Bianca Onoh Ojukwu, the widow of the late Ikemba Odimegwu Ojukwu wants to contest for a Senatorial seat in Anambra state, where she's resident and married but some low life Anambra people says she can not. They say she's from Enugu, therefore she should go back to her home state to contest. It is indeed sad that it is one of Ojukwu's sons that's leading this protest against Bianca. Telling her she can't come from Enugu to represent Anambra state at the Senate.
For over days now after this news broke, I have been expecting that Dr. John Nwodo, the President-General of the Igbo social cultural group, the Ohanaeze Ndigbo would have issued a statement condemning such ridiculous attack on Bianca Onoh. Unfortunately, mum has been the word from Ohanaeze Ndigbo group. Yet, this are the folks running around the country preaching about restructuring.
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How can an Igbo woman be asked not to contest in a state her husband is from and where she's living just because she's from a neighbouring Igbo state? Yet, Igbos are commissioners, members of state and national Assemblies in other states outside Igbo land.
I am yet to hear IPOB issue a press release like they use to do on every issue condemning this aching drift and sad development. It's the same way one Igbo state will sack civil servants because they are from another Igbo state. A lot of this people are bloody hypocrites. All they do is play politics with everything.
Wherever this is happening in this country, it is a farce and must be condemned. Anywhere you have lived, work and pay tax for at least five years is enough for you to represent them politically at any level.
Sometimes, when I see some of this ethnic and regional Lords pontificate and grandstand about how they are for the interest of their region, I laugh. These folks are a bunch of jesters. I expect that there would have been an uproar from prominent Igbo leaders condemning this attack on Bianca. Unfortunately, nothing. What a shame!
SOURCE: OBLONG NNADI
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