Disaster is brewing in Ekka group, Ezza North Native Authorities Space of Ebonyi State, following the dissolution of the city union management by Governor Francis Nwifuru’s aide within the space, Chika Igboke
The city union management led by a septuagenarian, Oketa Francis, which was constituted by the late conventional ruler of the group, has been in energy for about 38 years.
The management was nonetheless dissolved by the Coordinator of Imoha Improvement Centre, Chika Igboke.
Improvement centres are sub-divisions of Native Governments within the state and are headed by coordinators appointed by the governor.
Oketa, who was sad with the motion of Igboke, mentioned the dissolution was unlawful and unacceptable to the folks of Ekka group.
He opined that Igboke would have held a stakeholders assembly to debate the matter earlier than taking the choice, which he additional described as unilateral and towards the desires of the folks.
Oketa mentioned, “I’ve been ruling Ekka for a few years now. I’ve been in energy for over 30 years peacefully. We’ve laid down guidelines on this group on election and different issues.
“At any time when we need to do one thing on this group, we should focus on it in public, we should collect to deliberate on it after which take a choice however this was not carried out earlier than the mentioned dissolution of the city union which I’m heading and that’s method we’re saying that it’s not acceptable.”
A youth chief in the neighborhood, Nwafor Celestine, additionally condemned the dissolution of the city union executives by Igboke and vowed that it could be resisted.
“We obtained a misery name from our people who the coordinator of our growth centre, Imoha Improvement Centre, who occurs to be our brother, held a gathering and dissolved our city union which he by no means instituted to create issues in our group.
“Ekka folks had met and resolved after sequence of assembly that they are going to represent a committee which can care for election within the city union.
“Stakeholders of the group agreed to satisfy on Easter Tuesday for them to resolve on the way to elect or appoint city union president of the group since our president has served very properly and he must relaxation.
“We’re interesting to the native authorities and the state authorities to wade into this matter as a result of our youths usually are not completely satisfied. I do know what I’ve handed by way of attempting to calm them down.”
Nonetheless, Igboke dismissed the allegations towards him as baseless.
He famous that he met with each stakeholder of the group to hunt their opinion earlier than the dissolution of the city union executives.
