Ensure Election Of Credible Igbo Into Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Says New PG, Nze Ozichukwu
Ohanaeze Ndigbo’s President General, Nze Fidelis Ozichukwu Chukwu, urges the Igbo community to elect leaders of exceptional pedigree to the NEC in January 2025, emphasizing the importance of strengthening the organization’s role as a beacon for Africa.
The new President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, Nze Fidelis Ozichukwu Chukwu, has urged the Igbo to ensure that only quality men and women with outstanding pedigree are elected to the National Executive Committee, NEC, of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, come January 10, 2025. Ozichukwu noted that the Igbo are one of the leading lights of Africa adding that, for the trajectory to be sustained, the Ohanaeze Ndigbo should be strengthened with officers with sterling and accomplished qualities.
He spoke during. his inaugural meeting with the NEC on Sunday, at the National Secretariat of the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation at 7 Park Avenue, Enugu, Enugu State capital.
According to him, the effectiveness and viability of any organization or government is a function of the leadership recruitment process.
Ozichukwu, however, expressed delight that the Imeobi Ohanaeze has resolved to appoint a screening committee to ensure that the incoming NEC comprised men and women with sound education, integrity, vision, knowledge of the Igbo cultural and ethical values, innovativeness and collaborative corporate relations, among others.
The Igbo Leader, recalled with nostalgia, the enviable unity during the Dr. M. I. Okpara regime that propelled the Igbo to become one of the most educated ethnics in Africa, pointing out that, during the period, almost all the schools, churches, markets, hospitals, and other social facilities were through the organized town unions.
"There were farm settlements that provided the required agricultural techniques for improved farming activities. There was food sufficiency in Igbo land, but most regrettably, subsequent Igbo leaders appeared to have abandoned their responsibilities," he added.
According to him, "It was the combination of Igbo internal peace, unity and food security on one hand and the credible, accountable governance, on the other that registered the Eastern Nigeria as one of the fastest growing economies in the world under Okpara."
This was even as he lamented the situation, whereby all forms of agricultural produce ranging from yam, beans, tomatoes, cows, goats, ram, carrot, garden egg, come from the North.
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