Soludo diminishing Anambra cultural foundation over petty grudges, Okagbue

 

By Okechukwu Onuegbu

Chief Uzu Okagbue, the Governorship running mate to the Young Progressives Party (YPP) candidate, Sir Paul Chukwuma has alleged that governor Chukwuma Soludo is seeking to diminish the cultural foundation of Anambra State over petty grudges.

Okagbue, erstwhile aide to former Governor Willie Obiano, in a statement issued on Tuesday, was referring to crowing of President Bola Tinubu as Dikesimba Anambra, which he believed should have been be carried out by the world class Traditional Ruler of Onitsha, Obi Alfred Achebe.

"Obi of Onitsha stands; and will remain, a towering emblem of cultural nobility and traditional esteem. No amount of political gaslighting from a rudderless system, which ought to uphold and honor spiritually constituted authorities as seen in more enlightened societies, can diminish his preeminence in South East's traditional order," he noted.

According to him, Nigeria, and indeed the watching world, "are left to ponder: what deep malaise afflicts the current administration in Anambra State, that it would so shamelessly mock the very traditions that dignify it’s existence?"

"It is a pitiable spectacle when a government, driven by petty grudges, seeks to diminish the very cultural foundations it ought to defend, only to betray it’s own confusion and folly in the process. 

"How does Mr. President visit Anambra State, home to the venerable Obi of Onitsha, the undisputed primus of the South East traditional hierarchy, only to be crowned by the Governor’s installed state chairman of traditional rulers?

" In it’s desperate bid to score transient political points against a sacred institution, the current Anambra State Government, not only offends the dignity of tradition, but also parades it’s own embarrassing incoherence before the nation and the world," he further maintained.