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“Igbos didn’t support Buhari, shouldn’t cry about marginalisation” – Minister of Labour

“Igbos didn’t support Buhari, shouldn’t cry about marginalisation” – Minister of Labour

The Minister of Labour and Productivity Chris Ngige, has chided the Igbo community in the country for crying about being marginalised by the Federal Government.

According to Ngige, the Igbo didn’t support President Buhari’s bid for presidency, and should bear the consequences.

He described politics as a form of “business”, in which if you dont “invest”, you wouldn’t get returns.

 

He said the Igbos in the South East were wrong to throw all their weight behind former President Goodluck Jonathan.

Ngige is quoted by Thisday as saying, “This is not a question I should answer because I’m a politician. But before these things happened, before the government of Jonathan failed, I went to all the Igbo fora to tell them that the Jonathan government will fall”, he told Thisday.

“I went to our Ohanaeze Ndi-Igbo in Enugu twice. They could not even reply to a letter written by Gen. Buhari, seeking for a meeting with them,” he added.

He further said his efforts to persuade the leaders in the region to give President Buhari at least 25% of their votes fell on deaf ears.

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“They refused to listen to me, and to make matter worse, there was no voting in most of the areas in the South-Sast; they just allocated 5% to APC. It was that bad, it is too late to cry when the head is off. Politics is business in a way, you invest in business and you reap profit,” he said.

“Yes, that is what it is. But all I want to tell you is that we played bad politics; we made a bad investment because they invested in the Jonathan presidency. They invested in Jonathan more than the South-South, where he hails from.

“I am not saying that is enough to marginalise them or not allow them come in but we are there. I will continue to speak for them and when there is anything to be distributed, we will make sure that the South-East gets its own portion. But they will not get excess portion.

“Even in a family where the head of the family goes to the farm to harvest his yams those who accompany the farmer to the farm get more share.”

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