Ohanaeze crisis heightens as youth, women wings suspend Nwodo

Following his alleged refusal to appear before a seven-man investigation committee over alleged misconducts, Ohanaeze Youth Council (OYC) and the Women Wing have suspended the president of the parent body of Ohanaeze, John Nnia Nwodo, as crisis in the Igbo apex body worsens.

OYC had a week earlier passed a vote of no confidence on Nwodo and gave him seven days to appear before a seven-man investigation committee to clear his name of the alleged misconducts.

Some of the members of the Igbo group loyal to Nwodo had in their response called OYC and the women wing positions’ bluff and argued that they lacked the mandate to summon the President General of Ohanaeze on the claims that the tenures of OYC and women wing executive members had expired a year ago.

However, in a statement released Sunday and jointly signed by leaders of OYC and the women wing after their meeting, they said Nwodo had now been suspended because he failed to appear before the committee set up to investigate allegations against him.

The statement had the signatures of OYC president, secretary general and national public relation officer, Okechukwu Isiguzoro, Okwu Nnabuike and Engr Obinna Adibe respectively as well as Chief Hon. (Mrs) Calista N. Adimachukwu, president general, Ohanaeze Igbo Women Organisation.

“With the 7-Day ultimatum given to the embattled President General, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Dr. Nnia Nwodo, having expired, and having had him instead of clearing his sullen hands from the weighty allegations of highhandedness and turning Ohanaeze Ndigbo into a political appendage party for those that could pay and pick his greedy bills – the main issue why he was asked to clear his names, to start ordering for termination of leadership and calling for elections into the Youth and women wings for querying him for his gross antisocial behaviours;

“We, the well meaning and rightly focused Ohanaeze youth wing, under the President General, Mazi Okechukwu Isisguzoro, having earlier-on reaffirmed our confidence in our present executives, hereby, in a joint meeting with Ohanaeze Ndigbo Women Wing, therefore, we will no longer have Dr. Nnia Nwodo to continue doing his businesses with Igbo identity and political interests, and hereby arrive at the following decisions, as advised by the 7-man Investigation committee that Nnia Nwodo failed to appear before, to clear his names:

“That, we the Ohanaeze youth and Ohanaeze Women Wing had for so long tolerated the shameful and debased politics of Chief Nnia Nwodo led Ohanaeze Ndigbo, while he sidelines the various organs of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, including Ime Obi and his 24 – man led EXCOS that are there to represent their various localities and States and having relegated them to the backgrounds to getting little or no attention from their respective state, socio-cultural and political constituencies; and charters of offices and demands.

“We hereby find Nwodo loathsome and guilty of anti-Igbo politicking and badly moneyed-Igbo polity killer-character that in the first circumstance had no role for political and social services not just Ndigbo’s. Having failed to appear before the 7-man panel to clear himself of all the weighty gross breaches of office and constitution of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, we take the Investigative Panel’s submission that by so doing he seems to have nothing to deny the wrongs as catalogued against him by Ohanaeze Youth Wing; Chief Nnia Nwodo is hereby suspended and should not be seen around Ohanaeze Ndigbo secretariat nor operate by proxy! He remains suspended!

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“Holding vital evidences on how he has been collecting and hunting for monies at the expense of the Igbo nation, Biafra and Nigeria plights, from one government house to another and as well with Nwodo been at the becks and calls of the money-bags/politicians doing errand boy Ohanaeze Presidency Nwodo remains suspended!

“That Nnia Nwodo occupies the vintage Ohanaeze Ndigbo presidency and still talking from both sides of his mouth to soiling the preeminent Ohanaeze concept, not just Ohanaeze Ndigbo, leading to our earlier calls for him to give accounts of his stewardship but he, instead of taking the ample opportunity to clear his mess, took to media charades announcing that Ohanaeze Youth and Women wings, were long suspended and there would be elections for the new leadership to pilot their affairs, Nwodo, remains suspended!” part of the statement read.

 

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