Ohanaeze Ndigbo, apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, has denied endorsing the presidential aspiration of the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.
It stated this while reacting to a story, captioned: ‘Ohanaeze Ndigbo dumps Peter Obi, declares support for Tinubu’.
According to a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Dr. Alex Ogbonnia, “the purveyor of the above remarks is Chief Solomon Aguene, the immediate past president of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, Lagos State Chapter.”
The statement reads in part “Ohanaeze Ndigbo informs the general public that the current president of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Lagos State Chapter, is Chief Sunday Ossai, and only the Chapter President or an authorised officer of the current Lagos State executive has the right to speak on behalf of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Lagos State Chapter.
“The general public is requested to disregard reckless statements by impostors, charlatans, unscrupulous social climbers and pretenders whose major objective is both mischievous and shady.
“Ohanaeze believes that any person with a democracy credential will dissociate self from a person whose public conduct is at variance with democratic norms, and that the Aguene endorsement of a presidential candidate is hollow.”
