Ugwuanyi liberator of our time, jinx breaker, says group
People of Greater Ugwuaji communities in Enugu South Local Government Area of the state have described Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi as their liberator.
The people said when the governor came into office and saw the suppression they were experiencing in the polity of the council area for decades, intervened and conquered it, in keeping with his administration’s peace and good governance initiatives.
People of Greater Ugwuaji communities, who trooped out in their numbers to Government House, Enugu, to thank Governor Ugwuanyi for the emergence of their son, Chiemezie Ngwuo, as elected chairman of Enugu South council for the first time in the history of Enugu State, said the governor has made the impossible possible.
Speaking on behalf of the people, who came with their masquerades and cultural dance groups, dancing and thanking Ugwuanyi, Okechukwu Ede said prior to the governor’s intervention “there have been acts of subjugation, suppression and denials of all sorts existing in our polity against the Greater Ugwuaji communities,” adding that the ugly experience had prevented their communities from having a say in governance virtually at all levels.
Ede told Ugwuanyi that “when your administration came on board, despite the enormous responsibilities on your shoulder, you never neglected or ignored addressing these aspects of man inhumanity to man. You handled these alongside the huge developmental projects in the state.”
The Chairman, Ngwuo, said Governor Ugwuanyi is “a man of peace who stood and defended those that have been oppressed and denied their right,” and thanked “God in a special way for using you to liberate Ugwuaji people and put smiles on the faces of the entire communities.”
Describing Ugwuanyi as a jinx breaker, the council chairman said: “All rulers are here, priests are here to say thank you to you.”
In their separate speeches, C. I. Nyia, Okado I of Obeagu-Ugwuaji and the eldest man in Ugwuaji, Ugwua-Nvene thanked Governor Ugwuanyi in a special way and prayed for peace and God’s abundant blessings upon him and his family.
Special prayer was offered for the governor by the Coordinator Ugwuaji Minister’s Forum, Ezekiel Ogbu.
