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THE APOLOGY THAT LOWERS THE THRONE OF IGWE

THE APOLOGY THAT LOWERS THE IGWE THRONE
Written by Mazi Mike Ngozi Osuji
The throne of an Igwe in Igbo land is sacred and ancestral. The sacredness of the Igwe Royal stool is therefore, not meant to be compromised by the occupant of the throne for reasons which has the underlining of personal aggrandizement and political shinanigans. 
Over the years, criminal elements and charlatans have successfully forced themselves on the  thrones of their ancestors by bribing their way to the sacred throne. In doing so, the eze stool in many Igbo kingdoms remain debased under the rulership of criminals and charlatans. The Eze is on throne primarily as the custodian of the Igbo culture and traditions of his people,  but what obtains these days gives the stools of Igwe out as a throne of charlatans who are there for their own personal gratification. 
The Eze stool must not suffer reproach and embarrassment as it were, but the Igwes' meddlesome behaviors in political matters created rooms for political demagogues and money bags to desecrate on the sacred stools of Igbo ancestors.

The trending apology of the Igwe of Alor, His Royal Highness, Igwe Mack- Anthony Elibe Okonkwo, Ezedioramma the111 of Alor ancient kingdom, to the Amambra governor, Chief Williams Obiano, is to state the obvious, belittling, shameful, and denigrating on the throne of Alor people in particular, and Anambra in general. The apology has done more damages than remedy the embarrassing and scandalous situation which the Igwe throne has to face due to the prodigal trip the twelve Igwes underwent to Abuja in recent times.
Rather than uplift the battered image of the Anambra ancient thrones and kingdoms, the apology of His Royal Highness, Igwe Mack-Anthony Elibe Okonkwo to the state governor,  has lowered the exalted sanctuary of the Igwe stool and de-mistified its invincibility and sacredness.

Perhaps, the Igwe does not know that Anambra citizens, including the governor are his subjects if he had respected his throne as a traditional ruler who knows that his throne is not political and commercial. 

The public apology of  Igwe  Alor to the governor of Anambra is inappropriate and abysmal because of the implications and the spiral effects it is going to have on the Eze stools of Igbo race and traditions
His Royal Highness is not meant to go on his knees or cap in hand, begging for any favour or forgiveness from his own subject no mater what happened. 
This is happening because the Igwe doesn't know what it means to occupy the sacred thrones of the Igbo ancestors.
The Igwe involved in this scandal ought to resign honorably, to avoid further damages to the already battered images of the sacred stools of those Igbo kingdoms affected in this shameful imbroglios.

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