Opinion leaders and socio-political associations in the South- East believe that Igbo were deliberately denied ‘juicy’ ministries by President Muhammadu Buhari.
Leaders of the foremost Igbo socio-political body, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, and Njiko Igbo, another prominent pan-Igbo association, described the portfolios assigned to Igbo ministers as ‘disappointing.’
Speaking with Punch on the telephone, President of Ohanaeze Youth Wing, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, who spoke on behalf of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, said Ogbonnaya Onu and Chris Ngige deserved ‘more influential’ ministries than Science and Technology, and Labour and Productivity, respectively.
Isiguzoro said:
“We are disappointed that somebody of the calibre of Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu was assigned to Science and Technology ministry, even Dr. Chris Ngige should have been appointed as the Health Minister instead of Labour and Productivity.“Okechukwu Enalama should have been appointed Minister of Finance.
“Igbo ministers did not get juicy portfolios, except perhaps Ibe Kachikwu and Rotimi Amaechi, who are our brothers from the South-South.
“We are not happy that we did not get the juicy portfolios, although we are happy that our brothers from the Niger Delta got.
“Nevertheless, the era of impunity has gone and we expect all the Igbo ministers to perform excellently.“We expect them to close ranks and work towards developing Igboland.”
Also, President of Njiko Igbo, Reverend Okechukwu Obioha, said Buhari relegated Igbo ministers to the background in his cabinet. But he admitted that the association was not surprised.
He said:
“They are adding more salt to the injury, we expected that. We can see that we (Igbo) are not wanted in this country. At the moment, the sharing of the national cake is between the North and the South-West.
“What will Ngige be doing as Labour and Productivity minister when the Federal Government is not employing anyone, or creating jobs? “Even the Foreign Affairs portfolio that was given to an Igboman (Geoffrey Onyeama) is of no consequence because already Buhari has travelled to most of the countries and he will continue to do so.
“He has traveled in six months more than the immediate past president traveled in six years.
“So the Foreign Affairs minister will just be a rubber stamp.“Buhari has taken the Ministry of Petroleum Resources for himself, making an Igboman the Minister of State.
“So, he (Buhari) has virtually given the Igbo nothing.“But the problem is this will lead to more agitation for Biafra,” Obioha said.
Bcos igbo man he no good he no respect the people he dont now any thin aftr the violence
‘KETTLE CALLING POT BLACK’…..LOL
wetin dis one dey talk self
HAUSA MAN NA TO KILL THAT IS Y BOKO HARAM WAS FORM
What do you mean by JUICY Ministries ? Where to perpetrates Corruption as seen in Jonathan administration ?
DURING ABACHA REGIME WE HEARD OF LOOT WHICH MADE HIS CHILDREN TO BE IN JAIL I BEG WHEN DID YOU THINK OR KNOW CORUPTION START ? WHICH PART OF THIS COUNTRY WAS HE FROM ?NOT SOUTH SOUTH NOR SOUTH EAST OOO
Like finance and petroleum where you can dig deep abi? ingrates
two different tribes,three different comments same meaning prejudice and u call igbos ingrates,y’all never want anything good for them.@aminu@adedokun@abba.
When you have the idea of one ministries being juicy, then u dont have the mind of serving but the mind of looting, thats y i think sometime, wont it be reasonable if every tribe go her different ways? And continue to sort herself out, cause the thought on every mind is what everyone could get out of this contraption called Nigeria.
Now we find that the North has been in power for 37 ytrs. They are struggling to take over Nigeria and rule forever because they are land locked. Force must not be used against BIAFRA. They represent the Christains in Nigeria. Evrerything must be done to avoid religious conflicts.
The igbos represent igbos that’s all.
Christians are represented by Christ only.
they hate him and still want him to love them, why?
hate who?
ask your self
The actual point is they claim Nigeria is a zoo and they want to get out of it, yet they still want portfolios in the same zoo they want to vacate. Smh…… do you people really know what you want? That’s the question you need to ask yourselves o
Still expecting juicy positions in Nigeria?.Are you dropping your intrest forBiafra?Igbo una de funny me oooooo.
An Ibo man was Head of State in Nigeria for only 6 months in 1966, Obasanjo fof about 12 yrs, Sonekon for 2 months. GEJ. For 6 yrs
LONG LIVE D FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA”LIVE AND LET’S LIVE” PEACE.
Never satisfied with anything, even when they take more than you, they still want your own.
I thought these same people claimed they want to go their separate way from Nigeria that they called a zoo, now the are complaining that they want juicy position in that same zoo. Please you people should sit down and really think about what exactly you want cos it seems you don’t have any idea what you in life. If you want to stay in this country, then stay and make good impact in whichever area you find yourselves and if you are tired then leave. Stop behaving like a toddler that doesn’t know what he wants.
Some people are always making noise for the sake of it. I wonder they so called Igbo agitators and Igbo nation gained from the so called juicy portfolios given to Igbo people during Silent killer’s (Gej ) administration.