No Conflict Between the Igbo and Yoruba In Lagos, Condemns Ohanaeze’s “Political Rascals”
Targeted attacks on voters of southeastern ancestry occurred during the election, especially during last Saturday’s state-centered voting.
Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, the chairman of the Council of Elders of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has denounced persons he has referred to as political rascals for their racially heated speech against the Igbo in Lagos State.
Targeted attacks against voters of southeastern ancestry occurred during the election season, especially during last Saturday’s governorship vote.
“I want folks in Lagos to understand that there is no conflict between us and Yorubas. At a ceremony held on Saturday in Anambra State to mark Governor Chukwuma Soludo’s first year in office, Iwuanyanwu declared, “These are simply political rascals, and we’re going to deal them.
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The elders have ordered the secretary general of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, [Okey] Emuchay, to establish a commission of enquiry to find out what was destroyed; people will pay,”
The Ohanaeze chairman claimed to have convened a meeting of the Ohanaeze Council of Elders on Wednesday to examine the happenings in Lagos.
He continued, “I want to inform you that those who attended from our branches in America, Canada, Europe, London, and Nigeria have resolved, and I want those from Lagos to go home and tell those in Lagos.”
“We have decided that we will never again let someone to take the life of an innocent person. We’re all going to engage in combat with the offender. “Never again!”
The Igbo elder said that residents in the southeast were fellow Nigerians who had “so much” invested in the nation. He responded to the rhetoric telling Igbo sojourners to leave other areas by saying, “We are not going anywhere.”
