News: We don’t regret not supporting Buhari – Ohanaeze Ndigbo

Ndigbo, the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, said
yesterday, that it had no regrets not supporting the ambition
of the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential
candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari, who won the
March 28, 2015 presidential poll.
Ohanaeze also flayed the Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu, over
the death threat he allegedly issued to Igbo people residing
in Lagos before the governorship election.
Speaking in an interview in Awka, the national treasurer of
the group, Chief Damian Ogene, said the apex Igbo socio-
cultural organisation supported President Goodluck
Jonathan because of what he described as Buhari’s
negative antecedents to Ndigbo.
According to him, the rejection of Buhari during the
presidential poll is to remind him of the injustices
perpetrated against Igbo during his earlier tenure as military
Head of State.
He, however, said that since God had given Buhari an
opportunity to be a democratic President of Nigeria, he
should strive to right his earlier wrongs.
Ogene said: “We are ready to co-operate with him and to
believe in his administration in the hope that he will, this
time, address the injustices meted out to us since after the
Nigerian civil war.”
He also advised the President-elect to deal only with the
core people in Igbo land, rather than with the money-bags
that were out of touch with Igbo nation and the masses.
“These billionaires have been using their oil money to block
government from reaching the people at the grassroots
level.
“He should liaise with people-oriented organisations like
Anambra Association of Town Unions, ASATU, rather than
with intermediaries,” he said.
He suggested to General Buhari to ensure that Igbo people,
who were displaced in the northern part of the country due
to the Boko Haram insurgency, received compensation as
their northern counterparts, in the spirit of equity and
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