Tension is currently high in Iji Nike community, Enugu East Local Government Area, Enugu State, over the purported removal of the President-General of the
community and Chairman of Ikwu Ekpe masquerade, Chief Chukwuemeka Anike by the traditional ruler of the community, Igwe Julius Nnaji.
He said that he had not committed any offence either against any individual or the custom of the land deserving of his removal, adding that even if he is accused of any wrongdoing, the elders and the Igwe would invite him to defend himself. “I was sworn in as PG by Igwe Nnaji at the premises of the eldest man in the community, Elder Dominic Okorie-Ifenze in 2021, barely 2 years ago for a five-year tenure. The Igwe decided on his own to remove me.
Speaking to journalists in his residence, the eldest man in Iji Nike, compromising Umuchigbo and Umuenwene, Elder Dominic Okorie-Ifenze condemned the action of Igwe Nnaji, saying it is illegal. “We summoned him and after everything he accepted his fault but refused to come back on the day we scheduled to meet. The elders and the Chairman of Ekpe masquerade were at the meeting but the Igwe failed to show up. So as far as I am concerned, Chukwuemeka Anike is still the Chairman of Ikwu Ekpe,” he stressed.
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