Ohanaeze to join suit seeking for exit of South East from Nigeria

By Moses Oyediran, Enugu

A factional group within the Ohananeze Ndigbo led by Chidi Ibeh has announced that the apex Igbo social-cultural organisation will join the suit calling on the National Assembly to use legal means to allow the Southeast to exit from Nigeria.

Some northern elders had filed a suit at the Federal High Court in Abuja to order the National Assembly to exit the southeastern region from Nigeria.

But, the Secretary General of the organization, Okechukwu Isinguzoro in an exclusive interview with Leadership Weekend in Enugu, said they supported the move by the northern elders.

He urged the Federal Government to give support to the northern elders that are backing the exit of the Southeast from Nigeria.

Isinguzoro said they were backing the northern elders for Nigeria to break up, saying the government has been unfair to the Southeast.

He, however, urged the Federal Government to as a matter of urgency to sit down with Ndigbo and renegotiate the unity of Nigerian.

He expressed dismay over what he described as marginalisation of the Southeast, saying it was unfortunate that some governors of the zone who are friends of President Muhammadu Buhari have refused to tell him the truth.

He described the Southeast as a region without captain, adding that the Igbos have no regard for some of them.

” Some of the Igbo governors who are friends of President Muhammadu Buhari are not telling him the truth and so Ndigbo are like ships without captains”, he stated.