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Erstwhile Inspector General of Police (IGP), Chief Mike Okiro, Thursday night hinted of his withdrawal from the contest of the president general of the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, billed for Friday, January 10, citing an Enugu High Court order.
Okiro’s ambition to become the next President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo had been marred by identity crisis.
Some people in the southeast region had accused him of being an Imo state person and, as such, was not qualified to contest the position reserved for Rivers State indigenes.
The controversy raised by the identity issue had prompted a lawyer, Aloy Ejiomfor, to approach the Enugu High Court, which barred the former IGP from the race on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, addressing newsmen on Thursday night, Okiro stated that he had decided to withdraw from the race as a law-abiding citizen of the country in compliance with the court order, but restarted that remained an indigene of Rivers State.
He enjoined his immediate community Egbema, the entire Igbo-speaking people of Rivers State behind him, and all supporters across Imo, Abia, Ebonyi, Enugu, Anambra, and Delta to stand by the rule of law throughout the contest.
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