Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, has issued a firm directive advising all Igbos across Nigeria to withdraw from the planned nationwide June 12 Democracy Day protests.
The group said its decision follows credible intelligence suggesting a plot to incite violence and frame Igbos as enemies of President Bola Tinubu’s administration.
In a press release signed by Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, Deputy President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the organization announced that no protest activities would be permitted across the seven Igbo-speaking states, citing security concerns, historical grievances, and the government’s continued detention of Igbo political prisoners as reasons for the boycott.
Part of the statement read: “This is not an act of cowardice, but a necessary strategy to protect Igbo lives and properties. We have seen enough bloodshed. This time, we will not be used as scapegoats.”
Ohanaeze alleged that anti-democratic actors in cities like Abuja, Kaduna, Maiduguri, and Lagos are plotting to hijack the protests and manipulate outcomes to portray the Igbo as instigators of national instability.
The group also decried the perceived injustice in the selective release of political detainees by the federal government while Igbo activists, including Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, remain in detention without due process. They demanded the immediate release of all “Igbo prisoners of conscience” as a precondition for future national engagement.
“No Igbo will join any protests until all our political prisoners are freed and all charges against them dropped,” Isiguzoro declared.
Ohanaeze further urged President Tinubu to use the symbolic weight of June 12 to initiate national reconciliation.
They called for the implementation of the 2014 National Conference recommendations, full electoral reforms, and a transparent 2025 census that includes ethnic and religious data.
“The Southeast is open to dialogue, but not under the threat of violence or continued injustice. The time for true restructuring and reconciliation is now,” the group stated.
Those protester are lazy Nigerian couple with jobless politicians that of no relevance in govern any political office anymore were those sponsoring lazy Nigerian to paint our hard earned June 12 democracy to June 12 protester day.
Former president Muhammad Buhari is 100% right about lazy Nigerian youth when he describe us as lazy people, tell me what are we protesting for infrastructure, economy policy and stability of our forest market and foreign reserve to boost our nation economy all mention have been on positive trends since this administration came on board, talking about the hunger though several past leader of this great country neglect that vital sector but now there’s resurgence to that sector now. Question is that how many Nigerian youth embrace agriculture as vital sector to help alleviate food crisis… the answer is NO. White collar job and internet fraud is mostly this young generation cherish
Have graduated for the past 7 years, part of my 18 thousand allawee save us to by some species of rabbits, today I have no complain been unable to get white collar job or shouting and join protester on the streets demonstrating against the government complain about hunger, though my i still trying to strive for fund to establish standard poultry farm join with other animals species but unable to do so due to financial stuff