The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide has stated it helps President Bola Tinubu's dedication to fight corruption, insurgency, banditry and different types of insecurity in Nigeria.
Ohanaeze, in a press release signed on Friday by the Nationwide Publicity Secretary, Dr Alex Ogbonnia, has distanced itself from the assertion attributed to the appearing Nationwide Youth Chief of the physique, Mr Chukwuma Okpalaezeukwu, calling for the suspended Minister of Humanitarian Enterprise and Poverty Alleviation. Dr. Betta Edu will likely be given the good thing about the doubt till the sequence of investigations into her involvement within the alleged N583m monetary misconduct reveal her complicity.
Ohanaeze described the assertion as reckless and regretted that the youth labeled the allegations towards Edu as an “administrative mischief and never a monetary theft because the Accountant Normal had confirmed her default on cost.”
Ohanaeze acknowledged that the assertion in the beginning failed miserably by all requirements of “logic, frequent sense, rhyme, motive, pursuits and all identified norms and traditions of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide.
“In different phrases, the press launch is extraordinarily impetuous, careless, unreflective, despicable, rash, insupportable and opposite to the philosophy of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide.”
The assertion famous that the President-Normal of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, expressed disgust at Okpalaezeukwu's assertion.
In response to the assertion, the Igbo chief defined that the Igbo creed is anchored in arduous work, ingenuity, transparency, equality, equity and an enabling setting for Igbo ingenuity and entrepreneurship to be totally expressed in Nigeria.
“He due to this fact questioned why Okpalaezeukwu would intrude with the actions of the anti-corruption companies as they affect Edu.
“It’s as soon as once more emphasised that Ohanaeze Ndigbo represents the historical past, feelings and consciousness of the Igbo; and that Ohanaeze serves because the sacred temple of Igbo which, by no stretch of the creativeness, needs to be desecrated by youthful villainy, imprudence and perversions.
“It’s due to this fact extremely unthinkable {that a} younger man wakes up and points a press launch within the identify of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, with out permission or session with the management.
“For the avoidance of doubt, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide totally helps President Bola Tinubu's dedication to combating corruption, insurgency, banditry and different types of insecurity in Nigeria; and vehemently distances itself from the Okpalaaezeukwu youthful exuberance.”