Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Nigeria’s highest socio-political organisation, has denied claims that it will campaign against the election of Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party’s presidential nominee (PDP).
Remember that Atiku Abubakar was voted to represent the PDP in the presidential election of 2023 on Saturday.
His election as the PDP’s standard-bearer goes against south-easterners’ demands that political parties produce candidates from the region.
According to allegations attributed to Ohanaeze on Sunday, the south-east will oppose Atiku’s candidacy, and his efforts will be rejected in the geopolitical zone.
In a statement issued on Monday, Ohanaeze spokesperson Chiedozie Ogbonnia claimed the information was issued by mischief makers aiming to generate uncertainty in the south-east.
“The attention of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide has been drawn to a reckless publication currently circulating in the media indicating that Ohanaeze Ndigbo “blasts Atiku and vows to work against his PDP candidacy in the 2023 polls; and that Atiku Abubakar, will never become Nigeria’s president”, the statement reads.
“The press release added that “the Igbo would rise up against Atiku, adding that his presidential campaign would be rejected in the South-East.
“Ordinarily, Ohanaeze Ndigbo would have ignored the said press release, but silence in this circumstance will tend to give validity to such fallacy by the unsuspecting public.
“It is therefore imperative to inform that those behind the fake press release are mischief-makers, impostors, charlatans and unscrupulous social climbers who have shamelessly leeched on the invaluable footprints of Ohanaeze Ndigbo to issue press releases for narrow, perverse and illicit pecuniary interests. It is the unwholesome activities of such maladjusted, impish scaremongers that have been the bane of Igbo cohesion.
“For the avoidance of doubt, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the apex Igbo socio-cultural body, led by Ambassador Professor George Obiozor has not issued any press statement on the candidacy of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.”
Before issuing a press statement outlining the Igbo position on the 2023 general election, Ohanaeze would wait for the “full outcome of the ongoing primaries by all the political parties,” according to Ogbonnia.
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