Ezeigbo Lagos Picks form for Igweship, Faces 2 More Challenges
By Juliana Nwachukwu
It was jubilation and carnival of a sort at Oba Civic Centre, Idemili South Local Government Area, as one of the four Igweship candidates, Chief Godwin Njubigbo, Ezeigbo of Mainland Lagos, picked up Igweship form after winning Aborji village primary election.
He was accompanied by village relations, chiefs, music groups, and well-wishers, impressing Oba Patriotic Union executives led by Mr Anthony Uzor Ejiofor.
Addressing the OPU executive, the PG of Aborji Village, Nze Nweke, said that they came in company of the Igweship hopeful, Njubigbo, to pick the Igweship form as demanded by the Oba community constitution and commended the OPU executive for her efforts to ensure production of Igwe Eze Okpoko the second (11) of Oba.
In his response while presenting the form to the Aborji PG, on behalf of Chief Njubigbo, the OPU boss,Chief Ejiofor, expressed satisfaction with the large turn up of followers that accompanied Njubigbo to pick the form, adding that it showed the people of Oba were satisfied with the work of OPU in the community.
"We are being commended for planning to elect a new monarch to substitute former Igwe Eze Okpoko, Igwe Peter Ezenwa, who joined his ancestors, as a priority of this OPU through the Oba constitution.
"We are issuing the forms to four candidates that emerged victorious in their different villages and so far two out of the four have collected their forms and they include Okuzu and now Aborji villages. However, there are still two hurdles awaiting the four Igweship candidates and they are to be screened and the election proper, he noted.
In his response, Chief Njubigbo, thanked the PG of OPU and his executives, adding that they put their time, money and selflessness to move Oba forward even as he cursed whoever that plans to frustrate their efforts.
"I will return my filled form with willful donation of #10 million having heard of plans to have a permanent palace and I have before now been assisting financially and otherwise to assist in taking Oba to the next level," he further added.
He urged the PG and his executives not to be deterred by enemies of progress who try to frustrate their efforts, maintaining that the entire Oba is on their side to not only produce a new monarch but infrastructural development of the community.
Reacting, the Saraki Igbo Kaduna, Chief Anthony U. Nwoye, disclosed that Njubigbo has garnered wealth of experience in Igweship as the Ezeigbo of Lagos and will impact such experience on his Oba people.
" In Lagos he is paid as monarch just like myself who is paid in Kaduna as monarch. Njubigbo is also educated, wealthy, and he is a philanthropist that is not pompous and that is the type of person we want, one with open door policy. I am not saying this because we come from same village but because he is a born philantropist," he affirmed.
Former PG, Chief Samuel Obianyo, described Njubigbo as 'God-sent' to alleviate the people's suffering, likening him to the Biblical David, chosen by God to lead Israel.
* Nwachukwu is of the Ministry of Information, Anambra State *
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