From Magnus Eze, Geoffery Anyanwu and Jude Chinedu, Enugu
Imeobi of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, yesterday, adopted a 40-man electoral committee, headed by Ben Obi, for its forthcoming leadership election.
This is as President General of Ohanaeze, Nnia Nwodo, said they were in strategic discussions with allies across the country for the South East to produce president of Igbo origin in 2023.
The adoption followed hours of rancorous session, where some members, especially, Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige and former Imo State governor, Rochas Okorocha, rejected the list of the committee members, claiming they were not consulted before names from their states were chosen.
The committee, which has representatives from the seven states that made up Ohanaeze, including Abia, Anambra, Delta, Ebonyi, Enugu, Imo and Rivers as well as 10 other groups, was presented by the outgoing executive of Nwodo.
By Ohanaeze constitution, it is the turn of Imo State to present the next president general of the apex Igbo sociocultural organisation.
Nwodo announced the names of the committee members after explaining the process of electing Ohanaeze leadership up to his tenure.
Other members of the committee are ABC Nwosu, Cosmos Maduka, Emeka Ugwuoji of Ndigbo Lagos, Eddy Onuoha, Paddy Njoku, Obi Umahi, Anthony Agbo and Benson Ezeh.
National President of Association of South East Town Unions (ASETU), Emeka Diwe, moved a motion for adoption of the list and it was seconded by Guy Ikokwu.
Nwodo had described as unfortunate the way and manner some people were castigating him and sending out falsehood on social media that he had chosen a successor.
He, therefore, reiterated that he has no plan to do so, saying: “I have no desire to choose my successor, the Ohanaeze leadership election must be done in accordance with our constitution.”
Nwodo called for the streamlining of groups campaigning for Igbo president.
Ngige had, in rejecting the list, said there was no way he would not be consulted before a list from his state was arrived at.
He said a proper Imeobi should be constituted while no practising politician should be made to be in the list.
Okorocha, on his part, said it was wrong for anybody to say the Imo people met and decided on a consensus candidate because he was not aware of any such meeting as a former governor and a serving senator.
The current President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Mazi John Nnia Nwodo is a
damned coward and one of our Igbo appeasers of the power-that-be in the polity.
Well,according to Sir Winston Churchill,appeasers like Mazi John Nnia Nwodo are
like those, who feed crocodiles hoping that the crocodiles will eat them last.Lol!!
Thus, those outstanding issues,which the outgoing President of Ohanaeze Ndigbo,
Dr John Nnia Nwodo in his utter dereliction of duties, shied away from taking up
must be revisited by his successor.
There are namely:
1.The 2016 barbaric beheading of our Dear Igbo Duaghter,Mother and a Wife of
a Christian Clergy,Oriaku Bridget Agbahieme by some barbaric Hisbah morons in
Kano State.
The perpetrators of that heinous and inhuman act were summarily acquitted
by a Kano Sharia Court because according to the Court, they merely fulfilled their
Islamic obligation of Sharia.
That same Sharia Court did try Madam Bridget Agbahieme posthumously and did
find her guilty of blasphemy.
But ours is a Secular State not an Islamic State ojare!
2.The designation of our flag-bearing,nonviolent and unarmed Millennials of IPOB
as a Terrorist Group by Buhari’s APC led Government.
That was followed by the subsequent launching of those gobbledygook Python
Dance (Egwu Eke) i,ii and ii Military Campaigns and the bloody pogroms against
of our innocent and unramned Igbo children, slaughtered in their hundreds in Cities
and Towns of our entire Igboland, and indeed at the behest of Buhari’s APC led
Government.
3.The so called abandoned Igbo Property in Rivers State and Lagos.
Inspite of his promise of 3Rs;Reconciliation,Rehabilitation and Reintegration,
Pol Pot Yakubu Gowon did indeed send the Idoma Reprobate, General (Rted)
David Alechenu Bonaventure Mark to Port Harcourt,who did supervise the
sharing of Igbo property to the Ijaws, Ikweres and Ogonies of Old Rivers State.
Thus,Pol Pot Yakubu Gowon did create such a permanent enemity between the
Igbos and the people of his newly created Rivers State,so much so that some
of the so called Igboid speaking Ikweres, the Iikes of Governor Wikes,whose
families benefited most thereof, do claim today not to be Igbos.
4,Prior to the Biafran – Nigerian War of 1967 to 1970, the City of Lagos was once
the Capital of Nigeria .
The Igbos then owned most of the shops around,Tinubu, Yaba Sguares,the
Marines and all the Ware-houses in Apapa Wharf belonged to the Ikemba
Odumegwu Ojukwu’s family.
Since after the War, not a single Igbo man,woman or a family,including Ikemba
Ojukwu’s has recovered their abandoned property in Lagos.
But the Abokis (the Hausa/Fulanis) of the North, were very magnanimous
towards us Ndigbo unlike our Kwa Yoruba cousins of Lagos,who took over
all Igbo property in Lagos .
The Abokis did return Igbo property to their rightful Igbo owners plus rents
accrued on them during the dúration of the War.
Our incoming President General of Ohanaeze Nidigbo must fight for equity
fairness and justice for all beginning at home in Alaigbo.
It must be us before others because charity begins at home.
”Ndigbo biko chenu echiche.
Onye aghala nwanne ya.
Ndi ndiro gbara gburugburu na eche ndu ha nche.
Mmadu adeghi anu na ulo ya nowa nkpuru amu
Kpum bu ogu!’
All Hail Biafra,our God’s Own Land of the Rising Sung!!