igbo generation.

That was kanu’s plan all along..to bring the fight for biafra to “every” Igbo

sarrki:
The National secretary of ohaneze is mad

Hopeless man

Can you imagine

So we should have allowed that madness of Nnamdi KANU and his foolish followers to persists.

but the rampaging Fulani herdsmen are untouchable

Could this be one of the internet Automated mumus they were talking about...
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this man must be intelligent, nice command of English

raker300:
Buhari doesn’t know what he did..

Even children in the east now know nigeria and Nigerians hate them.

The biafran dreams has successfully been instilled in the younger igbo generation.

That was kanu’s plan all along..to bring the fight for biafra to “every” Igbo

Like this shay ?

Always playing the victim card

sarrki:
The National secretary of ohaneze is mad

Hopeless man

Can you imagine

So we should have allowed that madness of Nnamdi KANU and his foolish followers to persists.

tell the people of Adamawa and benue why the fulanis are using them for Suya..

Igbos are not your problem

sarrki:


Like this shay ?

Always playing the victim card

no, like this..

Yorubas always playing double standard...you don't want igbos but you don't want them to leave


Don’t worry..2018 ruling on referendum will see that all this igbo nonsense seize

raker300:
tell the people of Adamawa and benue why the fulanis are using them for Suya..

Igbos are not your problem

Raker my in-law

Calm down and breath gently

sarrki:
The National secretary of ohaneze is mad

Hopeless man

Can you imagine

So we should have allowed that madness of Nnamdi KANU and his foolish followers to persists.

. a typical yorubaastardt with fugly looking face



chukwu kpoo gi oku gi na ezi na ulo gi

IGBO and their victim mentality...........again and again

Why not ask for Obi of FCT.......WEREY

SantaCruz1:
. a typical yorubaastardt with fugly looking face



chukwu kpoo gi oku gi na ezi na ulo gi

igbos are the main problem of Nigerian

ibedun:
IGBO and their victim mentality...........again and again

Why not ask for Obi of FCT.......WEREY

Hmmm

DabLord:
igbos are the main problem of Nigerian

. and you had to quote me to type this?

are you OK? is ur head paining you?

ibedun:
IGBO and their victim mentality...........again and again

Why not ask for Obi of FCT.......WEREY

. keep kwayet

DabLord:
igbos are the main problem of Nigerian

yes they are..

Pls, remember to vote them out of Nigeria during the referendum..

It will be like an election..

Tell your friends about it

I hope to get your vote.

Thanks

SantaCruz1:
. a typical yorubaastardt with fugly looking face



chukwu kpoo gi oku gi na ezi na ulo gi

Where is Nnamdi Kanu

raker300:
yes they are..

Pls, remember to vote them out of Nigeria during the referendum..

It will be like an election..

Tell your friends about it

I hope to get your vote.

Thanks

Only remnants and rodents will go

Igbo's are our people

Another irrelevant opinion from a 5 percenter

GoroTango:
Another irrelevant opinion from a 5 percenter

Chai chai

Hmmmmmm

Nice one from Ohaneze. They are beginning to act as they should. Buhari is not even scared of showing his hatred for us yet because of 30k some of our people still support the goat.

The Yorubas hated Goodluck because according to them he did not give them all the appointments in Nigeria.

Buhari is even worse in terms of appointments of people from the whole Southern region yet the Yorubas still refused to complain and blame Igbos when they do.
No sane right thinking igboman would be supporting buhari right now.

sarrki:

Where is Nnamdi Kanu

. hey robot
don't quote me again before what killed ur par*3nts will ki11 you now
anumanu

redcurry:
@sarki.I did not read ur epistle.with everything going on in ds country @ d moment xspecially at d political scence.youth like u should be ashamed of urself.u think by bringing ds topic on,u can divert d attentions from ur paymaster dead list?it's just unfortunate.All d money you ve made for supporting evil in 2017 shld b enuf for u to start a reasonable biz in 2018.pls brother.u don't ve to continue like ds.

Am a patriot

We give constructive criticism

We don't preach hatred

SantaCruz1:
. hey robot

don't quote me again before what killed ur par*3nts will ki11 you now

anumanu

E enter am

Where is that fraudulent fraudster called mazi ?

sarrki:

Only remnants and rodents will go
Igbo's are our people

unity beggar