Apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has skipped the 2024 Igbo Day Celebration in honour of its late President General, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu.
DAILY POST recalls that the late President General passed on last week.
Addressing journalists on Tuesday after an emergency meeting of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the organisation and opening of register for the late elder statesman at Ohanaeze’s National Secretariat, Enugu, the Secretary-General, Okey Emuchay explained that the decision was part of efforts to honour and respect Iwuanyanwu.
Emuchay, who signed the register on behalf of Ohananeze, called on its chapters in Nigeria and abroad to open condolence registers for the late icon.
Emuchay said the registers would give people opportunity and platform to express their views about the late elder statesman.
He expressed pains over the demise of the Igbo icon and promised to move Ohananeze forward despite his absence.
He stated that they were in touch with the family of the deceased, stating that soon, the central burial committee would be announced.
While describing Iwuanyanwu as a rare human being, who had wonderful ideas and visions for the Igbo nation and for Nigeria, Emuchay explained that a central burial committee would be established very soon.
“All activities especially, the Igbo Day Celebration of 2024 scheduled to hold on the 29th of September 2024 in Imo State, we will be skipped in respect and honour of the departed President General,” he said.
Speaking further, he said “We want to assure that the ship of Ohanaeze is in safe hands, collectively as NEC, we want to give assurance that we shall match on from where he stopped.”
Iwuanyanwu: Ohananeze cancels 2024 Igbo Day Celebration in honour of late President General