Apex Igbo Social-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has denied inviting the presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi, his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) counterpart, Atiku Abubakar and Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress for the 2022 Igbo day celebration as special guests.
Ohanaeze reacted yesterday to a statement issued by a group that it invited the trio to grace the 2022 Igbo day celebrations as special guests.
The group had disclosed in the statement that the trio, will be adorned with special titles and offered special prayers for the three presidential candidates” all at the same time.
However, a statement issued by the national publicity secretary of Ohanaeze, Dr. Alex Ogbonnia, described the action of the group as 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”.
He described the action of the group as 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 eminent Igbo stakeholders. The worst recrudescence is the satanic bait with which some loose academics are attracted to the impostors” he stated.
He called on the unsuspecting public to ignore the group which he described as charlatans who misrepresent the hallowed name of the apex Igbo socio-cultural organization for narrow, selfish and stomach infrastructure.
Ogbonnia said the president general of Ohanaeze, Professor George Obiozor reminds the general public that Ohanaeze Ndigbo does not engage in frivolities and childish display on serious issues of national interests.
He, therefore, advised the three presidential candidates to keep a safe distance from the” social climbers, tricksters, shameless impostors and mischief makers.”
