The four zones identified in the statement are Nike Uno, Mbulu Njodo, Mbulu Owehe and Mbulu Iyiukwu.
Stakeholders from the Mbulu-Iyiukwu, Mbulu-Njodo and Mbulu-Owehe geopolitical zones in Enugu East Local Government Area of Enugu State have accused the dominant Nike Uno bloc of monopolising political power in the council for nearly three decades, demanding an end to what they described as systemic marginalisation and exclusion from leadership.
In a press statement issued on Friday by Barrister Chukwuemeka Agbo on behalf of concerned stakeholders, the groups alleged that since the creation of Enugu East Local Government Area in 1996, all executive chairmen of the council had emerged exclusively from the Nike Uno political zone, despite the Mbulu axis accounting for about 75 per cent of the local government’s population.
The stakeholders described the situation as “wanton abandonment and neglect,” warning that the continued concentration of political power in one zone was breeding resentment, suspicion and political unrest within Nikeland.
“This press release is to reveal to the good people of Enugu East Local Government Area and to the world the pervasive discrimination, marginalisation and neglect the political zones of Mbulu Njodo, Mbulu Iyiukwu and Mbulu Owehe have suffered in the hands of the political zone of Nike Uno,” the statement read.
