An Igbo group, Ohanaeze, is expressing worries over the way the president-elect, Bola Tinubu, constituted his transition committee without Igbo representation.
President-Elect Bola Tinubu is expected to be inaugurated on May 29.
Therefore, ahead of the inauguration, he has set up a transition committee to ensure a smooth handover from President Muhammadu Buhari.
However, his 14-person transition committee has raised so many questions and disapproval.
One major reason people disapprove of the committee is that there is no Igbo person in it.
This has caused many to describe the president-elect as “tribalistic”.
Inherited Hatred
The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has criticised Tinubu’s transition committee.
According to the Vice-President of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Damian Okeke-Ogene, the president-elect is a “tribalist”.
“Igbophobia is in his (Tinubu) veins and by not including Igbo people in the handover committee, he is only trying to reopen old wound,” Vanguard quoted Okeke-Ogene as saying.
Furthermore, the Ohanaeze vice said that Tinubu had “inherited the hatred (Muhammadu) Buhari has against Igbo”.
“He said he will continue with Buhari’s policies and our question is, what is he continuing? Is it to continue the marginalisation of a particular ethnic group?” he stated.
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Also, Mr. Okeke-Ogene said the apex Igbo group had not accepted the emergence of Mr. Tinubu as the country’s president-elect.
“Ohanaeze has not even accepted his election and whatever he is doing is personal to him.
“What we know is that those who want to divide Nigeria will surely fail,” he said.
He says the group is not in a hurry to recognise Tinubu as the president-elect because “any house built on a faulty foundation is bound to collapse”.
Furthermore, Mr. Okeke-Ogene says until the outcome of the court process is known, we cannot take a stand on the 2023 election.
Mr Tinubu’s opposition in the Labour Party, Peter Obi, is currently challenging the result of the 2023 election in court.
