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.
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