Senate minority leader and the Senator representing Abia South District in the National Assembly, Enyinnaya Abaribe has warned that no amount of threat will cow Ndigbo of the South East region from demanding for an equitable, fair and just Nigeria.
Senator Abaribe and Professor Kingsley Moghalu were among Igbo leaders who converged on Enugu to rub minds on the agitating topic “Igbonine: What Do We Want?”
The meeting was under the auspices of an emerging new Igbo socio-cultural organisation which is working on the political interest of the ethnic region ahead of the Nigerian 2023 Presidential elections.
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Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, an outspoken lawmaker in the Nigerian Parliament from the predominantly Igbo ethnic group which is complaining of being marginalized in the Nigerian polity, argues that the unequal treatment of peoples of the different ethnic groups of the country is at the root of the problems of Nigeria, insisting that every Nigerian should be treated and tested equally without recourse to ethnic and religious background.
A former Presidential candidate in the 2019 Nigerian general election, Professor Kingsley Moghalu and other guests decried the current poor treatment of Ndigbo in the present scheme of the Nigerian polity, asking for a better deal.
Discussants at the pro-Igbo ethnic interest group meeting believe that Nigeria is supposed to be inclusive of every section, because every part of the country is an equal partner in the Nigerian project.
Editor: Ena Agbanoma
