Ahead of the 2023 general elections, the crisis in the apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has taken another turn as Ambassadors George Obiozor and Okey Emuchay have asked an Enugu High Court to declare them as the authentic president-general and secretary-general respectively of the apex body.
The duo in suit No. E/878/202 filed through their lawyer Dr. Peter Chidera Aneke, also asked the court presided over by Justice Uchenna Mogbo, to declare that the “purported parallel election of the officers of the National Executive Council of Ohanaeze conducted in Enugu state at the instance of the defendants is illegal and unconstitutional.”The suit named Chidi Ibeh, Okechukwu Isiguzoro, Prince Richard Ozobu, and Nnabuike Okwu, as 1st, 2nd, 3rd and fourth defendants.
At the last NEC election of Ohanaeze held in Owerri, the Imo state capital, Ambassadors Obiozor and Emuchay emerged president-general and secretary-general of the organisation respectively, while a parallel election conducted in Enugu, the Enugu state capital, threw up Messrs Ibeh and Isiguzoro, as president-general and secretary-general respectively.
Prince Ozobu was chairman of the electoral body that midwifed the Ohanaeze NEC election held in Enugu. When the matter came up on Tuesday, November 1, Emma Awuja Esq., counsel for Prince Ozobu, faulted the mode of service of the writ of summons on the four defendants.He explained that the summons meant for the four defendants were left with a sales girl in a boutique adjoining the Enugu residence of Prince Ozobu, contrary to the substituted service sought by the plaintiff, as well as the order of the court which specified that the originating processes should be pasted on the front gate of No.
In a motion on notice dated October 13, 2022, he urged the court to set aside the service of the originating processes on the defendants, and all other processes, including a motion for injunction restraining the 1st, 2nd and 4th defendants from parading themselves as elected national officers of Ohanaeze.
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