On Saturday, the Ohanaeze Ndigbo Ime-Obi proclaimed that nothing on earth could prevent Bola Tinubu from being sworn in as president-elect on May 29.

Ohanaeze’s top decision-making body, Ime-Obi, promised to help Tinubu as much as possible in order to ensure the success of his government.

As a result of Tinubu’s unwillingness to include Igbos in his transition committee, a group of the Ohanaeze said that it would not accept Tinubu as the organization’s new president.

The Ohanaeze underlined that it accepts Tinubu as the President-elect of Nigeria and will assist him following his inauguration through Secretary-General Okechukwu Isiguzoro.

Isiguzoro was speaking with a source when he said: “Some individuals are making an unofficial claim that they do not accept Tinubu as the president-elect, but let me be very clear that those claims are being made by unpatriotic elements that have been expelled from the Ohanaeze Ndigbo.

“Ohanaeze will take full part in the President-elect’s inauguration. Anyone who claims that the Ohanaeze Ndigbo would not accept a man who was declared the winner of the 2023 presidential election is not being patriotic.

“Until a court of competent jurisdiction rules differently, Ndigbo will continue to offer the president-elect and vice president-elect, Shettima, our entire support.

“We won’t allow those who turned Ndigbo against Buhari in 2015 to push us into another precarious scenario where it would be falsely implied that we Igbos are opposed to or won’t recognize the President-elect, which is not Ohanaeze Ndigbo’s attitude.

“Ndigbo is economically minded and progressive, and they would continue to support any central administration.

The attempts to pit Ndigbo against Tinubu will fail because we are attending the inauguration in Eagles Square and nothing on earth could prevent the President-elect from taking the oath of office.

“Tinubu shouldn’t pay attention to those who aren’t speaking on behalf of Ohanaeze Ndigbo; we’ll keep supporting him, give him our full backing, and make sure his government is successful.

The Ime-Obi Ohanaeze has never given anybody permission to criticize the President-elect. Ime-Obi has completely endorsed and will vote for whoever was elected president.

Ohanaeze would not permit anybody to make the untrue claim that it does not recognize Tinubu and does not consider the president-elect to be an opponent.