{"id":96813,"date":"2023-10-04T10:01:55","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T09:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/no-room-for-tenure-elongation-next-president-general-from-rivers-ohanaeze"},"modified":"2023-10-04T13:41:22","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T12:41:22","slug":"no-room-for-tenure-elongation-next-president-general-from-rivers-ohanaeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/no-room-for-tenure-elongation-next-president-general-from-rivers-ohanaeze","title":{"rendered":"No room for tenure elongation, next President-General from Rivers \u2013 Ohanaeze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Ohanaeze Ndigbo, apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, has said there would be no room for tenure elongation for the President-General.<\/p>\n<p>Ohanaeze said its constitution allows the rotation of the office of the President-General in alphabetical order.<\/p>\n<p>Factional Secretary-General of Ohanaeze, Okechukwu Isiguzoro, advocated for a new President-General from Rivers State from January 11, 2025, when Imo State\u2019s tenure ends on January 10, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Isiguzoro made the remark while stressing that Rivers State producing the next Ohanaeze President-General was sacrosanct.<\/p>\n<p>He spoke during a meeting with a delegation of Rivers women known as Umuokpu and Umuada Nwanyi Igbo Federation in Abakiliki, Ebonyi State capital.<\/p>\n<p>The visit was a fact-finding mission to assess the potential of Rivers State producing the next President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement he signed, Isiguzoro assured the women that the \u201cConstitution of Ohanaeze Ndigbo allows for the rotation of the office of the President-General in alphabetical order.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter Imo State\u2019s tenure ends on January 10th, 2025, a new President-General from Rivers State will lead the Igbo community from January 11th, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNothing will change the emergence of a President-General from Rivers State on the set date and warned against any illegitimate extension of the current President-General\u2019s tenure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA new President-General from Rivers State will assume office on January 11th, 2025, in accordance with the rotational policy outlined in the Constitution of Ohanaeze Ndigbo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Isiguzoro also urged the Igbo community to support Rivers State in the upcoming Ohanaeze Ndigbo elections, as the state has several qualified candidates for the position of President General.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Ohanaeze Ndigbo, apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, has said there would be no room for tenure elongation for the President-General. Ohanaeze said its constitution allows the rotation of the office of the President-General in alphabetical order. Factional Secretary-General of Ohanaeze, Okechukwu Isiguzoro, advocated for a new President-General from Rivers State from January 11, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":96812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1570,2140,254,684],"class_list":["post-96813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-nigeria","tag-ohanaeze"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>No room for tenure elongation, next President-General from Rivers \u2013 Ohanaeze - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/no-room-for-tenure-elongation-next-president-general-from-rivers-ohanaeze\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"No room for tenure elongation, next President-General from Rivers \u2013 Ohanaeze\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. 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