The Traditional ruler of Eziowelle community in Idemili North Local Government Area, Igwe Michael Okonkwo-Etusi, has said that despite refusal of the Abuja, Lagos and Onitsha branches to remit money to the mother union through the instigation of few people, the President General of Eziowelle Improvement Union, Barrister Titus Akpudo, has performed creditably well in office, and has since October 2023 opened the floor for a change of leadership come 29th June 2024, which is known to members of the community and the government.
Reacting to the alleged takeover of the town union leadership by the Eziowelle Improvement Union General Assembly, the monarch said that the merchants of such tale are not bonafide members of the union, and have for the past six-years tried to use their wealth and connection with the police to cow Barrister Akpudo and his team in order to subvert the town’s constitution that zoned President General position to Ubulu village.
He recalled that the same group of people had instituted court cases against Barrister Akpudo; with no result yet, and are still hellbent on causing problem in Eziowelle using the wealth they haven’t used to help the community and their relations.
Igwe Okonkwo-Etusi, who also noted that the same people had tried to convince former Governor Willie Obiano and the incumbent Governor Chukwuma Soludo to remove President General, who is also the National President of Anambra State Association of Town Unions, ASATU, over frivolous allegations because they can hire the press, police and lawyers, said same people have continued to flout the laws of the government of the day.
PG to set Eziowelle community on the path of disunity, the Traditional ruler said with his thirty-two years on the throne and immense tangible contributions to the development of the community, Eziowelle people are happy with him, whom they can as well remove democratically; according to their constitution, adding that concerned stakeholders had encouraged the President General to ignore the trouble makers, knowing that their matter will eventually fizzle out.
On peace efforts made, Igwe Okonkwo-Etusi said he had invited Barrister Akpudo and the trouble makers for a meeting, but the latter refused to attend, after which concerned stakeholders followed their ring leader to Abuja for reconciliation, but he keeps refusing.
Lending their voices, the people of Ubulu village Eziowelle; through sixty-six-year-old Chief Jerry Umerah, Youth Leader, Chief Tochukwu Okafor-Imoh and Mr. Anthony Kwuelum, said there is no crisis in the community, except that after Ubulu was graciously and constitutionally allowed to produce the next President General, which its processes are on, few people began to scheme to thwart the overall interest of the community.
Mr Kwuelum specifically warned that if his village, Ubulu, is denied the opportunity of producing the next President General the town’s constitution zoned to them, they will go autonomous, urging the trouble makers to use their wealth for the good of Eziowelle community, and not to create confusion.
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