Ohanaeze Youth Leader, Chief Sunday Okechukwu Ogbu, Lash At Senator John Mbata, Says “He Prefer Factions In Lagos Ohanaeze Ndigbo Than Peace”

By Mariam Oyewole

Former Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Leader in  Ikorodu, Lagos State ,Chief  Sunday Okechukwu Ogbu,has criticized alleged rumoured nullification of recent credible Ohanaeze Ndigbo Lagos State Election, which produced Chief Leonard Okafor, popularly known as Oba Ojoto .

Worried over what he called ” Senator John Mbata’s unhealthy, terrible and backward decision”, Ogbu, categorically stated that,” if the rumour turns out to be truth,it then means that the  President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo World Wide, Senator John Azuta Mbata, prefers factions instead peace in Lagos Ohanaeze Ndigbo ,for whatever reasons or motives best known to him and  unknown to Ndigbo in Lagos”

Querying the basis and credibility of what he described as, ” such anti – peace , anti – Igbo and unstable decisions”, Ogbu ,asked,” what will happen to Senator Mbata’s integrity , after visiting Lagos with a high powered delegation and entourage made up of Ohanaeze Ndigbo  Grand Patron, Senator Martins Agbaso, Ohanaeze Secretary General and National legal Adviser, where he publicly ,before over twenty notable and prominent stakeholders and joint Ohanaeze members, directed that if the opposition were unable to vacate the Court Consent Judgement ,Chief Aguene should conduct a consolidated and unification Elections, before vacating his High Court extended tenure ,as President before April 8,2026″.

“Why then is Senator Mbata trying to  brew another confusion, by taking another contrary decision contradicting   himself?.This is too bad on Senator Mbata’s reputation and integrity as a Leader”.

Reiterating his position ,the vocal ex- Youth Leader, who was obviously worried and angry over the said rumoured nullification , wondered why “Senator Mbata prefers having factions in Lagos Ohanaeze, despite the exceptional and unique unity, peace and consolidation, which Former Ohanaeze Ndigbo capacity  President, Chief Solomon Ogbonna Aguene, in collaboration with Chief Sunday Ossai and Oba Ojoto, achieved through their selfless peace initiatives”.

Not sure of Senator Mbata’s real intentions over his  purported nullification of Oba Ojoto’s election, Ogbu alleged and stated thus ,” All peace loving Ndigbo must know that Senator Mbata is from Ikwere, and we must remember that every Ikwere person , don’t believe that they are real Igbos, except when they are in trouble or are seeking for numerical  support and they don’t truly like Ndigbo.So, Iam suspecting that he has a negative Ikwere agenda, fashioned against Ndigbo, and is  deliberately creating this crisis in Lagos Ohanaeze, to scatter Igbo unity , cohesion and Amity”, Ogbu said.

 Vowing that the alleged election nullification will never stand or work, the Youth Leader insisted That “Oba Ojoto Remains the only elected President Ohanaeze has in Lagos, who was duly elected in the most credible, peaceful, freest and fairest election ever conducted in Lagos Ohanaeze, and was duly handed over to, by Chief Aguene, before he embarked on his business trip to the United Kingdom “.

 On the suggestion that Chief Aguene should hand over to Chief Robert Obasi,in an interim arrangement,which is being speculated by Chief Kalu Uguru and was reported in an Online Newspaper, Ogbu, said that ,” it was a day dream and amnesia from a jaundiced brain, that will never come to pass”.

 “This Robert Obasi take over suggestion, is alien to Ohanaeze Constitution and  clearly shows how unreliable and irresponsible these anti Ndigbo rebels are. Again, it’s an evidence  that there is a crack on the wall of the small opposition people, hence they are in disarray .Before these power hungry group were projecting the Enugu Town Union Chairman, Chief Linus Igbudu, now ,they have switched over to Robert Obasi, tomorrow , they may project  Kalu Uguru as their President”, Ogbu said. 

 Ogbu, asked if Chief Aguene was responsible for the cancelation of the first election that Oba Ojoto won during Fabian  Onwughalu’s tenure ,or whether he was the person that dragged the case to Court?, stressing  that “Chief Aguene’s tenure which just elapsed under the terms of the consent judgment,was the best administration in the history of Ohanaeze in Lagos and Aguene remains the best ,wisest and capacity President that brought great development , progress and high quality leadership to Ndigbo in Lagos, hence it will be very difficult to get a replacement like him.It is because of his wisdom and intellectual capacity  that  the opposition camp attributes every publications to him, even now that he travelled to United Kingdom , they still drag his good names into every report”,Ogbu revealed.

 Asking Uguru and his Co-travellers ,to tell Ndigbo if Chief Aguene, is the only person with sense and wisdom in Lagos Ohanaeze, Ogbu , mocked Uguru,  reminding him that Obasi’s mandate as Secretary ,expired when Chief Sunday Ossai’s tenure finished .

Explaining that there will be no fresh elections in Lagos  and that “Ohanaeze National body or Imeobi cannot and constitutionally  has no business to conduct a fresh election in states, Ogbu,  called on Uguru and all those he called troublesome opposition members,  to apologize to Chief Aguene and  Ndigbo, for the role they played in throwing the Lagos chapter into years of crisis and hindered unity and progress.

 Expressing relief with the election of Oba Ojoto, Ogbu, thanked God and commended the General Assembly and the Electoral  Committee led by Cally Odoemena, for doing the right thing by conducting  the freest election, noting that  Aguene, was properly sworn in and Chief Sunday Ossai , never traded his mandate, rather was a lawful, patriotic Igbo leader, who abandoned the crumbs, peanuts  that  the opposition camp where benefiting from unwary sponsors and boldly joined Chief Aguene’s Consent Judgement, by keying  into the novel  peace initiative by Ndigbo in lagos. 

Ogbu , therefore  warned Uguru and his alleged Anti – Igbo Camp, to “exit from all  their senseless court matters pending and  retrace their steps voluntarily”, saying that “such a move could earn them soft landing from stakeholders Condemnations and avoid the wrath of God, Ala Igbo, Nri and all Igbo deities”.

Since the alleged rumoured news of the cancellation broke, there has been condemnation  reactions across Lagos and beyond. While some members have warned and advised Senator Mbata , to avoid the mistakes and similar actions by Chief Nnia Nwodo and his NEC’s intervention, during Barrister Fabian Onwughalu ‘s  tenure ending, which they said brought instability and crisis in Lagos Ohanaeze Ndigbo, that Ndigbo are still suffering till date .