A former House of Representatives member, Bernard Barida Mikko, has urged the new president of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, John Azuta Mbata, to ensure the safety of Ndigbo in other regions.
Naija News reported that Senator Mbata was elected Ohanaeze’s president on Friday, in Enugu State. Another faction, backed by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), also elected Uche Okwukwu president, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
In an interview with Arise News on Monday, Mikko said the faction of Okwukwu lacked legitimacy. He, however, challenged Senator Mbata to reach out to all aggrieved persons for unity.
“The stakeholders of the organization have conducted an election that gave him the legitimacy. What I will say is that let the Senator like every other organization now bring everybody together as a peaceful union and achieve the aim of which it was founded.
“The main work that Senator Mbata has now is to reach out to other regional leaders, they live mostly in the diaspora, so if they reach out to ethnic leaders, regional leaders, from the north, west and all that and they create a national etiquette for our people so that when crime is committed by Nigerians anywhere, other people don’t fall victim,” he said.
The former House member for Khana/Gokana constituency from 1999 to 2003, emphasized the need for Mbata to liaise with the government on separation movements in South East.
“This is the main challenge for Senator Mbata, which I said he has the humility, candour and wisdom to do. There are separatist movements, there are agitations of hunger all round the world now, not only in Nigeria or in the diaspora, you have them in Lagos, in the southwest where people died in trying to scramble for handouts from some NGOs,” he stated.
Mikko, who hails from Gokana local government area in Rivers State, further urged the new Ohanaeze Ndigbo executives to work hard and unite Igbo nationalities.
“The main focus of the organization Ohaneze Ndigbo is to foster unity among the Igbo nationalities cutting across anywhere they may be. Senator Mbata has to bring all the factions among the Igbos together and make peace so that the harmony and brotherhood among them is achieved,” he added.
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