By Emma Amaize
WARRI—LESS than six days after Prince Sam Obi took over as Acting Governor of Delta State,  he is having his first crisis management test-case with a brewing emergency in Ughelli North Local Government Area over the installation of a new Ovie (king) within Agbarha kingdom.

The Ovie of Agbarha kingdom, His Royal Majesty, John Amrohworiemure Okorefe, Ebelle II, in a letter, dated November 15, sent through the chairman of Ughelli North local government, notified the Acting Governor of the impending calamity.

A conflict management expert in the state also told Vanguard, yesterday, that except the Acting Governor intervened and nipped the matter in the bud, the simmering furore over the installation of one Isaac Abuma Etakibuebu as the Ovie of Onah kingdom in Agbarha kingdom, with an already existing Ovie of Agbarha kingdom, “may snowball to a crisis of unimaginable proportion.”

Onah community, which stirred the controversy, had in  a notification letter, dated August 21, addressed to the former deputy governor of the state, informed the state government of the installation of His Royal Highness, Isaac Abuma Etakibuebu, Uwerhiavwe II as the Ovie of Onah kingdom.

Elder Aguonigho Okogu, Chief Onisuru Agbogine, among others, for the Uwerhiavwe family and Onah community executive who signed the notification letter stated that Onah community had been autonomous for several years before the advent of the British colonialists and that for about 14 years, there was an interregnum in Onah kingdom, which finally led to the agreement that a direct and acceptable male descendant of Ovie Uvwerhiavwe, the Ist in the person of Prince Isaach Abuma Etakibuebu Uwerhiavwe be crowned the Ovie.”