{"id":103875,"date":"2023-03-27T05:51:03","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T04:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=103875"},"modified":"2023-03-27T05:51:03","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T04:51:03","slug":"ohanaeze-condemns-political-rascals-says-no-war-between-igbo-yoruba-in-lagos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/ohanaeze-condemns-political-rascals-says-no-war-between-igbo-yoruba-in-lagos\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohanaeze Condemns \u2018Political Rascals\u2019, Says No War Between Igbo, Yoruba In Lagos"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1761414039306611707\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Chairman, Council of Elders, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, has condemned individuals described as political rascals for the ethnically charged rhetoric against the Igbo in Lagos State.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nIn the midst of the elections, particularly last Saturday\u2019s governorship election, incendiary dialogue led to targeted attacks on voters of southeastern extraction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to tell those in Lagos to realise that there is no war between us and Yorubas. They are just political rascals, and we\u2019re going to handle them,\u201d Iwuanyanwu said Saturday at a ceremony in Anambra State to commemorate Governor Chukwuma Soludo\u2019s one year in office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe elders have directed the secretary general of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, [Okey] Emuchay, to set up a commission of inquiry to find out things destroyed; people are going to pay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Igbo elder stated that he convened a meeting of the Ohanaeze Council of Elders worldwide, who X-rayed the events in Lagos during the meeting held on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to tell you that people who attended from our branches in America, Canada, Europe, London and Nigeria have resolved and I want those from Lagos to go home and tell those in Lagos,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have resolved that never again can we allow anybody to take the life of any innocent person. All of us are going to fight the person. Never again!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Ohanaeze leader asserted that southeastern natives were fellow Nigerians who had \u201cso much\u201d investments in the country. Reacting to the rhetoric ordering Igbo sojourners to leave other regions, he said, \u201cWe are not going anywhere.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chairman, Council of Elders, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, has condemned individuals described as political rascals for the ethnically charged rhetoric against the Igbo in Lagos State. 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