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.... ....   Home  |  Cover Stories  |  National Newsreel  |  Politics  |  Business  |  Sports  |  World  | Contact  | Advert Rates  Towards a better life for the people Search The Archives   Cover Stories National News South West Niger Delta South East North Politics Business Sports World Viewpoints Features   COVER STORIES Ohanaeze sets up committee to study Police report on Okija By Emmanuel Aziken Monday, September 20, 2004 ABUJA — THE apex Igbo socio-political organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has constituted a committee to study the report of   the Police on the Okija shrine episode and declared that the survival of Nigeria as a federation would depend on an Igbo   President in 2007. Ohanaeze President, Prof. Joe Irukwu (SAN), speaking in Abuja at a reception organised by the Item Union   in Abuja for him to mark his recent election as President-General of Ohanaeze, lamented that the disclosures about activities in   Okija shrine in Anambra State tended to pertray the Igbo in bad light. He announced the establishment of a committee of   eminent Igbomen  to study the investigations being conducted by the Police. Second Republic Speaker of the House of Representatives, Chief Edwin Ume-Ezeoke, is to head the committee, Prof. Irukwu   said.He did not name other members of the committee which he said would study the Police report and advise Ohanaeze on the   ramifications of the revelations.Pressing for an Igbo President in 2007, Prof. Irukwu said: “Nigeria came into existence as a   Federal Republic because three quasi  independent regions decided to form a federal republic. Since then, what has happened?   The North has ruled for 30 years, by the time Obasanjo finishes in  2007, the West would have ruled for 12 years. The   South-East has ruled for six months. We are saying that justice demands that the East must rule, that is simple justice.” Asserting that an Igbo President in 2007 would be the panacea to the rumbles in the polity, the Ohanaeze helmsman said: “If we   don’t do justice, people will not be happy. The only way for you to have a solid happy Nigeria is to do justice to all. The people   who have ruled for six months are entitled to rule."   Home  |  Cover Stories  |  National Newsreel  |  Politics  |  Business  |  Sports  |  World  | Contact  | Advert Rates © 1998- 2004. Vanguard Media Ltd.

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