The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, has faulted the proposed bill at the Senate seeking to officially designate the Ooni of Ife and the Sultan of Sokoto as permanent Co-Chairmen of the National Council of Traditional Rulers of Nigeria.
The Ohanaeze warned that such a move marginalises other ethnic nationalities and violates principles of fairness and equity.
The organisation, in a statement issued on Sunday by its National Publicity Secretary, Dr. Ezechi Chukwu, described the bill, which has already passed second reading, as discriminatory, ethnocentric and unjust.