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Chairman of the United Progressives Party (UPP), Chief Chekwas Okorie, yesterday, tore the leadership of the Ohaneze Ndigbo apart for betraying the Igbo nation.
Okorie blamed the apex Igbo social cultural group for taking a position not to allow candidates of Igbo extraction to contest the 2015 presidential election.
Speaking at the party’s stakeholders meeting in Enugu, the elder statesman described such arrangement as unfair to the Ndigbo.
He was reacting to the recent statement credited to President General of Ohaneze Ndigbo, Chief Enwo Igariwey, who was quoted in some national dailies as saying that “Ohaneze Ndigbo is not interested in the participation of Ndigbo to produce the President of Nigeria in the 2015 Presidential election”.
Lambasting the Ohaneze, the UPP National Chairman said “it is heart-rending, unkindest thing I have ever heard in my 38 years of active involvement in Igbo rights crusade. No Igbo leader occupying the exalted office of President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo has gone this far in betraying the Igbo people.
“Ohanaeze Ndigbo”, he went on, “was designed as a non-partisan socio-cultural pan-Igbo organization, for propagation, promotion and preservation of Igbo cultural heritage, education, economic and welfare of Igbo People in Nigeria and the Diaspora”.
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