A traditional ruler of an autonomous
community in a Local Government Area
(LGA) of Imo state, has engaged the
governor in a war of wars after the later
threatened to banish him.
Governor Rochas Okorocha
The embattled traditional ruler of
Obinugwu autonomous community in Orlu
LGA of Imo state Eze Cletus Ilomuanya on
Sunday declared that Governor Rochas
Okorocha has no right or power to banish
him.
He said he remained the monarch of his
community and chairman, Imo State
Council of Traditional Rulers in
concomitance with the law and the
unanimous wish of Obinugwu.
In a statement issued in Owerri by his
media consultant Kennedy Ewueama,
Ilomuanya said that Obinugwu Community
had Eze Ilomuanya as their one and only
monarch affirmed by several courts,
including the Supreme Court.
He said: ”Governor Okorocha has no right or
power whatsoever to banish any Imo citizen, talk
less of a highly revered monarch of Eze
Ilomuanya’s status.”
Ilomuanya said the sanctity and dignity of
the traditional institution in Imo State had
been eroded under Okorocha, and
appealed to the federal authorities to call
him to order.
He implored the public to disregard the
media reports credited to Governor
Okorocha on the issue “as they only amounted
to playing to the gallery.”
Governor Rochas Okorocha had during the
last media chat at the Government House in
Owerri declared that he would arrest and
banish Ilomuanya if he went about
parading himself as a traditional ruler in
Imo state because Ilomuanya had for long
seized to be a traditional ruler following
his removal by the state government.
Alabatvnews.
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