{"id":193693,"date":"2026-02-05T15:17:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T14:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/eze-demands-minister-resign-over-igbo-history-omission"},"modified":"2026-02-05T16:27:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T15:27:56","slug":"eze-demands-minister-resign-over-igbo-history-omission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/eze-demands-minister-resign-over-igbo-history-omission","title":{"rendered":"Eze Demands Minister Resign Over Igbo History Omission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>A Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State, Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, has asked governors in the South-East to clearly reject and ask for the quick removal of a new version of a book called \u2018Living History For Junior Secondary School 1 students in the country.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The party Chief criticized the Minister of Education, Dr Morufu Alausa, for the approval and publication of the book, which he described as \u201cdivisive, full of deceit\u201d and depicted age long hatred for the Igbo race.<\/p>\n<p>After seeing a viral video about the content of a book written by J.M. Itsekuke, the APC chieftain questioned why a sensible Nigerian, unless they were an ethnic nationalist, would write a book discussing Nigeria\u2019s history without highlighting the Igbo people as a key ethnic group in the nation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI found out that this divided, evil, and misleading version of the book for JSS1 students is even listed in the National Library of Nigeria, and yet we have Governors in the South-East. Eze queries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow could the South-East Governors remain silent about this national hatred and shame, which is intentionally promoted by President Bola Tinubu\u2019s APC government?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile condemning the author for painstakingly displaying a high level of hatred towards the Igbos and ignorance by deliberately omitting the Igbo ethnic group in his biased piece of garbage, Eze called for the arrest and prosecution of the author, J.M Itsekuke.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI condemn both the author and the Minister of Education for approving and starting this foolish journey of hatred called \u2018Living History\u2019 of Nigeria without mentioning the third major tribe in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat book is a pointless and meaningless attempt, created just to anger the Igbo people; it needs to be taken off the market right away. At this point, I demand the removal of the Education Minister, Dr Morufu Alausa, or else this will be counted as a policy statement by this administration to eradicate the Igbos from Nigeria\u2019s history,\u201d Eze said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not surprised that such extreme wickedness and strong hatred toward the Igbos can come back during President Tinubu\u2019s time, especially since he doesn\u2019t seem to care about the difficulties the Igbos are facing under his leadership,\u201d Eze said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the Tinubu administration\u2019s policy plans are mostly against the Igbo people, which according to him, has become obvious through the book.<\/p>\n<p>The politician and media chief, urged the South-East Governors to set aside politics and rise to the challenge by strongly demanding the arrest and prosecution of the author of that book.<\/p>\n<p>He also said the Education Minister has lost his moral standing to stay in his job because he stayed quiet and agreed with a bad and shameful history book.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. A Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State, Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, has asked governors in the South-East to clearly reject and ask for the quick removal of a new version of a book called \u2018Living History For Junior Secondary School 1 students in the country.\u2019 The party Chief criticized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":193692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,15],"tags":[254],"class_list":["post-193693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Eze Demands Minister Resign Over Igbo History Omission - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State, Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, has asked governors in the Sout ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/eze-demands-minister-resign-over-igbo-history-omission\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Eze Demands Minister Resign Over Igbo History Omission\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State, Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, has asked governors in the Sout ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/eze-demands-minister-resign-over-igbo-history-omission\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-02-05T14:17:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-02-05T15:27:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2026\/02\/sm_1770305220.436967.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/eze-demands-minister-resign-over-igbo-history-omission#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/eze-demands-minister-resign-over-igbo-history-omission\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Eze Demands Minister Resign Over Igbo History Omission\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-02-05T14:17:47+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-02-05T15:27:56+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/eze-demands-minister-resign-over-igbo-history-omission\"},\"wordCount\":477,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/eze-demands-minister-resign-over-igbo-history-omission#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2026\/02\/sm_1770305220.436967.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Economy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/eze-demands-minister-resign-over-igbo-history-omission#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/eze-demands-minister-resign-over-igbo-history-omission\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/eze-demands-minister-resign-over-igbo-history-omission\",\"name\":\"Eze Demands Minister Resign Over Igbo History Omission - 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