How PDP is fooling Igbos

Now, the Igbo nation has been totally side-lined and the talk about town is that they are being considered for the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF). What does that mean and what position is that in our national leadership hierarchy? For those Igbos who are still groping, I want to let them […]

Now, the Igbo nation has been totally side-lined and the talk about town is that they are being considered for the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF). What does that mean and what position is that in our national leadership hierarchy? For those Igbos who are still groping, I want to let them know that position of SGF is just like that of a minister who the president is at liberty to remove any time just like how Minister of Interior, Iheanacho was recently removed without any cogent reason.

Look at the mundane reason now being given for not accepting Igbo person as the Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives: That we do not have a Muslim in our elected representatives.  Let it be on record that south-east ranked highest (97%) of their vote cast to make Jonathan president. Why would the senate presidency not be given to north-eastern Muslim in order to appropriately appease the highest contributor to the PDP victories with the Speakership of the House of Representatives? Another funny ‘promise’ is that Igbo man would be vice-president in 2015 in order to pave way for him to be president in 2019 or 2023. That was how vaguely it was put by the PDP authorities. This is an insult on the collective intelligence of the Igbo nation.

For some time, some reasonable Igbo persons warned that the present leadership of Ohaneze Ndigbo and Aka Ikenga (both Igbo organizations) were pursuing their personalized zonal interest. Both of them are from the south-south as Jonathan and were bent on seeing him through as the president in 2011 and not necessarily serving the interest of the core Igbo nation. The south-east governors are insisting on the Speakership of the House of Representatives and the Igbo leadership are pretending to be supporting them while the Presidency is more disposed to a south-west candidate. Who is fooling who now?

Mr. Nnamdi Okafor, Omoba Road, Aba, Abia State