May 29: Ahead Of Tinubu’s Inauguration, Ohanaeze Disowns Plan To Participate

Apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, yesterday, denied media reports that it would participate fully in the inauguration of the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, on May 29.

In a statement by the National Publicity Secretary of the body, Dr. Alex Chiedozie Ogbonnia, it described media reports credited to one Okechukwu Isiguzoro, as false and misleading.

Ogbonnia described Isiguzoro as a “meddlesome interloper, who uses the hallowed name of Ohanaeze Ndigbo for narrow interests.”

He stated that Ambassador Okey Emuchay is the Secretary General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo and not Okechukwu Isiguzoro, and urged the public to ignore him.

Ogbonnia said: “We have at various times informed the unsuspecting public to ignore the mischief makers as impostors, charlatans and media navigators, who leech on the invaluable footprints of Ohanaeze Ndigbo to issue press releases for narrow, perverse and illicit pecuniary interests.

“However, since silence may be misconstrued as giving validity to such a whimsical figment of a transactional imagination, this rebuttal becomes very imperative,” he added.

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The press release attributed to Isiguzoro claimed that the Ime-Obi Ohanaeze Ndigbo has mandated that every agitation for the 2023 election should come to an end. Isiguzoro, among other remarks, stated that Peter Obi is the candidate of the future and that nobody should pick up a fight they can’t finish against Tinubu.

Ogbonnia reiterated that: “For the avoidance of doubt, the Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, led by Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, did not issue any statement with respect to the inauguration of President-Elect Tinubu.”