The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, has again urged the people of South-East to resist any sit-at-home order by an anti-Igbo group during the forthcoming election.
The group made the call in a communiqué by its National Publicity Secretary, Alex Ogbonnia, at the end of an emergency meeting of the group’s National Executive Committee on Friday in Enugu.
The meeting was presided over by its Secretary General, Ambassador Okey Emuchay.
The statement said the issues deliberated on included the sit-at-home order by the Indigenous People of Biafra and total lockdown order to the Igbo by one Simon Ekpa, who is based in Finland.
It added, “Ohanaeze Ndigbo expressed shock and doubt that a true Igbo would unconscionably embark on a disingenuous duplicitous adventure aimed at denigrating, disenfranchising and decimating his people. The most disturbing is that the unscrupulous sit-at-home and total lockdown order by Ekpa falls within the Nigerian general election.
“Ohanaeze stands firmly on natural justice and equity to proclaim that it is the turn of the South-East of Nigeria to produce a president for Nigeria and by the irrevocable forces of providence. The right-thinking Nigerians and the global community have embraced the virtues in Peter Obi (of the Labour Party) as the most suitable, competent, visionary, inspiring and energetic presidential candidate for the forthcoming general election.”
It said it was strange that at the very rare consensus and convergence of history, equity, public consciousness and expertise in Obi, a youth would engage in “an unreflective drum-beat that draws his people to a macabre dance”.
The News Agency Nigeria reported that the women from the South-East had on February 15 called on Ekpa to leave the people alone, urging everyone to resist the sit-at-home order.
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