IGBO POLITICAL STAKEHOLDERS, YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN; NOT IN OUR NAME!

Icheoku denounces the umbrage of the so called Igbo Political Stakeholders parading themselves as Igbo representatives when they are neither Oha-N-Eze Ndigbo nor the elected political leadership of the Igbos who are duly authorized to serve Igbo cause. The make-up of the 'Igbo Political Stakeholders' so called, parades of known apologists and appendages of the feudal Hausa-Fulani oligarchical north including Shehu Shagari's beautiful bride Alex Ekwueme and Ibrahim Babangida's beautiful bride in the waiting Ken Nnamani. It also includes the former central bank governor Chukwuma Soludo, and you wonder who crowned these human-beings Igbo leaders or on whose authority they speak for the Igbos. It is condemnable the self arrogation of authority by these self-seeking politicians including Jim Nwobodo who sabotaged Ekwueme's own presidential effort in Jos in 1999 and sold out on his Igbo brother? Kalu Idika Kalu served the notorious Ibrahim Babangida's regime as both Finance and Economic Planning Minster respectively. Same with ABC Nwosu as Health Minster; Luke Ochulor was a military administrator under Babangida and Agunwa Anakwe was the speaker of the House when Babangida annulled MKO Abiola's election.

Now the picture becomes clearer that it is the gathering of the Babangida clan masquerading as an Igbo Forum that was dispersed at Owerri and not a true Igbo organisation; and this group is ready to once again sell the Igbos short to the north and the resident evil, Babangida. Icheoku says not this time; Igbo people are politically more savvy, wiser, smarter and are long tired of 1978 politicians dictating or attempting to dictate the tempo of present day politics in Igboland and trying to influence the trajectory of the 2011 Igbo course. Udenta Udenta or whomever that person is, is presently working as presidential campaign director to the man whose father owns Kwara State, Saraki; and Dubem Onyia, Ben Obi and Chris Ngige are all in love with Atiku.So tell Icheoku why these people are always content with playing the second fiddle or servient role to the Islamic north, who have not stopped killing the Igbo man since their genocidal war of 1967-70; or given the Igbo man reason to still remain fanatically loyal to their northern cause. Icheoku says to Alex Ekwueme that their group does not represent the Igbos and so it was wrong for him to misrepresent the purpose of their meeting as "to enable all Igbos to speak their minds freely and not to support any candidate or political party after which a decision would be made for the Igbo nation." Such statement is very arrogant and since when did the Igbo people become the property of IPS that they should make decisions for the Igbos or on their behalf?

Be that as it may, Icheoku does not begrudge anyone or any group from exercising their constitutionally guaranteed freedom of association to meet and take positions on issues of the moment; but we have beef with any of such group parading itself as representing the entire Igbo nation. Moreso the peoples Generalissimo and Ikemba Nnewi was not there and these people are neither the elected political representatives of the Igbos nor the official existing Igbo pressure group, the Oha-n-Eze Ndigbo. Igbo Political Stakeholders should therefore cease and desist from further parading themselves as representing the Igbos or their cause as Igbo people have duly authorized body and elected officials representing them and only such people can make decisions for and on behalf of the Igbo nation. Get it IPS; you are on your own!