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withdrawn.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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