MANGOV: ”IPOB Should Not Be Blamed For Ekweremadu’s Attack,” Sends Important Message To Nigerian Politicians

-He noted that political elites should not take the people for granted, adding that Nigerians are now politically wiser due to hardship.

Executive Secretary, Mandate for Good Governance (MANGOV), Chief Donatus Enendu, has said that the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) should not be blamed for embarrassing the Nigeria’s former deputy senate president, Ike Ekweremadu, in Nuremberg, Germany.

Chief Enendu, a former President-General, Uke community, Idemili North local government area of Anambra state, said this while speaking with journalists in Nnewi on Monday. He said that the action of IPOB members was unfortunate, and he advised the nation’s political office holders, who he said live in affluence to the detriment of the poor masses, to learn from Ekweremadu’s experience.

He noted that political elites should not take the people for granted, adding that Nigerians are now politically wiser due to hardship.

The community leader, who decried frequent overseas trips of President Mohammadu Buhari, argued that those trips might not have yielded any positive result based on the evidences of hunger, poverty, massive unemployment and insecurity across the country. He said there were possibilities of revolution against the political elites by the youths, if the numerous challenges facing the country were not addressed, as they were.

He observed that most state governments seemed to have concentrated on development projects in the state capitals. He advised the governors to diversify development of their states by investing heavily in the rural areas so as to attract major investors to such communities; even as he said that new networks of roads would attract investors to the areas.

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He was of the opinion that by opening up rural communities through massive road constructions, indigenes would have a sense of belonging to invest in their areas.

He, however, berated the federal government for not taking proactive moves to end Fulani herdsmen invasion of people’s farmlands, which he regretted, was gradually destroying the unity of the country and suffocating the poverty-stricken Nigerians.