The endorsement of Atiku Abubakar
by the Ohanaeze Ndigbo as its choice presidential candidate has been described
as a huge lie.
Speaking with reporters in Awka
on Sunday, the Secretary General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Barr Uche Okwukwu said
that there was never a meeting of Ime-Obi Ohanaeze where the body endorsed a
candidate for Ndigbo.
He said, “The Ohanaeze Ndigbo
never held a meeting of the Ime-Obi where we endorsed any candidate for the
2019 presidential election.
“Secondly, If we organize the
Ime- Obi meeting, we inform members before hand 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 before the general house for ratification.
“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 his own.”
Okwukwu further contended that
the Ohanaeze Ndigbo as a body will soon hold the Ime-Obi meeting where it would
discuss which presidential candidate it will endorse.
“If we choose to endorse anybody
we shall do so when we organize the Ime-Obi meeting and that will be in no
distant time,” he said.
Okwukwu, however, announced that
it would be in the interest of Ndigbo to support President Muhammadu Buhari for
his second term in office.
“When we meet at the Ime-Obi
meeting we shall choose a candidate and you know that we have Igbo sons and
daughters who are contesting the election but 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 promised Land,” he said.
Meanwhile, a group under the
aeges of the Igbo Integrity Forum, led by Ndukwe Nwamkpa has called for the
suspension of the Ohanaeze 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
organization, is a betrayal of Ndigbo.
“This betrayal of Ndigbo calls
for the suspension of Nwodo because of using the office to execute his personal
ambition,” he said.
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