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Ethnic Militia: APGA Flays FG's Double Standard By Emmanuel Ugwu in Enugu The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) has decried the policy of the federal government in dealing with agitations emanating from different ethnic nationalities in the country, saying that double standards is the name of the game. National Chairman of APGA, Chief Chekwas Okorie made this observation yesterday in a chat with newsmen at Enugu following the rapprochement between the federal government and the Niger Delta Volunteer Forces NDVF) led by Alhaji Asari Dokubo. Dokubo was invited to Abuja last Wednesday where he held talks with President Olusegun Obasanjo and other government officials and agreed on a ceasefire after the Ijaw warlord had threatened to launch an all out war against the Nigerian state on October 1, 2004. But Chief Okorie noted that the peace parley at Abuja has lend credence to the lopsided manner the government of Obasanjo has been tackling the issue of national question coming from different zones of the country. "With the benefit of what happened at Abuja, the issue of double standards, different laws for different people has come to the fore," he said, adding that while he had nothing against Dokubo "for fighting for justice and has taken up arms and even gave a date he will carve out his enclave, he has been treated like a king." "Can you now compare that with somebody at the level of, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, who was shabbily treated despite the fact that is Obasanjo's superior officer in the military, and was offered a one way economy class ticket to go to Abuja for a chat with the Stat Security Services (SSS). The APGA chairman also drew a comparism between the kingly treatment of NDVF leader and the way the federal government has been hounding the Ralph Uwazurike led Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB),which has not taken up arms against the state. "It refers to executive amnesia of government," he said, adding that Obasanjo has over the time demonstrated his Igbophobia hence his attitude to any issue concerning the interest of Ndigbo in the Nigerian federation. Nevertheless, Okorie asserted that Ndigbo would prevail despite the official hatred and lopsided policy against the race. Who Are We ? | About THISDAYOnLine.com | THISDAY People | Contact Us © Copyright 2000 Leaders & Company Limited

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