Group Mounts Pressure on Buhari to Appoint Easterner as Police IG

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Group Mounts Pressure on Buhari to Appoint Easterner as Police IG

The Association of United Igbo Gospels Minister (AUIGM) and Rehemi Foundation at the weekend mounted pressure on President Muhammadu Buhari to appoint an Igbo man as the Inspector General of Police (IG).
The call came as the tenure of the current IG, Solomon Arase, ends next month.

Speaking to journalists in Abuja, AUIGM President, Air Vice Marshal Robert Konye Ekezie (rtd), said the need to appoint an Igbo man as the IG has become imperative given the perceived marginalisation of the Igbos in the Buhari's administration.

He stated that: "The president as number one citizen should treat every Nigerian, irrespective of tribe and religion, as his children with the same responsibility to all."
Ekezie explained that since the "president appointed the Service Chiefs without considering Ndigbo. Ministerial positions are constitutional rights, and there was no way to exclude the Igbos.

"Now is the time to right the wrong, as the tenure of the present indefatigable IG, Arase, comes to an end in June, an Igbo man should be considered," he said.

He argued that the appointment of an Igbo as IGP will automatically fill the vacuum as no indigene of the South-east geo-political zone, made up of Abia, Anambra, Enonyi, Enugu and Imo States is currently represented at the National Defence Council.
Ekezie further urged Nigerians to disabuse their minds and embrace Ndigbo, adding that statements like 'an Igbo man cannot become president' should be discarded.

Also speaking, President of Igbo Women Assembly, Bishop Junita Chinwendu, called on Nigerians to shade off division and embrace peace as the only to foster sustainable development.

Chinwendu also tasked Nigerians to return back to their early ways of oneness, unity and togetherness as any nation that is divided against itself will be stagnated

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