Nigeria: Delta Community Protests Govt's Alleged Plan to Impose Monarch

27 December 2016

THE people of Enwhe Kingdom in Isoko South Local Government Area, Delta State, have kicked against an alleged plan by the state government to foist a traditional ruler on them.

In a petition addressed to the state governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, by Chief Patrick Okakor and others, they said that the community had chosen Prince Julius Panama as their king and were dumbfounded at the plan by the state government to impose one Chief Anthony Efekhoda on them, allegedly because of his political influence.

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