¨Pan-Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has declared that this year’s Igbo Day Celebration would be celebrated low key at the national level to express their disappointment with what it considered the lopsided appointments made by President Muhamadu Buhari.

President General of Ohanaeze, Gary Igariwe, made this declaration while briefing journalists after an in-house meeting of the National Executive Committee (NEC) and select Igbo Leaders in Enugu on Sunday.

September 29 of every year is set aside for the celebration of Igbo Day across the country and even globally.

But Igariwe said for them at the national leadership of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, this year’s edition of Igbo Day would be held on a low key.

He said: “Igbo Day for this year at the national level is rather a time for retreat. We resolved to show tact and discipline as Igbo people. The theme of this year’s celebration is ‘Ako na Uche’ (wit and brain) and ‘Njikoka’ (United We Stand).”

Igariwe however said all the state branches of Ohanaeze Ndigbo and affiliate bodies were free to mark the Igbo Day the way they want.

The President-General said they had asked Ndigbo not to be disappointed with the seemingly lopsided appointments made by Buhari but to see it as a wake-up call for them to think of how to develop Igboland.

Notable among those at the meeting were former Anambra State Governor, Chukwuemeka Ezeife; Ohanaeze Secretary General, Dr joe Nwaorgu, and Joe Achuzia.