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In today’s conferment of posthumous national honour of the Grand Commander of the Order of the Federal Republic (GCFR) on late business baron, Chief MKO Abiola, the Southeast Youths and Elders Forum have charged Igbo leaders and friends of Ndigbo to boycott the event in protest to what it described as “continuous marginalisation of the race by the government at the centre”.
This was contained in a press statement signed by the Director of Media, Southeast Youths and Elders Forum, Mazi E. K. Ikechukwu.
The group queried the rationality for awarding the honour of Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger (GCON) on late human rights activist Gani Fawehinmi without extending same gesture to then Chairman of the National Electoral Commission (NEC), Professor Humphrey Nwosu who conducted the best election in Nigeria’s history?
The statement said the group noted that the systematic annihilation of the race and the cavalier attitude developed towards the sons and daughters of Igbo race in terms of appointments and infrastructures have reached its zenith and it will no longer allow it to continue.
The group also blasted Igbo political leaders for supporting Buhari’s re-election bid in 2019 without proper negotiation on what the Southeast region would benefit if re-elected.
A situation where our frontline political jobbers throw their supports to Buhari without any written agreement on how the region would benefit from his re-election is a big slap on our face.
This is not to talk of Rotimi Amaechi who in all of his political career, rejected his Igbo affiliation but starts claiming it suddenly because he needed the race to fly because he has realised that his South-South region cannot give to him what he needed to be a national political player.
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We therefore advice President Buhari to ignore the Igbo sons and daughters deceiving him with their false promises of delivering the Southeast votes to him in 2019.
Those who are promising him victory in the region are nothing but political fraudsters who are only interested in making money from him as well as avoiding imprisonment for their past lootings.
We are therefore telling Mr. President in frank terms that before we will deliver the Southeast votes to him in 2019, he must first of all drop Professor Yemi Osinbajo as his Vice and pick an Igbo man for his replacement.
This is the first condition that must be met before we start further negotiations with him on how to win the southeast votes.
Refusal to do so, then he should stop wasting his time as southeasterners are not fools.
