Basil Onwukwe
9 Mar
• Urges Igbo to vote against godfatherism, patronage against country, S’East The World Igbo Congress (WIC) said it is determined to work with all democratic institutions in the world to expose anyone involved in fraud during the last presidential and National Assembly elections. The Public Relations Officer of WIC, Basil Onwukwe, made this known in…
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World Igbo Congress (WIC) has called on the Federal Government to de-escalate the tension in the South East and demonstrate a genuine desire to conduct free and fair elections in Anambra State to improve the country’s political and economic development.
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World Igbo Congress (WIC) has reiterated the need for the establishment of Eastern Security Network (ESN) to stop the array of insecurity bedeviling the South-East zone of the country.
12 Jul 2020
The Congress, through a statement by its Public Relations Officer, Hon. Basil Onwukwe, reiterated its unflinching support to Ohanaeze Ndigbo, under the leadership of Nnia Nwodo for his dedicated service to Ndigbo.
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World Igbo Congress has said President Muhammadu Buhari’s ‘next level’ agenda would bring about regional resistance of greater proportion, if he failed to shun nepotism and regional segregation. In a statement by Basil Onwukwe, Public Relations Officer, the body said: “The integrity myth is over. The reign of politics of primordial ethnocentrism could no longer…
26 May 2019
The Public Relations Officer of World Igbo Congress, Basil Onwukwe, has blamed the Federal Government for the plight of citizens...
3 Mar 2019
The Executive of World Igbo Congress has declared that the yawning disparity between collated numbers at polling stations and those declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Abuja makes the just concluded elections ‘a sham of the worst order.’ The body said the exercise was a brazen subversion of the people’s will, and…
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The World Igbo Congress (WIC) has said it is alarmed by President Muhammadu Buhari’s suspension and replacement of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, (CJN), Walter Onnoghen.
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The World Igbo Congress has issued a stern warning to the Federal Government to immediately stop what they termed the unwarranted and unnecessary killings of Igbo youths, under the guise of operations python dance.
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