Atiku Endorsement: Ohanaeze Sacks Secretary-General For False Statement
The controversy trailing the endorsement of the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, by the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has claimed it's first casualty as the organisation on Thursday night suspended its Secretary General, Uche Okwukwu. The suspension was contained in a statement signed by the National Publicity Secretary of Ohanaeze, Uche Achi-Okpaga, and made available to journalists at the end of its emergency National Executive Council (NEC) meeting in Enugu on Thursday. The statement said that Okwukwu was suspended both as Secretary General and member of all organs of Ohanaeze Ndigbo. The body accused the suspended scribe of engaging in false representations of decisions of meetings of the NEC and the Imeobi of Ohanaeze at different for a in the last three days. “These actions having taken place in the public domain and reported copiously in the mass media, NEC in an overwhelming majority de