Parallel Ohanaeze Claims Unstoppable as Igbo Mandate Congress Sues for Peace

The traditional ruler of Igbariam and Chairman Board of Trustees of Ohanaeze Ndigbo General Assembly, HRM Eze DR Kelly Nkeli Nzekwe, has said that the parallel Ohanaeze is unstoppable.

Speaking with the Director General of Igbo Mandate Congress IMC, Rev Obinna Akukwe at Awka, the monarch said that there is no going back on the newly registered Ohanaeze. When reminded by Rev Akukwe that the newly registered group has been disowned and deregistered by the Corporate Affairs Commission, CAC, Eze Okalakwu Nkeli Nzekwe said that “there is no way somebody can get a PHD and the university will later withdraw it. The group we registered cannot be deregistered. Ohanaeze Ndigbo General Assembly is not afraid of the CAC and we are carrying on our activities. CAC cannot intimidate us, we have passed that stage”.

When reminded again by Rev Akukwe that the President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo and the Chairman of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Elders Council, Chiefs Nnia Nwodo and Mbazulike Amechi have dismissed the body as bunch of selfish persons, Igwe Nkeli told the leaders of Igbo Mandate Congress that high level corruption, selfishness and greed is at the root of their registering a new Ohanaeze Ndigbo.

Bullion Van: Why Tinubu must not be investigated in Isolation

Written by Obinna Akukwe

 Bola Tinubu, the Jagaban of Borgu Emirate, must not be investigated in isolation for the bullion van he kept in his residence in Lagos, to induce his foot soldiers to work hard for the re-election of incumbent President Buhari , if the scam called Nigerian elections will not be exposed.

Bola Tinubu, the erstwhile governor of Lagos State, kept two bullion vans in his residence, each estimated to hold N2 billion naira ($5 million dollars) to ensure that his party gents keep to their own side of the story and protect the votes of President Buhari in the 2019 elections. The Tinubu bullion van has sparked controversy, and many have called for the prosecution of the strongman of Lagos.

 

Since the anti-graft body refused to prosecute him over the bullion van in his residence, many have called Buhari’s anti-corruption campaign a hypocritical exercise. I do not share in the Tinubu Bullion Van controversy because the contents in that bullion van is not up to N5billion naira, yet the politicians spent over N 1.6 Trillion in the just concluded general elections, and Tinubu’s bullion van content is just .025 percent, a the tiny fraction of what Nigerian politicians wasted in the 2019 polls.

In my last piece titled ‘2023: Why Tinubu Must not be Dumped by Buhari’, I stated that

2023 Presidency: Why Tinubu must not be dumped by Buhari

Written by Obinna Akukwe

Bola Tinubu, the Jagaban of Lagos, must not be abandoned by President Buhari and his cronies, if Nigeria will remain one by 2023. Bola Tinubu, the erstwhile governor of Lagos State is also the godfather of Lagos politics, having installed three governors in succession-Raji Fashola, Akinwunmi Ambode and Sanwo Olu.

Tinubu was among the three governors who refused to do the biddings of  Ex-President  Obasanjo  when the fear of the Ota farmer amongst governors was the beginning of wisdom-Dariye, Aameseigha,  and even to an extent Ibori had tales to tell after collusion with the Obasanjo locomotive.

 

Tinubu was the godfather of Lagos who deployed high propaganda machinery to deliver Buhari from the most vicious arsenal of media henchmen assembled by Goodluck Jonathan and unleashed against him in 2014 including Femi Fani Kayode, Olisa Metuh, Reno Omokri and Nnamdi Kanu among others. Buhari was labeled a Boko Haram sponsor, Jihadist, Terrorist, Child Rapist whose aim is to Islamize Nigeria on the order of Uthman Dan Fodio.

All manners of lies were peddled against the Buhari bid for presidency, and some of us who supported the ex-general were alarmed at the levels of evil report propagated by the opposition upon Buhari’s head.