Kingship Tussle: Ewu Women Protest With Casket, Reject Imposition Of Ikolo,  Rain Curses On His Supporters

In a video circulating in the social media, the women in their numbers, were seen at the village square dropping a black coloured casket with each holding leaf and singing funeral songs with the name of Clement Ikolo and thereafter laid curses on him and anyone perpetuating crisis and causing trouble in the kingdom.

It could be recalled that since the pronouncement of Clement Ikolo, as the new king-elect for the kingdom by the Delta State Government contrary to Bernard Awarieta whom they said was chosen according to the tradition and crowned king  if the kingdom, there has been unrest as the people alleged that Clement Ikolo is not an indigene of Ewu kingdom and cannot be a king.

In the wake of the crisis, one person have also shot dead.

Meanwhile, women from the kingdom had also through a protest to the palace of the Orodje of Okpe Kingdom and the Chairman of Delta State Traditional Rulers Council, called on the monarch to intervened and prevailed on the state government from presenting staff of office to Clement Ikolo as their king to avoid crisis and war.

In lieu of the installatiin and presentation of staff of office, the Bernard Awarieta fashion haf obtained a Court Order from the High Court of Justice sitting at Otu-Jeremi, headquarters of Ughelli South Local Government Area, restraining and calling on both parties including  the state government and the attorney general of the state to maintain status quo pending when the matter will be heard on November 23, 2023.

Sources at Ewu told our Correspondent that troops of army and police detachments were drafted to Ewu yesterday possibly to maintain peace, but alleged that the protesting women who have barricaded the entrance to the Ewu community this morning were teargassed by the police to dispersed them.