Ojoto Igweship Tussle: One stabbed, town crier beaten to pulp in Anambra

The lingering Igweship crisis in Ojoto community in Idemili South Local Government Area, Anambra State has taken a dangerous dimension as terror gangs  unleashed mayhem on perceived opponents.

At the centre of the crisis are the two contestants to the Igweship throne, High Chief Gerald Mbamalu who incidentally is the incumbent Regent of the community and Chief Dennis Adindu Okafor, a Lagos-based business mogul.

While Mbamalu and his loyalists are insisting that an election of new Igwe has not yet taken place in the area, Okafor and his own loyalists are claiming that he had already been elected as the new Igwe.

The crisis climaxed yesterday when one person was stabbed and a town crier, Mr Emeka Uzor was beaten to a pulp  for allegedly announcing that nobody has become the Igwe-elect of Ojoto and that the state government has ordered that every move about election of a new monarch should be suspended for now as a result of the worsening situation of the crisis.

Source: Vanguard