Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has stated that it has sufficient evidence to show that the Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi convincingly won the presidential election of Saturday, 25 February 2023.

It stated that It is impressed, thrilled, and fascinated by the groundswell and intimidating mass movement, which has come to signify the consciousness of the paradigm shift from a consumption economy to a production economy, which the Obi-Datti movement symbolizes in present-day Nigeria.

Ohanaeze Ndigbo was reacting to reports credited to one Ambassador Tony Chiemelu Obizoba that “the Peter Obi presidency on the platform of the Labour Party is not destined to happen in 2023”.

Obizoba, who prides himself as the Director-General, Implementation and Strategic Planning, of Ohanaeze Ndigbo had further in a statement applauded “the victory of Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress” as the winner and President-elect following the presidential election” among other things.

Reacting to the development however, Ohanaeze Ndigbo through its National Publicity Secretary, Dr Alex Ogbonnia, dismissed the Obizoba’s position as “one of the most reckless, irresponsible and mischievous publications by an uncouth wary transgressor, impostor, charlatan and scoundrel”.

Describing Obizoba as a self-styled “Ambassador”, Ohanaeze Ndigbo vehemently dissociated the organization from any remark that suggests that Peter Obi is not destined to rule Nigeria, stressing that it could have ignored the author but that silence in the circumstance would mean giving validity to the fallacy by the unsuspecting gullible public.

Ohanaeze Ndigbo’s statement added: “Ohanaeze Ndigbo is proud to state that Peter Obi is a man whose track record of accomplishments has countervailed the regrettable and despicable tailspin of Nigerian bourgeois cash and carry democracy.

“Thus, Nigerians both at home and in the Diaspora have, through the Obi phenomenon, demonstrated a loud irrepressible and indelible landmark; an irrevocable corroboration that evil men thrive because good men go to sleep.

“Nigerians and indeed the world leaders will continue to celebrate Obi for over one thousand years to come. Peter Obi will be remembered as a man who with a mere force of morals, uprightness, persuasions and goodwill has changed the political narratives of the most populous and backward African country.

“One major challenge that has afflicted the Igbo for some decades now is the adulteration of the communal sensibility, the Igbo sense of originality. This is one of the harsh realities of the Nigerian civil war where Nigerian soldiers comprising diverse ethnics including mercenaries from Niger, Chad Republics, etc occupied the Igbo land.

“As happens in such military occupations, some Igbo women who went astray from the Igbo enclaves were assaulted, debauched and adulterated. These women later came back with pregnancies to give births to monstrous hybrids.

“Some of these rabble-rousing products of adultery who, given the openness of the Igbo society, have gained access to Igbo red caps have become the mischief-makers, charlatans, social climbers and media navigators who leech on the invaluable footprints of Ohanaeze Ndigbo to issue press releases for narrow, perverse and illicit pecuniary interests.

“And, these characters have been reminded to no avail that Ohanaeze represents the Igbo totem, emotions, collective consciousness, politicality and social solidarity.”

The statement added that the Secretary General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Ambassador Okey Emuchay, expressed deep shock that a “faceless meddlesome interloper such as Tony Chiemelu Obizoba can be taken serious by the media”, stressing that “it is highly inconceivable that at a point the Nigerian collective aspiration has gained an irresistible momentum, a true Igbo will make such reckless, shameless, embarrassing and demoralizing statements using the hallowed name of Ohaneze Ndigbo.

“We wish to use this opportunity to point out that the social media revolution has inadvertently thrown up an entirely new generation of half-baked, insidious “journalists” who do not place value on the ethics and codes of the profession, chief of which is investigative journalism. Otherwise, there is hardly any Nigerian journalist who cannot distinguish between those who speak for Ohanaeze on one hand and the spivs and charlatans on the other.” (The Guardian)

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