THE endorsement of Atiku Abubakar by the Ohanaeze Ndigbo as its presidential candidate has been described as a huge lie and the activities of fifth columnists.
Similarly, the members of the Apex organisation has been changed to commence suspension proceedings of its National President Chief John Nwodo of his personal endorsement of the PDP presidential candidate.
Speaking with reporters in Awka, the Anambra State Capital yesterday, the Secretary-General of Ohaneze Ndigbo Barrister Uche Okwukwu said that there was never a meeting of Ime -Obi Ohaneze where the body endorsed a candidate for Ndigbo.
“The Ohaneze Ndigbo never held a meeting of the Ime- Obi where we endorsed any candidate for the 2019 presidential election.”
“Secondary if we organise the Ime- Obi meeting, we inform members beforehand, and in the meeting, we also set up a communique committee that drafts the resolution or communique arising from the meeting which will be presented be for the general house for ratification.”
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“No such thing was done and anybody purporting to have had any Imo-Obi meeting where Alhaji Atiku Abubakar was endorsed as our Presidential candidate is on their own.”
Okwukwu further contended that the Ohaneze Ndigbo as a body will soon hold the Imo-Obi meeting where it would discuss which presidential candidate it will endorse.
“If we choose to endorse anybody we shall do so when we organise the Ime-Obi meeting and that will be in no distant time.”
He also stated that their Igbo sons and daughters from Igbo land who are contesting of the president of the country and that doesn’t mean that we are looking at only Igbo candidates.
Okwukwu however announced that it would be in the interest of Ndigbo to support President Muhammadu Buhari for his second term in office and is the most possible route for our people to the promise Land.
“When we meet at the Ime-Obi meeting we shall choose a candidate and you know that we have Igbo sons and daughters from Igbo land who are contesting the election and we are not limiting it to Igbo candidates.
“But in the interest of Ndigbo we should support President Muhammadu Buhari for the second term and that is the only way to get to our promise Land”
Mean while a group under the edges of the Igbo Intergrity From led by Ndukwe Nwamkpa has called for the suspension of the Ohaneze president Chief John Nwodo.
In a statement from the body, it alleged that Nwodo compromised the wishes and aspirations of Ndigbo, adding that for him to have acted on his own without recourse to the Apex organisation is a betrayal of Ndigbo.
“This betrayal of Ndigbo calls for the suspension of Nwodo because of using the office to excute his personal ambition.”
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