Story from Kenneth AFOR, Lagos
Shortly after the pronouncement of a High Court in Owerri on Monday, ordering former Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha to forfeit over 500 personal properties acquired while in office to the State Government, the former governor now Senator has lost a chieftaincy title that would be conferred on him in Ogun State.
Oba Akintunde Akinyemi, the Eselu of Iselu Kingdom announced the withdrawal of the chieftaincy title of Otunba Asoludero on the Senator which is conferment on his efforts in unifying different tribes across the country.
But the monarch in a letter on explained that the chieftaincy title was withdrawn “in the interest of peace and harmony.”
The installation ceremony, which was supposed to be held on September 19, was cancelled by the first-class traditional ruler.
This was contained in a letter dated August 9, signed by the Oba Akinyemi and addressed to the former and now Senator.
The first-class monarch had recently pronounced the lawmaker as the Otunba Asoludero of Iselu kingdom in Yewa -North Local Government Area of Ogun.
See letter below:
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