{"id":43962,"date":"2024-07-27T10:00:17","date_gmt":"2024-07-27T10:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/iwuanyanwu-no-need-for-ohanaeze-simon-ekpa-led-brgie\/"},"modified":"2024-07-27T10:00:17","modified_gmt":"2024-07-27T10:00:17","slug":"iwuanyanwu-no-need-for-ohanaeze-simon-ekpa-led-brgie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/iwuanyanwu-no-need-for-ohanaeze-simon-ekpa-led-brgie\/","title":{"rendered":"Iwuanyanwu: No need for Ohanaeze \u2013 Simon Ekpa-led BRGIE"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Simon Ekpa-led Biafra Republic Government In-Exile has claimed that there is no longer a need for Ohanaeze Ndigbo.<\/p>\n<p>Ekpa spoke amid the recent death of Ohanaeze President-General, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu.<\/p>\n<p>It could be recalled that Iwuanyanwu succeeded Prof George Obiozor, who passed away in December 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The development has been attracting concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Ekpa has now said with the deaths of two successive Ohanaeze presidents, there was no need for a replacement.<\/p>\n<p>He said the people were tired of mourning and crying over Ohanaeze Ndigbo.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on his X handle, the Biafra agitator wrote, \u201cAnything Ohanaeze should cease in Biafraland, following the death of Iwuanyanwu.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere should be nothing like Ohanaeze nor Ohanaeze election in Biafraland.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe time of Ohanaeze sorrow, tears in Biafraland is over,\u201d he claimed.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, recall that Nigeria\u2019s President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, governors, the presidential candidate of Labour Party, in 2023, Peter Obi, Afenifere and other bigwigs have all expressed sadness over Iwuanyanwu\u2019s demise.<\/p>\n<p>Iwuanyanwu: No need for Ohanaeze \u2013 Simon Ekpa-led BRGIE<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Simon Ekpa-led Biafra Republic Government In-Exile has claimed that there is no longer a need for Ohanaeze Ndigbo. Ekpa&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6353,15,4873],"tags":[8,6354,4875,22197,190,6014,270,180,29,4874],"class_list":["post-43962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brgie","category-news","category-simon-ekpa","tag-akwa-ibom","tag-brgie","tag-ekpa","tag-ekpa-led","tag-for","tag-iwuanyanwu","tag-need","tag-news","tag-ohanaeze","tag-simon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}