Afrigather Three governors have backed up Ohanaeze Ndigbo’s plan to honour the invitation to attend the Might 29 inauguration of the President-elect, Bola Tinubu.
In a press release issued on Wednesday, Might 24, 2023, by the Ohanaeze Ndigbo Secretary Common, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, the apex Igbo socio-cultural physique acknowledged that governors Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State, Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State, and Nyesom Wike of Rivers State have “seconded their determination and are actively working with them to actualize it.…..CONTINUE READING
The assertion by Isiguzoro mentioned: “Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide is mobilizing massively to attend the inauguration of President-Elect, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on Monday, twenty ninth Might, 2023, at Eagle Sq., Abuja.
“Ohanaeze Ndigbo got here to the pragmatic conclusion that boycotting Tinubu’s inauguration was of no strategic profit to Ndigbo. Relatively, it might result in undue isolation of Ndigbo whereas giving the impression that Ndigbo was at battle with him (Tinubu).
“For the avoidance of doubt, Ohanaeze needs the presidential candidate of the Labour Celebration, LP, Mr Peter Obi, properly in his pursuit to train his authorized and constitutional rights over the 2023 presidential election outcomes declared by the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee, INEC.
“Nonetheless, Ohanaeze Ndigbo urges Ndigbo to stay law-abiding and keep away from participating the Tinubu-led Federal Authorities in confrontation. Ndigbo is conscious of the long run and can by no means play dangerous politics of bitterness and malice towards President-Elect Tinubu.
“Certainly, the period of “nzogbu nzogbu” politics is over, and Ndigbo ought to study to strategy political points in Nigeria from a holistic perspective, not disjointed sentiments.
“It will likely be unwise for Ndigbo to boycott the inauguration of the incoming administration of the Federal Authorities of Nigeria underneath Tinubu since it can quantity to slicing off our noses to spite our faces.
“World leaders, together with former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair and US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, have already congratulated Tinubu, and their international locations are billed to attend his inauguration.”
The Ohanaeze chieftain additional famous that the three governors are desirous to not solely facilitate Ohanaeze Ndigbo’s attendance on the inauguration however have additionally “resolved to stay out their necks to make sure that Ndigbo isn’t remoted and left within the chilly underneath Tinubu.…..CONTINUE READING
