2023: Ohanaeze Refutes Endorsing Any Presidential Candidate

Ohanaeze Ndigbo worldwide has refuted purported claims that the group has endorsed any Presidential candidate, contrary to the widespread reports that it has endorsed the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu for the 2023 Presidential election.

This was just as the group however disclosed that the Igbo socio-cultural group would make its position known on where Igbo votes will go to.

This was contained in a statement signed by the Secretary-General Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro and made available to the pressmen on Sunday in Kaduna.

The body further disclosed that it acknowledged that some contenders for the 2023 Presidential election have some level of admiration which is worthy of emulation but it does not mean that it’s an endorsement.

Mazi Isiguzoro noted that “what was misinterpreted as an endorsement was a clarion calls for a change in the altitudes of APC southeast Governors and Southeast senators, whose activities de-marketed the southeast in the APC primaries.”

He also revealed that “Ndigbo was ashamed to admit that an APC southeast Governor, who led APC to their defeats in Edo and Anambra governorship elections spearheaded the aspiration of a Northeast aspirant against the southeast aspirants in APC primary.”

The statement chastised a former governor and an APC Senator who is scheming for the position of Senate President against the southeast’s quest for 2023 presidency.

The group said that “Ndigbo will officially declare openly the candidate who is entitled to Igbo votes in 2023.

According to him,”we affirm that two of our own, one is a Labour Party’s Presidential candidate, and the other is PDP Vice presidential candidate ” nobody will throw out the people’s movement for any reason.”

He, therefore, added that “it’s the Imeobi’s decision of Ohanaeze Ndigbo then ratified by the general assembly of Ohanaeze will stand as the official position of Ohanaeze Ndigbo in the 2023 election but for now there is no endorsement of any Presidential candidate for now”.