Delta community rejects alleged govt-imposed monarch, demands justice
The kingship crisis in Egbudu-Akah Kingdom, Aniocha South Local Council, Delta Train, has intensified as community leaders fill rejected the issue authorities’s alleged imposition of a monarch and known as for prompt intervention rooted in equity and respect for tradition.
In a assertion issued after a most popular stakeholders’ assembly, key figures within the neighborhood, alongside with Diokpa Moses Kelikuma, Diokpa Augustine Elue, Diokpa Enemokwu Adigue, and Godwin Elue, accused the Delta Train authorities of dismissing local customs and imposing leadership with out consulting the rightful custodians of the dominion’s heritage.
Representing the collective snort of the Egbudu-Akah of us, the leaders insisted that the Umu-Illoh Royal Family stays the exclusively knowledgeable ruling dwelling within the dominion.
They categorically brushed apart the existence of any “Obi Okolie Royal Family,” calling it a fabrication and distortion of ancient lineage. Essentially based totally on them, following the death of His Royal Majesty Obi Okolie I on September 30, 2016, the Umu-Illoh Royal Family fulfilled all archaic rites and installed Obi Solomon Ogwuagwu I as king, in line with native authorized pointers and customs.
Quickly after this, Mr Paul Obi Okolie, claiming to be the late monarch’s eldest son, controversially declared himself the unusual king — an act that plunged the community into battle.
The topic used to be brought before the Ogwashi-Uku High Court in swimsuit No. 0/35/2016, nonetheless before the judicial course of might perchance dart its course, the Delta Train authorities allegedly stepped in, issuing a Workers of Office to Mr Paul Obi Okolie and formally recognising him as monarch — a circulate the community described as a violation of due course of and an affront to tradition.
The community leaders further alleged that their a pair of petitions to the authorities were ignored and that no moral investigation or session with archaic elders used to be conducted before the authorities’s willpower.
The scenario degenerated following the death of Mr Paul Obi Okolie in 2018. His son, Mr Augustine Ezeaguna Nzemeke Obi-Okolie, has reportedly begun parading himself because the unusual Obi of Egbudu-Akah, a trend the community strongly opposes.
“The Delta Train authorities cannot remove a king for Egbudu-Akah. Putting in Mr Augustine Ezeaguna Nzemeke Obi-Okolie is now no longer going to unravel the crisis; this is succesful of deepen it,” the elder said.
They reiterated that Obi Solomon Ogwuagwu I, who used to be chosen in line with tradition by the Umu-Illoh Royal Family, stays the rightful monarch, even supposing the issue has now no longer recognised him.
