A pressure group, Ndigbo Royal Heritage Worldwide (NIROH), has regretted that one of the events, the “Unity Day Celebration”, that used to bind the Igbo together had been forgotten, making it difficult for the ethnic group to speak in one voice.
The group recalled that the annual event was a rallying point for all Igbos and how everybody of the ethnic group used to look forward to the event
In a press conference on Monday, President General of the group, Dr Paul Okoye, said he has re-instituted the unity day festival aimed at unifying the Igbo nation.
Okoye said, “This event therefore is designed also to rebuild the bridge that was broken in 1966 and initiate the process of healing the land, especially, in the realisation that no ethnical component of Nigeria can go it alone”.
According to the President General, “the aim is not to apportion blame but to try to repair that which had been destroyed.”
He recalled that the north before the civil war used to be the closest ally of the Igbo nation underscoring the need to reinvent the friendship.
While explaining that the Unity Day Celebration would be a week long programme beginning from Monday 28, November 2022 to Sunday December 4, 2022, he named the highlights of the programme to include: The Marathon, The Great Homecoming, Wrestling and Folklore and the Igbo Day Pre-conference.
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Other highlights include the football match, the Unity Day Festival proper and the Igbo Day Thanksgiving services in places of worship.
