Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha has voiced his great displeasure at the state of the Igbo nation within Nigeria. Sounding more like Jesus when he scattered the tables in the temple than a politician or Nigerian civil servant, the Governor recently said, we (Ndigbo) must ask God for forgiveness.
Speaking on Tuesday, at at the International Colloquium on the Igbo Question in Nigeria held in Enugu, he stated, “The Igbo nation is not working, but the Igbo nation can work and it will take my generation to make it work.
“The problem is not that we don’t have abundant natural and human resources, the problem is not that we don’t have enough educated people, enough business men, enough professors, enough religious leaders; our problem is lack of unity, any day Ndigbo become one, something will happen in Nigeria.
“Our problem is that there is no unity, Governors are not united, businessmen are not united, traditional rulers are not united, the women, the youths are not united”.
Okorocha said that an Igbo presidency is the answer to Nigeria’s problems.
“First and foremost, we must ask God for forgiveness, Ndigbo must set aside a date to fast and atone for their sins, on such a day, we must lie down on the ground and cry to God.
“All hope is not lost; the Yoruba has ruled Nigeria, the Hausa has ruled Nigeria, all the other zones have ruled Nigeria, but the problems facing the country are still there, any day an Igbo man occupies the presidency, there will be a total turn around”.
Other speakers at the event included, the Coordinator and Chairman of the Colloquium Planning Committee, Prof. Uzodinma Nwala, and Professor Chinweizu Ibekwe, the keynote speaker.
A communique is expected at the end of the conference from all the participants that were there present.
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