By Adadareporters
The Ohanaeze Ndigbo has debunked being in collaborating with a Yoruba group to demand the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to “tread softly by way of respecting the subsisting court order restraining EFCC from arresting the immediate past Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, over alleged N80.2 billion money laundering”.
There were reports claiming a certain PRO of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council, Mr Chimaobi Ezejiofor, and the president of Yoruba Youth Council, one Comrade Eric Oluwole, jointly expressed “curiousness as to why the EFCC could not wait to exhaust the legal opportunities before clamping down on Bello”.
Dr Alex Ogbonnia, national publicity secretary of Ohanaeze, described the reports as ‘disingenuous meant to give validity to a fallacy by the unsuspecting public’.
Ohanaeze stated that the person that signed the document, one Chimaobi Ezejiofor, “is a new entrant amongst the fraudsters who ride on the invaluable footprints of Ohanaeze Ndigbo to defraud the unsuspecting public.”
Ogbonnia said that the youth council “is unknown to the organs and structures of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide”, adding that, “It is a mischievous contrivance for illicit and immediate stomach infrastructure.”
The statement read, “But the most worrisome are the compromised media contractors who collaborate with the transgressors and mercenaries to tarnish the hallowed image of Ohanaeze that represents the Igbo collective consciousness.
“The worst recrudescence is that some media platforms who have gained some impressive reputation have allowed their names to be associated with obnoxious yellow journalism. Otherwise, even the most unlettered mischief-maker knows that the President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo is Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, and Ambassador Okey Emuchay as the Secretary General.”
The pan-Igbo group said the operations of EFCC were not within the capacity of Ohanaeze to dictate the pace.
The state added that, “Chief Iwuanyanwu, since his assumption of office, has rather pre-occupied himself with rechanneling the Igbo entrepreneurship and ingenuity towards a new economic dawn, job opportunities and prosperity In Igbo land.”
