The Imo visit, Buhari and the strides towards peace, By Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim

We should thank God for elders like Obiozor, who is leading Ndigbo now, a governor as sensible as Uzodinma, and more so the disposition of President Muhammadu Buhari, which are all making for a genuine opportunity for peace building in the East…. I guess one condition for peace will be for the youths to renounce violence, as every self-respecting government will make that a condition of negotiation. This is the route we need to take.

On Thursday September 9, three Nigerians emerged on top at the occasion of the visit of the President of the Federal Republic to Owerri, Imo State: President Muhammadu Buhari ; the host, Governor Hope Uzodinma; and the President of Ohaneze Ndigbo, Ambassador George Obiozor.For President Buhari , I am not sure he expected everyone to roll out the drums for him, but still he received a vast crowd of party supporters, who are his political troops in the South-East.

Governor Uzodinma did the good work of a facilitator to set the stage and has won for himself a huge seat as a peacemaker. George Obiozor, an experienced diplomat, who had once headed the Nigerian Institute for International Affairs and was Nigeria’s representative to United Nations after a distinguished diplomatic career, lived to his billing. He spoke the way elders should speak, making demands without being rude.

The elders of Igbo land know what war means better than the young ones, who have only read about it in books and watched it in movies. They know that is not a direction to face. I have been to testy spots in the world, such as the Demilitarised Zone demarcation line at Pan Mun Jom, between North and South Korea, in a solidarity March with Lim Su-kyung in July 1989.

The elders of Igbo land know what war means better than the young ones, who have only read about it in books and watched it in movies. They know that is not a direction to face. I have been to testy spots in the world, such as the Demilitarised Zone demarcation line at Pan Mun Jom, between North and South Korea, in a solidarity March with Lim Su-kyung in July 1989.

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