Happening Now !Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide Names Iwuanyanwu President General  

Elder statesman, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, has emerged as the President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, replacing the late Prof. George Obiozor.

A delegation of the Imo Elders Council, led by the chairman, HRM Eze Cletus Ilomuanya, presented

Iwuanyanwu to Imo State Governor Hope Uzodinma, on Wednesday, at the Government House, Owerri.

Ilomuanya told Uzodinma that the decision to adopt Iwuanyanwu was taken by the Imo State Council of Elders at its meeting in April in Owerri.

While appealing to the governor to grant his approval to the adoption by the council, Ilomuanya described Iwuanyanwu as a versatile, dynamic and broad-minded personality.

Recall that Iwuanyanwu  while  commenting  on the general elections on February 25 and March 18 alleged  harassment, and intimidation of Igbo people in Lagos st an event in Akwa.

Iwuanyawu declared that Southeasterners will resist any further attempt to suppress them or take their lives.

The businessman, considered one of Nigeria’s richest, spoke at a town hall meeting at the International Conference Centre in Awka.

The gathering was part of the events organised to commemorate the first year of Anambra State Governor Charles Soludo.

“I want to make our people in Lagos know that on Wednesday, I called a meeting of Ohanaeze council of elders worldwide. And we express (sic) the events in Lagos.

“I want to tell you that we have resolved that never, never again can we allow anybody to take the life of any innocent Igbo person.

“All of us are going to fight the person, we are going to fight the person. Never again!

“We are in Nigeria, and we have invested in Nigeria. We are not going to take the pressure of telling us to go, we are not going anywhere.

“I want to tell those in Lagos to realise that there is no war between us and Yorubas…(violent) Yorubas are just political rascals. We are going to handle them,” he stated.

Iwuanyanwu further disclosed that elders had directed the Secretary General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo to set up a commission of enquiry on the Lagos matter.

The  event had in attendance former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Soludo’s predecessor Peter Obi, among other dignitaries.