The Nanka Elders under the group of Nanka Elders Forum (NEF) in a statement on Wednesday 31st January 2024, condemned the utterances of Ezeobi that Governor Soludo does not need Nanka votes to win second term in 2025 governorship election.
In a press statement signed by the chairman of the Elders” Forum, Chief Gilbert Okoye, the elders said that Ezeobi’s utterances has displayed the arrogance in power characteristics of some people in government who does not understand that no condition is permanent in life.
“We further urged, the governor to immediately sack him so in order to disassociates ourselves from his inglorious and unfriendly disposition which if not checkmated will create serious political tension in the community”.
“Nanka citizens, has taken a position by supporting their own son Chief Okwudili Ezenwankwo, whom they have trusted than political strangers in Nanka Political development”.
“He is only a political appointee not an elected personnel, tell me where his pride came from, Dr Okoye fumed”.
“The elders warned that those in Soludo’s government should make more friends for the Governor than creating enmity for him in the state”.
”We call on Ezeobi, and his like to desist from making this type of reckless and otiose statements about the entire community. It is not in his interest neither is it in the interest of government he is serving. No government would want to isolate any community for whatever reason”, the group further noted.
They restated their unalloyed loyalty and support for Chief Okwudili Ezenwankwo, Governor Soludo and his administration and compelled Okey Ezeobi to tender unreserved apology to Ndi Nanka or face their music soonest.
