OHANEZE CHIEF, JOHN NNIA NWODO SPEAKS TO NDI-ANAMBRA

[Anthony Nze]

 

Mr. speaker sir,

Honourable members of Anambra state House of assembly. 

I am delighted to be here in this honourable house to share thoughts with you on a number of issues confronting our people in this state and Igbo land as a whole. 

Anambra state is outstanding amongst the various states in Igboland.   I have in facts held in many quarters that Anambra claims more than 50% of blessings the Almighty God showered on Igbo people. Let me give a few examples. 

1. The only Igbo man that has been president of Nigeria ( even if ceremonial) H.E. Hon. Dr. Nnamdi  Azikiwe is from Anambra. 

2. The only Igbo man that have ever attained the exalted office of elected vice president of Nigeria Dr. Alex Ekwueme is from Anambra. 

3. An Anambra son, Dim Odimegwu  Ojukwu is the only Igbo man to have been referred to as Head of state of Republic of  Biafra.

4. Of all Igbo states, no state has produces two Senate presidents ( Dr. Best Of Orizu and Dr. Chuba Okadigbo) except Anambra state. 

5. Similarly no Igbo state is yet to beat the record of Anambra state in producing two speakers of the federal house of representatives namely Chief Edwin Umezuoke  and Chief Agunwa Anakwe. 

6. In the international political arena the only Nigerian that has occupied the office of the secretary General of the Commonwealth is from Anambra state, Chief Emeka Anyaoku.

In all fields of learning and enterprise Anambra' s distinction is unparalleled. In ICT Philip Emegwali, in Literature , Chinua Achebe, Cyprian Ekwensi, Chimamamda Adichie stand out significantly.  I shall  not bore you with more names in commerce and industry and other fields of endeavour.  But suffice it to say that Anambra state is outstanding in Igbo land.

Today Anambra has the lowest poverty index in Nigeria. Today Anambra has the highest growth rate of manufacturing outfits in Nigeria.  Today Anambra has the highest growth of import substitute endeavours in rice and vegetable production in Nigeria.  Today Anambra is the state with the lowest loan exposure in Nigeria with capacity to meet its monthly publications to its workers timeously.  Today Anambra and Lagos are the only states involved in the building of new cities planned to meet the standard of any modern city in the world.

It's edge over Lagos is that it is also building along with this modern city , an international airport with the capacity for passengers and cargo haulage. In Onitsha every village in Igbo land is represented in burstling and highly competitive commercial transactions. 

Anambra is important to the Igboland. Anambra is important to Ohaneze.

News that reached us in the past few days that Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of IPOB has declared that there will be no election in Anambra state in November is shocking and disturbing.  I hereby countermand that declaration as President of Ohaneze Ndi Igbo. 

Whereas Ohaneze understands the marginalization and unfair treatment of Igbos which have given rise to self-determination movements in Igboland, leaders of these movements must  not arrogate to themselves the supreme leadership of Igbo land. Statement of the kind of  credited to Nnamdi Kanu are provocative, misleading and unproductive.  Why should Anambra people be denied the opportunity to choose their own leader? Why should any of us who are not from Anambra , no matter how highly placed, descend to the arena and dictate for Anambra people when to vote , Whether to vote or who to vote for?

Anambra, nay Igbos, are still part and parcel of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Yes, we are not happy with our treatment in Nigeria.  Yes, some of us want Biafra. Yes some of us prefer a restructured Federal Republic of Nigeria. But the fact remains that we are still part and parcel of the present federal Republic of Nigeria, bound by its laws, no matter how repressive or injust.  Our approach to reforms of our laws even if it leads to self-determination or restructuring must be lawful. 

We must convince other Nigerians of our points of views, we must strive to make others share our concoctions.  Our language must be civil, respectful and leads to consensus building. We must resist any attempt to turn division amongst us, as to which way we must go, becoming a source of altercation between us. As we speak very many of our people living in Northern  Nigeria are in complete awe and consternation regarding how safe they will be after October 1st. Other Northerners living among us here are also worried.  The Inspector General of police has taken public notice of Nnamdi's comments inviting a possible invasion of Anambra by the Nigerian police, increasing the already existing siege of our people which leads to daily extortion on our highways. All these developments have arisen out of unguarded utterances. 

I find no venue suitable for the statements I make here. Every constituent part of Anambra state is represented here. I believe that the honourable members here are competent enough to carry the Ohaneze message to every nook and cranny of Anambra state.  We are happy with the peace that exists here. We are happy with the steady progress Anambra has registered over the years. The next election can only improve not retard it.

I thank you for your kind attention.

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[Rex Marinus]

Mr dear brother,

Nnia Nwodo is an astute politician, and he was making a "political speech." He was specifically directing his speech to a particular audience to make them feel good, in order to pass across a more specific message. Some would call it a "divisive speech." I choose to call it a  "celebrative speech." And he indeed knows that it is full of holes in terms of a few facts. There was a time in Igbo land when the issue was about an "Aro Mafia," and the overwhelming influence of the Aro Oke-Igbo in Igbo political and economic life. There was a time it was about "Ndi Onitsha" and "Ndi Owerri" - meaning folks from the two old most powerful provinces of Igbo land. Today Nwodo says, "Ndi Anambra" - in a sense folks that come mostly from the old "Onitsha province." Yo ask the Yoruba, they'd talk about the "Egba" or if you press it a bit more, the "Ijegba." Even within then is the "Ogun state" group - Awolowo,  Obasanjo, Abiola, Shonekan,  and Osibanjo, if I'm not mistaken, and writers like Soyinka, etc. And within it is the tusstle between the Owu (whom they generally consider bush and aggressive and the Ake, and the Remo, etc. Up in the North, there was a time we heard so much about the "Pankshin Mafia" and then of course the 'HausaFulani" oligarchy. These are all convenient, short-gun ascriptions of power. Nwodo is particularly wrong about Igbo land. There are the great Igbo giants like Mbadiwe, who was Deputy Prime Minister of Nigeria, and was considered, aside from Balewa, perhaps the most powerful minister in government in the first republic federal government; there was Mbonu Ojike, and there was the great premier of the East, M.I. Okpara, whom Mbadiwe once in a fit of pique even called, the "bumkin from Bende." Two Igbo have been governors of Lagos - Ndubisi Kanu and Ebitu Ukiwe, and the later was Vice-President of Nigeria, as Chief of General Staff. Aguiyi-Ironsi was the first GOC, and the first military Head of state f Nigeria, and the only other Igbo who has been Chief of the Nigerian Army is General Ihejrika. These are not "Ndi Anambra." One of the greatest Igbo that ever lived was the great missionary doctor and Governor of the East, Ezeogo Akanu Ibiam, and the list goes on, and these are not "Ndi Anambra." The "Anambra" are Igbo too. Their achievement is Igbo achievement. Their failure is Igbo failure. I think that we should not read to much into Nwodo's celebration of his Anambra in-laws, and in my way of thinking, I should just laugh it off, and say, "dianyi, but you're wrong." I would not go so far as calling him a "traitor" for a political speech aimed at mobilizing for a particular occasion. If you give him the mike, and he goes to Umuahia, or Owerri, he's likely to produce a version of his "Anambra speech." What we know is that "Igbo n'ile ji Ofo." Everyman has the "Ofo" of his fathers. This new fangled idea about something of a "ruling lineage" is the product of a growing canker in the Igbo mind that is challenging the Igbo republican spirit with a feudal and monarchical infection. Nwodo's words manifest this, and should be made to stop. Ofo ha otu, as the true Igbo say. There are no born rulers of the Igbo.

As for the Mbaise Catholic issue: the reason I do not generally talk about the Catholic church situation in Mbaise is because (a) I understand the position of the Mbaise, and yet I also disagree with it, and (b) I think the church should settle its problems, I am a revert to Odinala. Perhaps the pope may learn something about the very stubborn Mbaise people, who have basically told him to go and eat shit; and perhaps in due course, the Mbaise Catholic Diosces defiance movement might be the catalyst to make our people return to the worship system of our ancestors, when the church has fully excommunicated them from the holy See. Perhaps, from the dissolved church may rise, an African Catholic Communion, that might exit from the Roman synod as its own independent synod, sending its own missionaries to replace the Roman church in Africa. We live to see. But I also think that the Mbaise Catholics are making a great mistake by rejecting another priest - an Igbo brother priest. I think they should have allowed Okpaleke, because now, they  compromise the possibility of an Mbaise-born priest to be Bishop anywhere else other than Mbaise in the future. And for a community with the highest number of priests in the world, serving across various parishes in the world, that is a strategic mistake. This is, of course, my personal opinion: Nkeriuka, or "Ahanihu." I salute you sir.

Obi Nwakanma

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This speech is not scholarly, irresponsible and divisive. What kind of message is he trying to convey to our adversaries, that Ndigbo cannot speak with one voice; that power struggle and marginalization equally exist among Ndigbo? What a nonsense!

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[Wilson Iguade]

Rastafarian Dude! (Obi Nwakanma)

I guess Buhari was making a "celebrative speech" when he spoke in Hausa language recently given your useless argument below in the order of specific speech to specific cause on specific agenda. 

You are full of it!!!

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Obi Nwakanms :

If an American President or top politician speaks before an sll-White audience and uses both true and false statements to "celebrate" White contribution to world progress, should that be given any pass as a celebratory moment or speech? 

It is this same excuse that was given when Zik in a 1940-ish speech before Igbo Union talked about Igbo manifest destiny to rule not only Nigeria but Africa.   He was viewed with suspicion ever since and throughout his life by non-Igbo, people  and particularly by the Yoruba among who he lived in Lagos,   despite his many pan-Nigerian credentials. 

A speech highlighting selective achievement of a group of people is only justified as a rebuttal to an allegation of lack of achievement or contribution.   Blacks in the US episodicslly trot these out,  even sometimes hyperbolically and to my discomfort.  But when used in service of a supermenschen mentality,  not only is not true - there are no Superman'schens anywhere in the world,  just sometimes oppression and/or lack of/delayed/suppressed opportunities - such  outlandish statements, both in private and in public,   breed unbridled resentment and must be avoided by all means necessary. 

Chief John Nnia Nwofo misspoke,  period,   and he should revise his priors. 

And there you have it. 

Bolaji Aluko 

On Saturday, July 1, 2017, Rex Marinus <rexma...@hotmail.com> wrote:

Mr dear brother,

Nnia Nwodo is an astute politician, and he was making a "political speech." He was specifically directing his speech to a particular audience to make them feel good, in order to pass across a more specific message. Some would call it a "divisive speech." I choose to call it a  "celebrative speech." And he indeed knows that it is full of holes in terms of a few facts. There was a time in Igbo land when the issue was about an "Aro Mafia," and the overwhelming influence of the Aro Oke-Igbo in Igbo political and economic life. There was a time it was about "Ndi Onitsha" and "Ndi Owerri" - meaning folks from the two old most powerful provinces of Igbo land. Today Nwodo says, "Ndi Anambra" - in a sense folks that come mostly from the old "Onitsha province." Yo ask the Yoruba, they'd talk about the "Egba" or if you press it a bit more, the "Ijegba." Even within then is the "Ogun state" group - Awolowo,  Obasanjo, Abiola, Shonekan,  and Osibanjo, if I'm not mistaken, and writers like Soyinka, etc. And within it is the tusstle between the Owu (whom they generally consider bush and aggressive and the Ake, and the Remo, etc. Up in the North, there was a time we heard so much about the "Pankshin Mafia" and then of course the 'HausaFulani" oligarchy. These are all convenient, short-gun ascriptions of power. Nwodo is particularly wrong about Igbo land. There are the great Igbo giants like Mbadiwe, who was Deputy Prime Minister of Nigeria, and was considered, aside from Balewa, perhaps the most powerful minister in government in the first republic federal government; there was Mbonu Ojike, and there was the great premier of the East, M.I. Okpara, whom Mbadiwe once in a fit of pique even called, the "bumkin from Bende." Two Igbo have been governors of Lagos - Ndubisi Kanu and Ebitu Ukiwe, and the later was Vice-President of Nigeria, as Chief of General Staff. Aguiyi-Ironsi was the first GOC, and the first military Head of state f Nigeria, and the only other Igbo who has been Chief of the Nigerian Army is General Ihejrika. These are not "Ndi Anambra." One of the greatest Igbo that ever lived was the great missionary doctor and Governor of the East, Ezeogo Akanu Ibiam, and the list goes on, and these are not "Ndi Anambra." The "Anambra" are Igbo too. Their achievement is Igbo achievement. Their failure is Igbo failure. I think that we should not read to much into Nwodo's celebration of his Anambra in-laws, and in my way of thinking, I should just laugh it off, and say, "dianyi, but you're wrong." I would not go so far as calling him a "traitor" for a political speech aimed at mobilizing for a particular occasion. If you give him the mike, and he goes to Umuahia, or Owerri, he's likely to produce a version of his "Anambra speech." What we know is that "Igbo n'ile ji Ofo." Everyman has the "Ofo" of his fathers. This new fangled idea about something of a "ruling lineage" is the product of a growing canker in the Igbo mind that is challenging the Igbo republican spirit with a feudal and monarchical infection. Nwodo's words manifest this, and should be made to stop. Ofo ha otu, as the true Igbo say. There are no born rulers of the Igbo.

As for the Mbaise Catholic issue: the reason I do not generally talk about the Catholic church situation in Mbaise is because (a) I understand the position of the Mbaise, and yet I also disagree with it, and (b) I think the church should settle its problems, I am a revert to Odinala. Perhaps the pope may learn something about the very stubborn Mbaise people, who have basically told him to go and eat shit; and perhaps in due course, the Mbaise Catholic Diosces defiance movement might be the catalyst to make our people return to the worship system of our ancestors, when the church has fully excommunicated them from the holy See. Perhaps, from the dissolved church may rise, an African Catholic Communion, that might exit from the Roman synod as its own independent synod, sending its own missionaries to replace the Roman church in Africa. We live to see. But I also think that the Mbaise Catholics are making a great mistake by rejecting another priest - an Igbo brother priest. I think they should have allowed Okpaleke, because now, they  compromise the possibility of an Mbaise-born priest to be Bishop anywhere else other than Mbaise in the future. And for a community with the highest number of priests in the world, serving across various parishes in the world, that is a strategic mistake. This is, of course, my personal opinion: Nkeriuka, or "Ahanihu." I salute you sir.

Obi Nwakanma

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Subject: Re: [IgboEvents:Live] OHANEZE CHIEF, JOHN NNIA NWODO SPEAKS TO NDI-ANAMBRA

This speech is not scholarly, irresponsible and divisive. What kind of message is he trying to convey to our adversaries, that Ndigbo cannot speak with one voice; that power struggle and marginalization equally exist among Ndigbo? What a nonsense!

Dr. H. U. Nwachukwu
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[Ayotade Ojutalayo]

Prison Number,

You wrote "Fulani owned APC", "Nigerian APC", and called Nigerian President "illiterate Fulani". You are marginalizing Igbo from mainstream Nigeria. Why then do you complain of Igbo marginalization?

Ayo Ojutalayo

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On Sat, Jul 1, 2017 at 8:25 PM, 'c15201947' c152...@aol.com [NIgerianWorldForum]

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The "Anambra" are Igbo too. Their achievement is Igbo achievement. Their failure is Igbo failure. I think that we should not read to much into Nwodo's celebration of his Anambra in-laws,

 

Obi you said it right.  I wonder what the fuss is all about.

It is like in a family where a child excels in school and rather than everybody joining hands to celebrate the achievement,

Some bizarre ‘sibling rivalry’ sets in.  A win for a family member is a win for the whole family; everybody gets at least name recognition world over.

 

As we speak some Igbo are gathering in Oka and plotting with Nigerian APC, PDP to shove Willie Obiano aside and hand the state over to tribal haters to collapse.  And the question is ; what do they stand to gain if Anambara that is making effort to care for Igbo and spread same idea to other states, collapse and taking over yet again by kidnappers and looters?  Leading this senseless and anti-Igbo effort are Chekwa Okorie with his UPP, Agbaso and Rochas Okorocha backed by Fulani APC.  Agbaso/Rochas Okorocha are getting APC Nigerian government support, we do not yet know who is funding Chekwa Okorie.

 

I believe emergency meeting of Igbo is required ASAP to ask these three Igbo why they are shooting their own people from behind instead of facing the enemy.  Do Chekwa Okorie, Agbaso and Rochas not know about gang up attacks, sabotage and threat for another genocide against Igbo by Nigerian hate tribes.  Rochas is now in APC, can he point to on single gain for Igbo from his Fulani owned APC.  He could not even pay government employees in Owerri and could not develop the state with billions he collected from Abuja on behalf of Igbo in Imo in close to 8 year as governor.  They fooled him that he will be made VP to an illiterate Fulani in 2019 if he could help destroy Anambara for them, and he believed and actually acting on it.

 

Igbo as people are close to 100 million nationwide in Nigeria.  If we band together in APGA, build it together, nobody can rule Nigeria without the input of the party.  Our folks do not need to play second fiddle with tribal haters.  We negotiate from position of strength with whoever is interested.  That should be informed and civilized way to go and not perennial dependence on Hausa and Fulani election rigging to get elected.

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