Ohanaeze PG: Be mindful of deceitful elites – Isiguzoro cautions Ohakim

Apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has vehemently condemned the determination by a group, known arsenic Igbo Progressive Movement, IPM, to enactment the information of erstwhile Governor Ikedi Ohakim of Imo State, arsenic the adjacent President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide.

This is coming little than 90 days to the scheduled election, for a caller President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, connected January 10th-11th, 2025.

Reacting to the development, the organisation, which described IPM arsenic an unpatriotic Igbo organisation, urged Chief Ohakim to summon his righteous resoluteness and unequivocally diminution from specified inglourious adventure.

“Recent actions suggest that an unpatriotic Igbo enactment has been mobilized to entice Chief Ikedi Ohakim, a respected erstwhile Governor, into pursuing a non-existent position.

“We impulse Chief Ohakim to summon his righteous resoluteness and unequivocally diminution specified temptations,” Okechukwu Isiguzoro, factional Secretary General, Ohanaeze Ndigbo said successful a connection connected Wednesday.

He said that it would beryllium some shortsighted and detrimental for Chief Ohakim to enactment arsenic an impediment to the emergence of the adjacent President General from Rivers State.

He advised him to question different positions successful the governmental scenery of the state arsenic Ohanaeze Ndigbo was prepared to enactment its afloat value down him, successful that regard.

According to the statement: “At this signifier of his life, with a affluent and storied governmental history, we implore him to absorption connected the governmental landscape, wherever his enactment is genuinely needed— whether that beryllium arsenic a Governor (for a azygous term), Senator, Vice President, oregon adjacent the President of Nigeria successful the adjacent future.

“Should Chief Ohakim heed the dependable of wisdom, Ohanaeze Ndigbo volition fervently enactment his re-election arsenic Governor of Imo State.

“Chief Ohakim indispensable instrumentality heed and beryllium mindful of those deceitful governmental elites who person misled 2 Igbo elder statesmen from Imo State, starring them to dismal ends, contempt the galore admonitions from the Igbo College of Archbishops and Bishops advocating for bid and restoration wrong Ohanaeze Ndigbo.

“He should admit that the enactment of Ohanaeze Ndigbo is presently successful a constitutionally mandated modulation period, and it would beryllium some shortsighted and detrimental for him to enactment arsenic an impediment to the emergence of the adjacent President General from Rivers State.

“As a sagacious leader, Chief Ikedi Ohakim is surely alert of the ineffable accidental helium was afforded during his tenure arsenic Governor of Imo State from 2007 to 2011.

“He indispensable garbage immoderate invitations to enactment arsenic an obstacle successful this captious transitional signifier for Ohanaeze Ndigbo. The restoration of our Igbo lineage successful Rivers State, which has suffered greatly since the Biafra War, is simply a ngo requiring corporate spot and unity.

“We powerfully condemn immoderate attempts to amend the Ohanaeze Ndigbo Constitution with the purpose of facilitating a tenure elongation for the existent President General from Imo State by immoderate means.

“Such actions are inherently illegitimate and betray the principles upon which our esteemed enactment was founded.”

Isiguzoro further emphasized that the enactment of Ohanaeze Ndigbo has thrown its value down the emergence of the adjacent President-General of the radical from Rivers State.

He added that “to contradict Rivers State the accidental to presume the presumption of President-General successful 2025 would represent an egregious hold of 24 years of subjugation, an affront to the unity and aspirations of our people.”