Indigenes of Ogulagha community in Burutu Council Area of Delta State have disowned their traditional ruler, HRH Capt. Joseph I. Timiyan and the Council of Chiefs for alleged grievous offences against the community, and selected the Amazinawei of Ogulagha community, Chief Clement Kpuke (JP) in his place.
In a statement made available to newsmen in Warri on Thursday by a 24-members executive of the community led by Mr. Ambrose Guwor, acting Chairman, Pastor Christopher Isiayei, Secretary and Guwor Luwatimi, P.R.O respectively in reaction to a publication by a national daily, they stated that the entire content of the publication is a “brazen deceit, laughable, an embarrassment and therefore should discountenanced in its entirety as it was only meant to mislead the public, government/security agencies and other well-meaning sons and daughter of Ogulagha kingdom.
According to the statement, Capt. J.I. Timiyan does not reside in the riverine kingdom bordering the Atlantic coast but resides permanently in Ugborikoko community of Uvwie Kingdom near Warri metropolis under the leadership of HRM Emmanuel Sideso, Abe 1 even as they accused the monarch of consistent interference and intervention in the community electoral process to elect the community executive leadership to the extent of even imposing candidates on the entire community that is a major source of crisis in Ogulagha kingdom.
