Former President of Aka Ikenga and legal practitioner, Mr. Goddy Uwazurike, has condemned the faction of Ohanaeze Ndigbo that visited President Muhammadu Buhari at Aso Rock to express support for his re-election.
In a press release issued in Lagos on Friday, Uwazurike said the group had embarrassed Ndigbo “by their greedy adventure.”
Recall that some members of Ohanaeze Ndigbo led by Uche Okwukwu, who identified himself as the Secretary-General of the apex Igbo Socio-cultural organisation, had visited Buhari on Friday to apologise over the group’s earlier decision to endorse the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar.
He claimed that the President-General of the organisation, Nnia Nwodo, was on suspension and not in a position to speak on behalf of the body, pending the outcome of the investigation of the allegations levelled against him.
He also said that contrary to Nwodo’s statement that the Ohanaeze Ndigbo had endorsed Atiku, the Igbo were backing Buhari’s re-election.
However, in the release signed by Uwazurike, he contended that Uche Okwukwu was the one on suspension.
He described Okwukwu and his group as “merchants of fortune.”
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The release read; “The rag tag group led by a suspended officer of Ohanaeze Ndigbo went on a shameful visit to Abuja to endorse the APC candidate. It is shameful because Ndigbo have an organized system of doing things. We have elected officers who hold offers for four years only. The present executive was elected two years ago.
“True to the predictable rascality of nonentities, during election time, a motley crowd embarrassed us today by their greedy adventure. This heinous action came up in 2007, 2011 and 2015. After each election, this group melts into obscurity. But this infamous conduct dogs their steps forever.
I condemn this ridiculous action of the merchants of fortune !!”
