Iwuanyanwu alleges threat to his life

PRESIDENT- GENERAL of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, yesterday, raised the alarm over the threat to his life.

He said some persons, whom he described as antiIgbo, have orchestrated plans to either kill him or burn his house over his leadership of Ndigbo.

Iwuanyanwu, who addressed a press conference in Enugu, stated that the group caused the death of his predecessor, Prof George Obiozor and attempted to kill another ex- leader of the apex Igbo socio- political body.

He said: “This has been dangerous. These people have carried this too far. Some time ago, I got some information that some people were coming to burn my house. People said they were hired to come and burn my house. Some people also said they were hired to come and kill me. All sorts of stories like that. And I started asking myself: what is it that I have done that would warrant that my house should be burned; that I should be killed?

“I told those people that they shouldn’t worry. Fortunately, one of them said the person they hired said I trained his brother at the university. You know I had a scholarship scheme that trained over 5000 young people in the university. So having trained his brother, he said could not burn my house.

“I feel sad that I should be confronted by some of these types of spectre of threats just because I want to serve my people.

“I have looked at my past career and seen how God blessed me. At 82 when I’ve retired, for me now to come back to serve my people and to find myself completely engulfed in this type of mess with Isiguzoro.

“I’m somebody, who is dogged and can’t easily be pushed around. God has given me the heart and determination to serve my people.”

Iwuanyanwu stated that another president general, the late Prof. Joe Irukwu, suffered a similar fate when he was accused of receiving millions of Naira to work against the interest of Igboland.

He restated his resolve to serve Ndigbo, vowing not to succumb to threats.