{"id":41109,"date":"2015-08-09T14:24:55","date_gmt":"2015-08-09T13:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=41109"},"modified":"2015-08-09T14:24:55","modified_gmt":"2015-08-09T13:24:55","slug":"ezeife-accuses-buhari-of-snubbing-igbos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/ezeife-accuses-buhari-of-snubbing-igbos\/","title":{"rendered":"Ezeife accuses Buhari of snubbing Igbos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1439126579543_2534\">A former Governor of Anambra State, Dr. Chukwuemeka Ezeife, has reacted to President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s appointment of Dr. Ibe Kachikwu as Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1439126579543_2536\">The statesman said the appointment still didn\u2019t appease the Igbos compared to the number of appointments already made.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1439126579543_2537\">Kachikwu is from the Igbo-speaking part of Delta State.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Ezeife told Sunday Punch that: \u201cIt is not atonement for the many neglects and insults that have happened with the National Security and Civil Defence Corps, the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency and other agencies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow would a President appoint people into key positions in Nigeria, yet none of them is Igbo? What kind of thing is that?<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cOn merit, we have the best people in Nigeria and that is not boasting. On motivation, it is the same thing. If Buhari wants to ignore federal character, we are not begging him for any appointment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd it is good for us to know where we belong and make appropriate adjustments. It is not a matter of whether Nigeria appreciates us or not. If they think we have done enough and we should go, there is more where what we brought to Nigeria came from.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1439126579543_2544\">\u201cIt came from God and we are not going to throw it away. If we go away, we leave with it. We like Nigeria, but one cannot insult and treat a group as if they don\u2019t exist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1439126579543_2543\">Commenting on emergence of principal officers in the House of Representatives without a South-East representation, Ezeife said \u201conly a very insignificant minority of the Igbo people are saying that they have packed all their eggs in one basket; voting or not voting for any person has not been of consequence to our people.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1439126579543_2542\">\u201cThey went for elections and voted as they should and they are proud of it; they can repeat same tomorrow,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1439126579543_2539\"><\/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>A former Governor of Anambra State, Dr. Chukwuemeka Ezeife, has reacted to President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s appointment of Dr. Ibe Kachikwu as Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation,&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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