Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, has expressed profound sorrow over the horrific killings of a few Northerners in Uromi, Edo State, last week.
Ohanaeze Ndigbo strongly condemned the heinous act in all its consequences in a statement issued by National Publicity Secretary Dr. Ezechi Chukwu.
The statement also urged law enforcement to conduct a thorough investigation and manhunt in order to find the perpetrators of the unjustified act.
However, Ohanaeze Ndigbo strongly condemned a situation that is circulating on social media in which certain intolerant anti-Igbo forces, particularly from the country’s north, are blaming Igbos in Edo State of being the masterminds of the horrific atrocity.
It stated that it is regrettable that often, “some wilfully disposed self-inflicted mischievous fellows would always prefer to lay accusing fingers on Ndigbo at the slightest provocation, even when all indices to the same point to the contrary.”
It wondered how Igbos could have had such an organised criminal group in far away Edo State, outside their land, to enhance the perpetration of such a monstrous bloodbath of that magnitude.
Ohanaeze Ndigbo then admonishes “those treacherous fellows who are baselessly accusing Ndigbo in Edo of the killings”, to desist from such combustible incitement, saying it is antithetical to national unity and social conviviality as a people.
The apex Igbo organization has expressed dismay at the Senate’s failure to pass a motion to name the Abuja National Headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) after Professor Humphrey Nwosu, remembering that Nwosu, as Chairman of the National Electoral Commission (NEC), conducted the acclaimed freest, cheapest, and fairest presidential election in Nigeria’s history in 1993, which Chief MKO Abiola won based on available records.
Ohanaeze Ndigbo urged Igbo people throughout Nigeria to be peaceful, conduct their business in peace, and always follow the law.
It further stated that the discussion surrounding Prof. Nwosu’s contribution to Nigerian democracy has gained significant attention since his death in Virginia, USA, on October 20, 2024, and that numerous Nigerians worldwide have called for him to receive a posthumous national honor that is appropriate.
“The height of this patriotic call was the motion moved by Senator Eyninnaya Abaribe on Wednesday 25th March 2025 and supported by the South East Senators and other good-willed Senators in the Red Chambers, to name the INEC headquarters after the late academic luminary, but regrettably was not passed by the August body,” the group said.
