The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, has faulted the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB’s) stand on his recent interview in a national daily where he advised Ndigbo against placing all their political eggs in one basket.
Ngige said that MASSOB’s position was uninformed and a shot in the wrong direction.
“I am only practicing what the late leader of Ndigbo, Dim Odumegwu Ojukwu taught us,” he said.
In a statement by his Special Assistant on Media, Nwachukwu Obidiwe, the minister said that as a consummate Igbo leader he would never disparage the Igbo or work against their interest.
He said: “With his sterling pedigree as former President-General of Aka-Ikenga for eight years, member of Ohanaeze Strategic Committee and member, Imeobi Ohanaeze, Ngige only advised our people to rise above the prevailing self-pity, awaken the resilient spirit for which Igbo are known and re-strategise as other geo-political zones in the country are currently doing.
“I wish to put on record that my position is exactly the same position our late leader, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu took in 1982 when he left the Igbo-dominated NPP to join the NPN.
Ikemba reasoned that while Igbo gave support to Zik’s NPP, there was also the wisdom in spreading our political net to the waters of the ruling party. Ikemba did so to ensure that Ndigbo were not all boxed into a regional party or enclave which can disconnect or limit their participation in the nation’s apex political conclave.”
“If Ojukwu thought that doing otherwise was myopic in 1982, why is a section of the Igbo crucifying Ngige for preaching and practicing the wise counsel of our eternal leader, Ikemba,” the statement asked?
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