{"id":8262,"date":"2013-08-20T11:57:31","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T11:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=8262"},"modified":"2013-08-20T11:57:31","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T11:57:31","slug":"eze-ilomuanya-ohiri-in-supremacy-war-at-orlu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=8262","title":{"rendered":"Eze Ilomuanya, Ohiri In Supremacy War At Orlu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/illumuanya.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/illumuanya.jpg\" alt=\"illumuanya\" width=\"599\" height=\"356\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/illumuanya.jpg 599w, https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/illumuanya-300x178.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The inglorious battle over who is the authentic Chairman of Imo State Council of Traditional rulers, took another funny dimension yesterday Amaifeke, Orlu LGA during the Iri ji festival of the people.<br \/>\nAn Appeal Court had two months ago removed Eze Samuel Ohiri and re-instated Eze Cletus Ilomuanya who was in charge before Ohiri came into power. The state government is yet to respect the court order.<br \/>\nHowever, a tinge of drama ensued at the Iri ji (New Yam) festival when the traditional ruler and deputy chairman of Ndi Eze of Orlu Zone, Eze E.C. Okeke presented kola nuts to welcome guests. Eze Okekeke presented the kola nut to his colleagues, Eze Chidume Okoro who is the Deputy Chairman of Owerri Zone for the public. In observation of the \u201ckola nut ritual\u201d Eze Okoro took the kolanut to Eze Ohiri before it reached the hands of Eze Ilomuanya.<br \/>\nEze Ilomuanya however made a detour during the observation of the kolanut presentation \u201critual\u201d when he took one kolanut as Chairman of South East Council of Traditional Rulers and another as undisputed Chairman of Imo State Council of Traditional Rulers before pocketing one again as personal kola.<br \/>\nWhen Eze Okeke took back the kolanut he somehow expressed misgiving about Eze Ilomuanya\u2019s approach to the kolanut issue, stating that the kolanuts collected by the Obi of Obinugwu were improper as it has not undergone normal process of prayer before collection.<br \/>\nJoining forces in the ego war and battle of supremacy is the Senator representing the Zone, Senator Hope Uzodimma who berated Ndi Eze Orlu and indeed monarchs in the state over the absurdities that have trailed the re-installment of Eze Ilomuanya after the Appeal Court verdict. The Senator challenged them on the Ilomuanya issue with a sum of N1m at the event.<br \/>\nIn his reaction, a troubled Eze Ohiri expressed that he is not battling the position of Chairman of Imo State Council of Traditional Rulers. While querying if \u201cana azo eze azo\u201d? Meaning that \u201cthe monarch\u2019s position is not in dispute\u201d Eze Ohiri noted that the Amaifeke event is not for politics but a cultural show where politics should be eschewed. Eze Ohiri said that his position is a product of law and anybody willing to challenge him should challenge the law first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The inglorious battle over who is the authentic Chairman of Imo State Council of Traditional<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frontpage"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","elegant-magazine-featured":"","elegant-magazine-medium":"","elegant-magazine-medium-small":"","elegant-magazine-thumbnail-small":""},"author_info":{"info":["Imo Trumpeta"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?cat=3\" rel=\"category\">Frontpage<\/a>","tag_info":"Frontpage","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8264,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8262\/revisions\/8264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}