Igbo Group In Lagos Expels Joe Igbokwe, For Not Promoting the Igbo Course

May 23, 2020
Joe Igbokwe, Special Adviser for Drainage and Water Resourc­es to Governor Babajide San­wo-Olu of Lagos State, has been sacked as apex leader of the Igbo group for ad­vancement of the course of Igbo people.


Igbokwe was removed by the Lagos State Igbo indigenous in All Progressives Congress (APC), Independent.ng reports

The group had, in press conference at the weekend, chaired by Christian Nwa­chukwu, stated that Igbokwe had not advanced the course of the ethnic group since he took over the exalted position for over two decades, stress­ing that it had found a better leader in Jude Idimogu, the lawmaker representing Os­hodi/Isolo Constituency 2 at the Lagos State House of Assembly.


The meeting, which had in attendance representatives of Eze Ndigbo in the local government and state levels, Igbo community leaders and other stakeholders, where they stressed that the leader­ship of the special assistant had not been beneficial to the ethnic group, which had in turn portrayed the people as anti-APC.