Anambra govt dissolves community's leadership over controversial appointment

The Anambra State government has sacked the leadership of the Oko People’s Union, led by Mr Amaechi Okoli as president general. Oko community is in

The Anambra State government has sacked the leadership of the Oko People’s Union, led by Mr Amaechi Okoli as president general.The sack, DAILY POST learnt, was because of a rift between the leadership of the town’s union and the monarch of the community, Igwe Laz Ekwueme.

Though the commissioner attributed the sack to protest trailing the election of the leadership, DAILY POST learnt that the main reason was the appointment of a son of the community, Hon. Sopuru Ezeonwuka into the governing council of Federal Polytechnic, Oko, without the approval of the monarch of the community, Ekwueme.

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