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From Chuks Onuoha, Umuahia
Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council (OYC), has issued a seven-day resignation notice to the Publicity Secretary of the apex-Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Uche Achi-Okpaga.
A statement signed by the group’s Publicity Secretary, Obinna Adibe, said the crisis rocking Ohanaeze Ndigbo will be far from over until Achi-Okpaga resigns from his position.
This formed part of the decision taken by OYC during its meeting, yesterday.
The council slammed Achi-Okpaga for dishing out junk and falsehood to the society, while noting that he lacked the authority to speak for Igbo.
For this reason, they gave him a seven-day ultimatum to either resign or be disgraced out of office.
This was as a result of a statement credited to Achi-Okpaga, where he claimed OYC was suspended by Imeobi, Ohanaeze’s highest decision making body.
However, in a resolution, OYC said: “This is indeed another attempt by some idle jobbers to satisfy the needs of their pay-masters.
“Before now, they were using someone else, but having noticed the futility in every effort he made to blackmail the council, they have now recruited a more uninformed character in the person of Uche Achi-Okpaga.
“The lie issued is clearly the voice of Jacob but the hand of Esau.
“One would have expected that since Achi-Okpaga is speaking for the first time since his coming on board, he should have, at least, exercised restraint.
“But, he chose to dish out a badly-cooked and poorly-managed propaganda to discredit the OYC. This will not be allowed.
“We challenge Achi-Okpaga to provide evidence where Imeobi suspended OYC as he blatantly claimed in that mischievous report.
“We are giving him seven days to provide a video evidence where Imeobi took such a decision suspending the youth council.
“Failure to do so, we will not only disgrace him out of office, but drag him to court.
“We advise him to seek ways of developing himself, rather than dissipate energy in a futile effort to discredit OYC,” Adibe said.
He warned that “we will henceforth not take it lightly with any person or group who makes further effort to smear the image of Ohanaeze Youth Council. The entire Igbo youths will surely visit their anger on them.
“May we, however, state that despite their antics, our peace efforts with Arewa youths, which is aimed at safeguarding the lives of Igbo, will never be truncated…”
