Abia Monarch Suspended For Six Months Over Alleged Insubordination

Eze Nnamdi Ofoegbu, the traditional ruler of Umudiawa autonomous community in Umuahia North LGA of Abia State, has been suspended for six months for alleged insubordination and flagrant disregard to the instructions of the State traditional council.

Explaining the suspension of Eze Ofoegbu, the Chairman, Abia State Council of Traditional Rulers, Eze Linus Nto Mbah denied that the traditional ruler was suspended because of his affinity with President Bola Tinubu or RT. Hon. Benjamin Kalu.

Eze Mbah while reacting to a malicious and unfounded online news report with a headline, “Abia State Government Suspends Monarch Over Alleged Support for Tinubu Benjamin Kalu” revealed that the content of the letter which he equally made available to the press was not ambiguous and did not mention Mr. President nor the Deputy Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives.

”The suspension letter was not ambiguous. It reads in parts; Our letter, dated 6th June 25, 2025, refers; consequent upon your consistent and flagrant disregard to the instructions of the Abia State Council of Traditional Rulers, with respect to your parading a parallel South East Traditional Rulers Council, (code named South East Progressive Traditional Rulers Forum, Ndigbo Progressive Traditional Rulers Forum),

“Causing rift amongst the traditional rulers of the South East, ably led by HRM Eze Dr. E.C. Okeke, and bringing Abia State Council of Traditional Rulers to disrepute and dishonour to the State Government.

“You are hereby suspended from the Abia State Council of Traditional Rulers for six (6) months.

“So, let me reiterate that the letter that suspended him does not in any way suggest that it is because of his attitude or behaviour towards any political official, not even President Tinubu or Rt. Hon. Benjamin Kalu, rather it is because of his disrespect to the Council’s instructions as regards to running a parallel association,” Eze Mbah explained.

The monarch expressed surprise that a sane reporter could have written and published such a falsehood to discredit Abia State Government and Abia State Traditional Rulers, and attempt to create acrimony between the traditional institution in Abia state and President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the Deputy Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives.

He therefore advised all Abians, South Easterners and Nigerians at large to disregard the purported publication, saying that it is the handwork of individuals who agree to be hired to cause problems and fuel disunity among the people

It could be recalled that the Abia State Council of Traditional Rulers in March, disbanded all traditional rulers’ associations operating in parallel with various State Traditional Rulers Councils in the South East, a decision that was contained in a communiqué released by the 9th Assembly of the Abia State Council of Traditional Rulers after its meeting held at JAAC House, Umuahia and publicised widely.

Abia Monarch Suspended For Six Months Over Alleged Insubordination is first published on The Whistler Newspaper