The President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief John Nnia Nwodo, has frowned at what he called “incendiary, unsubstantiated and provocative statement credited to the leader of the Northern Elders Forum, Prof. Ango Abdullahi, alleging that most violent acts against the northerners are perpetrated by the Igbo.”
Nwodo, in a release by his Media Adviser, Chief Emeka
Attamah, on Wednesday, said that the unprovoked outburst by Prof Abdullahi was
capable of setting the country ablaze.
He wondered where and when the Igbo could have killed their
Northern brothers when there has never been any case of mayhem and killings
against the North in any Igbo-speaking state.
Nwodo challenged Prof Abdullahi to make public facts to
substantiate his wild and malicious claim, unless it was intended to set up the
Igbo for another round of killings in the North, adding that with the
statement, the Igbo in the North are not safe.
He also Prof Abdullahi that on the contrary, the Igbo have
borne the brunt and have been victims of age-long and misguided attacks and
bloody orgies by their northern “brothers” at the slightest upheavals in the
country, sometimes even as a result of an event outside the country, and no
restitution has ever been made for such losses.
The President General regretted that the Igbo, apart from
innumerable dead ones, have lost property valued at trillions of naira during
such senseless attacks in the North, yet they are the catalysts of development
and the unifying cord that holds Nigeria together.
He told the Northern Elders Forum to exhibit greater caution
and wisdom in addressing sensitive national issues like this, rather than stoke
further the fire of ethnic violence by making such unguarded, unsubstantiated,
garrulous and vitriolic claims capable of igniting fire and breakdown of law
and order that could consume the country.
Chief Nwodo further reminded Prof Abdullahi that at the
twilight of his life, he should espouse salutary views that should bind and
heal the wounds of the country so that he will leave behind a better and united
Nigeria.
The President General, however, called on the Federal
Government to call NEF to order and make them rescind their inflammatory
statement to avoid the possible mayhem and confusion it could cause in the
country.
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