Southern Traditional Rulers Council, Southeast Dev Commission, Uzodinma’s Initiatives —Ikeduru SolAd, Justice Nze

The Sole Administrator of Ikeduru local government area of Imo state, Hon Justice Nze has attributed recent positive developments in the Southeast geo-political zone, manifesting in the hosting of the first ever Inauguration of Southern Nigeria Traditional Rulers Council in Owerri, Imo state and signing into law of the very long sought after Southeast Developments Commission by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, after so many years of struggle by Ndigbo, as resounding initiatives of Imo state Governor, Sen. Hope Uzodinma.

Speaking to newsmen in Owerri, the Ikeduru local government Sole Administrator recalled that prior to this time, Traditional Rulers in the three geo-political zones of Southern Nigeria, Southeast, Southwest and South/South, operated as separate entities and they never worked together as a formidable body.

Nze explained that Governor Uzodinma of Imo state, in his capacity as the incumbent Chairman of Nigeria’s Progressives Governors’ Forum, was able to pull royal Fathers of the three zones together under one umbrella, resulting in the historic inauguration of what is now known as Southern Nigeria Council of Traditional Rulers, in Owerri, Imo State capital on Tuesday, July 30, 2024.

The Local Government Council Boss, who is an avowed adherent of Governor Uzodinma’s 3R government, a strong crusader for peace and good governance, as well as a staunch stalwart of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), stressed that the coming together of the Southern Nigeria Royal Fathers as one formidable body, with the Ooni of Ife as Chairman and Eze Cletus Ilomuanya of Imo state as Co-chairman, has placed Traditional Rulers of Southern Nigeria extraction at a vantage position to contributed more positively and meaningfully to the unity of Southern Nigeria and overall development of the dear nation.

Expressing his unreserved happiness that the Imo State Chief Executive, who is also the Chairman of Southeast Governors Forum, Senator Hope Uzodimma as well as Traditional Rulers of Imo State, played leading roles which snowballed into the inauguration of the first ever Council of Traditional Rulers of the entire Southern Nigeria, Hon Justice Nze said, ” my Governor, the Lion of Southeast Geo-political Zone, His Excellency, Distinguished Senator Hope Uzodimma is a man of ideas and great vision. This is a man who is fully bent on pushing Southeast to the main stream of our nation’s political power and recovering the lost fortunes of Ndigbo. Frankly speaking, Hope Uzodimma is a man, a personality, a character Ndigbo should not ignore or overlook. He is truly on a sacred mission to salvage Imo and the entire Southeast. “On the long-expected Southeast Developments Commission ( SDC ) which has just been signed into law by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, after passage of the bill by the National Assembly, the Ikeduru SOLAD, in an outburst declared, ” if you ask a good pilot to lead the way, the journey will be smooth, even on a bad road. The people of Southeast for decades cried and begged for a Developments Commission as obtains in the other geo-political zones of the country. The hues and cries of this particular zone fell on deaf ears. But thanks to our Talk-less and Do-More Governor, Dist. Sen.Hope Uzodinma, who in his capacity as the Chairman of Progressives Governors’ Forum and Chairman, Southeast Governors Forum, pursued this idea vigorously and relentlessly through the National Assembly to the presidency until success was achieved. The result is that Southeast now has a Developments Commission.”

According to Justice Nze, the Southeast Developments Commission which came into fruition at this point in history, under the watch of Governor Hope Uzodimma, would enhance and fasttrack infrastructural and overall development of the entire Southeast region.