The apex Igbo socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide has condemned the refusal of Northern elders to speak against the alleged continued marginalisation of Igbo people.


In a statement signed on Tuesday by its Secretary-General, Okechukwu Isiguzoro, the group condemned President Muhammadu Buhari's dot-in-a circle comment targeted at Igbo people.

Last Thursday, Buhari had threatened that his government would mobilise the military and the police to go after the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) accused of disturbing the peace in the South-East region.


He had said IPOB is “just like a dot in a circle and they have nowhere to turn to. They are spread everywhere and they have investments and properties everywhere and in other areas.


“They don't know what they are doing. How we will handle them is to mobilise the police and the military to go after them.”


Also, Buhari had slammed those calling for the sovereignty of the Biafra and Oduduwa Republics, saying they were ignorant.


But reacting, Ohanaeze described the President's comment as disastrous, noting that 'no damage control or image laundering will assuage this collective assault on Ndigbo'.


The group stated that the silence of Northern leaders is proof that they are happy over the position of President Buhari on Southeastern Nigeria.


Isiguzoro noted that Igbo people are emergency experts in all situations and will be a dot in the circle that will swallow nepotistic anarchists and anti-Igbo exponents.


The statement read, “Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide had charged the leadership of the North to speak out against discrimination against Igbos and divisiveness being created by disastrous declarations of President Muhammadu Buhari describing how the southeast is landlocked and no damage control or image laundering will assuage this collective assault on Ndigbo.


“It appears that there are chains of crafted skirmish programmed to either aggravate the traumas of Ndigbo or remind them of the sordid past a few years ago, and with 'a dot in a circle' slogan that was used to pulverize Igbos during the Biafra war that left 3 million people dead, especially women and children. Right now in 160 days, 513 Igbos had been killed, 2,436 arrested and 854 missing in the ongoing 'imported' insecurity challenges in the southeast.


“The 'dot in the circle' is a new signal to point out that Ndigbo are surrounded or should be taught in the language they should understand, but the fact remains that, the silence of Northern leaders shows that they are happy over the position of President Buhari on Southeastern Nigeria. We have seen the direction of events and Igbos are not noisy anymore, we are emergency experts in all situations, 'a dot in a circle' remains the Bermuda triangular point that will swallow nepotistic anarchists and anti-Igbo exponents."

http://saharareporters.com/2021/06/15/buhari-government-has-killed-513-igbos-arrested-2436-854-missing-160-days%E2%80%94ohanaeze-ndigbo

longetivity:
Buhari hate ndi Igbo

EraseTheDot:
- erase the dot

Casham:
Na wa o. You can't just blame everything on Buhari na. I know he's one of the worst things to happen to Nigeria, but we are really our own problem. Buhari said "IPOB" not "Igbos" are like a dot in a circle. People are twisting his words to mean whatever they want. Is IPOB a group or another name for Igbo people? Or do all Igbo people belong to the group. The Federal government says it is only after IPOB members, not Igbos. Stop shouting more than the bereaved.
Anyways, wetin I know sef!

ScamHunter:


Nigerians hate Ndigbo. Other tribes just cannot stand them. Igbo themselves are not aware that too much success and unquenchable drive could be dangerous for them. Maybe, this time, their position has finally been hardened to the realization that there is no future for Igbo with these Nigerian tribes.

Komolafe89:
You forget how ur fools killed their own peoples under the name of unknown gunmen

Casham:
Jesus Christ! You people are intolerable with this "everybody hates Igbos" rubbish. Gosh! Igbos have always seen themselves as some kind of special [or even superior] breed. They always separate themselves out of paranoia and disdain for others they consider 'inferior' or even 'osu'. This is what the Jews did in the middle ages that got them (is still getting them) killed. It is because you breed hatred for anything 'not Igbo', that's why you all think everybody 'hates' you! Even If I am to hate anybody for been successful I won't go for Igbos. I will go for Yorubas and Fulanis. Bini people are successful too but they relate so much with every one else.

BigSarah:


Does IPOB have investments all over the country?, are IPOB in every part of the country
Even though I don’t support MNK tactlessness, that doesn’t mean one shouldn’t decipher .

Casham:
Are Igbos the only victims under Buhari? How many ethnic group have some of their people killing law enforcement agencies as a group. So the Igbos are saying a campaign against any group that is fighting the government is a campaign against the Igbos as long as that group is an Igbo group. You people are making it look like only the deaths of Igbo people matter. Look around you; more Yorubas die under Buhari than Igbos. Some of them are in Benin republic. Just last week, 120 people were killed in just one village in Kebbi state. Go and ask the Benue people also. Stop making it look like all these lives don't matter simply because 500 Igbos die in six years. Let's fight this thing together; we are all dieing under this government. Elrufa'i even paid the Fulanis for killing my people.

EraseTheDot:
- erase the dot

EraseTheDot:
- erase the dot

Casham:
Na wa o. You can't just blame everything on Buhari na. I know he's one of the worst things to happen to Nigeria, but we are really our own problem. Buhari said "IPOB" not "Igbos" are like a dot in a circle. People are twisting his words to mean whatever they want. Is IPOB a group or another name for Igbo people? Or do all Igbo people belong to the group. The Federal government says it is only after IPOB members, not Igbos. Stop shouting more than the bereaved.
Anyways, wetin I know sef!

BigSarah:


I don’t think this is an appropriate response to my comment, but this thread is about Igbos losses.. so when a thread comes up about other tribes or about all tribes I’m sure you’ll see satisfying responses there...
May we a find the peace we desire.