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My Heart Bleeds For Igbo Nation, Says Okorocha As He Blasts Mbaka Over Comment Against Obi
Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo state, yesterday warned against Ohanaeze Ndigbo taking side in the forthcoming 2019 general elections just as he said that his heart sometimes bleeds for the Igbo nation.
Okorocha stated this through his Chief Press Secretary, Sam Onwuemeodo, when the National Organizing Committee for the 2018 Igbo Day Celebration led by Gregory Ibe, paid him a visit at government House Owerri.
Okorocha maintained that, the Igbo people needed to come close to God and reconcile with each other.
The governor further said that if the Ohanaeze Ndigbo was not careful that it could support candidate that would fail in the forthcoming election.
He also briefly commented on the issue involving a Reverend Father, Ejike Mbaka with politicians, “Look at the statement by Mbaka of recent, it’s the most embarrassing, but nobody will speak out.”
The statement read: “Governor Rochas Okorocha has called on Ohanaeze Ndigbo to Champion Reconciliation among the Igbos, and also set out a day for atonement for Ndigbo, stating that the Igbos need God more than anything else.
“The governor also advised the body to distance itself from partisan politics to avoid Ndigbo losing when the Party or Candidate the organization supports loses,
“Ohanaeze should be smart when it comes to the issue of partisan politics so that no matter the Candidate or the Party that wins, Ohanaeze can move in to do the needful.”
On his suggestion that what the Igbo people need at the moment, “I have told the National President of Ohanaeze about the need for Ohanaeze to Champion Reconciliation among Igbos.
“I said at Evan Enwerem’s book launch, Jim Nwobodo and Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu were there, that when I was growing up, all I heard was that Iwuanyanwe never saw eye to eye with Enwerem. Jim Nwobodo never saw eye to eye with Ekwueme. I asked Iwuanyanwu, where is Enwerem today to fight and Jim, where is Ekwueme to fight ?
He was not happy that, “ this ugly development has been transferred from your generation to my generation. Rochas Okorocha and Ngige. Obi and Obiano, and so on. So, our generation has also taken that way.
“And we are not helping matters. So there should be a very emotional moment for everyone in form of reconciliation. And Onanaeze should champion it.”
The statement also looked at solving the plethora of problems of the Igbo through communing with God, “There should also be an atonement for Ndigbo. There could be a prayer programme for atonement for Ndigbo. Igbos need God and God is closer to them.
“There is need for Ndigbo to bow down their heads in adoration to the Most High God and Ohanaeze can champion that. We must begin to do things a bit differently. We can do something new. This is where I specially disagree with the elite of Igboland. Let’s try something new since there is no harm in failure, but an invitation to start again.
“My heart sometimes bleeds for the Igbo nation and when I see you people, I tell you how I feel. One of our major pivots upon which the wheels or faith of the Igbo man revolves is the Church and it has also been tainted.
“Look at the statement by Mbaka of recent, it’s the most embarrassing, but nobody will speak out. We must act quickly now under the present ugly situation before we destroy the psyche of Ndigbo yet unborn.”
However the governor accepted to host the Igbo day celebration saying, “I am excited to host Ndigbo and I am prepared to host them. As you are aware, we have been making every attempt to unite Ndigbo over the years. And years and years, it has always looked like there is no light at the dark end of the tunnel. We must keep trying in pursuit of peace. There’s no end to it.”
Anonymous
December 11, 2018 at 1:47 am
Undesirable element
Anonymous
December 10, 2018 at 11:37 pm
U re the worst
Anonymous
December 10, 2018 at 4:29 pm
Face your state and patty leave God’s servant alone
Anonymous
December 10, 2018 at 4:08 pm
Is Obi your brother
Anonymous
December 10, 2018 at 3:15 pm
Scam
Anonymous
December 10, 2018 at 3:09 pm
You are among the reason the Igbos are still in the state they are today.. Slave mentality
Anonymous
December 10, 2018 at 1:09 pm
Okorocha should better go and mould Oshiomole
Anonymous
December 10, 2018 at 12:58 pm
Hu seek ur opinion/comments? The spirit of iberiberism has eluded u badly, chaeeeh. There is God oooo
Anonymous
December 10, 2018 at 12:27 pm
It heart should bleed for urself iberiberism has overtaken u sir
Anonymous
December 10, 2018 at 11:43 am
Okorocha is worst than Mbaka! That’s my opinion. He should not use this opportunity to feel good.
Anonymous
December 10, 2018 at 11:37 am
Hopeless governor
Anonymous
December 10, 2018 at 11:23 am
Lekwa ha… Rocha’s ha… your heart koo, your leg nii. Onye ihu abua
Anonymous
December 10, 2018 at 10:37 am
IGBO LANDING: MASS SUICIDE OF IGBO SLAVES OFF THE UNITED STATES COAST, 1803
The Igbo Landing is a historic site at Dunbar Creek on St. Simons Island, Glynn County, Georgia, USA. It is the site of one of the largest mass suicides of enslaved people in history.
Historians say Igbo captives from modern-day Nigeria, purchased for an average of $100 each by slave merchants John Couper and Thomas Spalding, arrived in Savannah, Georgia, on the slave ship “The Wanderer in 1803.
The chained slaves were then reloaded and packed under the deck of a coastal vessel, the York, which would take them to St. Simons where they were to be resold. During the voyage, approximately 75 Igbo slaves rose in rebellion. They drowned their captors and caused the grounding of the ship in Dunbar Creek.
Led by their chief, the Africans then marched ashore, singing. At their chief’s direction, they walked into the marshy waters of Dunbar Creek, committing mass suicide.
The Igbo were known by planters and slave owners of the American South to be fiercely independent and more resistant to chattel slavery.
For centuries, some historians have cast doubt on the event, suggesting that the entire incident was more folklore than fact. But a post-1980 research verified the event using modern scientific techniques to reconstruct the episode and confirm the factual basis of the longstanding oral accounts.
The site was designated as a holy ground by the St. Simons African American community in September 2012. The Igbo Landing is also now a part of the curriculum for coastal Georgia schools.
The Igbo Landing has come to occupy great symbolic importance in local African American folklore. The mutiny and subsequent suicide by the Igbo people have been called the first freedom march in the history of the United States and local people claim that the Landing and surrounding marshes in Dunbar Creek were haunted by the souls of the dead Igbo slaves. #HistoryVille
Anonymous
December 10, 2018 at 10:32 am
Useless men parading themselves as as igbo leaders
Anonymous
December 10, 2018 at 10:24 am
The change must start from you first. You are a bunch of disappointment.
Anonymous
December 10, 2018 at 9:11 am
I thank God you know Igbo is a nation
Anonymous
December 10, 2018 at 8:47 am
Thank God he is out of APC,to build statues in another political party.Poor governor,door governance.
Anonymous
December 10, 2018 at 8:47 am
You have no heart idiot!
Anonymous
December 10, 2018 at 8:36 am
BORN-AGAIN IGBO MAN , NDE-EWO .
HOPE YOU RETURNED WITH ALL YOUR BACKUPS; PLUS INCLUDING ; MINISTER OF ENTERTAINMENT AND MINISTER OF ENJOYMENT.
Anonymous
December 10, 2018 at 8:01 am
See dis one………
Anonymous
December 10, 2018 at 7:27 am
You want reconciliation to take place in Igbo land so that you will cover all the atrocities you have committed. Let the reconciliation begin with you. Return all the money you and your family stole from imo state. Even my 90 years old mother knows that your government was a failure
Anonymous
December 10, 2018 at 7:19 am
okorohausa….what’s your concern on igbo people?
Anonymous
December 10, 2018 at 7:04 am
Look who is talking
Anonymous
December 10, 2018 at 7:01 am
Igbo people never change
Anonymous
December 10, 2018 at 6:54 am
Okorocha is working his way,,To join PDP,,, D winning team,,,,,
Anonymous
December 10, 2018 at 6:46 am
Clueless men
Anonymous
December 10, 2018 at 6:28 am
okoroawusa is one of the terrorist that is against the igbo nation but we will settle them one after the other they have made us to look like fools but they will be paid in due time
Anonymous
December 10, 2018 at 6:24 am
Look out this one okorocha who ask u to speak?
Anonymous
December 10, 2018 at 6:23 am
Okorocha is right on this, there is power in unity
Anonymous
December 10, 2018 at 9:11 am
Nwanne Andrew when has unity of the Igbo ever mattered to Okorocha? Or is it because his northern brothers the apc have let him down!
Anonymous
December 10, 2018 at 6:14 am
Okoromumu you not a igbo man and you never be idiot
Anonymous
December 10, 2018 at 6:10 am
Any difference between both of u?
Anonymous
December 10, 2018 at 6:08 am
This is the only reasonable thing you have said in your life, maybe because you have Lost your bragging right
Anonymous
December 10, 2018 at 6:06 am
Anonymous
December 10, 2018 at 6:04 am
Accept hope Uzodinma first as your party guber flag bearer, peace starts from there
Anonymous
December 10, 2018 at 5:56 am