Businessman and President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, has alleged that his life is under threat.<\/p>\n
Addressing a briefing at the secretariat of Ohanaeze Ndigbo in Enugu on Wednesday evening, Iwuanyanwu said some Igbo, whom he described as anti-Igbo, have orchestrated plans to either kill him or burn his house over his leadership of Ndigbo.<\/p>\n
He alleged the same group of persons threatening his life caused the death of his predecessor, Prof George Obiozor, and attempted to kill former president general, Nnia Nwodo.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis has become very dangerous. These people have carried this too far. Sometimes ago, I got some information that some people were coming to burn my house; that people said they were hired to come and burn my house,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome people also said they were hired to come and kill me; all sorts of stories like that. And I started asking myself: what is it that I have done that would warrant that my house should be burned; that I should be killed?<\/p>\n
\u201cI told those people that they shouldn\u2019t worry. Fortunately, one of them said that the person they hired said that I trained his brother in the university. You know I had a scholarship scheme that trained over 5,000 young people in the university. So he said his brother was trained by me and so he cannot burn my house.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel sad that I should be confronted by some of these types of spectre of threats just because I want to serve my people.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have looked at my past career and seen how God blessed me. At 82 when I\u2019ve retired, for me now to come back to serve my people and to find myself completely engulfed in this type of mess with Isiguzoro.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m somebody who is dogged and can\u2019t easily be pushed around. God has given me the heart and determination to serve my people.\u201d<\/p>\n
Iwuanyanwu stated the group tracked Obiozor to his village to kill him and when they failed to get him, they set his house on fire.<\/p>\n
\u201cObiozor died as as result of that attack on his country home because as a diplomat, all his books, awards and recognition were totally burnt and these were things he cherished so much.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the case of Nnia Nwodo, as President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, they trailed him to his village in Ukehe, Enugu state and threw bomb into his house. Fortunately, he was not there,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
He also bemoaned the Igbo penchant for pulling down their leaders.<\/p>\n
He said, \u201cEvidently, we the Igbo destroy the Igbo in diverse ways; and turn around to claim that others are after us.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen it was Chief Nnia Nwodo as the President General of Ohanaeze, the same group bombed the house of Nwodo at Ukehe; and pronounced him a saboteur that should be stoned to death wherever he was found. The matter took the author to Chief Mbazulike Amaechi house at Ukpor and Chief Amaechi was shocked to discover that they fabricated falsehood against Nwodo. And they apologized.\u201d<\/p>\n
Iwuanyanwu also debunked some viral audio recordings insinuating that the leadership of Ohanaeze Ndigbo was planning to apologise over killings during the January 15, 1966 coup.<\/p>\n
Businessman and President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, has alleged that his life is under threat. Addressing a briefing at the secretariat of Ohanaeze Ndigbo in Enugu on Wednesday…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n