‘We Never Said Emefiele’s Arrest Is Ethnic Cleansing Of Igbos’ — Ohanaeze
By The Evangelist News Edition, June, 11, 2023.
Mr Emefiele was arrested by the SSS, hours after President Bola Tinubu suspended him from office.
By Chinagorom Ugwu June 11, 2023 Reading Time: 2 mins read
The Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has disowned a report claiming the group condemned the arrest of the suspended Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, by the State Security Service (SSS).
Mr Emefiele was arrested by the SSS, hours after President Bola Tinubu suspended him from office.
Chima Uzor, who claimed to be Ohanaeze’s director of national interest matters, had in a statement on Saturday, alleged that the CBN governor’s arrest was part of Mr Tinubu’s “scheme of ethnic cleansing of Igbos from public office and witch-hunting.”
But reacting, Ohanaeze President-General, Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, in a statement on Saturday, said the Igbo group never commented on the suspension and arrest of the CBN