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Ohanaeze Youths Laud Nze Ozichukwu’s Election As President-General

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The Ohanaeze Youth Council (OYC), the apex socio-cultural youth organization of the Igbo people worldwide, has commended the election of Nze Fidelis Ozichukwu as the new President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide.

In a statement jointly signed by OYC National President, Comrade Igboayaka O. Igboayaka, and Secretary General, Comrade Ifeanyichukwu Cedric Nweke, expressed confidence in Ozichukwu’s ability to lead a socio-cultural renaissance within the Igbo community.

“We are supremely confident that Ohanaeze Ndigbo will experience a remarkable socio-cultural resurgence, transformation, and reaffirmation of its core values and standards under Nze Fidelis Ozichukwu’s leadership,” the statement read.

The OYC highlighted the significance of Ozichukwu’s election, describing him as a technocrat and man of integrity.

The youth council called on the new leader to bridge the generational divide between Igbo youths and elders, which it identified as a root cause of youth restiveness and agitation in the region.

“Throughout Igboland’s history, a significant chasm has separated Igbo elders, political stakeholders, and Igbo youth. Nonetheless, we assert that the Ohanaeze Ndigbo, under Nze Fidelis Ozichukwu’s leadership, will quickly reestablish trust and confidence among Igbo youth and save Alaigbo from the devastation that has plagued Ndigbo since 2015,” the statement continued.

The OYC also urged Ozichukwu to pursue constitutional reforms within Ohanaeze Ndigbo, emphasizing the need for the organization to include all indigenous Igbo people across the South-East, South-South, and parts of North-Central Nigeria, such as Kogi and Benue states.

Founded in 1976, Ohanaeze Ndigbo is recognized as the foremost socio-cultural organization representing the Igbo people.

The council described Ozichukwu as a figure of “nobility, honor, and integrity,” with a steadfast commitment to the political and economic survival of the Igbo race.

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INEC: We are not partisan in failed recall of Natasha

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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has denied being partisan in handling the failed recall of the Senator representing Kogi Central, Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan.

The Chief Press Secretary to the Chairman of INEC, Rotimi Oyekanmi, who was on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Thursday, explained how the Commission handled the process.

“In the case of the Kogi Central District, we received a petition and a cover letter and of course what Nigerians were saying was that we were taking sides,” Oyekanmi said on the programme.

INEC logo and Senator Natasha Akpoti (Kogi-Central PDP)
INEC logo and Senator Natasha Akpoti (Kogi-Central PDP)

“But what happened was that in the covering letter, the representatives of the petitioners did not include their address as required in our regulations and guidelines and what we just did was to ask them to supply their address, it has nothing to do with the petition.

“And of course, there is nowhere in the law where INEC is asked to reject a petition just because the cover letter did not contain the address. So, there was no hanky-panky in what we did.”

Earlier on Thursday, INEC rejected the petition to recall Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan, saying that it has not met the requirements.

The electoral commission said the petition to recall Senator Natasha did not meet constitutional requirements.

Senator Natasha was suspended for breaching Senate rules, prompting some of her constituents to initiate her recall. They claimed the move was to ensure their constituency did not lack representation following the suspension of the 45-year-old senator.

Asked whether there could be a repeat of the recall process, the INEC spokesperson said the law did not specify if the process could be repeated and how many times.

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“The law just talks about the threshold, the threshold meaning that if you want to recall, you must have, in addition to your petition, 50 per cent plus one signatures. The law did not specify how many times you can undertake that,” he said.

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INEC Not Partisan In Failed Recall Of Natasha – Spokesperson

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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has denied being partisan in handling the failed recall of the Senator representing Kogi Central, Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan.

The Chief Press Secretary to the Chairman of INEC, Rotimi Oyekanmi, who was on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Thursday, explained how the Commission handled the process.

“In the case of the Kogi Central District, we received a petition and a cover letter and of course what Nigerians were saying was that we were taking sides,” Oyekanmi said on the programme.

“But what happened was that in the covering letter, the representatives of the petitioners did not include their address as required in our regulations and guidelines and what we just did was to ask them to supply their address, it has nothing to do with the petition.

“And of course, there is nowhere in the law where INEC is asked to reject a petition just because the cover letter did not contain the address. So, there was no hanky-panky in what we did.”

Earlier on Thursday, INEC rejected the petition to recall Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan, saying that it has not met the requirements.

The electoral commission said the petition to recall Senator Natasha did not meet constitutional requirements.

Senator Natasha was suspended for breaching Senate rules, prompting some of her constituents to initiate her recall. They claimed the move was to ensure their constituency did not lack representation following the suspension of the 45-year-old senator.

Asked whether there could be a repeat of the recall process, the INEC spokesperson said the law did not specify if the process could be repeated and how many times.

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“The law just talks about the threshold, the threshold meaning that if you want to recall, you must have, in addition to your petition, 50 per cent plus one signatures. The law did not specify how many times you can undertake that,” he said.

The lawmaker has made headlines in recent months after she accused Senate President Godswill Akpabio of sexual harassment, a claim the Akwa Ibom lawmaker has equally denied.

She was thereafter suspended by the Red Chamber for violation of its rule of conduct.

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NSA Hands Over Ex-NYSC DG, 18 Other Kidnapped Victims To CDS

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The National Security Adviser, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, has handed over 19 kidnapped victims rescued by the security agencies to the Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa.

The brief ceremony took place on Thursday at the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC), Office of the National Security Adviser in Abuja.

The victims included Ambassador Gideon Yohanna, the former Director-General of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brigadier-General Maharazu Tsiga (retired) who had spent 56 days in captivity and 17 others, including a child.

Both Ribadu and Musa pledged to remain relentless until the criminals are wiped out and normalcy restored in the country.

“As a result of the work of our armed forces and other security services, we are able to rescue and bring back our own people,” he said.

“This time, it involves important personalities who served this country. We thank God for their lives, we are grateful to those who made it possible.

“This is an ongoing operation and we are doing it quite silently, we will go after the bad ones.”

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