The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide on Saturday described as a wicked and false report that the Ohanaeze was planning to apologize to the Fulani community over the incidents of the 1966 coup in Nigeria.
The President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, Chief
Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, spoke to newsmen in Owerri, while reacting to the viral
voice message.
According to the President General, “I was shocked to read a
voice message alleging that we held a
retreat at Enugu state, and it was poorly attended. The voice message was
false, malicious and wicked and in the voice message that we had a retreat and
that in the meeting we said we were going to Sultan of Sokoto to apologize to
them for the killing of Ahmad Bello and the other things that happened in the
1966 coup.
“This did not happen. I did not expect this false report. It
was done by one Mr Ugwuh and Obasi. They were making caricatures of me. The
next day another record went viral and where the same Ugwuh was saying that
what they earlier said was wrong, fortunately, most people who called at that
time knew it was fake.
“Let me say this, the retreat in Enugu was for the setting
up of committees for the development of Igboland. I commend the governor of
Enugu state, for his support to host the meeting. We did not want governors, it
was just for committees and over 200 people came. It was only the Governor of
Enugu that came, we did not bother other governors to come because it was a
meeting of committees so there was no need inviting other governors.
“We have committees for Education, health, skills
acquisition, Ohanaeze relief agency, through which we can distribute relief
materials to our people. We have started to reach out to our people in other
parts of Igboland.”
On the viral voice message, the Ohanaeze President General,
said: “Igbos are not responsible for the coup in 1966, It was entirely a
military affair. It was not carried out to make any Igbo man leader and a
beneficiary.
“You remember that the coup failed and if there is any tribe
that suffered from that coup was the Igbos because the igbos were massacred. We
lost our businesses. So how can we go to beg anybody and we did not kill
anybody. We did not have anything to do with that coup.
“We, Ohanaeze object to anybody profiling it to be Igbos.
So, anybody who says we are going to apologize is not true. Even from the books
I wrote we never sent anybody on that coup. So it pains me people tell lies to
damage my name that we are going to apologize over that coup. So, the story is
lies.”
“At the end of the war, there was no Vvctor nor vanquish.
The Nigeria government honoured the 3r, rehabilitation, reconstruction but they
did not do the reconciliation and that is what Ohanaeze Ndigbo is doing now.
‘This Is Our Story’.
It will tell our story starting from the time of war till this moment. So, as a
father I will forgive them, those who did the evil voice message. So far, Ugwuh
has apologized and I have forgiven him.
“Even the move to free Nnamdi Kanu, I have done a lot, I am
the one who started the move to free Kanu, and many were bold to join me
because they have respect for me and followed me. All our governors are calling
for Kanu’s to be released,” Ohanaeze PG said.
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