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Nwodo’s comment about Buhari may make Igbos lose 2023 presidency – Buhari group issues warning

– The Buhari support Organisation criticised John Nwodo for lashing at Buhari

– The group said this can backfire for the Igbos

– It said the president is genuinely concerned about development in Igboland

The Buhari support Organisation (BSO) has warned that statements made by the new president of the Ohaneze Ndigbo, Nnia Nwodo may affect Igbo’s chances of clinching the presidency in 2023.

Nwodo had accused President Muhammadu Buhari of side-lining the Igbos in his administration citing that “No arm of government namely, the Executive, Judiciary or Legislature is headed by an Igbo.”

READ ALSO: Injustice! Ohaneze says Buhari is cheating Igbos

He also threw his weight behind the pro-Biafra groups saying it was because the youths were tired of the things happening in the Buhari administration.

Daily Post reports that the BSO said Nwodo’s statement was not a reflection of the Ohaneze Ndigbo and that it can incite Igbos against the presidency.

In a statement by Chibueze Eze who is the publicity secretary of the group on Sunday, January 22, he wondered by Nwodo would make such statements considering President Buhari congratulated him when he won the election.

He said: “It is with rapt attention that Buhari Support Organisation (BSO) Enugu State Chapter, listened to the press conference of the new Ohaneze Ndigbo President General, our dear elder brother, orator and show man, Chief John Nnia Nwodo last Thursday, 19 January, 2017. We wanted to gloss it over, until we saw the lavish advert publication of his personal statement being decorated as that of Ohaneze Ndigbo, when in actual fact Ohaneze Ndigbo is a non-partisan socio-cultural Organisation.

“And most importantly, the statement is neither the resolution of Ohaneze Ndigbo National Executive Committee nor that of Imeobi, as provided in Ohaneze Ndigbo’s Constitution.

“BSO is aware that for Ndigbo to take such far reaching decisions, as proclaimed, Imeobi the inner caucus of Ohaneze Ndigbo had to be summoned; this was not the case.

“If Imeobi is to be summoned tomorrow, we are sure majority of Ndigbo will differ with

Chief Nwodo, on the position of IPOB, as was demonstrated in the 1996 and 2014 Constitutional Conferences, where some states like Enugu and Ebonyi States voted against region.

“BSO is in league with majority of Ndigbo and Nigerians in general who despite the existing fault lines, have high hopes of Nigeria’s resurgimento to prosperity and greatness, where justice, equality and fairness will triumph.

“We also foresee the emergence of president of Igbo extraction in Nigeria after President Muhammadu Buhari’s eight year tenure and hence caution for tact and less inflammatory statements, especially from non-partisan Ohaneze Ndigbo”

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“We cannot forget that Chief Nwodo is an elder statesman who enjoyed the ministerial perquisites of Hausa leadership under the second republic President, Alhaji Shehu Shagari and the emergency rule of General Abdusalam Abubakar, where a state or local governments can be created on the dining table?

“Or where was Chief Nwodo when we had our brother His Excellency Anyim Pius Anyim, as Secretary to Government of the Federation, our dear sister, Dr Mrs Ngozi Ökonjo-Iweala as Minister of Finance and Coordinator of our Economy, our two dear Professors – Barth Nnaji and Chinedu Nebo as Ministers of Power and yet our roads decayed and Enugu Coal remain abandoned?

“Enugu Coal, which Buhari has concluded plans to revamp and utilise to generate electricity, suffered the same fate with our roads in the hands of regimes, which we so loved and which so loved Ndigbo, where at a stretch of five years, two of our illustrious sons, professors for that matter, were ministers of power, yet Enugu Coal remains idle.”

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