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VON Director General calls out Nwodo for criticizing Buhari’s Independence Day Speech

Director General of Voice of Nigeria, Mr. Osita Okechukwu, who has been referred to as one of the most prominent Igbo associates of President Muhammadu Buhari, has called out the leader of Ohanaeze Ndigbo for casting aspersions on the President, undermining his hand of fellowship and for allowing himselve to be swayed by a handful of Afenifere activists.

The VON boss said the confrontational tactics were doing the region more harm than good and he also noted that instead of positively engaging the administration, the leader of the Igbo people have turned to Afenifere activists and Nnamdi Kanu while the majority of South-West leaders in Abuja were drawing foreign investments to their region.

Mr Osita lamented how the President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Nnia Nwodo, failed to respond to the ‘profound congratulatory letter’ the President wrote him on his election as leader of Ohanaeze.

“Ask my big brother, Chief Nnia Nwodo, President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, whether he replied the profound congratulatory letter President Muhammadu Buhari wrote to him immediately he was elected before he joined Nnamdi Kanu? The same Buhari wrote a letter on November 7, 2014, to the then President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, calling for dialogue before the election. It was never replied.”

Osita also spoke in defense of the President when the issue of lopsided appointments of the Buhari regime was brought up. He was reminded that the administration is yet to appoint an Igbo man in the commanding role in the security architecture of the country and he explained that appointments are transient and temporary and that in no distant time, the President would rectify the issue.

“I challenge Ohanaeze to spare a minute and call a meeting to ask either Geoffrey Onyeama or Okechukwu Enelamah, Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Trade and Investment respectively, how best to attract foreign investment to our region.”

“We are busy with Afenifere while the main faction of our South-West brothers is coasting home with major foreign investments at Abuja.

“My appeal is that we join Mr. President in revamping our decayed physical and social infrastructure.”

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