Afenifere congratulates new Ohanaeze Ndigbo leadership
By Jeffrey Agbo
Deputy Leader of Afenifere, the Pan Yoruba socio-political group, Oba Oladipo Olaitan, has congratulated the new President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Senator John Azuta-Mbata, and all the national officers.
In a statement released by the Afenifere National Publicity Secretary, Prince Justice Faloye, the group also welcomed the new Ohanaeze executive to continue their bilateral partnerships in restructuring agitations, as well as partners in the South and Middlebelt Leadership Alliance created for cultural, political and economic justice in Nigeria.
Olaitan stated that Ohanaeze had been a major ally in the pursuit of good, fair and just governance.
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“Ours is not a relationship based only on current political expediencies, but as shown during the Handshake across Niger in Enugu, there is the long history of Yorubas and Igbos relationships, starting from being the closest genetic cousins, to traditional institutional leaderships of Obi and Oba being slight dialect variations, to initiating the pro-independence movements in the 1930s and 1940s.
“Therefore, Afenifere and Ohanaeze have a historic moral obligation to represent the similar cultural values of egalitarianism that can only be achieved by focusing our synergies on restructuring Nigeria to be just and fair to every Nigerian ethnicity.
“So, we at Afenifere warmly welcome the new Ohanaeze executive leadership not only as mutual partners but taking its place as a major partner within the South and Middlebelt Leadership Alliance, to strengthen our collective voices for equity and justice through restructuring,” the statement added.
