The pan-Igbo
socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has demanded an unconditional
apology from human rights lawyer, Festus Keyamo, for dismissing the outrage by
Ndigbo over their exclusion in federal appointments as “mere noise.”
Keyamo, while defending the President against the allegations of
deliberate exclusion of the South-East in his political appointments so far,
said those criticizing the President “are political job seekers.”
His
words: “We, the elite, should not be moved by this noise and selfish agenda.
Imagine a whole ethnic group campaigning for a position! Initially, they said
Chief of Staff, then Secretary to the Government of the Federation.
“Now,
with all the noise they have been making since May 29, imagine if one person
from that region is appointed to that position. That person will then see
himself as a champion of his ethnic group and his kinsmen will descend on that
office in the area of contracts and gifts.”
The youth
of the group described Keyamo as “a desperate political sycophant who sees
insulting the Ndigbo as the fastest way to get the attention of Buhari for
consideration for a political appointment.”
A
statement by the National President of the Ohanaeze Youth Congress, Okechukwu
Isiguzoro, said Keyamo only resorted to attacking the Ndigbo for cheap public
notice.
The
statement issued on Monday in Umuahia, Abia State, regretted that “the likes of
Keyamo will shamelessly deny obvious truths for selfish interest and political
patronage.”
The
statement read in part, “Ordinarily, we would not like to take issues with the
likes of Keyamo as doing so will dignify him but we only want to warn him
against the dangers of fighting a whole tribe.
“It
is a pity that a lawyer like Keyamo, who should know better, has decided to see
nothing wrong with the deliberate exclusion of a whole geopolitical zone from
the over 30 key political appointments so far made by Buhari since he came on
board.”
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