Tag: Ohanaeze
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Ohanaeze clears air on Nwodo’s tenure, blasts Nnamdi Kanu for causing ‘confusion’
The tenure of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo leadership will end in January 2021, not 2020, the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation said on Sunday. It warned mischief makers against stampeding the executive. The organisation faulted those it said were “going about claiming that the national election of Ohanaeze Ndigbo would hold in January 2020”. It warned them…
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Biafra: Ohanaeze Ndigbo speaks on fresh court order to arrest Nnamdi Kanu
The Ohanaeze Ndigbo, on Friday, warned of dire consequences over the bench warrant issued against Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, by a Federal High Court in Abuja. Justice Binta Nyako issued the order following Kanu’s continuous absence from court. But reacting through a statement signed by Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro,…
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Afenifere, Ohanaeze, Northern Elders, Niger Delta Forum reject Buhari’s re-election
The Forum of Nigerian Leaders and Elders has rejected the poll that reelected President Muhammadu Buhari for another four years on February 23, 2019. The Forum, made up of the Pan Niger Delta Forum, Northern Elders Forum, Afenifere, Ohanaeze Ndigbo and Middle Belt Forum, made its position known in a statement signed by their leaders,…
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Presidential poll: Ohanaeze, MASSOB, IPOB reinstate support for Atiku/Obi ticket
The leadership of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, pro-Biafra groups, including proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra and the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, Alaigbo Development Foundation, in Enugu State on Thursday reaffirmed the endorsement of the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar and his running mate, Mr. Peter Obi. In…
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Ohanaeze can no longer tell Igbo youths who to vote – Moghalu
The presidential candidate of the Young People’s Party, Kingsley Moghalu, says the endorsement of a particular candidate by Ohanaeze Nd’Igbo is in vain. Moghalu disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday in Awka. He said youths in South East are wise enough to know who to vote for and…
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Ohanaeze Suspends Secretary General, Explains Why
The apex Igbo socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has suspended its Secretary-General, Uche Okwukwu, over alleged anti-organisation activities. The National Executive Committee of the group said he was suspended over his alignment with the All Progressives Congress (APC) to factionalize the body which is in violation of the constitution of the pan Igbo socio-cultural organization. Ohanaeze…
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2019 Presidential election: Okorocha reacts to Ohaneze’s endorsement of Atiku
…says group not a political party Imo State governor, Rochas Okorocha has described the endorsement of the Presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar by the apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohaneze Ndigbo as null and void and of no effect. The Imo governor in a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary,…
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Elections: Ohanaeze denies plots to sabotage Buhari’s campaign in South East
Apex Igbo socio-cultural group Ohanaeze Ndigbo has dispelled insinuations that it intentionally fixed its Ime Obi meeting for January 24 to clash with President Muhammad Buhari’s visit to the Southeast. The organisation said its attention was drawn to “a mendacious news item that Ohanaeze Ndigbo deliberately fixed their January 24 Ime Obi meeting to sabotage…
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2019: Ohanaeze’s endorsement of Atiku won’t affect my chances – Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari has said that the split within the Ohanaeze Igbo socio-cultural group over its reported endorsement of Atiku Abubakar, the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, did not surprise him. Speaking at a meeting with a select group of South-east leaders on Friday, at the State House, Abuja, President Buhari said that…
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Biafra: Ohanaeze blasts IPOB for outlining ‘conditions for peace’
The apex Igbo cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has described as spurious, mendacious and the height of blackmail for the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), to outline what it called the preconditions for peace between it and Ohanaeze Ndigbo. In a press release, the Special Adviser to the President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo on Media and…