Around fourteen days after the visit of a previous legislative leader of Anambra State, Dr. Chukwuemeka Ezeife, to the All Progressives Congress bad habit official competitor, Kashim Shettima, the Igbo Elders Consultative Forum which he seats is truly partitioned, The PUNCH has learnt.
Albeit the authority proclamation had guaranteed that it was a politeness visit, sources said it had tossed the IECF into discussions as individuals who had been heroes of the Igbo administration and upheld the official competitor of the Labor Party, Peter Obi, stayed separated.
The division among the individuals from the association was fuelled by the crossing out of two question and answer sessions prior booked for 1 pm on Tuesday, June 14 and Friday, June 24 2022 at Ezeife’s home in Asokoro without a second to spare, while not an obvious reason was given.
Since that time, the IECF had kept a stunning quietness, consequently fuelling more hypothesis that lawmakers might have invaded its individuals.
A stunned individual from IECF who would rather not be referenced affirmed the division however didn’t know whether it was supposedly supported by the All Progressives Congress.
He said, “I don’t know I realize what is happening among Igbo Elders. Mainly, after those two cut short question and answer sessions and even gatherings, we chose to focus somewhere else and watch. There are individuals who came to capture the spot to bring in cash.
“We don’t realize whether they’re being supported by the APC. We think he (Ezeife) was informed that it wasn’t great. Around then, Igbo Elders were extremely vocal and they attempted to partition us. We didn’t permit that to irritate us since we know where we were proceeding to accomplish underground work.
“Yet, I think we have returned to our faculties, we have returned from our franticness. Those individuals really fizzled, they fell. The APC needed to kill us, yet that one is presently finished.”
At the point when reached on the division among Igbo older folks and whether it was anything but a danger to Obi’s desire, the Spokesperson of Peter Obi Support Network, Onwuasoanya Jones, said Obi’s development was a public plan.
As indicated by him, Ezeife is a senior legislator and can choose to visit whoever he wishes to visit.
He said, “Obi’s official task isn’t an Igbo plan. His is a Nigerian task and we consent to the freedoms of each and every Nigerian to choose whom to help and whom to decide in favor of. That’s what we trust if ability, character and validity are the game changers, Obi towers well over each and every competitor in this race
“Ezeife is a senior legislator and previous lead representative. We can’t choose for him whom to visit or not. It is totally inside his entitlement to visit Shettima or some other individual besides.”