Ohanaeze rejects Tinubu’s census committee, cites southeast exclusion

• Ohaneze Ndigbo Worldwide has frowned astatine the creation of Tinubu's nationalist census committee, which has nary idiosyncratic of Southeast extraction arsenic member
• The apex Igbo socio-cultural enactment besides berates the nationalist assembly for neglecting their oversight relation successful that regard
• It further urges Tinubu's authorities to reconstitute the census committee to bespeak national quality principle

The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, has rejected the National Census Committee acceptable up by the President Bola Tinubu's administration.

The presidency had done a connection by Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President connected Information Strategy, announced the inauguration of a high-level committee connected the forthcoming nationalist colonisation and lodging census.

Tinubu has been asked to reconstitute the census committee. Image: FB/Ohanaeze Ndigbo, ABAT
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Bagudu announced committee chairman

Nigeria’s past census was successful 2006, astir 2 decades ago. It recorded a colonisation of 140,431,790, with 71,345,488 males and 69,086,302 females.

The Minister of Budget and Economic Planning, Senator Atiku Bagudu, was announced arsenic the president of the committee.

Other members are the Minister of Information, Muhammed Idris; the National Population Commission (NPC) chairman, Nasir Isa Kwarra, who volition besides service arsenic the committee secretary; arsenic good arsenic the the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, the Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), the Director General of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), the Principal Private Secretary to the President, and the Senior Special Assistant to the President connected Administration and Operations (Office of the Chief of Staff).

Ohanaeze Ndigbo alleges marginalisation

Reacting, the contiguous past Vice President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, Ichie Damian Okeke Ogene, said the committee was skewed against different sections of the country, particularly the Southeast, successful favour of the South-West.

Ohanaeze demands that Tinubu to reconstitute the committee an see Southeasterners. Image: Ndigbo Ohanaeze
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Ogene said that census is simply a precise delicate matter, adding that each process pertaining to it indispensable beryllium seen to beryllium just to each the regions of the country.

In an exclusive interrogation with Legit.ng analogous connected Tuesday, April 29, Ogene noted that “we person waited to spot whether the presidency volition bash the needful, but the concern remains the aforesaid astir 3 weeks aft that one-sided committee was inaugurated.

He said:

“Nigerians are alert of the issues that ever trailed past census figures and we expected that for once, the state should get it right. “It is, however, regrettable that the existent authorities has started connected the incorrect footing by appointing a committee that is wholly dominated by radical of the Southwest - wholly excluding the Southeast - yet, they tag it nationalist committee. “There is thing nationalist astir that committee arsenic it wholly nenages the rule of national character, conscionable similar astir appointments done truthful acold by Tinubu's government. “This is wholly unacceptable and we impulse Mr President to either disband the committee oregon grow it to accommodate different regions of the country."The nationalist assembly expected to constituent retired these lapses, and marque definite they're corrected, but they would not. They springiness support and walk immoderate that are sent to them, not minding what they are. This is wherefore galore Nigerians described this existent 10th nationalist assembly arsenic rubber stamp legislature."I deliberation that by now, we should beryllium doing things that volition fortify our unity arsenic a country; not things that volition disagreement us. If the national quality rule is nary longer moving for us, we tin arsenic good scrap it from our constitution, truthful that we tin beryllium definite that what we're practicing is victor takes all.

He added that census should not beryllium handled similar different actions of the existent administration, stressing, “Southe East volition not judge allocation of figures.”

Ohanaeze demands Tinubu to apologize

Earlier, Legit.ng had reported that the apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, had called connected President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to offer an authoritative apology and wage N10 trillion successful compensation to the Igbo radical implicit humanities injustices stemming from the 1966 coup and the consequent Nigerian Civil War.

The request follows caller revelations by erstwhile subject president, General Ibrahim Babangida, who stated that the coup was not an Igbo-led operation, arsenic antecedently alleged.

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Source: Legit.ng