Following the News few days ago which
alleged that EZE OBIDIEGWU ONYESO, EZE NRI endorsed Sir Victor Umeh for ANAMBRA
CENTRAL SENATORIAL seat, a position that is highly contested between IYOM UCHE
EKWUNIFE, DR CHRIS NGIGE AND SIR VICTOR UMEH?
It became imperative to do a
rejoinder as IYOM EKWUNIFE is a revered daughter Inlaw of NRI and a titled
woman of the town, for Victor Umeh to get an endorsement of EZE NRI means a lot
to Victor and a minus to Uche Ekwunife.
That made us to reach out to the
Heart of NRI KINGDOM to know the reason behind the endorsement.
First we called the President General
of NRI (PG) of NRI, MR FRANK OBIEKWE, he called us back after he missed our call
and received our Text message, we asked him to react on the endorsement of SIR
VICTOR UMEH by EZE NRI as reported.
He said and I quote “EZE NRI DID NOT
ENDORSE VICTOR UMEH, MYSELF THE PG OF NRI did not endorse Victor Umeh, I wasn’t
even there to start with, if EZE NRI did not and the PG did not endorse Victor
Umeh, it means nobody in NRI endorsed Victor”.
The PG went ahead to advise that
Reporters should try to report facts and not a prepared script, he said that
the EZE NRI who he spoke with before calling us back, he spoke to him after
reading our TEXT message, he said that EZE NRI is furious about such fallacious
fabrication.
He said EZE NRI demands an apology
from the author of that piece. He now gave us the Phone number of the IGWE NRI
to talk to him on the matter for us to hear directly from the EZE NRI.
When we called EZE OBIDIEGWU ONYESO and
explain the reason for the call. He was bitter and sad that journalism these days
has gone so bad. He said VICTOR UMEH came to his Palace, that NRI as the
Custodian of Igbo culture has been nice to visitors, so he extended such
niceties to Sir Victor Umeh by offering him Kola nuts and listened to him and
his campaign talk.
He said he never ENDORSED VICTOR
UMEH and that Nri is not a political set up but cultural, therefore NRI never
bothers with political endorsement, the Eze said, if I am to endorse anybody,
my DAUGHTER AND WIFE is in the middle of the dance, is it not right that I will
spray her money before I will think of spraying a stranger ?
He said and I quote “I EZE NRI
DEMAND AN APOLOGY AND RETRACTION FROM THE AUTHOR OF THAT MALICIOUS PIECE”.
We called the author of the piece and advised him on the reactions
from EZE NRI AND PG OF NRI, one of them said he had the Eze on tape and that he
will be happy to meet him in court, while the other said they have heard, that
he will see what to do.
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