Igbos are not after special treatment in Nigeria but fair sharing of power - Ezeife
- Former Governor of the old Anambra, Dr. Chukwuemeka Ezeife, has accused President Buhari of trying to push the Igbos out of Nigeria
- He also accused the president of not having respect for the region
- He claims that the Igbos are not after special treatment but a fair sharing in the scheme of things in Nigeria
Dr. Chukwuemeka Ezeife, elder statesman and former Governor of the old Anambra state, has stated that President Muhammadu Buhari is unwittingly chasing Igbo people out of Nigeria, The Punch reports.
The elder statesman noted that President Buhari has not lived up to his words during his inauguration speech in 2015 when he said he belongs to nobody
Ezeife who spoke to The Punch posited that Igbos are not after special treatment but fair sharing in the country’s scheme of things.
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Ezeife said: “Chief Olusegun) Obasanjo was president of Nigeria. Was IPOB fighting him? Was MASSOB (Movement for the Sovereign State of Biafra) fighting him? Was Biafra being promoted? (Former President Umaru) Yar’Adua was also from the North. (Dr. Goodluck) Jonathan spent over four years as the president of Nigeria. During his time, did you hear of anyone fighting for Biafra? Why is Buhari pushing the South-East out of Nigeria? If one wants to appoint people and they are removed from the offices they are in, does he want to make Igbo traders bankrupt?
“Last time, Mr. President said he was coming to Enugu state. He didn’t go, neither did he send a representative or an apology. The President is disdainful of Igbos and it doesn’t matter. We are begging him because he’s President. We could say we don’t care. But we must care because he is sharing what belongs to all of us to some of us and Igbos are left out.”
The former governor also noted that the reason while Igbo people stood behind former President Godluck Jonathan was that Jonathan did not neglect them while in office.
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He said: “In Nigeria, no person from the South-East has been president. The South-East gave him (Jonathan) all the votes it could give him. Even for a second term, they stood by him without looking back. Yes, our roads were not taken care of, yet we had our sons and daughters in high positions of Jonathan’s government — and we had Jonathan himself. At Enugu, I raised the question when Jonathan came for a town hall meeting: ‘Are you sure nobody is sabotaging you as far as roads in the East are concerned?’
“All the roads were bad and these were the people that voted in the president. I said it openly, but that didn’t stop the South-East and South-South from giving maximum votes to Jonathan. Obasanjo placed our son (Jonathan) as vice president (under Yar’Adua). So, we are grateful to Obasanjo. We must support our son and we did.”
Meanwhile, President Muhammadu Buhari has declared that he would no longer condone the violence and ‘political madness in the north-east, Niger Delta and the eastern parts of the country.
Source: Legit.ng
