The youth wing of apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has cautioned the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, against staging any form of protest in Igbo land.
It could be recalled that the NLC had scheduled nationwide protests to hold across the country on February 27 and 28 over the hardship being experienced in the country.
However, in a statement made available to journalists on Monday by the National President of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide, Mazi Okwu Nnabuike, he said the NLC protest would not hold anywhere in Igbo land.
Okwu, who said Ndigbo had suffered a series of unjust treatments in Nigeria, lamented that no region had ever come to the rescue of the people.
He said, “under the government of ex-president Muhammadu Buhari, Ndigbo were treated as pieces of garbage, but no other region raised a voice even in sympathy with us.
“It was such that there was no single Igbo man in Buhari’s security council for eight years, but the entire country moved on as though nothing was wrong with it.
“Even under the present government, the South-East has the least number of ministers, and nobody has ever seen anything wrong with it.
“Ndigbo were also not spared during the last general elections owing to some of the choices they made; they faced all manner of insults and attacks; yet no one cared to defend them.
“Why then will anyone want to drag Ndigbo to protest under whatever guise. We say a big ‘No’ to it and warn those planning it to look elsewhere.
“Bola Ahmed Tinubu is our president with whom we are well pleased and we shall keep supporting him,” Okwu declared.
He, however, presented three demands to President Tinubu, which included release of detained IPOB leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, additional state to the South-East and extra ministerial slot.
“These are matters of interest to Ndigbo and not any inconsequential protest,” the Ohanaeze youths president stated.
Don’t bring your protest to Igbo land – Ohanaeze youths to NLC