The leadership of Ohanaeze Ndigbo in Bayelsa State has denied endorsing former vice-president Atiku Abubakar’s presidential ambition.
The socio-cultural group said it was against its objectives to get involved in partisan politics and described the purported endorsement as disgraceful and unfortunate.
Chief Nlem Mark, the Caretaker Chairman of the group in Bayelsa, who spoke during a reconciliatory meeting with local chapters of Ohanaeze in Ogbia Local Government Area, said those within their group who purportedly received Abubakar during his visit were impostors and political jobbers.
In a communiqué issued after the meeting signed by Mark and Chief Chinedu Arthur-Ugwa, Leader of Ohanaeze Youth Wing in Bayelsa, the group appealed to the Bayelsa Government to severe links with the impostors.
The communique read in part: “The claim that the secretary to Bayelsa Government was the force behind their actions is regrettable; if it is true, it leaves us to assume that they were behind the disunity which our elders are working to end.
“The President of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Nnia Nwodo had urged the state government to work in harmony with the caretaker committee pending elections.
“We therefore wonder why some appointees of the governor chose to align with suspended members to sabotage the Nwodo-led leadership of Ohanaeze Ndigbo.
“We therefore urge the Bayelsa government to intervene by cautioning their appointees before their actions would lead to breach of the existing peace.”
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