Community Petitions Enugu Governor Over Traditional Ruler

Tension is mounting successful Amankanu Autonomous Community successful Oduma, Aninri section authorities country of Enugu State, pursuing a petition sent to  Governor Peter Mbah implicit an alleged crippled to enforce a accepted ruler connected the people.

The petition, titled “SOS: A Threat to Peace and Tradition successful Amankanu Autonomous Community”, accused the Aninri section authorities chairman, Prince Ugochukwu Nwanjoku, of attempting to subvert the community’s gazetted constitution and enforce his in-law arsenic accepted ruler.

The petition, signed by Chief Charles Mbah connected behalf of the Concerned Citizens of Amankanu, described the determination arsenic a “bold and amerciable attempt” by the president to override the accepted rotational kingship strategy entrenched successful the community’s constitution, past updated and gazetted successful 2017/2018.

According to the petitioners, the kingship successful Amankanu rotates betwixt Group A (Amankanu Ndi Ulo) and Group B (Amankanu Ndi Egu), based strictly connected seniority. After Umuoro, the astir elder colony successful Group A, failed to contiguous a campaigner wrong six months, the kingship close was transferred to Umuogwudu, who subsequently elected Chief Innocent Okorie Ekpete arsenic Igwe-elect successful 2018 – a process the assemblage said was lawful and wide accepted.

However, the petition alleged that Prince Ugochukwu Nwanjoku has present sidelined this process to beforehand his in-law, Ajosh Ukwuoma – a antheral reportedly joined into Nwanjoku’s household and who, according to the petition, lacks the accepted and law qualifications for kingship.

The concern reportedly escalated connected October 7, 2025, erstwhile the president convened what the petitioners described arsenic a “kangaroo meeting” to anoint Ukwuoma arsenic the caller accepted ruler.

According to the document, the morganatic municipality national leadership, including the president general, Comrade Chidubem Ekpete and the secretary, Alor Samuel, refused to be the gathering aft identifying its unconstitutional nature.

Despite their absence, the president allegedly went up with the declaration successful the beingness of lone his idiosyncratic aides and loyalists. Disturbingly, helium is accused of claiming that his actions were sanctioned by the politician and the commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Matters, Hon Okey Ogbodo.

In the powerfully worded petition, the radical of Amankanu expressed sedate interest implicit what they described arsenic an autocratic behaviour by the section authorities chairman.

Adding to the controversy, the petitioners revealed that the chieftaincy substance is already earlier a competent court, with a tribunal proceeding held arsenic precocious arsenic October 9. They argued that further enactment connected the substance by the Chairman constitutes contempt of tribunal and threatens the judicial process.

The petitioners issued 4 urgent appeals (prayers) to Governor Mbah to motorboat a transparent probe into Prince Ugochukwu Nwanjoku’s alleged interference successful accepted enactment matters instrumentality measures to halt the president and his aides from harassing oregon persecuting assemblage leaders, recognise that the substance is earlier the court, and guarantee that nary authorities authoritative acts successful a mode that would magnitude to contempt of the judicial system.

The Concerned Citizens emphasised that the governor’s punctual and decisive involution is captious not lone to reconstruct bid successful Amankanu but besides to safeguard the regularisation of instrumentality and support the integrity of accepted institutions crossed the state.