By Dennis Agbo

ENUGU—The apex body of Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has rescheduled its general election that was to take place on  Monday, January 9 ,2017  to  Tuesday January 10.

The rescheduled election is only for the  national executive officers of the organization, while the local and state elections remain as scheduled.

A statement by the out-going Secretary General of the organization, Dr. Joe Nwaorgu, said that the rescheduled election of the national officers will still take place at same venue, which is the national secretariat complex of the organization, located at No 7 Park Avenue,GRA, Enugu.

Nwaorgu did not give reasons why the national executive election was shifted to  January 10  but it was gathered that all stakeholders of the organization have been duly informed.

The statement indicated that the elections into the local governments and at the state levels will hold as initially scheduled.

The local government elections   will hold today (Friday) at various local governments in the South East zone, Delta and Rivers states while the state elections will hold on  Saturday,January 7,2017.

Ohanaeze in the statement specified that every adult, whether male or female is eligible to contest in the positions zoned to their state except for officials who have occupied elective positions in the organization for two consecutive terms.