General Yakubu Gowon, to spearhead the campaign for the emergence of a
President of Igbo extraction in 2023.
It also denied report alleging that Ohanaeze leadership is planning to
have an interface with some prominent political figures in the country
towards achieving the same objective.
National Publicity Secretary, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, Prince Uche
Achi-Okpaga, said in a statement on Wednesday that “Ohanaeze Ndigbo,
therefore, distances itself from the infantile hallucinations of the
group as it does not exist. The apex Igbo group calls on the press and
members of the public to desist from using the official logo of Ohanaeze
Ndigbo of a red cap and a feather when writing about or referring to the
errant group as it is a great disservice to Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide,
so that when Ohanaeze Ndigbo speaks people will know it has spoken.
According to the statement, “Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide hereby informs
the general public that at no time were the aforementioned situations
ever contemplated or was there any meeting at which they were tabled for
consideration, let alone any action being taken or a press statement
issued on that.
“The purported actions exist only in the imagination of the miscreants
and enemies of the Igbo nation who are the purveyors of the unfortunate
concoctions. Ohanaeze Ndigbo reiterates that there is no organisation as
Ohanaeze Youth Council recognized by Ndigbo and that the misguided
so-called leader of the group, Okechukwu Isiguzoro, is a warped,
egocentric and power-hungry mind who obviously is living in an
incontrovertible state of mental delusion.
“If nothing else raises doubts about his bifurcated mind, how come not
long ago he was the “president” of the group but suddenly metamorphosis
to its ” president general”. Ohanaeze Ndigbo regrets the unpatriotic
acts of some Igbo politicians sponsoring these equally unpatriotic
irredentists shamelessly flying the kite for them towards 2023.
“It states that if it is the wish of God that a president of Igbo stock
shall emerge in 2023, it will not be midwifed by an inconsequential
group whose only mission and preoccupation is personal aggrandizement
and not the collective interest and aspiration of Ndigbo.
“Ohanaeze Ndigbo, once more, calls on prominent Igbo sons and daughters
to stand up and call these recalcitrant boys to order, because it could
have gone to court to stop their irreverent behaviour but for the same
reason it refused to face other Igbo recalcitrant groups headlong in its
mild skirmishes with them—-a father does not quarrel with his children
in the public.