The
Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, said the certificate with which
the former Chairman, Imo State Council of Traditional Rulers, Eze Cletus
Ilomuanya, was appointed as the traditional ruler in the state had been
withdrawn.
He therefore stated that since he had
been dethroned, the monarch should give way for another serving
traditional ruler to take his place at the conference.
Okorocha said this in a statement signed
by his Deputy Chief of Staff, Chinedu Offor, in a statement distributed
to journalists at the National Conference.
He said Eze Ilomuanya was nominated to the confab on the platform of traditional rulers.
Offor said the governor had appointed Eze
Ohiri to replace Ilomuanya, adding that the Federal Government should
recall Ilomuanya as a delegate since he came on the platform of the
traditional rulers.
He said the clarification became
necessary following an observation made by a South-East delegate
representing Forum of former Speakers, Mr. Anayo Nnebe, that the
National Conference should stop further intervention of state
governments in traditional institutions across the country.
Offor added that before the latest move
to dethrone the Orlu monarch, Okorocha had cautioned him against
parading himself as the Chairman of Imo Council of Traditional Rulers
due to offences he allegedly committed.
He said the governor’s earlier stance of
not officially communicating the monarch dethronement was to avoid
embarrassing him as the traditional ruler.
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