Ohanaeze Lagos Tensions Rise: Ogbonna Justifies Actions, Ubochi Announces Suspension

Lagos State Ohanaeze Ndigbo’s court-consent president, Chief Solomon Ogbonna, has given an explanation for his decision to form an electoral committee in order to hold elections for the top Igbo sociocultural organization’s offices.

In an interview over the weekend, he stated that his term is shortening and that he wants the committee to hold elections in order to select the organization’s officials who will succeed the existing executive.

Adding that he does not want a void that would exacerbate the organization’s current crisis, Ogbonna stated that his term in office will finish in 2026.

As the legal president of Lagos State Ohanaeze Ndigbo, he declared that “anyone who parades himself as the head of the organization in Lagos State is disobeying an order of a court of competent jurisdiction and is in contempt of court,” according to the statement. According to him, the court approval that allowed him to take office “has not been vacated and until a superior gives a contrary order, I remain the legal president of the Lagos State chapter of Ohanaze Ndigbo.”

Anyone who poses as the president of Ohanaeze is in contempt of court and faces a lengthy jail sentence. Of course, I will see to it that anyone who disregards the court’s decision is put in jail,” he said. In response to the Lagos State Ohanaeze Ndigbo, led by Sunday Ossai, imposing a suspension on him, Ogbonna stated that they had the authority to do so.

“How can I be suspended by them? Who informed them that I could be suspended? They recognize that they are not in order. All of them run the prospect of going to jail because they are in contempt of court; before they can take any action, they must effectively revoke the order issued by a court of competent jurisdiction,” he proposed. Prince Ubochi C. Ubochi, Chief Sunday Ossai’s spokesperson, asserted that Ogbonna’s assertions were unfounded.

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Ohanaeze Ndigbo suspended Ogbonna, claiming that his term as president of Lagos State had ended several months prior and that he desired to remain in office.

Ohanaeze, the spokesperson for the president of Lagos, stated that Ogbonna was suspended after it was found that he had obtained a consent judgment in secret, which led to his impeachment.

“Ogbonna is still suspended from Lagos State Ohanaeze Ndigbo until he changes his ways and offers the organization’s members an unconditional apology for the harm he has caused,” Ubochi stated. He lacks the authority to act as a spokesperson or representative of Lagos State Ohanaeze Ndigbo.

Lagos State Ohanaeze Ndigbo has initiated legal steps to appeal and overturn the court ruling that Ogbnna received, according to Ubochi.