Apex Igbo social-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has commenced moves to have an emergency meeting over crucial issues attempting to tear the body apart.
Imeobi, the highest decision making organ and the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the body will take decisions on crucial matters affecting the Igbo organisation during the meeting.
Our investigations revealed that the two powerful organs of Ohanaeze are expected to discuss the crisis rocking the organisation occasioned by the absence of President and Deputy President in the group for sometime now.
Since the death of the president of Ohanaeze, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, the body has been operating without a president, a development that pushed the organisation into a pool of crisis.
Iwuanyanwu was elected president after the death of Ambassador George Obiozor who also died while in office. Iwuanyanwu, elected into office as Ohaneze leader in April 2023, passed on in July 2024.
Obiozor was elected president-general of Ohanaeze Ndigbo in January 2021 and died in December 2022. They were both from Imo State.
It was further gathered that the meeting will articulate some far reaching decisions for the interest of the Igbo nation with a view to nipping the crisis rocking group in the bud.
The meeting would put to rest the debate over which state should produce the next president general of the apex Igbo body. Rivers State is widely expected to produce the next president general going by the rotation system.
However, a statement by the spokesman of Ohanaeze, Dr Alex Ogbonnia insisted that there is no crisis in Ohanaeze Ndigbo.
He stated that the body is united under the administrative competence of the secretary general of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Ambassador Okey Emuchay.
“In the first place, there is no crisis in Ohanaeze Ndigbo under the diplomatic and administrative competence of Ambassador Okey Emuchay, MFR, the Secretary General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide.
“I wish to use this medium to thank the Igbo sons and daughters for keeping faith with Ohanaeze Ndigbo.
“We still plead with the agent provocateurs, charlatans, meddlesome interlopers and conflict entrepreneurs to desist from desecrating the hallowed name of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide.
“It is worth repeating, the absurdity and whimsicality of one man issuing press releases on behalf of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide without adequate consultations with the Igbo leaders,” he stated.