Why Udu Leadership Summit Failed

A member of the Oghior Community Elite Forum, Ambassador Kolodi Jaho Godspower, has declared the just concluded Udu Leadership Summit which held on Thursday September 23, as a complete failure, stressing that with the disposition of the Ovie of Udu Kingdom towards some communities in the Kingdom in branding them strangers in his unread address to the summit, the time to remove the King and enthrone another who would unite Udu together has come.

In a statement he personally signed, Ambassador Kolodi Jaho Godspower noted that the Ovie of Udu Kingdom has persistently maintained that some communities in Udu are strangers not entitled to any heritage in Udu and that ‘’despite the intervention of the Forum of Urhobo Traditional Rulers and the Delta State Council of Traditional Rulers who have scolded the monarch over his negative and malicious tendencies, the Udu Monarch still went ahead of send another accursed address to the summit for presentation on his behalf but the organizers, for fear of public reactions, could not present it to the house.

‘’The theme of the summit is ‘Building Synergy for Udu Development’ and that is the real thing that has been missing in the affairs of Udu people, which the Ovie had attacked in his address. There can be no synergy, or unity of purpose where some section of the Kingdom are being branded strangers and secondary strangers by a man who is supposedly the father of all. Therefore, the summit has failed and the time to remove the King is now.

‘’The essential reasons for the Udu leadership synergy summit have failed, through the negative or hatred speech by the Ovie of Udu Kingdom concerning Orhuwhorun and Oghior communities among others. These two communities have produced notable and respected leaders in UDU. Orhuwhorun for instance has produced Late Hon Chief Austin Ogbaburhon, Rt Hon Harvest Igben former member DTHA, Hon Chief Peter Uviejitobor current member DTHA and Prince Sam Ughujohwovwo and others. The Honourable Commissioner for DESOPADEC, Chief Vincent O. Oyibode, is from Oghior community yet the Ovie is maintaining that these people are strangers in Udu. This madness has to stop and I hereby call on Udu leaders to put machineries in place to remove the King without any further delay.

‘’He is the architect of the disunity in the kingdom. He does not see beyond his Aladja community and supports everything Aladja at the expense of the general interest of Udu people. For the King to refer to some Udu Communities as strangers, he can no longer be trusted as Udu royal father.

‘’If after two weeks, Udu leaders fail to remove Barr E.B.O Delekpe as Udu King, Oghior shall enthrone their own King and at that time, no force of man will be able to stop us. We shall dare anybody or power to fight for our right in our God-given land in this part of the world. I hereby call on Oghior Federated Communities to get ready for the next phase of the struggle. The search for the Ovie of Oghior Kingdom will begin in earnest’’, Ambassador Kolodi declared.

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