By Dennis Agbo

The people of Ogui Nike in Enugu North Local Government of Enugu State have made a case contending that it is their turn to produce the Chairman of Enugu North Local Government Council at the forth coming Local Government polls stated for October 2024.

The Community through its President General, Mr. Ifesinachi Alum stated that there was a zoning arrangement which was to have their son clinch the PDP’s House of Assembly ticket at the 2023 elections, but that was twarted due to ambition of Hon. Ibenaku Onoh who against the spirit of a rotation agreement clinched the House of Assembly ticket against the advice of his elder cousin, Dr. Josef Onoh.

Addressing newsmen in Enugu on the anticipated political impasse, the President General narrated that but for the insistence of Hon. Ibenaku Onoh, the position would have been zoned to Ogui Nike Community, but that when he insisted and clinched the ticket of the People’s Democratic Party, they still voted for him with the anticipation that he will support Ogui Nike to clinch the Party’s ticket during the Local Government Council polls.

“Even after losing the 2023 House of Assembly general election, Ibenaku Onoh came with his people to thank the people of Ogui Nike and Umunevo Ogui Nike communities for their massive support. It is very surprising to now hear that he is gearing up to contest the upcoming Local Government elections which ordinarily should be the turn of Ogui Nike.

“Therefore what we are begging His Excellency, Dr. Peter Ndubuisi Mbah is to help stop this injustice being unleashed on the people of Ogui Nike,” Alum pleaded.

It will be recalled that Dr. Josef Onoh, in his recent visit to the stakeholders of Ogui Nike and Umunevo Ogui Nike Communities argued that the 2024 Chairmanship of Enugu North Local Government Council should automatically be zoned to Ogui Nike.