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Cracks in Ohanaeze worries Igbo leaders
The division in the apex Igbo-socio cultural organisation, the Ohaneze Ndigbo, has elicited reactions from the people and different groups in the region.
Following a comment credited to the chairman of the Anambra State chapter of Ohanaeze, Elder Chris Eluemunoh, who said Igbo would not beg the president-elect, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, for anything, the people of the region have said that Eluemunoh was not speaking the minds of the people.
Speaking yesterday in Awka, Anambra State capital, the national coordinator of Igbo Patriots, Comrade Osita Obi, said those parading themselves as Ohanaeze leaders are not representing the interest of the people.
Speaking with The Nation, Obi described Ohaneze Ndigbo as a confused entity of selfish individuals.
He added that the body seized to be what it was after the tenures of Justice Eze Ozobu and Dr. Dozie Ikedife, adding that the present groups, starting from the state to the national levels, were a bunch of money mongers.
According to Obi, “when any election comes up like this, you see them carrying small purses under their arm, forming one group or the other inside the so-called Ohanaeze.
“Which of the so called Ohanaeze person in Anambra is a credible and reliable person? They should not speak for Ndigbo, because they are nothing. They are not speaking for anybody but their stomachs.
“I am telling you that those people are on their own and they do not have what it takes to speak for Ndigbo. Let them shut up their mouths in the in-coming Buhari administration.”
Also speaking, the Anambra State coordinator of Transform Nigeria Movement (TNM), Comrade Obi Ochije, said people should stop attacking those who went to pay solidarity visit to the president-elect.
Ochije said that Ohanaeze members who were against the visit of some Ndigbo to Buhari were those who reaped from President Goodluck Jonathan and championed his re-election bid.
According to him, “the faction of Ohanaeze that visited Buhari is right because this is the time for Ndigbo to integrate themselves in Buhari’s administration. But they are dividing themselves because of selfishness.
“Our people should speak with one voice to give us room to discuss the problems facing Ndigbo. We are not happy with what is happening in Ohaneze.
“Some members of Ohanaeze are wrong for criticising those who visited the incoming president, and they are the real enemies of Ndigbo. We are not comfortable with the division,” Ochije said.
The Nation gathered that some of the members of the body who campaigned for President Goodluck Jonathan on the platform of the Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria (TAN), led by Ifeanyi Ubah, are not comfortable with the outcome of the election.
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