Soludo made the declaration on Saturday, when he attended the Ofala Festival of the monarch of Onitsha Ancient Kingdom, Obi Alfred Nnaemeka Achebe, who is popularly addressed as Agbogidi.
Addressing Onitsha indigenes, Soludo noted that what used to be known as Greater Onitsha, which comprised five local government areas in today’s Anambra, used to be the very cradle of Igbo civilisation, and that for Igbo land to move forward, Onitsha must first experience it.
Soludo said,