â€¢Says she is not Igbo

By ALEX ENEBELI

The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, says the lady that posted the viral video â€œPoison Yoruba and Edoâ€ on the social media is not Igbo.

The group said there was no sufficient evidence that the lady who posted the video was Igbo, adding that she did not in any way portray the Igbo character of thoughtfulness, discretion, self-censure and equanimity.

Dr Alex Ogbonnia, the National Publicity Secretary of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, made the refutation in a statement on Wednesday in Enugu.

According to him, the attention of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide has been drawn to a video clip making the rounds in the social media which goes by the â€œname @Anyi_anambra on tiktok â€œasking the Igbo to poison the foods of the Yoruba and Benin peopleâ€.

He said the miscreant â€œpromised to encourage other Igbos to poison Yoruba and Benin peopleâ€, â€œLet Ndigbo get heart of wickedness and to start poisoning Yoruba and Edo.

â€œOhanaeze would have ignored the social media video clip as coming from a deranged psychopath or one of the fictitious narratives which with the Internet device was twisted, dressed, coated and delivered to the unsuspecting and obliging public,â€.

Ogbonnia, however, said their telephones had been inundated by various eminent persons who had expressed fears on the possibility of some persons carrying out the threats.

â€œIt therefore becomes imperative for Ohanaeze to respond, especially when the National Publicity Secretary of the Afenifere, Mr. Jare Ajayi forwarded the clip and requested for prompt action.

â€œThere is no Igbo man or woman that will contemplate throwing stone in a full market for the fear of who shall be the victim as the Igbo travel more than any ethnic group in Africa.

â€œThey also create homes away from home wherever they are found. They mix up or integrate with the local community and contribute to developing every community they find themselves.

â€œBased on the foregoing, two major derivatives emerge: if one should poison food in Lagos or Ibadan or Benin, is there any guarantee that the first victim will not be Igbo?â€ he asked.

The publicity secretary said the lady in the said video must be a â€œdepressed drowning ethnic bigot, obsessed by the negative side of history and unflinching satanic in orchestrationâ€.

He disclosed that the Secretary-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, Amb. Okey Emuchay, decried the video tape on the social media.

According to him, Emuchay vehemently condemned both the video content and the perpetrator as a mischief-maker.

â€œThey are the merchant of woes who deploy despicable and incendiary rhetoric to create ethnic mistrusts and conflicts where none exists.

â€œOhanaeze seizes this opportunity to enlighten the younger generations that the Igbo, Edo and Yoruba share a lot in common. We share in cultural affinity, cosmology, morphology, and hospitality.

â€œThe age-long inter-marriages between the Igbo, Yoruba and Edo have produced well accomplished great grand-children,â€ he said.

He therefore, assured the Afenifere, the entire Yoruba and Edo brothers that the threat from the depraved mind should be ignored as â€œidiotic, meaningless and vacuousâ€.

â€œWe add that, throughout history, proposals by the maladjusted are always dead on arrival.

â€œWe use this opportunity to call on the security agencies in Nigeria to trace the perpetrators of this macabre dance to face the full weight of the law,â€ he said. (Text, excluding headline: NAN)

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