The National Executive Committee of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youths (Worldwide) led by Kingsley Dozie has said they would only vote for candidates who would restructure and introduce policies that would improve lives of Nigerians.
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Turaki made this clear at an interaction with the leadership of the Pan-Niger Delta Forum, South-South Peoples Assembly, Ohaneze Ndigbo, Afenifere and the Middle Belt Forum on Sunday at the residence of their chairman and an elder statesman, Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark, in Abuja.
The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has expressed contempt over the activities of South East governors and the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, stating that it has proscribed Ohanaeze Ndigbo and all other “gatherings of saboteurs and collaborators operating within Biafra”.
The President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Nnia Nwodo, has resolved the lingering leadership crisis in the Bayelsa chapter of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.
Thirteen days to the end of registration for Permanent Voter Card, the Ohaneze Ndigbo has appealed to Nigerians to register to be able to elect leaders of their choices.
Yoruba Ronu Leadership Forum, a socio-cultural group, says allegation of incompetence against the Federal Government by leaders of some groups across the country is deceptive.
So also did it say it will participate in the Summit being put together by the Middle Belt Forum in Makurdi, Benue State.
Reacting to the Communiqué of the Ohaneze Restructuring Summit held in Awka, Anambra State on Monday, Okechukwu, while commending the organizers of the Summit, called for pragmatism, if truly they are working for the collective interest of Ndigbo.
It also demanded creation of one additional state in the South-East geo-political zone, scrapping of local government system and resource control for states where natural resources were exploited.
Okeke-Ogene made the call on Monday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Awka at the ongoing Igbo Summit by the group.
Prof. Chigozie Ogbu, the Deputy National President of Ohaneze Ndigbo, stated this on Wednesday in Abakaliki, while delivering a speech at a town hall meeting.
He noted that the President General of the apex Igbo body is known to be apolitical and peace loving and as such does not deserve the treatment meted out to him by yet-to-be identified group or person(s).
Obi also regretted that the dust raised by the Church killing was yet to die down when the ugly news of the bombing of Chief Nnia Nwodo’s house was broken.
A statement issued in Enugu on Sunday by the police spokesperson, DSP Ebere Amaraizu, said the Commissioner of Police in the state had already visited Ukehe in Igboetiti Local Government area of Enugu State.
A source who confirmed this stated that an Improvised Explosive Device was thrown into his house by unknown persons from outside Nwodo’s compound.
President-General of the group, Chief Nnia Nwodo in a statement on Thursday in Enugu, said it was preposterous for the Federal Government to be carrying out unwarranted inquisition into Ekweremadu’s life.
The youth leader told the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday in Yenagoa that the bill would help curb unemployment among youths.
IPOB, in a statement by its Spokesperson, Emma Powerful, said with near total boycott of voting in all key wards of the state achieved, “we have, in our true indomitable style, sent a clear and unambiguous message to the powers that be in Nigeria that we are in total and absolute control of all areas in Biafraland, contrary to what Ohaneze Ndigbo and South East governors are telling those in Abuja”.
The group has equally commended the President-General of Ohaneze Ndigbo, Dr. John Nnia Nwodo, for the well-articulated plans that saw to the oneness of the Igbos, particularly political intricacies that snowballed into the quit notice and attendant consequences that almost made Nigeria go into extinction.
Nwodo stated this when he led Igbo leaders from the 19 Northern states, including Abuja, on a courtesy call on Governor Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo of Gombe State.