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Ohanaeze asks Ndigbo to ignore Nnamdi Kanu and vote during 2019 elections

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The Ohanaeze, the apex socio-cultural organisation of Ndigbo, has asked the people of the South-East region to ensure they come out and participate fully for the coming 2019 general election.

The call came apparently in response to the order by the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, that the people should boycott the elections.

Ohanaeze president general, Nnia Nwodo, made the call on Tuesday in Enugu during the Business Conference of Ohanaeze Ndigbo in the Diaspora organised by the Igbo World Assembly.

In his keynote address at the event, Nwodo warned the Ndigbo, especially, the youths, against obeying anyone or groups that would want to incite them against the country.

Noting that his position remains that Nigerians were better together, he said Ndigbo has a better deal in a Nigeria where there is equity and justice considering their investments.

He therefore asked that the people should rather take advantage of the 2019 general elections to support a government that would change the narrative in the country.

According to him, the longing of the majority of Nigerians was to institute a system of government that would re-engineer the economy akin to what obtained in the first republic, adding that the only way to achieve this was to restructure the system of governance.

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He said, “Four zones out of the six in the country have set the agenda for restructuring. I appeal to our people to go out and vote during the election because your warfare is your vote.”

The Ohanaeze leader said he wants to see a Nigeria where the children of highly placed politicians would share the same classrooms with less privileged Nigerians which was the case in the first republic.

 

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