President Bola Tinubu has congratulated Senator John Azuta-Mbata on his election as the president of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide.
Gatekeepers News reports that Azuta-Mbata, a former senator who represented Rivers East in the Senate from 1999 to 2007, was elected as the 13th president of the preeminent Pan-Igbo socio-cultural group at its meeting in Enugu on Friday.
Tinubu, in a statement signed by his media aide, Bayo Onanuga, on Friday, wishedAzuta-Mbata success as he takes on this onerous yet noble and lofty task.
President Tinubu also congratulated the Igbo Socio-cultural group on the successful leadership transition and enjoined the new leaders to uphold the principles of their predecessors.
Onanuga noted that the President recognises the critical role of socio-cultural organisations in nation-building; hence, his commitment to promoting dialogue among our ethnic nationalities.
