A chieftaincy of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief Vincent Udeobi, Thursday, expressed displeasure over Governor Chukwuma Soludo’s continuous recognition of Chief Uchenna Nwoye as the President General of his community, Ifitedunu, in Dunukofia LGA of Anambra state.
Udeobi, in a press conference, alleged that Nwoye was impeached by the entire Ifitedunu and chairmen of five villages namely, Obiezie, Ugbomili, Akwa, Umualugo and Uguala.
He also demanded the sack of the state Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Matters, Hon. Tonycollins Nwabunwanne, claiming that he was taking side with the embattled President General ‘because they are friends.’
But responding in another press conference, the state Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Matters, Hon. Tonycollins Nwabunwanne, dismissed the allegations that the government was shielding Nwoye, adding that Soludo’s administration was not ready to sack leadership duly elected by the people.
According to Nwabunwanne, Soludo always allowed communities to conduct president generals and traditional rulership elections as stipulated in their constitutions because the administration was committed to entrenching peace, law and order all over the 179 communities to speed up development.
He further maintained that Nwoye, the embattled PG was duly elected in line with the 2020 constitution of Ifitedunu (as amended in 2017), only for some individuals to molest and intimidate him, as well as attempted to install another person in his place while his tenure was still running and without following a due process.
The commissioner cited the constitution of the Ifitedunu, which in section 19 (A) enumerated among other things, that an elected officer of the town union could only be removed if discovered to be incompetent or breach the constitution, and it must be carried out by 2/3 members of the community present at a well constituted general assembly which must be constituted either by the President General or Traditional Ruler.
He, therefore, insisted that the incumbent administration would keep according recognition to Nwoye as PG of Ifitedunu until his tenure elapses.
