Igbo leadership has done badly
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An Igbo youth leader, Comrade Bright Ezeocha has taken a smack at current-day Igbo leaders, describing them as people who have mortgaged the future generation by refusing to take decisions that would be for the benefit of all Igbo.
The President of Igbo Youths Congress (IYC), argued that, unlike other groups in the country that Igbo leaders have taken decisions that were out-rightly selfish just for themselves and their families. He spoke to Factnews recently, during an exclusive interview.
According to him, he took the strong view against the leaders because of the havoc their decisions have caused their people over the years. His words: " Many of us do not see how bad the Igbo nation has become. Go to Alaba and see our graduates roaming around the market and doing nothing. If you take the statistics of the number of people struggling to leave this country, and the statistics of the number of Nigerians in foreign jails, you will see that we have the highest number."
Ezeocha said he was speaking out because he was worried that the leaders have started walking in their past ways all over again. He said he wanted them to change tactics and plan instead rather than towing the old path. " I am worried as we begin to prepare for the 2015 election. I am worried because I was thinking that at this point in time, Ndi-Igbo should be bargaining with Jonathan or even other ethnic groups on what is in if for us. But it seems that we have lost focus" he said.
He then promised that his group was still looking to see the next decision the leaders would be taking for 2015 elections, to know whether they (the youths) would move against them this time around.
Turning to his home state, Imo, Ezeocha said his state Governor, Rochas Okorocha should step down from contesting the next governorship election in the state, and allow somebody from Owerri zone to go for it because it was their turn to produce the governor.
his words: " What I am advocating is that Owelle (Okorocha) should gently forget about 2015. I am not here to judge his government or to condemn his government or to judge him, but what I am standing and saying here is 'let there be justice', equity and fairness. Orlu people have had their turn; Okigwe people have had their turn and failed. Now, they should allow an Owerri man or woman to take over the reins of leadership in 2015. That is what is just; that is what is fair; and that is equity."
Explaining his position further, he said that since Ndigbo have been asking for equity from the Nigerian state, that it would be wrong for them to perpetrate such injustice amongst themselves. " Just as the way we are thinking that it is our right to become President of Nigeria' he said 'that it is the way it is with Owerri zone".
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