Browsing: Ben Nwabueze

The appointments of the elder statesmen were made known by the head of the family, Dr. Eni Nwabueze, Tuesday.

In a statement, Dr. Nwabueze also named Senator Ben Ndi Obi as Vice-Chairperson, and Ambassador Okey Emuchay, the Secretary of Ohanaeze, and Olawale Okunniyi, Secretary of The Patriots, as co-Secretaries.

His son, Eni Nwabueze, confirmed the death of his father in a terse statement he issued in the early hours of Monday

In a statement issued on Saturday and signed by Dr. Maduka himself, he said he was disappointed at the allegation because he thought Nigerians, especially Anambrarians, had passed that level of childish politicking

But even from the more respectable versions, it is difficult not to come away with the impression that the photograph is symbolic of the growing feeling in the South East that after a long, harrowing spell in the wilderness, Ndigbo might well be on the verge of finding rest in the bosom of the PDP.

Kanu said this on Sunday during a live world press broadcast from Jerusalem, where he was sighted about 24 hours ago.

Nwabueze made the call at the General Assembly of the Eastern Consultative Assembly Stakeholders Meeting and Award to prominent Nigerians in Enugu on Tuesday.

Kanu has rallied hundreds of young people to his cause and managed to sell them a fool’s paradise – a promise of heaven on earth, once Biafra is realised

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According to a statement issued in Abuja on Monday by the Secretary General of the Ethnic Nationalities Movement, Michael Orobator, this emerging trend among others have necessitated the intervention to urgently bring together self determination groups and indigenous nationalities in Nigeria for a two-day national consultation to ensure that the proposals of the Federal Government is further finetuned and owned by the nationalities and peoples of Nigeria in making the proposed national confab a success

He said: “After The Patriots fruitful meeting with the President, a member of our team who has access to him on a personal basis was mandated to go back to get him to set up the Committee on the National Conference of which he had earlier given a hint

Nwabueze made the call in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, while giving a keynote address at the National Political Summit on the theme: “Roadmap to Political Stability and National Security in Nigeria”

But checks by The Eagle Online on Monday evening with the secretariat of the National Political Summit Group has it that Nwabueze and other leaders of the Summit planners – Project Nigeria and the National Consensus Group – were already in Uyo

“To brief the State House Press what was not discussed during a courtesy visit to Mr. President is uncharitable, unpatriotic, dishonest and demeaning of respected statesman

The elder statesman, who had advised Jonathan not to seek reelection in 2015 but to stand out as a statesman by seeing through the transformation process he had started, said reports that the summit was to stop Jonathan from seeking selection was far from the truth