Thursday, September 4, 2014

Nigeria will break up if El-rufai Don't stop accusing Ihejirika of being a bokoharam sponsor- Ohaneze Ndigbo


Former President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Dozie Ikedife, Tuesday, warned that the nation may split, if former Minister of Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja, Nasir El-Rufai, and other northern leaders did not stop disparaging the immediate past Chief of Army Staff, Major General Azubuike Ihejirika (rtd) and other Igbo leaders. The elder statesman stated that the manner El-Rufai and his fellow northern elders attacked Igbo icons, was becoming too excruciating that with a little more push, Nigeria may go down the archive of history.

Ikedife, who spoke at his Nnewi country home in reaction to the recent social media report, in which El-Rufai was said to have accused Ihejirika as one of the financers of the Boko Haram insurgents in the country, said that such statement was capable of attracting the wrath of Ndigbo. The visibly angry Ikedife said the accusation was another classical case of hounding and haunting of an Igbo icon in the person of General Ihejirika, who left the Army a few months ago as the Chief of Army Staff. He said:
“I wish to recall that when Ihejirika left the Army, those I identified as destroyers of credit and rumour mongers said that he was dismissed from the Army, but my investigation revealed that Ihejirika retired as and when due and was indeed the last member of his course mates to retire from the army. Following that retirement, the high and the mighty in one section of the country ganged themselves up and decided to take Ihejirika to the International Court of Justice for alleged crime against humanity because, as they said, of the way he hounded, the way he tried to checkmate Boko Haram insurgency when he was head of the Nigerian army. They accused him of using undue force and fighting Boko Haram mercilessly. That particular accusation seems to have died down because it must be understood that in the army, you carry out orders and take instructions from the Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces. So, the stigma they wanted to stick on him did not work”

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