SAN FRANCISCO, January 04, (THEWILL) – The Igbo apex socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has declared that the Ibos will never again go to war to resolve conflicts in the country.
The President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Nnia Nwodo, stated this at the 2018 Igbo International Leadership and Good Governance Retreat held at Abagana, Anambra State.
He declared that rather than go to war, the Igbos would rather use diplomacy as a tool for peace and conflict resolution.
Nwodo said though it was not in doubt that Igbo were facing large scale marginalisation in Nigeria, the way to overcome it was not through fighting another war but by adopting peaceful means and dialogue.
Citing the issue of states and local governments’ creation in Nigeria, he said the Igbo were shortchanged noting that such anomalies could be corrected through dialogue and making other Nigerians to see the need for equity and justice in the Nigerian project.
“The military created states and local governments and gave the North the highest numbers, not because our population was the smallest but was just part of marginalisation,” he said.
He later commended the World Igbo Leadership Council and the World Igbo Information and Communication Network who are the organisers of the annual retreat.
THEWILL reports that the event was attended by renowned Igbo scholars from Abia, Anambra, Delta, Ebonyi, Enugu, Imo and Rivers states.
It would be recalled that the first retreat was hosted at Ibusa, Delta State by Prof. Pat Utomi in 2016, while the second was hosted by Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu in 2017 at Uburu in Ebonyi State.
