Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo reacts furiously to comments by Senator Adamu Bulkachuwa on the genocide in the South-East, describing it as an assault against the Igbo race.
Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs was quoted to have stated in a live tv interview that Ndigbo in Nigeria deserves deaths and elimination as a result of in his phrases, “the South East habours criminals, rebels and arsonists”.
Reacting to this development, the President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Amb. George Obiozor, in a press release by means of the National Publicity Secretary, Chief Alex Ogbonnia on Sunday, stated “his caustic and inflammatory attacks against the entire people of the South East,” was unwarranted and demanded an unreserved apology and restitution from him.
In the assertion titled: “Ohanaeze Ndigbo condemns Bulkachuwa on his misguided attack on South East,” Ohanaeze stated, “it’s stunning and unbelievable {that a} Senator and Chairman of a strategic Committee in the Senate, Foreign Affairs, may make such an incendiary assault towards the Igbo individuals with none provocation in any way.
“The Igbo demand for the Presidency of Nigeria is inside their rights underneath the legal guidelines of the land. They haven’t breached any part of the structure by making such calls for.
“It is due to this fact a gross gratuitous insult for Senator Bulkachuwa to rain such unguarded invectives towards a serious area in the nation. I’ve tried to acquire some web details on Bulkachuwa, the one vital info on him is that on June 10, 2020, his constituents in Bauchi commenced a recall course of on him; and no extra.
“Ohanaeze Ndigbo condemns Bulkachuwa unreservedly for spewing such hate speech on a serious Nigerian ethnic group. It is extremely inconceivable {that a} senator and husband of a extremely positioned judicial officer, Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa, would habour such evil want for a major part of Nigeria.
“This goes to show clearly the wicked mindset of some people in power who have no other objective but to turn the country into killing fields in the pursuit of hidden ethno-religious agenda. While Nigerians are united against the bandits that physically abduct, torture, maim and kill, worse harm is caused by incendiary rhetoric as espoused by the Bulkachuwas in high places.”
Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide due to this fact demanded an “unreserved apology and restitution from Bulkachuwa for this unwarranted assault.”
The group additionally known as on the Senate president, Dr Ahmad Ibrahim Lawal, to “reprimand Bulkachuwa publicly as a deterrent to the some others who do not understand their oath of office and allegiance to the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Lolo Ijeoma Njoku reporting, Obinwannem News / September 5, 2021
