2015: Ohanaeze Endorses Jonathan, Threatens To Sanction Amaechi

As the February 2015 general elections gather
momentum, the Igbo apex ruling body, Ohanaeze
Ndigbo, yesterday in Awka, the Anambra State
Capital, endorsed President Goodluck Jonathan ,
the People Democratic Party ,(PDP) standardbearer
for the presidential election.
Addressing newsmen, the President of Ohanaeze in
Anambra State who is also the chairman of
Ohanaeze Ndigbo State Presidents Forum, Chris
Eluemunoh, said that the seven presidents—general
of the seven states that make up the Igbo nation
which include, Anambra; Chris Elumunoh, Enugu; Dr
Eric Ebeh, Imo; Dr Ezechi Chukwu , Abia; Chief
Emmanuel Oparanta, Ebonyi; Pius Nwankwo, Rivers;
Prince Igo Okparamma and Delta; Ifeanyichukwu
Onwukamike, resolved to endorse him because of
the need to implement the national conference
recommendations as he was the initiator of the
conference that they said, would unite the country .
In a communiqué signed by the seven presidents-
general, they posited that since the All Progressive
Congress (APC), opted out of the conference, it
meant that the initiator, President Jonathan would
be voted to implement it .
According to them, "considering the realities of the
forthcoming 2015 general elections, Ohanaeze
Ndigbo State Presidents forum, has objectively
made a critical assessment of the scenario and our
findings revealed that the implementation of the
just concluded National Conference resolutions is
both timely and necessary for the sake of equity,
fairness and common good of all Nigerians as an
entity".
The group reasoned that since the conference was
the brainchild of President Jonathan , it was then
logical and impressive that he would be desirous to
implement the said confab resolutions rather than
any other candidate..
"In view of the forgoing, the Ohanaeze state
presidents forum therefore endorses President
Jonathan in the forthcoming presidential election
and urges all Ndigbo in the 36 states of the
federation and Abuja to vote massively for him."
On the alleged crises rocking the apex Igbo body,
they stated that Chief Enwo Igariweh and Dr. Joe
Nworgu remained the President- General and
Secretary General of the body adding "we
disassociate ourselves and condemn herewith illicit
and inordinate activities of Chief Mbazulike Amaechi
and his cohorts in their bid to undermine the
integrity of the duly elected National Executive
Council (NEC) of Ohanaeze Ndigbo".
They hinted that Chief Mbazulike and cohorts
lacked the locus standi, statutory legitimacy and
moral wherewithal to decimate or truncate the
constitutional four year term of the Igariweh led
executive .
"Mbazulike is neither the leader nor spokesperson
of Ndigbo and should refrain from parading himself
as same "
According to them," Mbazulike and his cohorts are
running the risk of extensive sanctions from
Ohanaeze Ndigbo if they do not desist from their
well-established antithetical utterances and inimical
activities geared toward denigrating the present
Ohanaeze Ndigbo NEC and the corporate integrity of
Ohanaeze."
The forum condemned the alleged bombing of its
secretariat by an unscrupulous elements in the
night of Jan. 24 2015 and implored security
operatives to fish out the perpetrators of this
heinous crime to face the wrath of the law.
Courtesy: nairaland news
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