Pete Edochie, a veteran actor, has raised worry over Igbo people’s political marginalization, stating that a president from the South East can provide strategic leadership that can restructure Nigeria.
During an appearance on a BBC Igbo show, the Anambra-born film actor bemoaned the fact that Nigeria has never had more than one Igbo head of state, despite the fact that the country has been independent for more than sixty years.
“Igbo people are Nigerians,” he stated. When Queen Elizabeth arrived in 1956, she was transported in the car of an Igbo man named Odumegwu Ojukwu, who was one of the wealthiest black men in the country at the time.
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“He never asked to be paid. Successful Nigerians in those early times were people of Igbo extraction: Power Mike in boxing, Chinua Achebe in literature. Even Ben Enwonwu, the Nigerian who painted the queen at the time, is Igbo.
“I myself as a successful actor am an Igbo man. Igbo, Hausa, and Yoruba are the major ethnic groups in Nigeria. Only once in the history of Nigeria has it emerged that an Igbo person became the head of state in Nigeria.
“That was Aguiyi Ironsi during the military government and his headship was short-lived. Since then, the north and the Yoruba have been sharing power between themselves, apart from Goodluck Jonathan who isn’t even Igbo.”
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