Ohanaeze, the umbrella body of
Ndigbo, has frowned at the “continued refusal” of President Muhammedu Buhari to
appoint a South Easterner as Secretary to the Government of the Federation,
SGF.
The body said in a statement on
Wednesday signed by its President General, Chief John Nnia Nwodo, lamented that
Buhari has “failed again to play father figure which his office demands in
presiding over a plural and divergent society as ours.”
“The President’s action has
further denied the people of the region a strong place in the executive arm of
the administration”, he protested.
The Ohanaeze boss expressed
regret that the President by his action has failed to seize the opportunity of
running an inclusive government and assuaging the feelings of Ndigbo by side
tracking them again in the appointment of the SGF.
“It also shows the President’s
insensitivity to the over flogged issue of marginalization of Ndigbo by his
administration”
“We had thought that the recent
meeting of South East leaders with the President at the Aso Rock Villa opened
an avenue for a new relationship with the zone which appointing an SGF from the
area would have helped to cement especially as the ruling party originally
zoned the position to the region.”
Nwodo stated that the President’s
remarks on the South East Ministers in his cabinet during Igbo leaders’ meeting
with him, could not have been a good reason to continue sidetracking them of
position zoned to them especially when such appointment would have helped to
heal wounds and reconcile a disgruntled people.
Nwodo said it is saddening that
the President who has had the enviable opportunity of working across the
country in his military career and has been a huge player in the polity for
almost two decades, cannot find somebody from the South East he can trust for
the SGF position.
Ohanaeze, however, urged Buhari
“to open his mind and have a positive attitude about Ndigbo whose contributions
to the socio economic and political development of the country is not in
doubt”.
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You people are "He Goats" mind you that I'm an Igbo person, but you the elders of Igbo nation are betrayers, so you people thought that he will give you SGF? a day dreamers! please let you people go and treat Malaria and Typhoid so that you will stop dreaming such dream, ok. I hate you elders of Ohanaeze Ndigbo because you are so selfish, is the reason why you people plan with Hausa/Fulanis to killed your youths? worked and still working against them over Biafra? don't worry you people will cry and come back to youths for help very soon when the Hausa/Fulanis will finish unvailing their notorious plans against South-south and South East, I'm a milltary officer (Commander) and I knew the plan they have against us, but our Governors and elders from Igbolands are so gullible to understand.
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