2027 ELECTIONS - A REFERENDUM FOR NDIGBO

 AN URGENT CALL FROM THE UNITED IGBO ELDERS CONGRESS TO NDIGBO 

Otu mkpịsị aka adịghị awa ọjị.

The Igbo have never been defeated by the courage, intelligence, or industry of our people. Instead we have often been defeated by our disunity. This is the truth that our enemies know and that we must finally accept.

The United Igbo Elders Congress — speaking with the authority of accumulated years, with the grief of those who remember Biafran war, with the hope of those who see what our people have achieved against every obstacle — calls on every man and woman of Igbo extraction to rise to this historic moment.

A. Register. Vote. Dominate.

The 2027 elections are a referendum on whether the Igbo will remain perpetual spectators in the political arena of the country our labor and blood helped to build. Every Igbo man and woman who is eligible to vote and has not registered is a soldier who has abandoned the battlefield.

We call on every Igbo person from the age of 18 upward: Go to your nearest INEC office. Register. Collect your PVC. Guard it with your life. This small piece of plastic is more powerful than any agitation, any protest, any speech. It is the instrument by which we can, in a single election cycle, alter the balance of power in this country.

B. Lay Down the Weapons of Self-Destruction

Our greatest weapon against ourselves has been disunity. The Igbo talent for individualism — which served us so brilliantly as entrepreneurs and pioneers — becomes our fatal weakness in the arena of collective political action. We have allowed ourselves to be divided by town, by clan, by state, by church denomination, by party affiliation. We have allowed our votes to be bought for mere cups of rice.

"Onye ajụlụ anaghị ajụ onwe ya." - if Nigeria rejects us, shall we reject ourselves too? 

C. Support Igbo Candidates at Every Level

The United Igbo Elders Congress calls on all Ndi Igbo to commit, as a matter of non-negotiable principle, to supporting qualified Igbo candidates for every elective office in the 2027 elections — from the Presidency of the Federal Republic down to the House of Representatives, Senate, governorship, state assembly, and local government chairmanship.

This is not tribalism. Every other major ethnic group in Nigeria practices this as a matter of course. The Hausa-Fulani vote for the Hausa-Fulani candidate. The Yoruba support the Yoruba candidate. Igbo people alone have repeatedly been persuaded to vote against their collective interest in the name of a 'national unity' that has consistently meant the dominance of others.

D. Join Project Reposition Ndigbo

The United Igbo Elders Congress launches Project Reposition Ndigbo in Nigeria — a comprehensive political, economic, and cultural program to restore the Igbo to their rightful place as full and equal partners in the Nigerian project.

Political Empowerment: Mass voter registration drives, election monitoring, candidate recruitment and support, legal defense of electoral rights, and the building of a genuine pan-Igbo political coalition that transcends state and party boundaries.

Economic Recovery: The mobilization of Igbo capital — at home and in the diaspora — for investment in Southeast infrastructure, technology, agriculture, and manufacturing.

Historical Justice: The formal demand for acknowledgment of the crimes committed against Ndi Igbo — the pogroms of 1966, the deliberate starvation of Biafra, the £20 policy, the abandoned property dispossession — and appropriate mechanisms for reconciliation and reparation. We do not ask for revenge. We ask for truth. We ask for justice.

Cultural Renaissance: The restoration and promotion of Igbo language, history, art, and philosophy in our schools, homes, and public life. Our children must know they are the inheritors of one of the world's greatest civilizations.

Youth (Stakeholders) Engagement: The cultivation of the next generation of Igbo political, economic, and intellectual leaders through scholarships, mentorship programs, civic education, and the deliberate transmission of our history.   

CONCLUSION: BUT THE WOUND CAN HEAL

An elder does not tell the story of a wound to celebrate suffering. He tells it so that the young can understand where pain comes from, can name it correctly, and can make intelligent decisions about what to do with it.

The wound of Igbo history in Nigeria is real. It was inflicted deliberately, systematically, and with callous indifference to Igbo lives and dignity. The evidence is in the archives, in the demographic data, in the infrastructure statistics, in the bank records, and in the testimony of the living and the dying across three generations.

But wounds can heal. Not easily, not quickly, not without the honest acknowledgment of what was done and by whom. But they can heal.

Igwe bụ ike — Unity is strength.

Onye wetara ọji wetara ndụ — He who brings the kola nut brings life.

We bring you the kola nut of our history — with both hands, in respect, in love, and in the fierce conviction that the children of the rising sun are not done rising.

Igbo, kwezuenụ!

PUBLIC NOTICE AND DISCLAIMER

The Board of Trustees of the United Igbo Elders Congress (UNIEC) hereby notifies the general public, government agencies, security institutions, traditional rulers, corporate organizations, diplomatic bodies, media houses, and all stakeholders that we are NOT affiliated with or connected to any other Igbo group or Council and that specifically, we are not in partnership or collaboration with a self-acclaimed "His Lordship", Justice Alpha Ikpeama. 

United Igbo Elders Congress (RC No. 8583834) is a corporate entity duly registered with Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC). 

The Board further states that Justice Alpha Ikpeama approached us to collaborate with him on a bogus Alaigbo Achievers Legacy Award in 2024.

However, following findings relating to gross misconduct and activities inconsistent with the principles and integrity of United Igbo Elders Congress on the part of Ikpeama, we pulled out of the collaboration and have not had any dealings with him ever since.

We, as an organization, remain committed to lawful conduct, accountability, integrity, and service to the Igbo people and Nigeria at large.

For verification, official inquiries, or to report any approaches from the fraudulent entity, please contact us only through our official channels:

Official Email: igboelderscongress@gmail.com 

Official Phone Numbers: 0803 544 5674; 0814 462 9622; 0803 490 9121 

Signed: Board of Trustees, United Igbo Elders Congress