Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has been called upon to ban the activities of Eze-Igbo in Abuja.

President of Ohanaeze, FCT chapter, Ifeanyichukwu Nweze, said anyone, who wants to become Eze-Igbo should return to the Southeast.

According to him, the FCT is not Igboland and, therefore, cannot have Eze Igbo stool.
Nweze said: “Following the sack of Uche Egenti, Ibe Nwosu and others by the General Assembly of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Abuja Chapter, for allegedly causing crisis in the FCT, and subsequent communication of the same to the minister, we wish to say that Egenti and his cohorts employed one FCK Obike (former executive committee member ostracised with them) to author a phantom impeachment against our president.

“The Ohanaeze Ndigbo FCT General Assembly, through the executive committee, reiterates that Abuja is not Igboland; therefore, there is no Eze-Igbo in the FCT. People seeking to be Eze/kings should go back to their home states in the Southeast and follow the guiding laws in respect of chieftaincy. Ndigbo cannot build kingdoms within the traditional leaderships of their host communities, thereby creating confusion, unwarranted rivalry and crises in the FCT.”

He called on the unsuspecting members of the public to beware of their activities, describing, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Abuja, as a responsible organisation that would not, under this regime, seek fund from the general public.

Those parading themselves as Eze-Igbo, he further alleged, gathered Igbo people, especially the unemployed and under-employed, for which they approach authorities for patronage, receive monies and other benefits for their personal use or for use to further enslave the unsuspecting vulnerable people.

He added: “They have lieutenants, whom they also address as Ezes; some of whom are not employed at all and/or are not even known at all by members of their extended families, not to talk of their communities in the Southeast. They have employed this purported traditional leadership of Ndigbo for fraud and deceit to the detriment of the FCT society at large.”