The National Union of True Igbo Movement (NUTIM) has flayed President Goodluck Jonathan over appointment of Bianca, wife of Chief Emeka Ojukwu as a Special Adviser on Diaspora when the former Head of State of the defunct Biafra Republic was still in a London Hospital.
During a news conference in Owerri yesterday, the President of NUTIM, Dr Samfo Nwankwo described the appointment as insensitive, morally wrong and insult to Ndigbo.
He urged President Jonathan to immediately withdraw the appointment unless he would want to create hatred for himself among the Igbos.
“How can you appoint the wife of such a great man as Special Adviser on Diaspora when she supposed to be by her husband’s bed side in the hospital?” Dr Nwankwo fumed.
The NUTIM President disclosed that the Igbos all over the world had been praying for the speedy recovery of Chief Ojukwu, saying that “if the president means well, he should have waited for our leader to recover and return to Nigeria before the wife is given that type of appointment. Does he want Bianca to be junketing throughout the world while the husband is hospitalised?
“If our leader recovers and an appointment of a minister is offered to Bianca, then we will all troop out to thank President Jonathan, but on what he did now, it is a grave insult on Ndigbo”, Dr Nwankwo submitted.
He called on all Ndigbo everywhere to pray for the speedy recovery of Chief Ojukwu as they were still yearning for his leadership and inspiration.
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