By Adadareporters
The president general of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, has warned against using the name of the pan-Igbo group to issue ‘frivolous statements’.
Chief Iwuanyanwu disclosed this in a statement signed by Ohanaeze’s national publicity secretary, Dr Alex Ogbonnia.
Chief Iwuanyanwu, according to the statement, has reactivated the youth wing of Ohanaeze by appointing Mazi Chukwuma Okpalaezeukwu as the acting national youth leader.
According to the statement, “The resolution was reached during a crucial meeting of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Wing with Chief Iwuanyanwu in Owerri, Imo State, on Wednesday.
“The youths explained that Mr Okpalaezeukwu has over the years demonstrated an uncommon capacity. More importantly, Okpalaezeukwu has the necessary skill and dynamism to manage the various diverse interests amongst the youths with prudence, equanimity and transparency.”
It was gathered that Okpalaezeukwu is to hold the office pending the due process for a substantive national youth leaderader from Ebonyi State.
A statement issued by Mazi Chika Art Adiele, national publicity secretary, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Wing, assured the general public that the era of frivolous statements using the name of Ohanaeze Ndigbo is gone.
The publicity secretary said, “We frown at the activities of some mischief makers, usurpers, impostors, job seekers and meddlesome interlopers who parade themselves and make unfounded and unruly statements in the name of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide.
“We admonish such perpetrators, charlatans and media navigators who leech on the invaluable footprints of Ohanaeze Ndigbo to issue press releases for narrow, perverse and illicit pecuniary interests to desist forthwith as any attempt by any individual or group in this regard shall henceforth be appropriately sanctioned by the youth wing.”
They also reaffirmed their resolve to end sit-at-home in the South East of Nigeria.
Ogbonnia wrote that the youths “expressed concern over the instigated insecurity and socio-economic disruptions in Igbo land. While commending the Southeast governors for all the efforts towards overcoming these challenges, the acting national youth leader stated that they shall not rest on their oars till peace and security is restored in South East and Nigeria at large.”
The youth wing appreciated the Iwuanyanwu innovations on security, economic growth, education, culture and other sectors of developments in Ala-Igbo within the short period of his assumption of office as the PG.
They recalled his demands to the Presidency for the release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu; the unprecedented relationship with the Ohanaeze governors and the Igbo captains of industry; reconciliatory meetings with the Ohanaeze Ndigbo Uk and Ireland; the renewed relationship with the Anya Ndigbo, Igbo Archbishops and Bishops; admitting the African Americans with authentic Igbo ancestry into the Igbo cosmology; creating a strategic organizational structure for global administration of Ohanaeze Ndigbo; quick response to the calamity at the Alaba International Market, Lagos; reactivation of the Women Wing of Ohanaeze, among others.
