Police Said That Igbos No Longer Come To Take Their Quota When Recruiting, What Does That Tell You?– Chief Chekwas Okirie.
According to an interview with the Sun on Sunday, January 25, 2026, Chief Chekwas Okorie, founding national chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), has expressed deep concern about the status of Igbo people in Nigeria, describing their situation as having reached rock bottom.
In his assessment of the challenges facing the Igbo community, Chief Okorie suggested that the situation cannot deteriorate further from its current state. He likened the Igbo position to someone who has already fallen and cannot fall any lower.
The APGA founder emphasized that whatever achievements Igbo people have recorded in Nigeria have come purely through their own determination, resilience, and individual efforts rather than through federal support or inclusion.
Chief Okorie highlighted what he described as public acknowledgment by security agencies regarding Igbo exclusion from recruitment exercises. He noted that both the Nigerian Police and the military have made statements indicating that Igbo people no longer participate in filling their quota allocations during recruitment.
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The former APGA chairman interpreted this trend as evidence of deeper alienation affecting the Igbo community. He suggested that institutional marginalization has led to a crisis of confidence among young Igbo people regarding their place within the Nigerian state.
He said, “As for the Igbo, we are like he who is down needs no fall anymore because you can’t go deeper than this. Whatever Igbo people have attained in this country, it is out of grit, out of resilience and their efforts. You reach a point where the Nigerian police will come out publicly to say that Igbo people no longer come to take their quota when recruiting; the military has said the same thing. What does that tell you? More and more of our young men and women have lost confidence in their citizenship of this country.”
What does this mean? – A total rejection of the contraption called Nigeria.
Elekwachi Ude
