Tag: Ohanaeze Ndigbo

Ohanaeze, South-East Govs., Ministers adopt Tinubu for 2027 election 

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Ohanaeze, S'East Govs

A faction of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo group, led by Prince Richard Ozobu, has adopted President Bola Tinubu as its consensus candidate for the 2027 presidential election. The decision was contained in a communique issued in the aftermath of the faction’s 2025 annual Igbo Day celebrations with the theme ‘Igbo Ekunie’. THE WHISTLER gathered that the event began in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, and ended on Monday in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The communique was signed by Prince Richard Ozobu, Chief Jackson Omenazu, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, Professor Chibuikeya Achoakawa, Chief Chinenyeze, Professor…

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2027: “No Igboman’ll contest presidency against Tinubu” – – Ohanaeze 

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Ohanaeze Ndigbo

…Says Igbos to wait till 2035 Igbo apex group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has said that no Igbo person will contest president in 2027 against the incumbent President, Bola Tinubu, saying that the possibility of the South-East producing the president of Nigeria can only be achieved in 2035, not 2027. In a statement in Abakaliki at the weekend, signed by Deputy President General of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo faction, Okechukwu Isiguzoro, and the National Spokesman, Chief Thompson Ohia, they stated that the decision was taken after a crucial meeting with South-East political leaders,…

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2027: “Allow Tinubu complete secure second-term” –  Ohanaeze begs Obi

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Ohanaeze begs Obi

A faction of the pan Igbo socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has pleaded with the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the last general election, Peter Obi, for the sake of equity, national integration, and peace, to drop his 2027 presidential ambition and support President Bola Tinubu’s bid for a second term. In a statement issued in Abakaliki yesterday, the Deputy National President of Ohanaeze, Okechukwu Isiguzoro, told Obi that winning the presidency from the incumbent, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, will prove exceedingly challenging, reminding him that only the…

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Council Election: Ohanaeze condemns Igbo disenfranchisement despite ‘investing heavily’ in Lagos

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Ohanaeze condemns

The South-East socio-cultural group in Lagos State, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has decried the alleged continued disenfranchisement of Igbo residing in the state during local government elections.  President of the group, Dr. Solomon Ogbonna Aguene, raised the alarm yesterday, while speaking to journalists at his Ikoyi residence about the ongoing local government polls. According to him, the trend of denying Igbo their right to vote and be voted for had become a recurring problem in every election cycle in Lagos State.  Aguene noted that despite the significant contributions of the Igbo community…

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“Opposition coalition a wake-up call for Tinubu” – Ohanaeze Ndigbo

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Ohanaeze Ndigbo

The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has described the adoption of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) by Nigeria’s opposition coalition as a significant development that halts the country’s “alarming drift towards a one-party state”. In a statement issued on Thursday, signed by its deputy president general,  Okechukwu Isiguzoro, and national spokesman,  Thompson Ohia, the Ohanaeze said the coalition’s move puts the Federal Government under pressure to confront Nigeria’s mounting economic and security challenges. “The recent adoption of the ADC by leaders of Nigeria’s opposition is not merely a political…

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2027: “Stop inciting Nigerians against Tinubu, Ohanaeze warns Amaechi

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Ohanaeze

The Apex Igbo socio-cultural Organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has responded to what it termed alarming and incendiary remarks recently made by Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, the former Governor of Rivers State and former Minister of Transport against President Bola Tinubu. According to Ohanaeze in a statement issued by the Deputy President General, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, “in a discourse at an opposition leaders’ conference in Abuja, Amaechi’s outrageous call for Nigerians to resort to “brutal force” in an attempt to snatch power from President Bola Ahmed Tinubu by 2027, starkly contravene the principles…

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Ohaneze: “We’re not Igbo”, Says Rivers group; strips new President of all titles

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Rivers group on Ohaneze

…As others back him The emergence of Senator John Azuta Mbata as the President General of Ohanaeze Ndi-Igbo Worldwide has caused confusion in Ikwerre, the biggest ethnic nationality in Rivers state, with Ogbakor Ikwerre community stripping the former Senator of all chieftaincy titles earlier bestowed on him. The Ogbakor Ikwerre Cultural Organisation said it would continue to maintain its unique identity and history separate from others and as such would not want to be identified with Igbo ethnic nationality and culture. In a statement in Port Harcourt, the President-General of…

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Ohanaeze Presidency: “Stay off; it’s Rivers turn” – IPOB warns Okiro

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IPOB warns Okiro

The proscribed group,  Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB), has cautioned former Inspector-General of Police, Mike Okiro, to stay-off the election for the next President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo. Reacting to the endorsement of Okiro by a faceless group: ‘Ogbako Egbema’, IPOB warned against disrupting the zonal arrangement in electing Ohanaeze’s President-General. IPOB’s spokesman, Emma Powerful, said some influential people in Imo State are behind the move to rubbish Okiro’s integrity and that of Ohanaeze. In an issued statement he signed, Powerful noted that it is the turn of Rivers State to…

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“Declare “state of emergency’ on insecurity, hardship”- Ohanaeze urges Tinubu

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Ohanaeze urges

As part of its continued advocacy for a better Nigeria, the pan-Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide has urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to declare a ‘state of emergency’ on insecurity and hardship, noting that the situation is still hovering around the country. The call was contained in the organisation’s 2025 New Year message to Nigerians yesterday in Awka, signed by it National Vice-President, Chief Demian Okeke-Ogene. The organisation also urged the 36 State governors to support the President in the fight against the menace. According to Okeke-Ogene, “Though the…

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Immortalize Iwuanyanwu, release Nnamdi Kanu Igbo leaders beg FG

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Igbo leaders beg FG

Demand for the release of the detained leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, reverberated yesterday at the service of songs/tributes for the Late President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu. Recall that Kanu has remained in DSS custody despite pleas from several Igbo leaders for a political solution to the problem. Various speakers at yesterday’s event lamented that the release of Kanu was Iwuanyanwus last assignment from where he passed-on. They urged President Bola Tinubu to give Iwuanyanwu his last wish by releasing Kanu, just as…

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