Ohanaeze Ndigbo Speaks On Appointing Yakubu Gowon To Negotiate 2023 Igbo Presidency

We did not appoint Gowon to lead negotiation for Igbo presidency-Ohanaeze Ndigbo

The Apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze 

Ndigbo said on Wednesday that it had no pact with the former head of state, General Yakubu Gowon (rtd) on the campaign for the emergence of a Nigerian President of Igbo extraction in 2023.

Ohanaeze also said it was not planning any interface with some prominent political figures in the country towards achieving a president of Igbo extraction, insisting that such reports were being peddled to deceive the public and curry attention.

One Okechukwu Isiguzoro had signed a press statement at the weekend under the banner of Ohanaeze Youth Council (OYC) claiming Gowon was spearheading the campaign for the emergence of Igbo candidate for the presidency and that Ndigbo was planning an interface with some prominent Nigerians on the project.

But in a statement issued in Enugu and signed by the National Publicity Secretary, Ohanaeze Ndigbo worldwide, Prince Uche Achi-Okpaga, he stated that there was no truth in the said publications as the organization never met anywhere to agree on such.

The statement said: “Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide hereby informs the general public that at no time was the aforementioned situations ever contemplated or was there any meeting at which they were tabled for consideration, let alone any action being taken or a press statement issued on that.

“The purported actions exist only in the imagination of the miscreants and enemies of the Igbo nation who are the purveyors of the unfortunate concoctions. Ohanaeze Ndigbo reiterates that there is no organisation as Ohanaeze Youth Council recognized by Ndigbo and that the misguided so-called leader of the group, Okechukwu Isiguzoro, is a warped, egocentric and power-hungry mind who obviously is living in an incontrovertible state of mental delusion.