Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the main socio-political organization, has denied claims that it is preparing to campaign against former Vice President Atiku Abubakar’s presidential bid.
According to Anaedoonline.ng, the organisation has been in the vanguard of the two major political parties in Nigeria’s request for the president to be assigned to the South-East.
However, Atiku, a North-Easterner, defeated Nyesom Wike, Bala Mohammed, Anyim Pius Anyim, Bukola Saraki, and other presidential hopefuls over the weekend.
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Following Atiku’s victory, allegations surfaced that Ohanaeze had criticized his victory and promised to campaign against him in the 2023 presidential election.
But, in a statement released on Monday, Ohanaeze spokeswoman Chiedozie Ogbonnia denied that the organisation had made such a declaration.
He accused mischief makers seeking to cause confusion in the south-east for peddling such report.
“The attention of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide has been drawn to a reckless publication currently circulating in the media indicating that Ohanaeze Ndigbo “blasts Atiku and vows to work against his PDP candidacy in the 2023 polls; and that Atiku Abubakar, will never become Nigeria’s president”, the statement reads.
“The press release added that “the Igbo would rise up against Atiku, adding that his presidential campaign would be rejected in the South-East.
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“Ordinarily, Ohanaeze Ndigbo would have ignored the said press release, but silence in this circumstance will tend to give validity to such fallacy by the unsuspecting public.
“It is therefore imperative to inform that those behind the fake press release are mischief-makers, impostors, charlatans and unscrupulous social climbers who have shamelessly leeched on the invaluable footprints of Ohanaeze Ndigbo to issue press releases for narrow, perverse and illicit pecuniary interests. It is the unwholesome activities of such maladjusted, impish scaremongers that have been the bane of Igbo cohesion.
“For the avoidance of doubt, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the apex Igbo socio-cultural body, led by Ambassador Professor George Obiozor has not issued any press statement on the candidacy of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.”
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