Court Dismisses Suit Against Monarch In Delta

An Asaba High Court has dismissed an application filed by Udeme Nwaje against the Obi of Ogwashi-Uku, Chukwuka Okonjo and others to grant him reliefs on the grounds that he was installed by one Felix Izediunor as an Ogwashi-uku titled chief.
While the court restrained him from parading himself as a titled chief in Ogwashi-Uku kingdom, Justice Jeremiah Obi, said the court recognised that the overall Obi of Ogwashi-Uku kingdom is Obi Chukwuka Okonjo, father of the former minister of finance and coordinating minister of the economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.
Justice Obi said, “The court has refused your application and your request subsequently struck it out; I grant all reliefs in the counter-affidavit which impact is for a perpetual injunction restraining Nwajei from ever parading himself as a chief in Ogwashi-Uku or carrying out any action that pertains to a titled chief”.
The court said that over the years, Nwajei was alleged to have been parading himself as a titled chief in the kingdom and had allegedly insisted that the Obi Ogochukwu title which never existed in Ogwashi-Uku traditional history, be bestowed on him.