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Okorocha, monarchs draw battle line
The ongoing battle of supremacy between Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State, and the 40 traditional rulers in the state who took him to court is unrelenting as the governor has handed down a warning to them against taking his respect for the people of the state for granted.
The governor who gave the warning at a meeting with all the traditional rulers in the state except the 40 who shunned the parley, directed the affected monarchs to immediately withdraw the suit and tender an apology because their action was intended to insult and embarrass him.
The 40 traditional rulers had gone to court on the ground that Okorocha had suspended them, but the governor said the traditional rulers were out to deliberately malign him and his government because he never suspended or sacked them or even queried any of them.
Okorocha also explained that the State Council of Traditional Rulers led by Eze Samuel Ohiri, does not have the right to suspend or remove any traditional ruler from his stool, saying it was only a governor that has such right and that he has not exercised such right against the traditional rulers.
According to him, the traditional rulers would not have gone to court action against the governor during the past regimes in the state, stating “but they did it now because this administration has a human face.”
The governor, however, directed that the three months arrears owed the traditional rulers in the state should be paid within one week.
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