The apex Igbo socio-political group in the country,
Ohanaeze Ndigbo, yesterday opened up on why it disowned the
indigenous people of biafra (IPOB) and its leader, Nnamdi
Kanu.
According to the group, Igbo people have invested heavily in
different parts of the country, even as these investments outside
Igbo land is so huge that leaving the country is not a reasonable
option at this time.
It also maintained that, while it denounced the IPOB, biafra and
agents of secession, it is fully in support of restructuring.
President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief John Nwodo, who
spoke on behalf of the Igbo people said they will always stand
against total break up of Nigeria despite agitation of some youth
from the region.
Speaking during a session with Igbo leaders in Abuja, Nwodo
added that no ethnic group has more stake in the country than the
Igbos.
The Ndigbo leaders were in Abuja to meet with critical
stakeholders and have their understanding on the present
happening.
“Ohanaeze understands and appreciates the circumstances that
prompted the youth agitations under the MASSOB and IPOB platform.
We do not believe that leaving the country is a reasonable option
at this time”, Nwodo told the Igbo leaders.
Nwodo said that his group, governors, National Assembly members,
traditional and religious leaders, after deliberating on the
situation in Enugu, came to the conclusion that the restructuring
option is the reasonable way to go and not secession.
He explained that restructuring will bring Nigeria to a level
where every person of which ever tribe, religion or class would
have a sense of belonging and in return give in their best for the
development of the country.
Ethnic Agitations Are Becoming Dangerous – Udenta ,Meanwhile, a
public affairs analyst, Dr. Udenta Udenta, has warned that ethnic
agitations across sections of the country are becoming
dangerous.
Speaking in an exclusive interview with LEADERSHIP Weekend,
Udenta said that there is need to apply restraint in the manner
these agitations are made or else the nation will suffer the
negative effect.
He said, “The colonial mode of constructing the Nigerian state
privileged ethnicity and regions over other nation formation
categories and that ethnicity, ethnic consciousness, ethnic rivalry
and charges and counter charges of hegemony overreached by
different factions of the ruling elite were implicated in the
decomposition of the structural and institutional facets of the
post-colony in the early and mid 1960s.
“Closer to us in time frame, one can even aver that 39 years
after Professor Okwudiba Nnoli published his groundbreaking Marxist
classic, ‘Ethnic Politics in Nigeria’, in which he
interrogated the configuration of national identity and the
production of political and economic power on ideological
imperatives worked out by the confluence of the national political
elite attired in various ethnic garbs, there is still something
troubling incestuous about the upsurge in ethnic self live.
“The unbridled and unrestrained embrace of ethnic nationalism is
not only as an antithetical and ideological narrative but also as
the unwholesome coming of souls and bodies from the same extended
ancestral bloodline, “ Dr Udenta espoused.
He, however, called on all and sundry to ensure that all hands
are on deck to ensure collective peace in the polity.
The apex Igbo socio-political group in the country,
Ohanaeze Ndigbo, yesterday opened up on why it disowned the
indigenous people of biafra (IPOB) and its leader, Nnamdi
Kanu.
According to the group, Igbo people have invested heavily in
different parts of the country, even as these investments outside
Igbo land is so huge that leaving the country is not a reasonable
option at this time.
It also maintained that, while it denounced the IPOB, biafra and
agents of secession, it is fully in support of restructuring.
President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief John Nwodo, who
spoke on behalf of the Igbo people said they will always stand
against total break up of Nigeria despite agitation of some youth
from the region.
Speaking during a session with Igbo leaders in Abuja, Nwodo
added that no ethnic group has more stake in the country than the
Igbos.
The Ndigbo leaders were in Abuja to meet with critical
stakeholders and have their understanding on the present
happening.
“Ohanaeze understands and appreciates the circumstances that
prompted the youth agitations under the MASSOB and IPOB platform.
We do not believe that leaving the country is a reasonable option
at this time”, Nwodo told the Igbo leaders.
Nwodo said that his group, governors, National Assembly members,
traditional and religious leaders, after deliberating on the
situation in Enugu, came to the conclusion that the restructuring
option is the reasonable way to go and not secession.
He explained that restructuring will bring Nigeria to a level
where every person of which ever tribe, religion or class would
have a sense of belonging and in return give in their best for the
development of the country.
Ethnic Agitations Are Becoming Dangerous – Udenta ,Meanwhile, a
public affairs analyst, Dr. Udenta Udenta, has warned that ethnic
agitations across sections of the country are becoming
dangerous.
Speaking in an exclusive interview with LEADERSHIP Weekend,
Udenta said that there is need to apply restraint in the manner
these agitations are made or else the nation will suffer the
negative effect.
He said, “The colonial mode of constructing the Nigerian state
privileged ethnicity and regions over other nation formation
categories and that ethnicity, ethnic consciousness, ethnic rivalry
and charges and counter charges of hegemony overreached by
different factions of the ruling elite were implicated in the
decomposition of the structural and institutional facets of the
post-colony in the early and mid 1960s.
“Closer to us in time frame, one can even aver that 39 years
after Professor Okwudiba Nnoli published his groundbreaking Marxist
classic, ‘Ethnic Politics in Nigeria’, in which he
interrogated the configuration of national identity and the
production of political and economic power on ideological
imperatives worked out by the confluence of the national political
elite attired in various ethnic garbs, there is still something
troubling incestuous about the upsurge in ethnic self live.
“The unbridled and unrestrained embrace of ethnic nationalism is
not only as an antithetical and ideological narrative but also as
the unwholesome coming of souls and bodies from the same extended
ancestral bloodline, “ Dr Udenta espoused.
He, however, called on all and sundry to ensure that all hands
are on deck to ensure collective peace in the polity.
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