The
President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Gary Enwo-Igariwey,
yesterday in Lagos, said an Igbo man cannot be President of Nigeria because of
lack of unity in leadership roles.
According to him, Igbo are hardworking,
resilient and law abiding, but fall short of leadership role because of lack of
recognition of leadership ethics and discipline.
Enwo-Igariwey, who was the guest
speaker at the public presentation of the Igbo centenary book, 100 Years of
Amalgamation: Igbo, What Hope in Nigeria, by a Lagos-based journalist,
Peter Anosike, said every Igbo wants to be leader at the same time.
According to him “if we can solve
this problem by trying to learn from our mistakes and believe that there can
only be one leader at a time, then we can succeed as a people.”
He said Igbo had huge investments
all over the country and that with all the respect and recognition they had
earned, they still lacked unity over leadership tussles, as could be seen even
in town union meetings.
He said: “It does not have to be the
strongest or the richest. Anyone can be supported to succeed. If we unite,
people will be afraid of us.”
Chairman of the occasion, Chief
Nwabueze Obi, Executi-ve Director, Cabotage, Nigeria Maritime Administration
and Safety Agency, NIMASA, said: “We are nomadic. Over 90 percent of our
investments are outside Igboland.
“If you go anywhere and do not see
an Igbo man, then it is not habitable. If we can channel these gifts to have a
united front, we can succeed.”
He appealed to all Igbo to be
submissive to authority.
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