Ohaneze Ndi Igbo, the pan Igbo socio cultural organization, has said it never endorsed any candidate for the 2019 presidential election.
The clarification came after former Vice President and Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar was reported to have been endorsed by the organization.
A statement by the organization reads:
“Ohanaeze Ndigbo has not yet adopted any Presidential candidate as some media houses recently reported.
“The visit of the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar to some Igbo leaders in Enugu was not facilitated by Ohanaeze Ndigbo, though the President General and some chieftains of Ohanaeze Ndigbo were present.
“It was a town hall meeting organised by some friends and associates of Alh. Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi, his Vice Presidential candidate and Ohanaeze leadership was invited .
Of course, Ohanaeze Ndigbo is non-partisan but we cannot shirk our responsibility to ensure that the right people are in power for the benefit of Ndigbo and all Nigerians.
“We are elated, however, by the promise of Atiku Abubakar to restructure Nigeria and address the visible marginalisation of Ndigbo
in Nigeria.
“Ohanaeze Ndigbo will early in January 2019 organize stakeholders and Imeobi meeting to decided the political trajectory and direction of Ndigbo in 2019”.
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