Ohanaeze Council Of Elders Sacks Chief Sunday Udeh Over Comments On Ezendigbo In Lagos 

P.M.EXPRESS reports that the Igbo Speaking Community, Lagos State, has disowned him and warned the members of the public not to deal with him as a member of the group.

Chief Udeh had recently cancelled all the Ezendigbo crowned by Ohaneze Ndigbo in Lagos State insisted that they don’t have right to crown Ezendigbo in diaspora.

Another Igbo group, known as Ohanaeze Ndigbo Council Of Elders, Lagos State, led by former President of Ohanaeze, Lagos State, Chief Dr Oliver Akubueze, has sacked Udeh as a member of the group with immediate effect.

Apart from sacking Chief Udeh, the group also gave him seven days notice to retract the comment and apologize to Ohanaeze or he will face serious consequence for his unguided comments as Udeh has been delisted as the Vice Chairman of the Council of Elders, from its membership and position.

Dr. Akubueze, while speaking on the matter, lambasted Udeh, expressing dissatisfaction with what he described as ”Udeh’s level of Ignorance, incomprehension and imprudence”.

He stated: “Udeh’s comment depicted total madness. The issue is that we would have neglected the stupid utterances but it was not wise to neglect them. So, we must address it in order to enlighten the general public and set the records straight. Udeh doesn’t know what he is talking about, because apparently he is very new to the leadership politics of Lagos State. There is no way a sane man can say that a king of the Igbo Speaking Community is the overall king or the chairman of all Ezes, including the Ezes of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, that is pure madness”.

Chief Akubueze, who holds the chieftaincy title “Mmiri Ndigbo”, contended that Ohanaeze Ndigbo remains the Apex and umbrella Sociocultural Organization of all Igbo groups, hence very superior to Igbo Speaking Community.

”The truth is that everyone knows that Ohanaeze Ndigbo is superior in all ramifications to every other organizations of Igbo extraction. So, whatever Ohanaeze Ndigbo worldwide or chapter does, instituted or created is very superior to that of Igbo Speaking Community in Lagos State or any other place. Therefore, for Udeh to say that he is making somebody the chairman of the Ezes in Lagos State and at the same time fighting and demoting all the Ezes crowned by Ohanaeze Ndigbo Lagos State, is complete and total madness of the highest order”, he said.

He gave Chief Udeh seven days ultimatum to retract his utterances or face severe consequences.

“We are warning him to go and refute that rubbish he vomited. If not, we shall  show him that he cannot go to the public and vomit rubbish and have his peace of mind. We shall make sure that he regrets everything that he has said to misinform the public.”

“As Chairman of the Elders Council, I hereby announced the immediate sacking of Chief Udeh as Deputy Chairman of the Council. I am speaking in my capacity as the Chairman of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Council of Elders Lagos State, which encompasses every organization and associations including his own faction of Igbo Speaking Community. Therefore, Udeh has been removed from his position and his membership terminated because of this rubbish he has done; we have sacked him from the position of Deputy Chairman of Elders Council. Let him go to hell.”

“If Chief Udeh fails to retract his utterances and undo what he has done after seven days… If after seven days he did not refute it, then we shall give him the penalties he deserves. I will not mention them here now. We are going to deal with him seriously.”

“We are not taking any legal action; for us no legal anything, this is neither Police nor Court issue. It is pure sociocultural issue and we are going to handle it socioculturally. He will be severely punished accordingly if he fails to do the needful” he concluded.

However, Chief Udeh has responded and stated that he was the founder of Igbo Council of Elders and made Akubueze the Chairman and he declared that Akubueze cannot remove him.

Meanwhile, the authentic President of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Lagos State, Chief Solomon Ogbonna Aguene, has already dissolved Council of Elders and replaced them with another leadership P.M.EXPRESS confirmed.