Prince Nwanjoku sets another record in Aninri council area

The chairman of Aninri local government area Prince Ugochukwu Nwanjoku has set another record in the council area.

For so long, the three major political blocs of the zone were in dark and suffering pains of inaccessible roads. One administration after another, since 1999, came and passed, and have left their own imprints.

Yet, none of the past chairmen have used asphalt to do roads. Today, Prince Nwanjoku has achieved that.

The 4.5-kilometre Obuagu Ohofia road connects Aninri and Nkanu West local government area from Nkerefi town.

However, few constituents thinks that its “biased” the asphalted road is at the chairman’s countryhome.

“This is foolishness on the part of those people, few of them,” Mr Chibueze Onu, a major stakeholders in Aninri said. According to him, focus shouldn’t be at the place where the road is done, but on how big Prince Ugochukwu Nwanjoku thinks.

Now, no matter how anyone may look at it, Prince Nwanjoku has set a new record. He is the first Aninri council chairman to ever do a road using asphalt, and among the 4 out of current 17 council chairmen in Enugu State who ever used asphalt on roads.

Aninri, a remote zone, is one of the smallest council area in the state and with the smallest federal allocation.

Asphalt, a waterproof and adhesive material made principally from bitumen, is largely avoided by council politicians for its high costs. At approximately ₦136,500 per ton or ₦5,500 per square metre, the cost of completing Obuagu Ohofia road will run into tens of millions.

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Why we “attack” Udengene: a very long story (editorial)

Since Sunday, we’ve been able to efficiently dramatize what the taste of revenge looks like. It was a successful campaign against the very grandmaster of mischief. And, frankly, I enjoyed every bit of this sweetened period.

The story started six years ago, in 2020. It was at the height of Comr Udengene’s influence in Oduma ward 2 politics. He was a legislative aid to former Senator Ike Ekweremadu, and was able to overshadow Hon Chidi Ekwe, Hon Able Chukwu, late Joe Merit and others.

I got form to run for councillorship under the All Progressives Congress (APC). Enugu was a PDP-state then. Despite our people’s deep hatred for APC, I was generally accepted and a lot of people polled resources together to support me. Influential people made calls on my behalf and volunteered in several ways for my success. In fact, I was the preferred candidate for Amagu and Amokwe communities. The remaining two villages that make up ward 2 were divided, anyway. Ameke had bought into me, but then communal clash ensued between them and my Amagu brothers over a contentious piece of land. My opponent, the serving councillor Hon Marble Onwukwe, was from Obeagu. But opinions showed that I could win at least 49 percent of Obeagu votes.

I was expecting rigging in the elections. Its the trademark of PDP politics in Aninri. But I wasn’t expecting Comr Udengene, my own brother, to play the cruel roles he played and nearly set me up for death.

By February 22, the election day, I’ve got death threats more than once. Udengene and one of my own uncle whom I regarded as a father had been selling lies to the villages in Oduma ward 2 that I was the chief cause of the communal crisis between Amagu and Ameke communities on January 27, 2020.

In that war, people were killed and properties worth millions of naira destroyed or stolen. Then, the Local Government came, demolished the land and sealed it. So, by the time we were going to the polls, Orie market was the hottest issue in Oduma ward 2.

Udengene turned it against me. On the elections day, he took the electoral materials away from the known PDP rigging venues, went to Sen Ike Ekweremadu’s residence at Mpu and rigged me out. I want to believe he was not the only one; there were others. But he was the only one of them who was my brother and friend. Then he returned to our village and derided me. He said that if I had consulted him before running for the position that he wouldn’t have being so cruel. In other words, he worked against me simply to prove that he was bigger.

But he didn’t know that I had the power of pen, and animal guts. So, with them, I fought him, former Speaker, former PG and my uncle. It was a spectacular success, and Prince Okugo Nwanjoku was at its helm too. As it got hot, Hon Abel Chukwu promised me a compensation of ₦3 million, but Udengene made sure I didn’t get it.

He leveraged on his influence with Ekweremadu and incited Amagu women against me. But again, I survived. Or better still, I thrived.

All his antics to bring me down fell off against my own determined aggression. So I can safely say that Udengene made me popular in 2020 when I was not very much known. He also solidified my place as an undisputed political rising star from Amagu. His wickedness actually announced me.

Udengene is not a good leader; he is a bad one. I would’ve kept quiet and not expose his ills. But I needed to remind him that there’s no gain in breaking a bridge you might someday have to cross. We’re brothers, and if he starts seeing me as one then I, too, will consider him as one.

Call it boasting if you wish, but Jude Ogbonna is more powerful that you know – and its because I have my pen! As I write this, lying besides me is a dangerously worded petition I had intended to submit this afternoon to the Ministry of Chieftaincy Matters and Rural Development against Udengene and some of his “boys” and “ogas”. It is a spectacular petition, design solely to put whosoever it’s against to flight irrespective of his status.

But a major call came from a man I can never dispute his words. I’m dropping my pen. What I want to tell the government are true, and they happened. Another person, not me, can tell the stories.

All the reports we made since Sunday are true, but it would have been unnecessary to say them in the public if Udengene didn’t deliberately hurt me severally in the past.

They said he has ambition for 2027. If that’s true, I’m most likely to support him. And I’ll support him without hypocrisy, if I ever choose to. FOR NOW there’ll be calm! And if you’re reading this, Udengene, I wish you luck dear brother.

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A lady sues Aninri PG to Court, claims ₦55 million in damages over land grabbing

Udengene is currently being dragged to court by a lady who is now claiming a whopping ₦55 million in damages over land grabbing.

The matter, which started in early 2025, has been kept within the community as the President General has been threatening to “crush” anyone who brings “Amagu secrets before public”. InfoWars reported that Udengene has been using might to suppress the voices of his people.

But the natives, now emboldened as a result of InfoWars factual and fearless reports, are out to tear their PG to shreds, said a native who prefers anonymity.

According to the source, Udengene cheated a certain man and bought his land at a price that is four times cheaper than the real value. He proceeded, using his power as the President General, to forcibly remove those who are already on the land on lease.

One of occupants resisted, asking that the lease she had paid be returned before she could pack out. The PG forced her out, destroying the woman’s wares and structures. Then her people, an influential family in the community, replied the executive recklessness with the law, and dragged Udengene straight to the court.

So far the man who sold his land cheap is backing off. His kinsmen had investigated the sell and concluded that Udengene exploited their illiterate brother in a deal that has since been confirmed to be shady and a scam. None of his kinsmen have to refused to sign as it’s traditionally required, a situation which has left both Udengene and the man stranded.

More details later…

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PG in Aninri sets a man’s house on fire (VIDEO)

Amagu’s President General has finally sounded war drums, and his heavy-handedness taken new, dangerous twists. He practically ordered that a house belonging to a man popularly known as Company be burnt down with fire. Without hesitation, his task force carried out the order yesterday morning.

Comr Christian Onyeabor (a.k.a Udengene) has come under fire since last week as voices against his administration get louder.

InfoWars has reported few of the many tales of the PG’s blind leadership, and of his increasing attempts to silence dissents.

He has promised to “crush” his critics. And he is making good those threats, burning down a fellow native’s building as a way to show he is tough. Other people were beaten at his order, while eleven Amagu youths he has put to flight as of the time of making this report. These men are reportedly marked for “capital punishments” even though the government fail to specify their crimes.

But Udengene is not acting alone. He has the backing of few wealthy natives in the community who are hiding under his mantle to humiliate their own personal enemies.

How long this will continue is unclear at the moment. The random assaults on his own subjects have put the community in disarray, but the people are, however, firm in the call for a responsible government.

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