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\u2022Group divided over Ime-Obi meeting<\/strong><\/p>\n

From EMMANUEL UZOR, Onitsha<\/div>\n
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The lingering crisis in the Ohanaeze Ndigbo,<\/em> the apex socio-cultural organisation of Igbo people assumed another dimension Friday as leaders and prominent members of the body were divided on whether or not to attend today\u2019s Ime-Obi (caucus) meeting scheduled to hold today at its secretariat in Enugu.<\/p>\n

Saturday Sun<\/em> gathered that the invitation for the meeting circulated via text messages by the Ohanaeze<\/em> secretary, Dr. Joe Nwogu started generating ripples among Igbo leaders with some urging all concerned to disregard the text message, shun the meeting and go about their normal businesses.<\/p>\n

A chieftain of Ohanaeze Ndigbo<\/em> and Secretary of the 2013 Ohanaeze<\/em> electoral committee, Prince Richard Ozubu urged Ndigbo<\/em> to disregard the purported meeting, adding that the body has no leadership and as such no one has the mandate to summon an Ime-Obi meeting.<\/p>\n

Ozobu disclosed that four months after the final report of the reconciliation committee set up by the South East Governors\/Elders forum on Ohanaeze<\/em> crisis was submitted, Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State is yet to comply with what the governors mandated him to do in order to resolve the Ohanaeze<\/em> impasse.<\/p>\n

He revealed that Governor Obi was asked to draw a list of Ime-Obi members for a meeting of the caucus where their (governors) recommendation for conduct of fresh election of national executives of Ohanaeze<\/em> would be tabled and a new electoral committee drawn for the organisation to move forward, regretting, however, that Governor Obi is yet to do that.<\/p>\n

Ozobu wondered why an Ime-Obi meeting should now be called today by a faction in the dispute, when all parties in the Ohanaeze<\/em> imbroglio had agreed to suspend further activities until the final determination of the crisis that emanated from the January 12, 2013 national election of Ohanaeze<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe governors have deliberated on the report of the Ben Obi-led reconciliation committee and I was reliably informed that the governors recommended for a new electoral committee to be set up and Ime-Obi to be summoned for a new election and that has not been done.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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