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From Okwe Obi, Abuja
Igbo socio-cultural organisation Ohanaeze Ndigbo has charged members to embrace peace and tolerance.
Its president of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja chapter, Andrew Ugwu Okonkwo, appealed a handing over ceremony in Abuja.
The new president who took over from Ifeanyichukwu Obasi-Nweze, yesterday in Abuja, pledged that his tenure would witness cohesion, cultural revival, youth and women empowerment, welfare and representation as well as community development.
Ugwu said he was committed to serving “with integrity, leading with fairness and acting with courage”, in the discharge of his duties.
He urged the members of the organisation to join hands with him to achieve the great feat.
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Obasi-Nweze declared that he had abolished the Eze-Igbo title in the FCT.
According to him, the decision was “based on his findings that different communities in Igbo land have their different Ezes, making it very illogical for only one person to bear the title Eze-Igbo anywhere outside Igbo land.”
He further said, “Apart from the fact that the title was against the various laws of Igbo speaking states, its proponents were creating unwarranted tensions between Ndigbo and their host communities in the FCT which were then perceiving Ndigbo as contesting their ancestral land and authority, given that an Eze-Igbo should of necessity also have a kingdom.
“This was not without opposition. In fact, one stiff opposition purportedly emerged to claim to recognise them, their only reason for existence.”
He said the new president was “unanimously chosen by the FCT chapter to serve as the leader from Enugu state which its turn it is now from 2025 to 2029.”
