By Ezeakukwu Emmanuel Nsoedo
Ever since the political chicanery adopted to deny Nnewichi the right to present the next Council Chairman of Nnewi North LGA, things in Nnewi have never been the same. That action being promoted by a tiny fraction of Nnewi indigenes have left a bitter soured taste in the mouth of the great majority of the people.
During the meeting convened by Chief Gabriel Gabros Chukwuma at his country home in Uru, Umudim Nnewi, Chief Chukwuma informed the selected people of Nnewi numbering between 280 to 300 in number that the political drift being experienced in Nnewi following the attempt to rob Nnewichi of their to candidates for the Nnewi Local Government Council Chairman must be stopped.
“The injustice being championed by a tiny cabal has led to illegitimate people signing an unauthorized letter to the Governor of Anambra state, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, to counter the letter our revered monarch, HRH Igwe Kenneth Orizu lll to the governor, in effect that Nnewi has an organic political system,” said Chief Gabros Chukwuma.
Chief Chukwuma was particular about the dangerous trend of these individuals challenging the authority of HRH Igwe Nnewi. He warned those people disobeying Igwe Nnewi to desist from such acts before they incur the royal curse.
Those that use thugs, police, army personnel to block Nnewi people from entering the venue of Nnewi meeting, and beating some of them up are put on notice that such illegal act cannot be allowed in Nnewi, he continued.
The general consensus of the meeting was that:
Nnewi must retain the political arrangement of 1997.
That Nnewichi should produce the next Council Chairman because it is their turn.
The meeting agreed that henceforth positions of power in Nnewi should not be based on giving incompetent people the positions for patronage. It must be by a merit system.
It was agreed that HRH Igwe Dr KON Orizu III remains above mundane insults. His authority must never be challenged because Nnewi people have enjoyed and continued to enjoy tremendous wealth as he continues to serve.
Among some of the speakers at the meeting were Prof Obi Nwosu, Hon Augustine Ikedoji; Barrister Chinedu Tino Adili Uba; Chief Eugene Nwizugbe; Prof Edwin Chukwuma, Chief Osita Nwosu, Chukwujiobi Madubuchukeu; Sir James Louis Okoye (Akacham); Chief George Nwachukwu; and Nze Tobe Osigwe; Igweamaka Orajuba; Tony Atueyi; etc.