The identification of Delta State Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, according to the Ohanaeze Youth Council, "is quite doubtful."
The Peoples Democratic Party's vice presidential candidate, Okowa claims to belong to the Ohanaeze Ndigbo World, and the PDP is viewed as favoring the Igbo race by appointing him as vice president.
Okowa, however, hails from the South-South part of the nation, in contrast to the calls for a South-East presidential candidate, which neither the PDP nor the All Progressives Congress endorsed before the 2023 presidential election.
In a statement provided to Tdpnewsng.com on Tuesday, Comrade Igboayaka O. Igboayaka, the national president of Ohanaeze, castigated Okowa for his lack of dedication to Ohanaeze over the years.
The governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, "had over the years exhibited a high level of complacency towards the activities of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, thus his invisibility in the activities of the Igbo race," the author claimed. "Ndigbo, since after the 1966 to 1970 genocide, have gone through political and economic strangulation, but were able to unify again through Ohanaeze Ndigbo."
Igboayaka claimed that Okowa had abruptly started to describe himself as Igbo after his emergence as the PDP's vice presidential nominee.
Igboayaka expressed sorrow that the Ohanaeze Ndigbo-powered Ala-Igbo Sustainable Development Project "had gone into extinction while we had the likes of Gov Ifeanyi Okowa and other unpatriotic Igbo governors from South East."
According to him, "Gov Ifeanyi Okowa felt it more important to support the multiple initiatives at the Ohanaeze Ndigbo secretariat than to fund Atiku Abubakar's presidential campaign."
It is pitiful that Governor Ifeanyi Okowa is asking his Igbo tribe for support in order to win the 2023 presidential election after leaving Ohanaeze Ndigbo for seven years with over N200 million in unpaid dues.
"I challenge Gov. Ifeanyichukwu Okowa to give proof of his Ohanaeze Ndigbo statutory monthly dues to the general public, or any project he has sited in Ohanaeze Ndigbo secretariat since he was elected senator and governor. " Although it's a cliche to suggest that "Charity Starts at Home," Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa has fallen short in this regard. Onye Aghala Nwanne Ya (be your brother's keeper) was not a principle he ever adopted.
Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa was reminded by him that being an Igbo man should not only be when "you need Ndigbo, but when Ndigbo need you."
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