Okorie dismissed the reported endorsement of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s Presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, by the Igbo people, saying it was a fluke.
“ I joined Ohaneze in 1976 as an undergraduate. Ohaneze is 42 years and I am 42 years old in the organisation.
“ The original members that founded Ohaneze, they are only four living today including myself.
“All others, including those who lead Ohaneze now, came after that formation and I have been a member of the elders council; there was no where we met and agreed on the event that took place yesterday,’’ he said.
The UPP national chairman said Ohaneze had issued a statement to say it did not, as a body, endorse Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.
He said that Ohanze was a non-partisan pan-Igbo organisation and could not have endorsed Atiku.
Okorie said that he and other stakeholders were working towards changing the narrative so that Igbo people would be more involved instead of being out of government.
