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  • Biafra: Ohanaeze Ndigbo Tells President Tinubu What To Do To Nnamdi Kanu

    Biafra: Ohanaeze Ndigbo Tells President Tinubu What To Do To Nnamdi Kanu

    Ohanaeze Ndigbo has told President Tinubu what to do to Biafra activist Nnamdi Kanu.

    Newsone Nigeria reports that the President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Nze Ozichukwu Fidelis Chukwu, on Friday, January 3, 2025, said President Bola Tinubu would have written his name in gold if he ordered the release of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB.

    This online news platform understands what the Ohanaeze Ndigbo President-General remarked while welcoming Tinubu to the South-East before his official visit to Enugu State on Saturday, January 4, 2025.

    The Ohanaeze Ndigbo President-General expressed immense delight over the gradual attitudinal change of the Federal Government under Tinubu towards the Igbo nation.

    Chukwu said in a statement by Ohanaeze spokesman Alex Ogbonnia: “It is therefore hoped that with the Enugu visit, President Tinubu will write his name with gold in the hearts of Ndigbo and all the well-meaning Nigerians if he orders the release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.”

    Ohanaeze insisted that national peace, unity, patriotism and sustainable economic development of any country are the outcomes, effects or products of equity, and social justice.

    According to the statement: “In other words, there is hardly any society or group that can be complacent under severe existential threats such as orchestrated marginalization, relative deprivations, and external instigation of insecurity, conflagrations and crises.”

    Newsone reports that Ohanaeze also commended Enugu State Governor, Peter Ndubuisi Mbah for his “disruptive, innovative and massive infrastructural developments in Enugu State; Enugu International Conference Centre, Enugu Smart schools in all the electoral wards of Enugu State, hospitals across the states, resuscitation of Hotel Presidential Enugu, Flour Mills, Nigergas, the construction and rehabilitation of hundreds of roads in the State, etc, within a short period of his administration”.

    The statement added: “We also appreciate His Excellency, Sen Hope Odidika Uzodimma, CON, the Chairman of the South East Governors Forum and Chairman of the All Progressive Governors Forum, for the life-saving installation of Night Landing Equipment at the Sam Mbakwe International Cargo Airport, Owerri.

    “Finally, we wish President Tinubu a safe, joyous, and eventful trip as he is treated with the Igbo hospitality in Enugu State.”

  • 2023 Election: What Igbo Presidency Will Do To Nigeria – Ohanaeze Ndigbo

    2023 Election: What Igbo Presidency Will Do To Nigeria – Ohanaeze Ndigbo

    Ohanaeze Ndigbo has revealed what Igbo Presidency in 2023 election will do to Nigeria.

    Newsone reports that Ohanaeze Ndigbo, an apex socio-cultural organization in Igboland, has reaffirmed the belief of the Igbo people in the unity of Nigeria.

    This online news platform understands that the President-General of the group, Professor George Obiozor in a Christmas and New Year address presented at a press conference held in Owerri, the Imo State capital, insisted that the Igbo nation seek justice as, throughout history, those denied justice have had no interest in peace.

    Obiozor also maintained that a Nigerian President of Igbo extraction has become imperative and an idea whose time has come, adding that it is a national necessity that is anchored on equity, justice and fairness.

    The Ohanaeze Ndigbo President-General further reiterated that a Nigerian President of Igbo extraction is politically justifiable and morally defensible, positing also that it would heal and unite the nation.

    Newsone Nigeria reports that Obiozor disclosed that Ohanaeze Ndigbo will soon announce a political action committee to canvass for the support and understanding of other Nigerians towards the actualization of a President of the Igbo bloc.

    According to him, “be not discouraged, the Igbo struggle for Justice, equity and fairness in Nigeria has been long and agonizing but there is light at the end of the tunnel.

    “As Nelson Mandela said, it looks impossible until it is done. With the new narratives of courage without rancour wisdom without humility, we will be able to persuade our fellow Nigerians that it is time to reintegrate Ndigbo effectively into the mainstream of Nigerian political process and governance. This is in the national interest.”

    The Ohanaeze Ndigbo President-General expressed dismay that Igbo talents and ability to turn adversities into advantages, obstacles into opportunities and difficulties into dividends have been misrepresented as attempts at domination hence confronted with anger, hostility and violence at any given crisis in Nigeria and even outside the country.

    He partly stated, “In fact, no people in recent history have been unfortunate or at best had a mixed fortune or blessings as Ndigbo in Nigeria politics and governance. For example, quite often the Igbo energy and enterprise were misunderstood as being over-ambitious.

    “In 1999, the country for the purpose of healing the Nation and creative use of crises and conflicts yielded the Presidency to the South West. I ask Ndigbo everywhere from today to make every effort to convince other Nigerians in Political parties and organizations that ours is a righteous cause whose time has come”.

  • Biafra: Ohanaeze Tells Buhari What To Do To Nnamdi Kanu, Uwazurike, Asari Dokubo

    Biafra: Ohanaeze Tells Buhari What To Do To Nnamdi Kanu, Uwazurike, Asari Dokubo

    Ohanaeze has told Buhari what to do to Nnamdi Kanu, Uwazuruike and Asari Dokubo over Biafra.

    NewsOne Nigeria reports that the Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide (OYC), has urged the Federal Government led by  President Muhammadu Buhari to dialogue with Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and other Biafra agitators.

    The Igbo group made this call in a statement jointly signed by Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, OYC President General, Comrade Obinna Achionye, OYC Deputy National President General; and Mazi Okwu Nnabuike, OYC Secretary-General.

    In the statement, Ohanaeze urged Asari Dokubo, Nnamdi Kanu, Ralph Uwazurike, Uchenna Madu and Ben Onwuka to be patient with the Federal government. The OYC also lamented the reported influx of Almajiris to the South.

    The statement reads as thus; “We describe the self-determination and non-violent actions of all Biafran agitators, especially the IPOB as the World’s largest Movement of Africans to demonstrate the grievances and passionate aggression towards addressing the perceived persecutions of a section of Nigeria by internal oppressors in a country where human and natural resources are abundantly used unjustly against the goose that lay the golden eggs and her denied fundamental rights and privileges especially as witnessed in the sharing of FG COVID-19 palliative care during the coronavirus pandemic, where North was used to allegedly siphon the money meant for all.

    “OYC urge the central government that there’s urgent need for the total healing of past wounds and distrust that had lingered 50 years after the Biafra War ended.

    “There’s no functional solution for peace except for dialogue, and each party drawn up conditions and reach terms for peace. The reported influx of Almajiris to the South has changed the mood of the country, and there should be need for the presidency to dialogue with all agitators, including Oduduwa Warlords, Niger Delta Avengers and Biafran agitators. We’ing for The president of Ghana and ECOWAS to Moderate this inevitable dialogue to avert possible collapse of Nigeria.

    “We call on all Biafran agitators, especially IPOB to be peaceful and law-abiding and ensure a change of direction and strategy and end the ferocious struggle through allegations and abuses.

    “We appreciate their legitimate role to exploit all peaceful and non-violent activities to expose the pains of old Eastern Region. Nnamdi Kanu, Asari Dokubo, Raph Uwazurike, Uchenna Madu and Ben Onwuka should be patience and peaceful as the collaborative process will make the sun to rise in the East,” the statement on Nnamdi Kanu, Uwazurike, Asari Dokubo added.

  • 2023 Presidency: Ohanaeze Sends Strong Warning To Ango Abdullahi, Junaid Mohammed

    Ohanaeze Ndigbo has warned Prof Ango Abdullahi and Junaid Mohammed to stop causing disharmony in the polity by their unguarded utterances and comments regarding the 2023 Presidency.

    YaahooJournalist reports that Ohanaeze Ndigbo gave this warning through its deputy spokesman, Chuks Ibegbu in a statement issued in Enugu.

    The deputy spokesman of the apex Igbo socio-cultural organization accused the duo of constituting themselves into agents of destabilisation and divisiveness and asked the federal government to caution them.

    “They are purveyors of hate speech and agents of social disequilibrium,” Ibegbu noted in a statement issued in Enugu, southeast Nigeria.

    The Ohanaeze deputy spokesman advised “the suffering youths and people of the North to disregard their antics.”

    Ibegbu added: ”These men have not done anything to solve the insecurity problem in the North or end the endemic poverty in that region. None of them has been associated with any social or economic value to the talakawas whom they claim falsely to be defending. They are rabble-rousers and self-appointed leaders of the North.”

    The Ohanaeze deputy spokesman contended that the population Prof Abdullahi claims the North has is bogus, fake and indefensible.

    Ibegbu insisted that the 2014 Confab report and restructuring of Nigeria will favour the north even more than the South but “these men keep on deceiving innocent Northerners.”

    Speaking further, Ibegbu expressed excitement that the middle belt is no longer deceived by this type of antics and progressive men and women even from the so-called core north are now wiser and would not allow people like Junaid Mohammed and Ango Abdullahi to deceive them any longer.

    “Their plans to destabilise Nigeria will fail. If it will take a Nigerian from my village to rescue Nigeria from long years of misrule, why not allow him. Zoning and rotation of the Presidency is the only way to ensure the stability of the country and if it was torpedoed by Ex-President Jonathan, then it has nothing to do with a Nigerian Presidency of Igbo extraction,” Ibegbu noted, adding that, “several Northern politicians, after all, supported Jonathan’s 2011 contest.”

    The Ohanaeze deputy spokesman asked Mohammed and Abdullahi to repent and become role models to Northern youths instead of being destabilising agents, rabble-rousers and irredentists at their age.

    “Am happy several Nigerians statesmen in Arewa land, Yoruba land, and Niger Delta are now at the forefront of the Nigeria Presidency of Igbo extraction project,” he stated.

  • Biafra: Ohanaeze President Bombs Nnamdi Kanu In Open Letter

    The President-general of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, John Nwodo, says under no circumstance will he either insult President Muhammadu Buhari or call Nigeria a zoo-like Nnamdi Kanu.

    YaahooJournalist reports that the Ohanaeze President made this comment while denying allegations labeled against Kanu, who is the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).

    Nwodo wrote an open letter to Ndigbo saying Kanu’s latest “unprintable lies about me” prompted him to address the accusations “because not to do so will make them credible amongst those who may not have heard my side of the story”.

    The Ohanaeze President added that Kanu accused him of being a supporter of the Fulanis.

    Nwodo affirmed that everything he had done proves his activism is in the interest of Ndigbo.

    The Ohanaeze President added that he had no role in the invasion of Kanu’s residence in 2017.

    Nwodo accused Kanu of making threats to his life and that of his family and also inciting IPOB members against him.

    His words: “Nnamdi accuses me of being a Fulani stooge!! I am sure no reasonable Igbo man believes him. I have criticized President Muhammed Buhari more than any other Nigerian. Perhaps, what I don’t do is to insult his person or call Nigeria a zoo. I was trained to be respectful. I can disagree with you without being rude and impertinent,” Nwodo said.

    “No matter how sectional, incompetent or unproductive I consider the President of Nigeria to be, I must respect his age and office in my criticisms of him. As for the attack on my late father, I forgive Nnamdi. My father was Zik’s Minister and Okpara’s Minister. My father and late Chief M.N Ugochukwu were some of the prominent financiers of the Biafran War. I fought the Biafran War myself as a Biafran soldier at a very young age without my parents objecting.

    “Yes, I served President Shehu Shagari and General Abdulsalami Abubakar as minister. I respect them notwithstanding differences of opinion we may have on the structure of Nigeria.

    “Odumegwu Ojukwu was like my senior brother. Bianca can attest to our closeness and my loyalty to him. Vice President Alex Ekwueme was my mentor and friend. Nnamdi Azikiwe confided in me and treated me like a son. M.I. Okpara was the Chairman of my wedding. Late Dr. Dozie Ikedife was the first person to sign my nomination form for the office of President General of Ohanaeze. None of these Igbo leaders found me a traitor of Igbo cause. Every-where I have been in Igboland, young men and women embrace me, pose for photographs with me and commend my efforts in championing our case. I salute them all.

    “Notwithstanding this abundant evidence of my championing IPOB cause, he ordered an invasion of my telephone with numerous insulting calls and threats to my life. My home in Ukehe was bombed. Police investigations of these incidences linked some of them to IPOB members. Their lawyers approached me and I thought that a father taking his son to court and subsequently to jail would be un-Igbo. Notwithstanding their confessional statements, I withdrew my complaint against them and they pledged to be of good behavior.

    “I have noted the threats to my life from the IPOB leader. I leave that to God and the law.”

    The Ohanaeze said despite Kanu’s attack on him, he appreciates his (Kanu’s) upholding of the Igbo cause.

    “In spite of all I say, I salute Nnamdi for his courage and his persistence in upholding our case but I urge you all to rise up and condemn what is condemnable. Speak up and shame those who would want us to split into pieces and destroy our resolve to fight as a united people,” he said.

    “As a father, I will always forgive an erring child but not without drawing his attention to a misdemeanor which should never be repeated.”

  • Biafra: What Ohanaeze Said After IPOB Members Attacked Ekweremadu

    Ohanaeze Ndigbo, an apex Igbo socio-cultural group in Nigeria, has condemned the attack on a former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, by some members of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), in Germany.

    Yaahoo Journalist had reported earlier that the IPOB members attacked Ekweremadu in Nuremberg, Germany on Saturday, August 17.

    It was learned that the IPOB members attacked Ekweremadu during the annual cultural festival of the Ndigbo, apex social-cultural group in the south-east.

    Speaking after the ugly incident through Uche Anichukwu, his media aide, Ekweremadu assured Ndigbo and his supporters across the nation that he was safe.

    His words: “I attended the Second Annual Cultural Festival and Convention organised by Ndi-Igbo Germany in Nurnberg today where I was billed to give a keynote address along with the President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Nnia Nwodo, who, however, could not make it eventually,” he said in the statement.

    “I attended the Second Annual Cultural Festival and Convention organised by Ndi-Igbo Germany in Nurnberg today where I was billed to give a keynote address along with the President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Nnia Nwodo, who, however, could not make it eventually,” Ekweremadu said in the statement.

    “I was given a resounding welcome by Ndigbo in Germany and everything went smoothly until some men, who identified themselves as IPOB members stormed the venue and began to complain about the killings in the South East, stressing that there would be no Igbo event at the venue.

    “I tried to engage them, but when they became unruly, I had to leave the venue. The organisers also invited the police and I was accompanied out of the venue,” Ekweremadu said.

    Reacting to the incident, the President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, John Nwodo in a statement, criticised IPOB over the attack.

    Nwodo, who was among the invited guests but could not make it to the programme, condemned the attitude of those behind the attack.

    “The assault on Ekweremadu by Igbos in Germany, described as IPOB, is disappointing, grotesque and dangerous for Igbo solidarity,” he said.

    “This violent, rude, impertinent, divisive and discourteous style of IPOB or IPOB instigated miscreants is damaging to our cause. It strengthens the case of those who describe them as terrorists and weaken our case against the infringement of our fundamental human rights.

    “Ekweremadu negotiated the sureties and securities for Nnamdi Kanu’s release on bail. He does not deserve this picketing and disgrace. A disgrace to him is a disgrace to Igbo race.

    “Whilst I condemn the attack on our revered son and leader, I call on the law enforcement agencies in Germany to bring to book the perpetrators of this despicable act. It is un-Igbo. It is disgraceful.”