On Monday, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, once again urged Igbos not to participate in the planned nationwide protest against President Bola Tinubu's government. According to Ohanaeze, the planned protest is a result of the current state of hardship in Nigeria, which it describes as "the comeuppance of Igbophobia." 

Recall that popular activist Omoyele Sowore had urged Nigerians to go out on August 1 to protest against the hardship and current state of the nation. 

Ohanaeze Ndigbo took their stand on the protest in a statement released on Monday by Alex Ogbonnia, its National Publicity Secretary.

The statement partly reads, “Ohanaeze Ndigbo seizes this opportunity to reiterate our position with respect to the widely publicized nationwide protest scheduled for August, 2024.

"The Igbo are once again requested not to join the forthcoming nationwide protest. When President Muhammadu Buhari appointed about 15 service chiefs in Nigeria and Igbo was secluded, did the lopsided policy abate the security situation in Nigeria? And have we died? And many more? It was Robert Schuller who posited that “Tough times never last but tough people do.”