Prominent
Igbo leaders are expected to converge on Enugu on Saturday to deliberate on the
agitation for Biafra, among many other issues.
Acting
under the aegis of the World Igbo Congress, the Igbo leaders, according to a
statement by its chairman, Joe Eto, on Wednesday, said one of the issues that
would be discussed included the ‘marginalisation of the Igbo by the Buhari-led
administration’.
The
statement said previous meetings of the congress had been held in the United
States of America, adding that prominent scholars from the South-West zone
would participate in the meeting.
Eto
said a former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Prof Chukwuma Soludo;
Founder, Centre for Values in Leadership, Prof Pat Utomi; Deputy Senate
President, Ike Ekweremadu; a former governor of Anambra State, Mr Peter Obi;
oil magnate, Arthur Eze; Minister of Science and Technology, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu,
were among the personalities expected at the meeting.
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