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By Omoniyi Salaudeen
Renowned leader of thought in the South East, Chief Chekwas Okorie, has urged the various interest groups in the region to support the initiative of the Igbo Agenda Dialogue to find a lasting solution to the myriad of problems confronting the Igbo in Nigeria.
In a statement made available to Sunday Sun, Okorie lamented the existential challenges Igbo people had been grappling with since the end of the Biafra war in 1970, urging a collective action toward a change of the narrative.
“Millions of our people were compelled by excruciating circumstances to seek more conducive environments abroad for greener pastures, including education and acquisition of skills to improve their well-being and provide for their families and relations back in the Homeland.
“Sadly, our people appear to have surrendered and lost confidence in their citizenship of Nigeria. Overwhelming majority of our people refuse to participate in the country’s democratic process. The resultant apathy is largely responsible for the poor leadership recruitment we experience at the National, State, and Local Government levels in every election cycle in Nigeria. This has further exacerbated our already precarious situation,” he lamented.
Okorie explained that the Igbo Agenda Dialogue (IAD) was inaugurated in August 2025 as a non-partisan socio-political platform to serve as a platform for a coalition of all associations, organizations, and unions to constitute a powerful non-partisan political grid.
According to him, the first ever Igbo political summit would be held in the first quarter of 2026 where the first Igbo charter would be unveiled. “I urge all patriotic Igbo men and women, youth associations, unions, and institutions to support the Igbo Agenda Dialogue (IAD) by all lawful means possible to deliver on the noble objective of reawakening the Igbo political consciousness. We have the capacity to redraw the Nigerian political map by simply taking our destiny in our own hands. We have no excuse to be irrelevant or beggarly in our common patrimony called Nigeria,” Okorie stated.
