Alleged Marginalisation: Ohanaeze Ndigbo moves to challenge Buhari over appointments in court

THE Ohanaeze Ndigbo has concluded its plan to drag Federal Government to court over alleged lopsidedness of appointments by President Muhammed Buhari even as it described the bail condition granted to the Leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu by the Abuja Federal High Court as “celebrated example of judicial rascality”

The pan-Igbo group insisted that President Muhammed  Buhari led Federal Government has been unfair to Ndigbo, stressing that federal character  principle has been jettisoned in favour of a geo political zone.

Rising from its executive meeting in Enugu on Tuesday, the apex umbrella of Igbo socio-cultural associations told a select group of journalists that it would constituting a committee
of Senior Advocates of Nigeria of Igbo extraction to initiate an action against Federal government on the issue of federal appointments made by the present regime at the centre.

The President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief John Nwodo (junior) said, “We have instructed the legal adviser of Ohanaeze to write relevant agencies of the federal government under the freedom of information act to confirm or deny these statistics.

“As an instance, very disturbing is the brazen and illegal termination of the Chief executive of PENCOM in complete violation of the rules of her engagement and statute governing appointment into that organization – simply perhaps because she is from the Southeast.”

Decrying the bail conditions granted Nnamdi Kalu, he maintained that the attitude of the federal government “to our children who have become completely fed up with Nigeria experiment makes Biafra increasingly inevitable.”

The Igbo group faulted northern leaders who in a meeting in Abuja recently distanced themselves from the conclusions of the 2014 constitutional conference, saying such attitude ‘is unpatriotic, inciting and capable of whipping divisive tendencies in our polity.”

According to them, should the claim of “underrepresentation for rejecting any constitution or constitutional proposals, Ohanaeze is now serving a notice that if the Northern position is taken seriously we also plead to be excused from the1979 and 1999 constitutions which were prepared by military governments dominated by Northern military officers in which officers from Ohanaeze states had only token representation.”

“There is need for restructuring of the polity to give the various zones equal sense of belonging. It will fast track development” they concluded.