The Anambra State President of the pan Igbo Cultural Organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, and chairman of Ohanaeze Ndigbo in the seven Igbo speaking states, Elder Chris Eluemuno, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari is a hater of Igbo nation.
Eluemuno, who spoke in Anambra Broadcasting Service Programme (ABS) television programme, ‘‘Face The Press’’, said that all the actions and utterances of President Buhari point to the fact that he did not like Ndigbo.
The Buhari’s actions, he said, contradicted his earlier stand that he belonged to everybody and belonged to nobody.
Listing further Buhari’s actions that portrayed him as Igbo hater, Eluemuno said that the situation where the President appointed five Service Chiefs in the country without an Igbo representation cannot be justified.
Eluemuno called on Ndigbo to brace up to the challenge posed to them by the All Progressives Congress (APC) led Federal Government, which he said, is out to confine them to the dust bin.
He faulted Buhari’s statement that he would first favour those who gave him more votes, stressing, “there is no way the President should expect all Nigerians to vote for him in the last presidential election.
“This statement contradicted Buhari’s earlier stand that he belonged to everybody and belonged to nobody”.
Eluemuno said that by Buhari’s behaviour to Ndigbo, they were justified in their decision not to vote for him in the last Presidential election.
According to him, Ndigbo played prominent roles in the development of Nigeria and would therefore not be discriminated against in the scheme of things.
On the president’s threat to probe only Jonathan’s administration, the Ohanaeze chief said that it would amount to witch-hunt if he limits his probe to ex-president Jonathan administration.
He advised Buhari to commence the probe from the inception of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 1999, which was led by Chief Olusegun Obasanjo. Obasanjo ruled Nigeria for eight years on the platform of PDP.
Eluemuno also advised the President not to jettison the Report of the Constitutional Conference but to study the report critically and make use of it.
According to him, the Constitutional Conference Report was a key to fighting corruption in Nigeria as it contained recommendations that could help the President succeed in his fight against corruption in the country to over concentration of power at the federal level, thereby making it very attractive to politicians, and leading to abuse.
On the President’s trip to U.S., the Ohanaeze chief condemned the idea of the president travelling with APC governors and leaving governors of other political parties.
He called on the president to realize that he was the president of Nigeria and not only that of APC.
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