OHANEZE DEFENDS IWUANYANWU DISCLOSE HE DIDN’T REFER TO YORUBAS AS POLITICAL RASCALS

The Apex Igbo Socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, has said that Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu never referred to Yorubas as political rascals, describing the report as a lie from the pit of hell.

Ohaneze said the report was “a typical falsehood, fabricated by social media entrepreneurs, decorated with wings, expanded with venom, injected with ethnic nuances to create inter-ethnic mistrust between the age-long partners in the social, cultural, religious and economic development of Nigeria.

 The group said this in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Alex Ogbonnia, in Enugu on Sunday.

He denied that Mr Iwuanyanwu ever made such a comment while speaking in Awka, Anambra State, on Saturday during an event to mark the one year in office of Charles Chukwuma Soludo, the governor of Anambra state.

Mr Ogbonnia said Mr Iwuanyanwu only drew the attention of the audience and the general public to the fact that Ndigbo and Yoruba people were neither quarrelling nor fighting, implying that the Yoruba were a friendly group of people.

Meanwhile, Afenifere, a socio-cultural organisation of the Yoruba people of Nigeria, has described as divisive a statement by the Chairman of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo Council of Elders, Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, describing Yoruba as “political rascals.”

National Organising Secretary of Afenifere, Kole Omololu, Afenifere fumed at Mr Iwuanyanwu’s statement while appealing to Nigerians and particularly Yorubas to eschew violence and embrace people of all races, cultures and backgrounds