A former governor of the old Anambra State, Chief Chukwuemeka Ezeife says one Nigeria is best for the Igbos in the Southeast.
According to him, God himself created Nigeria with an assignment to be a superpower amongst nations.
This is as he noted that no country in the world is blessed like Nigeria.
Ezeife said the Igbos also have an assignment to develop Nigeria, hence must not be marginalised.
“As long as you marginalise the Igbo or treat them as badly as they are being treated today, and deny them leadership for so long, Nigeria will remain backward. The Igbo have the assignment of developing Nigeria to become an economic superpower.
“The Igbo have that assignment to help Nigeria.
“Assuming Peter Obi emerged as the president, all he has to do is to provide a level playing field where Yoruba, Hausa, Itsekiri and others will play on a level-playing field.
” Nothing would have made Peter Obi, (the presidential candidate of the Labour Party) favour the Igbo.
“Before the election, I had an agreement with all the youths in the East that in a country, a slave cannot be a president. What we are saying is that we are becoming slaves in our country of origin and I told them if Nigerians voted for Peter Obi to become the President then we are not slaves in Nigeria and they agreed.
“The problem we are having now is that the country voted for him but he is not the President and that is the major problem.
“The main point is that whatever the case is against the Igbo, for as long as they stood and trusted them to where they are today it is a shame to black men.”
