… Ohanaeze Youth not representing Igbo — Group
… OYC authority on suspension
… Return in August, MASSOB tell the Igbo in the North
Awka—Ohanaeze Ndigbo, yesterday, said to the general population of the South-East living in the 19 state of the North were not under any danger despite the October 1 deadline.
The gathering likewise emphasized its before position that anything said by Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro ought not be ascribed to Ohanaeze young people as he is still on suspension.
However, the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, yesterday, coordinated Igbo living in the northern piece of the nation to come back toward the East by August 2017 to beat the October 1 due date quit see given by Arewa young people.
In a comparative vein, the Umu Afor Igbo General Assembly, UAIGA, yesterday, said the young wing of Ohanaeze Ndigbo was not talking the psyche of the South-East locale at its meeting with Arewa Youths.
MEETING: From left; Chief Chukwuemeka Ezeife, previous Governor of Anambra State; DIG Hilary Opara; Deputy President General, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide and Senator Ike Nwachukwu amid the meeting of South East and South pioneers and supper for New President General, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide at Chief E.K. Clark's home in Apapa, Lagos, yesterday. Photograph by Diran Oshe.
Ndigbo in North not under any danger
The Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Chairman of Ohanaeze, Mazi Odozi Nwodozi, who put forth the elucidation in an announcement in Abuja, for the benefit of the administration of the Igbo in the North, advised Ndigbo to disregard an announcement supposedly credited to the organizer of Northern Ohanaeze Youth, Obinna Nwankwo, saying he did not have the command to represent the Igbo.
Nwodozi, who was Vice President of Ohanaeze Youth Council, Anioma/Delta section expressed that since the quit see was issued to Ndigbo, the President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief John Nnia Nwodo, had initiated wide yet vital conferences with applicable people and gatherings both inside and outside the north with the particular point of diffusing the strain, and securing the Igbo masses.
The FCT President of Ohanaeze in the announcement stated: "It has gone to the notice of the administration of the Igbo in the north, the announcements of some astute scaremongers who are attempting to make non existing feelings of dread, and subsequent frenzy in the brains of Igbo dwelling in the north of an approaching slaughter and wanton plundering of their property.
"This position is exemplified in a current press articulation issued by one Mr. Obinna Nwankwo who arrogates to himself a non-existing position of Northern Coordinator of Ohanaeze Youth Council."
On the position of Ohanaeze initiative on the seething issue, he stated: "That we wish to emphasize at the end of the day that Ndigbo in the north as spoken to by the Igbo Delegates Assembly, IDA, under the administration of Chief Chi Nwogwu, thoroughly denounce and separate themselves from the dishonorable, flat broke and debasing conference between the suspended Ohanaeze Youth Council and some northern young people.
Abandons Ohanaeze Northern Youth Council
"That we were not counseled before the implied conference; which we wouldn't have gone to or order our childhood wing to go to as the characters that were at the focal point of it do not have the gifts of the Igbo administration.
"We, therefore, approach Ndigbo in the north to keep quiet and steadfast, remembering that the authority structure of Ndigbo both at the political and socio-social levels are working eagerly to guarantee the most extreme security of the Igbo in the north.
"Ndigbo ought to overlook the doomsayer inclinations of jingoist and go getters and approach their legal attempts as they will be conveyed through set up channels if the need emerges."
Return home in August—MASSOB
Be that as it may, MASSOB in its view as depicted by the National Information Officer, Mr. Samuel Edesonu, said that the choice to ask Igbo individuals to return home in August was taken at its national official meeting directed by the MASSOB pioneer, Comrade Uchenna Madu.
As per Edesonu, August was picked on account of its noteworthiness in Igbo timetable as the period for new yam celebration and ladies' August meeting and charged the Igbo, particularly ladies, to induce their friends and family (spouses and kids) to get back home unfailingly.
MASSOB coordinated all the Eze Igbo in the 19 northern states to start instantly the arrangement of names, private locations and towns/towns of all Igbo living in their separate northern urban areas where they live, educating that such information resemblance regarding the general population should end by September 10, 2017.
As indicated by the announcement, the Biafra Intelligence Agency had likewise been conveyed to northern Nigeria to screen the circumstance in every one of the urban areas.
The announcement read: "In continuation of our prior stand and position on the quit notice to the general population of Biafra by Arewa individuals, which will slip by on October 1, MASSOB demands and coaxes on Biafrans living in Arewa land to increase endeavors in migrating their families back home.
"MASSOB has settled that the time of August being a huge month of extraordinary celebrations of Iri ji (new yam celebration) and Women August meeting in Igbo arrive, ought to be an exceptional month of mass return for all Igbo living in northern Nigeria.
"MASSOB additionally commands all wedded Igbo ladies living in northern Nigeria to begin hinting their spouses about the perils of remaining in Arewa arrive, which never again ensures their wellbeing. They ought to likewise strengthen weight on their spouses concerning the mass return one month from now.
"After the September 10 due date for this arrangement, MASSOB will leave on examination of all the Eze Ndigbo in northern urban areas to learn their level of investment in this familial request.
"MASSOB inclinations the Eze Ndigbo in northern urban areas to do this arrangement of our family information as a local and heritage exercise and we bid to them not to double-cross this demonstration of honorability in view of their individual advantages or supports from Hausa-Fulani.
"MASSOB under the initiative of Comrade Uchenna Madu will proceed resolute in peacefulness compatible of Biafra actualisation and rebuilding."
Ohanaeze young people not representing Igbo
The UAIGA President-General, Mr. Ejike Ikezuagu, expressed this in Owerri, while responding to the current meeting amongst Ohanaeze and Arewa young people over the quit take note.
As per Ikezuagu, "for Ohanaeze adolescents to secretly compose themselves as pioneers to represent Igbo is against our Igbo custom. Ohanaeze's meeting with the Arewa young people and the result of the meeting are a slap on our appearances as Ndigbo.
"It is unseemly for a gathering of two and three people constituting themselves as pioneers without the assent of the general population to represent Igbo. It is inadmissible and an unthinkable in Igbo culture.
"OYC ought to be reminded that the preeminent energy to take part in such move rests in the body of the agents qualified for vote or picked and it is practiced by the family delegates picked specifically or in a roundabout way by them.
"Furthermore, this is the reason we have set up Umu Afo Igbo National Assembly as collecting ground for our kin to talk about issues for an answer for be received."
OYC initiative on suspension — Ohanaeze
National Deputy Publicity Secretary of Ohanaeze Ndigbo , Chuks Ibegbu, also expressed that " the National Executive Commitee of Ohanaeze Ndigbo still re-repeats that the national administration of Ohanaeze Youth Council driven by Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro was suspended by the last NEC of Ohanaeze Ndigbo and the suspension has not been lifted.
"Any announcement credited to any authority of the suspended wing bears no authorisation from Ohanaeze National Executive Committee. It's just the President General and the Publicity Unit/whatever other authority approved or ordered to do as such that can talk for the benefit of Ohanaeze Ndigbo," he said.
' Ndigbo in North not under any risk'
In a comparative vein, the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Chairman of Ohanaeze, Mazi Odozi Nwodozi, who put forth the elucidation in an announcement in Abuja, in the interest of the authority of the Igbo in the North, advised Ndigbo to overlook an announcement professedly credited to the organizer of Northern Ohanaeze Youth, Obinna Nwankwo, saying he did not have the command to represent the Igbo.
Nwodozi, who was Vice President of Ohanaeze Youth Council, Anioma/Delta part expressed that since the quit see was issued to Ndigbo, the President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief John Nnia Nwodo, had initiated wide yet vital discussions with applicable people and gatherings both inside and outside the north with the solitary point of diffusing the strain, and securing the Igbo masses.
The FCT President of Ohanaeze in the announcement stated: "It has gone to the notice of the administration of the Igbo in the north, the announcements of some pioneering scaremongers who are attempting to make non existing feelings of dread, and ensuing frenzy in the brains of Igbo dwelling in the north of an approaching slaughter and wanton plundering of their property.
"This position is epitomized in a current press articulation issued by one Mr. Obinna Nwankwo who arrogates to himself a non-existing position of Northern Coordinator of Ohanaeze Youth Council."
On the position of Ohanaeze administration on the seething issue, he stated: "That we wish to emphasize by and by that Ndigbo in the north as spoken to by the Igbo Delegates Assembly, IDA, under the authority of Chief Chi Nwogwu, thoroughly denounce and separate themselves from the disgraceful, down and out and debasing conference between the suspended Ohanaeze Youth Council and some northern young people."
Abandons Ohanaeze Northern Youth Council
"That we were not counseled before the implied conference; which we wouldn't have gone to or order our childhood wing to go to as the characters that were at the focal point of it do not have the favors of the Igbo initiative.
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