The Igbo socio-cultural group Ohanaeze has distanced itself from the publication, claiming that it invited Atiku Abubakar, Bola Tinubu, and Peter Obi, presidential contenders for the PDP, Labour Party, and APC, to offer them “special prayers” and “adorn them with titles.”
Dr. Alex Ogbonnia, the national publicity secretary of Ohanaeze, explained in a statement on Sunday, denying the publication’s assertion that’special prayers’ and ‘title adornment’ were planned for the 2022 Igbo Day in Abia State.
The trio, according to the story, would be the event’s “special guests.”
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Ohanaeze said, “It is a strange political intrigue to adorn three presidential candidates or rivals ‘with special titles’ and also to offer ‘special prayers for the three presidential candidates.
“This is the height of treachery for which the Ohanaeze Ndigbo should never be associated with. The foregoing fraudulent activities by a few mischievous Igbo dissidents have been variously condemned by Igbo stakeholders.
“The worst recrudescence is the satanic bait with which some loose academics are attracted to the impostors.”
Ohanaeze further urged the unwary public to ignore swindlers who use the revered name of the premier Igbo socio-cultural institution to advance their own narrow, self-serving, and stomach-inflationary infrastructure.
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It added, “The three presidential candidates are hereby advised to keep a safe distance from the social climbers, tricksters, shameless impostors and mischief-makers.
“Most, unfortunately, the characters involved in the fake Igbo Day are those who are still fascinated by the unfortunate, infamous, ignoble and odious roles they played in the offices they held in the apex Igbo organization for over ten years ago.
“We once again appeal to the mischief-makers to appreciate that Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide represents the history, emotions, collectivity, spirituality, unity and strength of the Igbo nation and that the Igbo, all over the world, owe a profound emotional attachment to their apex socio-cultural organization, the Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide.
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“It is in the best interest of the elevated Igbo minds that our sacred identity should not be desecrated on the whims, caprices and immediacies of the unrepentant blackballs.”
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