In the sociological-political emancipation of Ndigbo in Nigeria, Turning Point Nigeria-USA, reveals that most Igbos don’t know or understand what Ohaneze is doing in Nigeria .
In a press release jointly signed by the President and Secretary of Turning Point Nigeria-USA, Sir Oswald Okebata and Barr Vitalis Unachukwu respectively in the Commonwealth State of Pennsylvania, United States of America, USA .
According to the statement, Turning Point Nigeria-USA says if one conduct a random public or a town hall interview as well as a survey among the Igbos on the status, role and mission of Ohaneze, “the response will be disappointing”.
TPN-USA charges Ohaneze leadership to embark on an enlightenment campaign or tour, to educate Ndigbo from the grassroot, about its role, mission and efforts towards the unity of Ndigbo, defense and protection of their ethnic interests, against the barrage of violent opposition from our counterparts in the union
It has just been reported, that the Ohaneze President, is writing to the Igbo nation worldwide, against,” Demonstration And Violent Action “ Against Tinubu’s Government, which may end up making mockery of Ohaneze under our helpless and hopeless situation in Nigeria .
In the statement, the concerns and issues raised by the message of Turning Point Nigeria-USA. What effect, Ohaneze’s Letter to Igbos worldwide, will have on the inevitable situation currently in Nigeria? where citizens are stretched to breaking point.
Instead of persuading the people, Ohaneze should call a meeting of all stakeholders, including the South East Governors, on how to organize and provide relief to the long suffering people of the South East, The statement reads.
Ndigbo are smartest, when it comes to surviving the excruciating crucibles of life, having survived a two and half years Biafra-Nigeria Civil War.
The Igbos have gone back to the defensive rear as spectators, watching Tinubu, the North and the West, to bail Nigeria and Nigerians out of their economic crises and nothing more, while they remain outraged at the lingering dilemma of uncertainty and silence of the Igbos, in the face of food shortages, absence of food security and general protection of lives and property, Turning Point Nigeria-USA stressed.
Anybody expecting the Igbos to say something is just day dreaming somnambulistically in a fool’s paradise, when unwarranted wickedness and hatred against the Igbos, may eventually turn to be wagonload of Blessings at God’s own benevolence in due course.
The Igbo people have the tenacity, resilience, endurance and determination to survive any difficult situation, however seemingly insurmountable, by God’s grace, including the challenges of the present troubled times in Nigeria.
The fact is that the Northern and Western counterparts , never passed through what Ndigbo suffered during the last civil war.
That’s why they are crying and complaining, after being the worst hit in the ongoing situation facing all Nigerians, irrespective of ethnicity, religion, gender, class, political affiliation and socioeconomic background, because hunger,knows no boundaries.
It’s sheer hypocrisy for the Federal Government, past and present, to neglect the people of the South East, out of wickedness, jealousy and hatred, since independence,without knowing that God made the Igbos, His Special Chosen People in Nigeria, which no one could deprive them of God’s natural endowments, given to the race He had chosen.
They neglected the Igbos and Igboland at Nigeria’s own peril. Are you surprised why the Igbos are still notably resourceful, self-supporting and self-dependent, without government’s presence in terms of investments, of which they are part of ?
This is just the beginning of the War of Armageddon in Nigeria.
Ohaneze’s idea of writing Ndigbo worldwide, amounts to beating and starving children and telling them not to cry or complain about their plight.
What’s actually the basis of Ohaneze’s support to Tinubu’s Government, after all that transpired from the 2023 Presidential Elections, in which an illustrious son of Igboland, was rigged out of that election, after he was projected to be the winner ?
At any rate , the Igbos have no regard for Ohaneze, which implies that Ohaneze’s Letter , purportedly discouraging “Demonstration And Violent Action “ Against Tinubu’s Government, will expectedly end in deaf ears .
TPN-USA maintains that Nigeria is already on edge and the incumbent government has no answers to the chaotic, deteriorating living conditions of the people in the country. “A hungry man is an angry man”.
Telling someone famished and punished by unbearable hunger to calm down, say nothing and bear his fate with equanimity, without giving him food to assuage his condition, is a waste of time.
Further questions and concerns raised by TPN-USA to Ohaneze leadership in the sociological-political emancipation of Ndigbo in Nigeria;
● What’s Ohaneze’s strategy in liaison with the South East Governors on how to provide for our people and support the people at this crucial moment, who are equally at the receiving end of the bad economic policies of the present government like other Nigerians ,and what has Ohaneze done.
● In the face of the wicked agenda of Northern Governors adopting a scorched-earth approach, that signifies an economic blockade, leading to food insecurity and shortages, preventing trucks loads of goods road-bound for the South East ?
● Writing the most oppressed, marginalized people in Nigeria, without making contingencies for their upkeep, to alleviate their hardships and assuage injustices and abuses unleashed on them, is outrageous and provocative, by all indices of assessment.
● The leadership of Ohaneze are handicapped to reverse the current ignominious and pernicious economic trends based on uncontrollable inflation.
● It’s better Ohaneze focuses attention on the degree of deprivations and neglect, the Igbos had gone through at the hands of bad , wicked political rulers in Nigeria.
● Does it matter to Ohaneze, that of Buhari’s 8 years presidency, there was no sign of the Federal Government’s presence by way of his signature achievements in the South East , now continued by his avowed successor?
● Ohaneze may continue to sound and look politically irrelevant and toothless, if it does not bestir itself of the role of giving Ndigbo the strong bargaining voice in the power sharing formula in Nigeria.
Something is fundamentally wrong in making the move of writing Ndigbo , these perilous times.
● What has Ohaneze done in mobilizing Ndigbo and bringing sufficient pressure to bear on the Federal Government on Nnamdi Kanu’s unconditional release from illegal incarceration and detention?
● Sowore and Olawale , recently had their treason charges withdrawn by the Federal Government, without the extension of such a political largesse and magnanimity to Nnamdi Kanu.Is that right ?
What did Ohaneze do ?
● Did Ohaneze react to this unfortunate development that smacks of a clear miscarriage of justice ? Or didn’t Ohaneze see all that’s wrong with past and present government in the maltreatment of Ndigbo ?
It’s not making a case for Ndigbo with mouths in the pocket, without being characteristically vocal and honest like Afenifere of the Oduduwa Yoruba Kingdom or the Arewa Northern Assembly.
Ohaneze has been notably weak in the defense of Ndigbo, until the present leadership under Chief (Dr) E C Iwuanyanwu, which has made some difference so far, while Ohaneze continues to struggle for general recognition and acceptance of majority of Ndigbo, who feel betrayed by Ohaneze’s toothless political demands and structure to protect Igbo interests in Nigeria .
● How many people in Igboland know about the existence of Ohaneze ?
● What stops Ohaneze from calling a spade, a spade , while addressing the concerns and feelings of Ndigbo on national matters that affect their lives and families, without prevarications and pretenses ?
In their stance, Turning Point Nigeria-USA maintains that anything short of speaking with one powerful Igbo voice, and not in discordant tunes, will never guarantee the tactful representation of our IGBONESS IN THE POLITICAL STRUCTURE OF NIGERIA.
