President Tinubu Continued Nepotism From Where Buhari Stopped – Chief Goddy Uwazurike

Ex-President of an Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Aka Ikenga, Chief Goddy Uwazurike has come out to say that participate in the ongoing #EndBadGovernance protest.

He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and Nigerians have been reacting.

According to him, he believes Ndigbo are right to not participate because they are not a part of the current government, and the neglect actually started with former president, Muhammadu Buhari.

Goddy added that President Tinubu only continued the nepotism from where Buhari began, and the present government is now the business of the North-West and South-West.

His words, “What was the reasoning behind the decision for Ndigbo not to participate in the #EndBadGovernance protest, despite the widespread discontent with the current state of governance in Nigeria?

Well, let me give you a straightforward answer; Ndigbo are not really part of this government, and this neglect started from former President Muhammadu Buhari.

And I remember saying that it does not matter where we are, but Ndigbo would progress more and more. And that has happened. When Tínubu came, he continued from the nepotism of Buhari.

For example, in the latest appointments the President just made, seven crucial appointments, not a single person from South South/South East made the list. So Igbo are feeling disenchanted and untouched by this government and as far as they know, whether the government is doing well or not, it is not their business.

To put it bluntly, it is the business of the North-West and South-West. How many Igbo are in the Federal Executive Council? We have five ministers from the South-East but only one has a real ministry.

The others are what I call attachments. The same applies to the president’s advisers and so on. So, isolating the Igbo from the government is a state policy. After all, they have a special adviser in charge of disinformation of Ndigbo in this country.

He is there, enjoying all the accoutrements of office. He was appointed for that purpose. Bayo Onanuga is there dishing out disinformation, dishing out misinformation unchecked and you want Igbo to come and stand and carry placards.

For what? For who? For a man who will never, never look in the direction of Ndigbo? So, the Igbo have every right to be disenchanted. Nnamdi Kanu is there and we have made requests to release him but the answers have not been positive.

I was part of a delegation that visited Buhari and the man was shocked at the situation in Ala Igbo. Under Tínubu, the situation has not improved. We have military or police checkpoints every one-quarter of a kilometre from Tuesday to Sunday. However, on Monday, when we have criminal parading everywhere, those security men also withdraw. We have more security agents than criminals but the security men do not do anything, so the Igbo feel abandoned but we shall survive.

Again, those who argued that participating in the protests would have been an avenue to massacre innocent Igbo youths were right. You see, they tried to rope Peter Obi into what he knows nothing about.

The leaders of the protests were well-known and were speaking on TV, so they were visible. No Igbo person was among them. Why then accuse Ndigbo? So we knew it was a trap to rope in Peter Obi.”