Former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has disclosed that he claimed to be an Igbo man due to politics.
The former Rivers State governor said his disdain for how the Southeast was treated made him claim to be an Igbo man.
Amaechi disclosed that his affiliation with the Igbo tribe was a protest to make Nigerians address the issues of the Southeast. ...CONTINUE READING
Amaechi, in an interview on Arise Television’s Prime Time, said he is an Ikwerre man from Rivers State.
He said: “I’m an Ikwerre man, if you ask an Ikwerre man who are you? He will tell you that I’m an Ikwerre man.
“So, what you can say is that is an Ikwerre man an Igbo man? There are divergent views, the majority will say no, but there is a very tiny minority which includes me.
“Why did I take that position, it’s political but not to win the votes of the Igbos. I didn’t like the way Igbos were being treated at a particular point in time – in protest against the Igbos I began to wear the Tiger head cloth with the red cap.
“I wore it in protest asking Nigerians to address their problems. Again, I made it public that I’m an Igbo man in protest.”
Speaking before a crowd of supporters at the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential campaign in Aba, Abia State in 2015, Amaechi 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.”
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All the people claiming that they are Ikwerre are confused because they don’t know what they are saying, you speaks Igbo and bears their name and still saying that you’re not Igbo. Ikwerre should stop that rubbish that they are saying that they are not Igbo. An Ebonyi state person can not tell you that he’s not from Igbo because person from Anambra state will not understand his dialect or Anambra state man will not tell you that Ebonyi state man is not an Igbo because he doesn’t understand him.
All these statements you are now making is for politics.
We know your type.
So you know the history of the Ikweres more than the Ikweres themselves.
Historically, they said they were from the Benin Kingdom
Mumu people everywhere you are not an igbo man but you are answering AMAECHI MUGU