Ebonyi State Welfare Association has alerted Anambra State Government of the purported election of a group, masquerading itself as the association of people of Ebonyi State resident in Anambra on Sunday, September twentieth, 2020, describing it as fake and fraudulent.
The group, who made this known in an interview with the ABS in Awka, revealed that the unknown group is trying to hijack the association.
Correspondent, Chibuzo Obidike reports that Ebonyi State Welfare Association is the umbrella body of all community associations of Ebonyi people living in Anambra State with the objectives of keeping records of activities and serving as an intermediary between Ebonyi State residents and the Anambra State Government to ensure cordiality in maintaining law, order and welfare of members.
Speaking, the chairman of the association, Pastor Uchenna Edeh represented by the provost, Mr. Ifeanyi Nwagboji while appreciating Governor Willie Obiano for ensuring that Ebonyi residents in the state receive rights as Ndi Anambra, which according to him, they never experienced in the history of the association, called on the Ebonyi State Government to applaud the conducive and peaceful atmosphere provided for them by government and people of Anambra State.
On the crisis in the association, Mr. Nwagboji noted that an impostor had in the past been impersonating the executive of the association but ran out of luck when the state government asked the association to conduct an election that will produce members of executive that will represent the people of Ebonyi in the state which is now scheduled to hold next Sunday.
He pleaded on security agencies and state government to nullify the said election as it does not represent the opinion of the Ebonyi residents.
Recounting how Governor Administration has ensured their comfort, the Financial Secretary, Mr. Ogechukwu Chukwuma recalled how Governor Obiano intervened and released an Ebonyi resident, who was detained for fourteen years without trial just within a month the association informed him about the man’s incarceration.
Mr. Chukwuma wondered how an association fully registered since 2012 will be overthrown by an impostor thus seeking to deny Ebonyi residents the good things that the government has in stock for them calling on the parties involved to retrace their steps and turn a new leaf.
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