From Jude Chinedu, Enugu
Ohanaeze Ndigbo has joined Nigerians to extol former President Olusegun Obasanjo, for kicking against the ethnic profiling of the Igbo in Lagos by some persons promoting the #IgboMustGo campaign.
In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Alex Ogbonnia, the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation which detailed series of provocative and incendiary remarks against the Igbo in Lagos in recent times, commended Obasanjo for raising a strong voice against the Igbo haters in Lagos.
Obasanjo had in a statement warned those saying Igbo must go from Lagos would be the ones to leave, adding that he does not believe that anybody in Nigeria should be driven away from any part of the country because the country belongs to all.
While commending the former president, Ohanaeze Ndigbo noted the orchestrated ethnic profiling, hate speech, incendiary and inflammatory rhetoric and outright demolition of the Igbo properties and liquidation of their sources of income in Lagos State within the past few years.
They noted that Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has condemned the #IgboMustGo mis-adventurers, adding that the body was pleased with the Afenifere, the apex Yoruba socio-cultural organisation for equally reassuring all Nigerians living in Yoruba land legitimately to entertain no fear of any kind of eviction.
The Secretary General, Ambassador Okey Emuchay, commended Obasanjo for his intervention.
He recalled that Obasanjo’s dispositions to equity and fairness in all matters affecting Nigeria was very legendary. “When it mattered most, it was Obasanjo who lent full weight that the presidency of Nigeria should go to the South East of Nigeria in 2023.
“It was Obasanjo who handed over power to Shehu Shagari with Dr Alex Ekwueme, an Igbo as a Vice President, nine years after the