No fewer than eight traditional rulers in Anambra State are on the verge of being suspended from office by the state government following what is described as indiscriminate conferment of chieftaincy titles on undeserving and controversial persons, South-East PUNCH has learnt.
This was just as the traditional ruler of the Nawfia community in Njikoka Local Government Area of Anambra State, His Royal Highness, Igwe Dr. Daniel Ogochukwu Obelle, has apologised to the governor of the state, Chukwuma Soludo, for flouting the code of conduct guiding the conferment of chieftaincy titles in the state.
A reliable source, who pleaded anonymity for fear of victimisation, informed that a certain monarch, who conferred chieftaincy titles on no fewer than 72 persons in a day in a community – name withheld – in Orumba South Local Government Area of the state is already a goner.
It was gathered that before the collision with the state government, the monarch was already at loggerheads with some of the high chiefs in his domain for giving the ‘Odenigbo 1’ title to a new person without recourse to a prominent philanthropist in the community, who had been conferred with the same title many years back.