Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide, has slammed former Governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi, over his recent comment that his earlier claim of being Igbo was merely a political ploy.
Papers News recalls that Amaechi, while speaking to a crowd of supporters at the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign in Aba, Abia State, in 2015, said, “I am a bona fide Igbo man. My name is Amaechi, but President Jonathan, who says his name is Azikiwe, cannot speak the Igbo language.”
After 10 years, Amaechi, in an interview on Arise Television’s Prime Time on Tuesday, dismissed the earlier statement, stating he is an Ikwerre man from Rivers State.