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Apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide has come hard on former minister, Rotimi Amaechi over his recent comment that his earlier claim of being Igbo was all politics.

Amaechi while speaking before a crowd of ers at the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential campaign in Aba, Abia State in 2015, said: I am a bonafide Igbo man.

[b]“My name is Amaechi but President Jonathan, who says his name is Azikiwe, cannot speak the Igbo language.”

But, the former Rivers State governor in an interview on Arise Television’s Prime Time earlier in the week, said he is an Ikwerre man from Rivers State, adding that he associated himself with the Igbo people to make Nigerians address the cries of marginalisation by the Southeast.

Reacting, the National President of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide, Mazi Okwu Nnabuike slammed Amaechi for exhibiting what he called “a shameless and treacherous character.”

Okwu, in a statement made available to journalists on Friday, said it was regrettable that someone who now parades as a lover of Nigerians and an advocate of the masses could come out to display a public show of shame.

“We were shocked to the marrow to listen to Rotimi Amaechi make such a U-turn on national television.

“This is the same man who accused former President Goodluck Jonathan of not being an Igbo man, simply because he (Amaechi) needed the votes of Ndigbo for his party, the APC in 2015.

“Fast forward to 2025, the same man, 10 years later, has now told Nigerians that he lied to them.

“What this clearly shows is that Amaechi is a man who can do anything for politics; who can say anything just to get what he wants politically.

“How can we explain the fact that someone who personally declared that he is an Igbo man 10 years ago, now shamelessly tells the whole world that he did that all for politics.

“What this clearly shows is that he is in the league of politicians who have no character, who believe that all is fair in politics,” Okwu stated.

He then urged Nigerians and all those who are identifying with the coalition ahead of the 2027 election “to beware of a man who says something in the morning and upturns it in the evening.

“Particularly, we advise Mr Peter Obi to be wary of such a man. He should not be seen to be associating with a man who is making a caricature of Ndigbo.

“Such a person is not to be trusted and we now see why Nyesom Wike clearly said that Amaechi has no capacity.

“How can such a man have capacity when he is living a life of treachery, when he is telling lies to get what he wants.

“However we want to make it clear to Amaechi and his likes that Ndigbo are not looking for people like him. We know genuine Igbo men and women when we see them, and we have a handful of them,” Okwu declared.

Okwu warned that Ndigbo would never be taken for granted by anyone stressing that

“we are waiting for Amaechi in 2027 when he will come to any state in the South-East to open his lies-filled mouth. He will hear from us at the appropriate time, because we know he shall surely need Ndigbo again.

“We have had enough from people like him and we say never again.”

https://dailypost.ng/2025/06/06/amaechis-not-igbo-comment-treacherous-ohanaeze/

“Such a person is not to be trusted and we now see why Nyesom Wike clearly said that Amaechi has no capacity.

Wonderful, so they can come back to reverence Wike?. Indeed, what God cannot do does not exist.

Identity crisis because of politics.

Amaechi is just using these ones head to play Ludo..

Dem be headless mob..

jmoore:
Identity crisis because of politics.

Ogbakor Ikwerre means what?

Ogbakor means gathering in Igbo language.

They should have used Rumugbakor Ikwerre.

See tears.. unity beggars.

jmoore:


Ogbakor Ikwerre means what?

Ogbakor means gathering in Igbo language.

They should have used Rumugbakor Ikwerre.

Unity beggars

Crying babies. The guy said he just dey deceive you as he knows that you love deceit

Putindbutt:

Unity beggars

Babablu bulabu jagajaga beggars.

This is not even supposed to be a topic of discussion.

Identify crises

ahnie:
Identify crises

Proper Ones—esteem issues is a national crisis atm!

Eternal cry babies

Ohanaeze at times make una de use silent de wine issues. No be everything una done run come out.

When Amaechi was addressed as “Our Igbo son” in Abia State by the then Ohaneze president Joe Irukwu, during the reception in honour of Arunma Oteh, he promptly took the mic and said “I am a proud Ikwerre son and not Igbo. This was over 15 years ago. At a radio Station in Lagos when he was governor, he was asked if he was Igbo and he said No.

Igbo people continued to call him an Igbo man so when he was campaigning for Buhari against Jonathan he used that advantage to tell the crowd that he was more Igbo than Jonathan and Igbo people started cheering him. Is there any where in the world where someone would overnight say he belongs to an ethnicity that he never identified with and then you take that as indelible fact?

Only Igbo people would see someone whose mother, father, none of the siblings is Igbo but assume that person can become Igbo overnight. If this is not stupidity of the highest order then I don’t know what it is.

E pain dem wella.

Lolz

ukukaegbu:
This is not even supposed to be a topic of discussion.

Why e pain ohaneze that they had to issue a statement is enough reason to be trashed out.

Inferiority complex is when you continue to seek validation at all times from every Tom , Dick and Harry.

All Nigerian politicians are not to be trusted whether Obi, Atiku, Amaechi, Tinubu, el rufai , wike, sowore, akpabio etc

All Nigerian pastors are thieves, no one is exempted

All Nigerians are criminals, the only difference is that many have no opportunity to display and prove me right


Leaders come from the citizens, since Nigeria doesn’t have good leadership, it shows the citizens are the problem, you can’t be expecting a saint to come from the den of thieves

Where is the treachery ?

Is there a treasonous clause in not wanting to be associated with any ethnic group?

jmoore:


Ogbakor Ikwerre means what?

Ogbakor means gathering in Igbo language.

They should have used Rumugbakor Ikwerre.

In Spanish Language and Portuguese Language

The following words are examples the same

English Spanish Portuguese
Eat Comer Comer
Fish Pez Pez
Shop Tienda Tenda
Water Agua Agua


Spanish and Portuguese share almost 90% of their vocabulary REPEAT 90%


Because you as an Igbo person see what sounds or looks like your vocabulary does not mean the other person is speaking your language

A banana is not a type of plantain

The fact that Ogbakor means whatever in Igbo language does not mean i cannot mean the same thing in Ikwerre language or that if Ikwerre use it they must have borrowed it from you


These is a list of Yoruba words

Iba Fever
Ejire Twins
Okuta Stone

Afefe Breeze or wind

Apoti Box

Eti Nose

Ile House

Oka Corn
Enu Mouth

Apo Bag

Ile Ground

Imu Nose


There are very similar words in Igbo

What does that prove> That our ancestors were neighnbours . You cannot claim that because a word means the same thing in two different languages that one group owns it and the other is part of them

Ewure goat

Ibudo Settlement/ Small town

Eru Slave

Ibi Place

Bo Come

bo ibi Come here
bo wa ile (bowale) come home

leave am alone. He wan win election but some people are shouting "Igbo will never rule'.... I am not Igbo sha

ysth:
but you think same Fulani and Hausa will Amaechi just because he said he isn't Igbo? Has he changed his name? Amaechi will be the biggest fool in this whole process. Ask what happend to Odili and Wike

Wike ?

What happened to Wike?

FYI, the north respects Wike for standing up for Rivers , SS and southern interests.

DomPerignon:


Wike ?

What happened to Wike?

FYI, the north respects Wike for standing up for Rivers , SS and southern interests.

u guys talk with such confidence... to believe ur ignorance is bliss is the most annoying thing among some of u here

adamkkk:
u guys talk with such confidence... to believe ur ignorance is bliss is the most annoying thing among some of u here

Amaechi used your heads play ludo

APCNig:
Crying babies. The guy said he just dey deceive you as he knows that you love deceit

Zombiee rest