From Maurice Okafor,Enugu
The Ohanaeze Ndigbo worldwide under the leadership of Prrofessor George Obiozor says it will still conduct election for a new leadership of it’s Women and Youth wings on Thursday 5th and Friday 6th August, as scheduled.
The organisation which is the apex body of all Igbo socio cultural organisations,advised the general public to ignore any announcement,stating the contrary.
The National Publicity Secretary of Ohanaeze Ndigbo,Chief Alex Ogbonnia made the clarification in a press statement issued yesterday in Enugu. He said statements circulating in some social media platforms which stated the otherwise did not emanate from the organisation.
Chief Ogbonnia stated,”The attention of Ohanaeze Ndigbo World has been called to a statement circulating in the social media that the scheduled OHANAEZE NDIGBO WORLD WIDE Youth and Women Wings elections should stop”.
“That the Secretariat and Ohanaeze Ndigbo World Wide wish to assure the general public that the ELECTIONS would hold as scheduled and in accordance with the Ohanaeze constitution.And that the only organ of Ohanaeze Ndigbo World Wide with an authority over elections under the constitution is IMEOBI”.
“We further state categorically that IMEOBI to the best of our knowledge has not met again since it’s last meeting in December 2020 when it approved and authorized all the Elections from January 2021 including the YOUTH and WOMEN elections”
