People of Amorka in Ihiala local government area of Anambra state have threatened to vote out any governorship candidate to be sponsored by the ruling All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) in the November 2021 poll if the government impose a caretaker leadership in the community.
The community, in a protest to the state government house in Awka, Wednesday, alleged that some stakeholders were sponsoring impeachment and removal of their President General (PG), Prof. Simeon Alosiuwa, to install a caretaker to do their bidding.
Speaking to newsmen, Mr Benjamin Ohibike, said trouble started when some stakeholders from the community including a lawmaker approached the PG and his executive to make the town’s traditional rulership stool rotational but he declined.
According to Ohibike, the president general directed them to appropriate quarters as his office had nothing to do with that, even as his tenure was remaining a year and few months to end, (hence the process might not end before he leaves office).
Also speaking, a cabinet member of Amorka, Chief Chimezie Ohamesi, explained that since Alosiuwa rejected the call for making the community traditional stool rotational, the stakeholders and few appointed members of his executive begun to make the town ungovernable for him through crisis.
Addressing the protesters, the Anambra State Commissioner for Local Government, Community and Chieftaincy Affairs, Mr Greg Obi, represented by Mr Ikechukwu Nweke, assured that the governor would look at their grievances with a view to resolving them amicably for peace to reign.
