Nigerians Protest Against Oba Akiolu At ICC

Following the recent threat made to the Igbos by the Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu, Nigerians in the diaspora have taken protest to the International Criminal Court (ICC), at the Hague.

Oba of Lagos, Rilwam Akiolu

The Sun reports that the protest was carried out under the auspices of the Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria (TAN).
The group which condemned the monarch for his threat to Igbo living in the commercial city also took their protest to the White House in Washing­ton D. C. and Nigeria High Commission in London.
Spokesman of the group Chris Nsoedo said the traditional ruler reportedly threatened the Igbos with death by water if his preferred candidate, Akinwunmi Ambode of the APC loses in the state’s governorship poll.

Nsoedo, who said the death threat should not be treated with levity, likened it to the hate speech that triggered Rwandan genocide and called on the International Criminal Court to investigate.

He pointed out that Igbo were always at the receiving end of any crisis even when they knew nothing about the development leading to it.

According to him, the time has come for the government of Nigeria to be pro-active in preventing incessant attacks on South-easterners, who are usually renowned for their positive contributions to their host communities.

TAN, however, advised the President-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari against seeing some ethnic groups as his enemy, noting that the entire country was now his constituency.

The group thanked the National Coordinator of TAN, Dr. Ifeanyi Ubah for championing the “liberation” of the Igbo leaving in Lagos, and urged indigenes of the South East to be united.

There have been a lot of reaction from Nigerians, especially the Igbos since the Oba of Lagos issued that “message” to the Igbos on the eve of governorship election in their home state.
Meanwhile, Dr Josef Onoh, the son of the late former governor of old Anambra state, Chief C.C Onoh, and a former member of the Enugu state House of Assembly, has vowed to drag the Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiolu, before the International Criminal Court of Justice over the anti-Igbo comments he made during his meeting with some Igbo leaders resident in Lagos.

But, one Ibraheem Dooba had recently attempted to find the reasons that might have provoked the Oba’s harsh behaviour towards the Igbos.