Ohanaeze rejects bill elevating Ooni, Sultan above other monarchs

From Jude Chinedu, Enugu

Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide has strongly criticised a bill in the Senate seeking to make the Ooni of Ife and Sultan of Sokoto the exclusive co-chairmen of the National Council of Traditional Rulers, describing it as discriminatory and harmful to national unity.

In a statement on Monday, the National Publicity Secretary of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, Dr Ezechi Chukwu,…