Ohanaeze: Igbo People Have Been Completely Shut out of Governance Structure … Berates Buhari, APC

The pan Igbo Socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo on Wednesday lamented that Ndigbo of the South-east zone have been completely shut out of the nation’s governance structure with the Tuesday’s election of leaders of the National Assembly.

President General of the Organisation, Chief Nnia Nwodo who spoke with journalists said the zone was however not surprised with the latest development since they were not expecting anything different from the All Progressives Congress (APC) government led by President Muhammadu Buhari.

He applauded former President Olusegun Obasanjo for his boldness in speaking out against the present structure where a zone which is supposed to be the third leg upon which Nigeria stands has been totally schemed out in the country.

“It cannot be worse than this. We never expected anything different because the president is irredeemably clannish. It has never been heard that a president will decide to totally shut out a people from a nation’s governance structure.

He accused the president of lacking the capacity to form an all-inclusive government.

“With the ways things are, the three arms of government in the country are been led by people from the core North. The Executive, Legislature and the Judiciary and yet we still pretend to be a nation.

“It’s expected that at the end of every election, the winner will embrace every part of the country as one whether they supported you or not. This is the reason why we took our own decision before the election because we expected nothing from this arrangement.

“Even when President Shehu Shagari lost election in Imo and Anambra states, he still apppinted several Igbos to high positions. Out of 10 Advisers, four were Igbos. I was part of that administration but what we see today is totally different, it’s unfortunate,” he said.