{"id":231880,"date":"2025-07-05T14:24:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T14:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abianewscentral.com.ng\/abia-monarch-clarifies-suspension-of-eze-ofoegbu-dismisses-alleged-link-to-tinubu-kalu\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T14:24:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T14:24:23","slug":"abia-monarch-clarifies-suspension-of-eze-ofoegbu-dismisses-alleged-link-to-tinubu-kalu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/abia-monarch-clarifies-suspension-of-eze-ofoegbu-dismisses-alleged-link-to-tinubu-kalu\/","title":{"rendered":"Abia Monarch Clarifies Suspension Of Eze Ofoegbu, Dismisses Alleged Link To Tinubu, Kalu"},"content":{"rendered":"

Abia <\/a>Monarch Clarifies Suspension Of Eze Ofoegbu, Dismisses Alleged Link To Tinubu, Kalu
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The Chairman of the Abia <\/a>State Council of Traditional Rulers, Eze Linus Nto Mbah, has stated that the Council\u2019s suspension of Eze Nnamdi Ofoegbu was due to insubordination and blatant disregard for the Council\u2019s directives, and not because of any alleged support for President Bola Tinubu <\/a>or the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Benjamin Kalu.<\/p>\n

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Eze Mbah made the clarification while reacting to what he described as a malicious and baseless online report titled \u201cAbia <\/a>State Government Suspends Monarch Over Alleged Support for Tinubu, Benjamin Kalu\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n

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He stressed that the suspension letter, which he also made available to the press, was clear and unambiguous, and made no mention of either Mr President or the Deputy Speaker.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe suspension letter was not ambiguous. It reads in parts: \u2018Our letter, dated 6th June 2025, refers; consequent upon your consistent and flagrant disregard to the instructions of the Abia <\/a>State Council of Traditional Rulers, with respect to your parading a parallel South East Traditional Rulers Council (code named South East Progressive Traditional Rulers Forum, Ndigbo Progressive Traditional Rulers Forum), causing rift amongst the traditional rulers of the South East, ably led by HRM Eze Dr E.C. Okeke, and bringing Abia <\/a>State Council of Traditional Rulers to disrepute and dishonour to the State Government.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cYou are hereby suspended from the Abia <\/a>State Council of Traditional Rulers for six (6) months.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cSo, let me reiterate that the letter that suspended him does not in any way suggest that it is because of his attitude or behaviour towards any political official, not even President Tinubu <\/a>or Rt. Hon. Benjamin Kalu; rather, it is because of his disrespect to the Council\u2019s instructions as regards running a parallel association\u201d, Eze Mbah explained.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Traditional Ruler expressed dismay that \u201ca sane reporter could have written and published such a falsehood to discredit the Abia <\/a>State Government and the Abia <\/a>State Traditional Rulers, and attempt to create acrimony between the traditional institution in Abia <\/a>State and the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the Deputy Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n

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He therefore urged all Abians, South Easterners and Nigerians in general to disregard the publication, describing it as the handiwork of those willing to be used to cause problems and fuel disunity among the people.<\/p>\n

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It will be recalled that the Abia <\/a>State Council of Traditional Rulers, in March this year, disbanded all Traditional Rulers\u2019 Associations operating in parallel with the various State Traditional Rulers Councils in the South East.<\/p>\n

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The decision was contained in a communiqu\u00e9 issued by the 9th Assembly of the Abia <\/a>State Council of Traditional Rulers, after its meeting at JAAC House, Umuahia, and widely publicised.<\/p>\n

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Abia Monarch Clarifies Suspension Of Eze Ofoegbu, Dismisses Alleged Link To Tinubu, Kalu \u00a0 The Chairman of the Abia State Council of Traditional Rulers, Eze Linus Nto Mbah, has stated that the Council\u2019s suspension of Eze Nnamdi Ofoegbu was due to insubordination and blatant disregard for the Council\u2019s directives, and not because of any alleged […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":231881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[176],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}