Ohaneze to Northern elders: Touch Ihejirika, incur our wrath
OHANEZE Ndigbo, the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, yesterday, warned the Northern Elders Forum, NEF, to stop threatening the former Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Azubuike Ihejirika, or be prepared to face the wrath of Ndigbo.
Anambra State president of Ohaneze, Dr. Chris Eluemunor, who spoke with reporters in Awka, said that the former Army chief never did anything unlawful, adding that he performed his duties diligently for Nigeria.
Eluemunor was reacting to a statement by NEF threatening to drag Ihejirika to the International Criminal Court, ICC, at the Hague for alleged extra-judicial killings.
NEF had, in a communiqué recently, accused Ihejirika and six others of allegedly engaging in extra-judicial killings and strangulation of civilians by soldiers in Bama and Giwa Barracks in Borno State using an underground detention centre.
Describing the communiqué, which was signed by Professor Ango Abdullahi and six others as empty threat, he said: “Any attempt on Ijejirika will be resisted with maximum force by Ndigbo.
“If they try it, they will meet fire. We have records of atrocities perpetrated on the people of this side of the country by the Northerners and we chose to keep quiet in the interest of our dear country. If they try anything funny this time, they will see Ndigbo in their true colour.”
Eluemunor also spoke on the stand of Ndigbo in the 2015 presidential race, saying, “we are not thinking of an Igbo president in 2015 as our stand is that Ndigbo will support Goodluck Jonathan for a second term.”
