The Governor of Anambra State has ordered the suspension of the traditional ruler of Neni ,HRH Igwe Damian Onwuamaeze Ezeani (Igwe Ugonabo) .
In the letter signed by his Commissioner for Local Government, Chieftaincy and Community Affairs, Tony Collins Nwabunwanne, the reverred traditional ruler's offence was that he conferred a chieftaincy title on the APC Senator representating Anambra South Senatorial District, Senator Dr Ifeanyi Ubah CON.
Note that this same reverred Igwe also Conferred Chieftancy Titles on several other illustrious sons of Anambra as part of his 20th Ofalla Festival on the 29th of December, 2023 ,an event in which the Senator was unavoidably absent.
The question then becomes, since when does Conferring Chieftancy Title On a Distinguished Senator of the Federal Republic become a crime that is punishable with suspension or could this particular Senator's crime be that of being a member of the ruling APC.
Governor Soludo, who had since made public , his angst that Senator Ubah joined the ruling APC amidst rumours of Ndi Anambra's discontentment with his lacklustre administration and their agitation for the Senator to succeed him, has since embarked on several knee jerk reactionary moves driven by morbid fear which has today, culminated in this arbitrary abuse of state power
Governor Soludo must be told in clear terms that power is transient and must also be put on notice that he is the first to use crude state power against citizens of the state by this deliberate attack on our traditional institution.
It is now officially on record that the APGA state governor, by his action, has attacked the ruling APC at the Centre and must be prepared to accept any repercussions that come thereof.
The federal government's exhibition of maturity by maintaining silence when this same governor rebagged the bags of rice that they sent as palliative to ndi Anambra and shared to Apga party members alone must have emboldened them further to take this clueless step .
Ndi Anambra are watching events as they unfold and will remind Soludo of the following proverb
When a man cooks for a community, they will finish it, but where an entire community cooks for one man, body go tell am.
This flagrant abuse of power ,pettiness, and cluelessness will never stand !