As crisis rocks the leadership of the South-East Governors’ Forum, the Former Governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, has sued for peace through a statement issued by the Orji Uzor Kalu Media Centre, Abuja, and signed by Rubby Obinna.
Kalu said that Ndigbo do not need distraction in whatsoever guise at this point of the country’s history, but to fight for a common good for the advancement of the country’s democracy. He wondered why nearly a year now, the governors’ forum has existed without a leader.
Kalu quoting John F. Kennedy’s address before the United Nations, September 25 1961, said, “Mankind must put an end to war – or war will put an end to mankind.”
He said that the South-East Governors’ Forum was supposed to be a bastion of peace standard. He however wondered why power tussle now reigns supreme in the body.
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“I may visit the forum if the internal crisis rocking the South-East Governors’ Forum persists. I may do that because the thoughts of the South-East Governors’ Forum invariably are the Igbo message to Nigeria. Our bond should be our treasure. I think the forum’s foundation was not where people should go to exhibit their profession. I think the forum was formed for practice: How to better the lots of people from the South-East zone and contribute to the Nigeria’s progress. A crisis in the South-East Governors’ forum is a crisis tragically projected for us Ndigbo to divide ourselves. We shall not allow the crisis in the forum in order not to pummel the principle of Ndigbo built on Biri ka mbiri. ‘Live and Let’s Live,” Kalu said.
Kalu added that Ndigbo do not need dichotomy at this time. He advised that the governors should mend their differences in order to make a better Igbo-land safe for diversity.
