Friday, October 30, 2026
THE PRESIDENT-GENERAL OHANAEZE NDIGBO WORLDWIDE,DISTINGUISHED SENATOR JOHN AZUTA-MBATA,OHANAEZE NDIGBO HEADQUARTERS, ENUGU STATE,NIGERIA
Dear Sir,
RE: THE COMPOSITION OF THE MEMBERS OF FACT-FINDING COMMITTEE FOR OHANAEZE NDIGBO LAGOS CRISIS BY THE PRESIDENT-GENERAL OF OHANAEZE NDIGBO WORLD-WIDETHE ISSUE OF VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE, CONFLICT OF INTEREST(S) AND PREJUIDICE BY SOME OF THE MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE
The above-caption refers.The Distinguished Senator Mbata, to the intent of above peace-mission and in the light of your pedigree, profile and position as the President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, World-Wide, I most heartily applaud and appreciate your long-awaited good intention(s), good initiative and compound-action steps towards resolving the crisis threatening the unity, peace and progress of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Lagos.Sir, with much chagrin, this crisis, being in the public-domain, having enured for almost a decade, a re-occurring decimal, amoebic and/or amorphous in nature, albeit, is a system failure-driven by personal avarice in one or two persons already identified, ear-marked and set-apart as ring-leaders disparaging the image and ethos of Igbo-nation in Lagos.
No doubt, this crisis, parenthetically, like oil-spillage, was gradually inherited from three-successive President-Generals of Ohanaeze Ndigbo World-wide; starting from Nnia Nwodo to your humble, all glossing over same, advertently or inadvertently, in a guise, in order not to ‘hurt a fly or kill the monster’ till date.CALL A SPADE A SPADE Today, in the mastery of my legal mind, in the interest of posterity and sustainability of your good intention(s) overtly demonstrated by this bold step of constituting ‘fact-finding’ committee for the Lagos crisis, I wish to put it to you, with all due respect, that your call to serve the Igbo Nation world-wide is a call to duty to serve with truth, integrity, sacrifice and ‘intentionality’. Therefore, it must be in all fours that the canker-worm, palmer-wormer and caterpillar, be identified by the fact-finding committee and quashed in its entirety, if peace must be attained, as you envisaged otherwise, the crisis will be ‘cabbage in, cabbage out’, a paradigm shift, imminently endemic and magnified than it was.SEPARATE THE WHEATS FROM THE CHAFFE lucidating on the facts, already in the public domain, with notoriety, may I humbly recall to your mind, that in Lagos State, there are many splinter groups of Igbo extractions with different nomenclatures, or better-still, ‘baptismal names’, all in disguise, though, Ohanaeze-likes, divisive as against diversity, polarity and competing with Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the true brand of the spirt of our ancestors.
The truth and nothing but the truth remains that all these fractions and/or factions, are duplicate replica from persons who for one reason or the other are disgruntled and for personal interest(s), formed them to work for or against Ohanaeze Ndigbo as the case may be. Against the backdrop of the acephalous nature of Igbo Nation, these groups are tolerated and accommodated, as political advances, seemingly, a right to freedom of association under the Constitution, especially, in the light of the struggle for Igbo identity within the Nigerian polity, and as a shade of many colours, regardless, of the evil connotations they foist on the perpetrators. Indeed, we witnessed yet another variation where some persons, in cat and rat race, belong to more than five of these variant groups, in order to symbiotically represent ‘peculiar interest’, either a class of Igbos with bigger pose of attraction of wealth, splendour and residence of high prized properties like Ndigbo Lagos. By social cohesion, Nnia Nwodo, did try to consider and actually aligned some of these groups as ‘Ohanaeze Ndigbo affiliate-bodies’ in order to synchronize them yet they retained their ‘Ohanaeze-pro’ and/or ‘Ohanaeze-post’ character.
My distinguished Senator, consequent upon the above, and in consideration of the list of the members of the fact-finding Committee for the Lagos crisis, it has filtered and /or gravely alleged that the said list, presently in the eye of the public was drawn by Chief Evarist Ozonweke and evidently seen on the list, are names of persons who are strong allies and friends of Chief Evarist Ozonweke, making him spat and boasting of ‘fictitious victory’. Please, kindly consider the following persons as persons of conflict of interest, purpose, and actions against the need of the proposed peace-mission; (1) Comrade Chinedu Ukatu (2) Prince Tony Nwakaeze, Gen Abel Obi Umahi, Mazi Bismarck Oji. Understandably, ‘justice must not only be done, but must be manifestly be seen to be done’. I most humbly attest that Comrade Chinedu Ukatu is not just a ‘grand ally’ of Ozonweke, but had severally followed Ozonweke and his team of players to canvass in their favour in this crisis.
Needless, to over-emphasis, the fate and interest of Prince Tony Nwakaeze, having contested and lost Ohanaeze Presidency election in Lagos, amidst many controversies and Gen. Abel Obi Umahi of Ndigbo Lagos, who stood as ‘political-god father of Ozonweke, having coordinated ‘Ohanaeze Peoples’ Club in the style of Ndigbo Lagos.THE INTENTIONALITY TO SUCCEED ON THE PEACE-MISSION.
Dear Distinguished Senator, without mincing words, the expectations of Ndigbo in Lagos, is that your humble self and the members of the Global Executive Council, duly elected as our leaders, would come to Lagos ‘HEAR’ and ‘DECIDE’ as against sending ‘fact-finding’ committee of persons, most of whom have their linen already stained in the murky waters of this crisis owing to their past. This is the VOICE, the ECHOES and the DREAM of the average Ohanaeze person for the ultimate resolution of this crisis – MBATA DECIDES ON THE TRUTH!
By inference, as it is the norm, Ohanaeze World-wide, on record, visited Abuja, and personally resolved the crisis, that almost bedevilled the Igbos in Capital City, like other places where disputes prevailed.On the contrary, within the precinct of your administrative powers, as the President-General, subject to your convenience, your goodself could, in the alternative invite each group with five person(s) to Ime-Obi for hearing on time scheduled and subsequently give ultimatum accordingly rather than appending powers for ‘hearsay’ evidence from groups like ‘Aka Ikenga, Ndigbo Lagos, Igbo Amaka Traders, Igbo Elder Statesmen, most of whom are interested parties and this is capable of deepening the crisis and/or escalating it. BINDING NATURE OF AUTHORITY.
By this open-letter, I most humbly implore you to use your good office and the powers vested on you to look into this crisis with practical intentionality to resolving same amicably between the duo – Oba Ojoto, the elected President and Chief Ozonweke, self-acclaimed South-West Coordinator and any decision therefrom, shall bind them, in retrospect, their privies, allies, team players, successors-in-title and/or legal representatives as the case may be.In conclusion, I pray and plead, on your good conscience, in equity, good faith and utmost confidence, to give Lagos, the centre of excellence, the pride of place in good heart, to personally DECLARE and DECREE, peace in OHANAEZE LAGOS.
May wise counsel prevails on you. LONG LIVE OHANAEZE NDIGBO WORLDWIDE! LONG LIVE OHANAEZE NDIGBO LAGOS!!LONG LIVE SENATOR JOHN MBATA
Yours faithfully,
AGUBUZOR NKECHI ESQ.
LEGAL ADVISER,
OHANAEZE NIDGBO, LAGOS
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