All Progressive Congress’s Muhammadu Buhari had won the presidential election but did not secure one Igbo state, who all voted incumbant Jonathan.
Ohaneze also described the recent death threats by Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu against Igbo as dangerous hate speech.
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 urged Buhari to deal with core people in Igbo land, and not 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 also asked Buhari to make sure that Igbo’s 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 justice.
culled: http://www.naij.com
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