Ohanaeze To Keyamo: Apologise To Igbos

Ohs The popular Human rights lawyer, Festus Keyamo has been asked to apologise to Igbo people for his recent comment describing the outrage from the Igbos concerning their exclusion in President Muhammadu Buhari’s appointments as ”noise making.” According to Daily Post, the instruction to Keyamo was given to him by the youth wing of the popular pan Igbo socio-cultural association, Ohanaeze Ndigbo (Ohanaeze Youth Council). While defending Buhari’s appointments recently, Keyamo had said :“ 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 SGF. “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.” In a statement released by the group in Umuahia, Abia state today, September 7, and signed by its president, Okechukwu Isiguzoro, Ohanaeze described Keyamo as “a desperate political sycophant who sees insulting Ndigbo as the fasted way to get the attention of Buhari for consideration for political appointment”. ”The likes of Keyamo will shamelessly deny obvious truths for selfish interest and political patronage. Ordinarily we would not like to join 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,” parts of the statement read. Three days ago, Keyamo, has called on Buhari to set up a high-level inquiry to investigate the nefarious activities of oil marketers and airlines who use house-hold kerosene as aviation fuel.