The youth wing of the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide, has declared the non-participation of the complete South East within the nationwide EndBadGovernance protest as a historic resolution.
The protest, which spanned from August 1 to 10 throughout the nation, noticed a conspicuous absence of members from the South-East area.
Talking to journalists over the weekend, Mazi Okwu Nnabuike, the Nationwide President of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide, emphasised that the boycott was deliberate and mirrored the area’s assist for President Bola Tinubu’s administration.
Mazi Okwu defined that the choice was not made evenly however after consultations and conferences with varied regional affiliate youth organisations.
“We took this stand to make Mr President perceive clearly that we’re solidly behind his authorities,” Okwu acknowledged.
In accordance with him, the Igbo youth group engaged in intensive discussions with its affiliate our bodies and concluded that participation within the protest was pointless.
“From there, we agreed to scale it right down to the communities the place we had been additionally in a position to make the folks see causes with us,” he added.
Okwu prolonged gratitude to the assorted affiliate our bodies, non secular, conventional, and group teams, market unions, and civil society organisations (CSOs) for heeding the group’s name to abstain from the protest.
Nonetheless, the Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide didn’t cease at merely expressing assist.
In addition they strongly appealed to the Tinubu administration to reciprocate the love the Ndigbo confirmed.
Okwu urged the federal government to deal with crucial points resembling creating a further state for the Southeast, correcting imbalances in federal appointments, releasing Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, and adequately funding the Southeast Growth Fee to spice up infrastructural growth within the area.
“This needs to be finished terribly,” Okwu emphasised, underscoring the significance of those actions to the continued assist of the Igbo youth for the Tinubu administration.
