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NO LEADERSHIP TUSSLE IN OHANAEZE NDIGBO – PUBLICITY SCRIBE
Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide has
dismissed claims of leadership tussle in the group following the recent death of its President-General, Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu.
National Publicity Secretary of the Igbo socio-cultural group, Alex Ogbonnia, in a statement issued in Enugu, described the speculation of leadership tussle as untrue.
Ogbonnia said the group’s National Executive Committee, comprising erudite scholars, technocrats and veterans of diverse fields, was already seamlessly carrying out the functions of the umbrella body of the organisation.
He also stated that it would be insensitive and inconceivable for the National Executive Council, NEC, to adopt a replacement for the late Deputy President of the group, Joel Kroham, based on a mere letter from Rivers State.
The statement reads, “There is no leadership row or tussle in Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide at present and there is not likely to be one shortly.
“This is being done seamlessly daily by the appropriate structures under the administrative competence of the Secretary-General, Amb. Okey Emuchay.
“Iwuanyanwu passed quietly on July 25 and it is very ill-advised and strange for an Igbo to begin to claim the position of the president general of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, even when the burial committee for Iwuanyanwu is yet to be constituted.
“There is a letter in circulation that Dr Jackson Omenazu was nominated or selected to replace late Joel Kroham, who until his death was the Deputy President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo.
“However, such a letter was not made available to the NEC of Ohanaeze Ndigbo.”
