The Apex Igbo socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo worldwide has denied that the group visited the Rivers state governor, Nyesom Wike last week.
Ohanaeze said that the group had indeed for the past two years been trying to fix a meeting with Wike as a Governor of one of the seven Igbo-speaking states in Nigeria, but that Wike rebuffed all their requests.
The group disclosed that Governor Wike even refused to respond to Ohanaeze’s mail to him, notifying him about the death and burial of the Deputy President General of the Igbo group, High Chief Joel Kroham, who hailed from Ahoada, Rivers State.
The Secretary General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, Amb. Okey Emuchy who made the denial, said that those who went to see Wike went there in their personal capacities and did not go there as Ohanaeze delegation.
“Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide did not undertake any trip to the Governor of Rivers State, His Excellency, Gov Nyesom Wike last week. Those who did, went as private individuals not the NEC of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide. We had made efforts in the past to seek an audience with the Governor of Rivers State. For over two years, the late President General, myself and other stakeholders had to engage with prominent Nigerians whose names I am not here to disclose”, he said.
He, therefore, urged the general public to regard whatever that emanated from the meeting as a personal voyage.
Recall that last week some member of Ohanaeze Ndigbo were reported to have met with Wike in Port Harcourt, where the Governor allegedly said that he was never against a Nigerian President of Igbo extraction, particularly Mr. Peter Obi of the Labour Party, but that nobody discussed the actualisation of Igbo presidency with him.
