Nnamani urges Ndi- Igbo to shelve emotional sentiments over 2023 elections, support Tinubu

IPOB alleges unfair treatment of members

FORMER Enugu State Governor, Senator Chimaroke Nnamani, yesterday, urged his kinsmen to shelve the emotional sentiments over the 2023 elections and support the incoming administration of Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

Nnamani, in a statement, affirmed that Tinubu would be sworn in as President on May 29, 2023, saying: “Our leaders and people should join other ethnic nationalities to negotiate for accruals from the joint Commonwealth of Nigeria as soon as possible. “In God’s time, Igbo elite will shake off the shackles of politico- visceral emotion, unreasonable petulance of her youth and twin apathy and non- chalance of her elders.

“Ndigbo should join the comity of other ethnic nationalities of Nigeria to share equitably her palaver and resource accruals.”

The senator said he believed that Tinubu’s administration would be fair and just in the allocation and distribution of resources to all Nigerians, irrespective of ethnic or religious affiliations.

MEANWHILE, the Indigenous People of Biafra ( IPOB) has alleged that unfair treatment has been persistently meted out to the Igbo ethnic group and also unfair treatment of its members in the country.

In a statement, yesterday, titled, “The Unfair Treatment Being Meted Out To The Igbo Ethnic Group Persists,”, the IPOB Spokesman, Emma Powerful, stated: “We are surprised that the Nigerian government and its security agencies, especially the army and police, allowed the Shiite Islamic group who protested peacefully twice in Abuja to do so without humiliation or attack, but murdered IPOB members who were protesting peacefully in Aba, Abia State, for asking for the unconditional release of their leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, on April 3, 2023.

“It is now on record that Ndigbo are not wanted in Nigeria owing to the hatred shown to us and we must organise ourselves immediately and leave Nigeria for other nationalities that are allowed to act freely.

“We are not wanted in Nigeria as it has been demonstrated by the Fulani government of Nigeria.”

PHOTO: AYODELE ADENIRAN Proto- Presbyter, Methodist Church Nigeria, Tinubu, Very Rev. Jonathan Oshin, Prelate, Methodist Church Nigeria, His Eminence, Dr. Oliver Aba and Bishop, Trinity Church Council, Tinubu, Rt. Rev. ( Dr.) Omotayo Oladapo Babalola, during the Easter Sunday service in Lagos… yesterday.