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Joe Igbokwe Removed As Lagos Igbo Leader
Joe Igbokwe, the Special Adviser on Drainage and Water Resources to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has been removed as the leader of the Ndigbo in Lagos State All Progressives Congress (APC).
Eze Ndigbo of Lagos State and Chairman of Ndigbo Council of Ndieze in Lagos, Christian Nwachukwu, made this known at a news conference on Sunday.
He said Joe Igbokwe had not advanced the cause of the ethnic group in Lagos since he became the leader of the group.
Nwachukwu, however, said the group had found a better leader in Jude Idimogu, the lawmaker representing Oshodi/Isolo State Constituency 2 in the House of Assembly.
The former spokesperson of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Lagos State chapter, Joe Igbokwe, has described himself as a Nigerian and not belonging to any ethnic group.
Joe Igbokwe, who stated this yesterday at the House of Assembly during the screening of the last batch of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s cabinet-nominees, lampooned those he described as ethnic bigots.
He hinted that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) vice presidential candidate, Peter Obi, was the reason for the attitude of easterners in the state during the last general election.
Lagos should take the lead and be more open to other ethnic groups by giving them political appointments, he asserted.
Jow Igbokwe said, “I’m proudly Nigerian; I don’t know about east, west, north or south. I have been in Lagos since 1985. My children were born here. It’s high time we started building this country.
“I get angry when people mention ethnicity. A young Nigerian lady was just made a minister in Britain. If I become the president of this country, nobody is going to fill form and put his state of origin. That’s the first thing I will do. It is when you take people for who they are that is when they will release their energy for the good of the country. One day, Nigerians will say, we are all Nigerians.
ThunderBolt
May 30, 2020 at 11:12 am
Igbos and Biafrans should try to ignore (if cannot be dealt with) this world class efulefu, he’s one of many lost scavengers causing non-Fulanis not just Biafrans very big harm!
Any idiot that advocates people throwing away their true identity for a fake and even insulting one like ‘nigger area’ is not just sick but brain dead traitor!
Dr. Peter Ejirika
May 29, 2020 at 7:38 pm
Mr. Joe Igbokwe and Osita Okechukwu are not of Igbo Ethnicity according to Prewar Port Harcourt N.C.N.C, the Willink Minority Commission of the Colonial Era and the Oral Stories of Igbo Great Grand Fathers rather they are the descendants of immigrants to Igbo Land. Also, their fathers and Grand Fathers did not take part in the battle of Aro Chukwu of 1901 neither did their mothers nor grand mothers take part in the Igbo Women Tax Revolt of 1929.So they are immigrants as Nnaia Nwodo hence they call us “Nwanoyigbo”.
Descendant Of Prewar Port Harcourt N.C.NC.
ThunderBolt
May 30, 2020 at 11:00 am
Well said!
The fool that lost his identity and prefer a racist British derogatory tag ‘nigger’ from ‘nigger-area’ is a confirmed nonentity that has nothing but treachery to offer. Of course his masters despises him even more for being a traitor all round.