Olu of Warri stool: Okowa sues for peace, urges aggrieved persons to sheathe swords

Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State.

Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State, yesterday, urged all aggrieved persons in the process of picking a new Olu of Warri to sheathe their swords to ensure that everything was done peacefully and in unity in the overall interest of Itsekiri people.

Okowa, who stated this when he received members of Olu of Warri Advisory Council in Asaba, told the Olu Advisory Council led by the Iyatsere of Warri Kingdom, Chief Jonhson Atserungleghe, to do its best to unite everyone and ensure that there was peace in Warri Kingdom.

He said: “I thank God that you have been able to decide on the interest of the people on the choice of a new monarch.

“I pray to God to lead the Itsekiri nation through these trying times even as we work towards giving the departed king befitting burial rites and as we also look forward to the presentation of the new king.

“Please, extend my congratulations to the new monarch and we assure him that our prayers are with him just as we pray that the Itsekiri nation will remain united. It is only when there is peace that we can have development not only in Warri but the entire Delta State.”

He said the departed Olu of Warri, HRM Ogiame Ikenwoli, was an epitome of peace, who built bridges across ethnic divides in the country.

Okowa said: “I want to truly condole with the whole of Itsekiri nation on the passing of Ogiame Ikenwoli, the king who believed in peace.

“He set out to visit other monarchs to establish partnership and friendship and these partnerships he built helped improve on the peace in the state and helped bring various kingdoms together.

“We thank God for the life of his Royal Majesty, who has gone to the great beyond and I pray that the Itsekiri nation will continue to work for peace because he was an epitome of peace.

“We appreciate his conduct as a royal father who was always with us at state functions along with his colleagues. He built bridges of friendship and played his role beyond the Itsekiri nation.

“We were not expecting this but only God knows why it happened so early. On behalf of the government and people of Delta, I mourn with the Itsekiri nation on the passing of His Royal Majesty, Ogiame Ikenwoli, the Olu of Warri Kingdom.”

The governor also congratulated the Olu-designate, Prince Tsola Emiko, on his emergence and called on the Itsekiri people to give him their full support.

Earlier, the delegation, which spoke through Chief Brown Mene, said its visit was to intimate the governor on the demise of the Warri monarch and the enthronement of a new one.

Mene said: “Your Excellency, on April 5, 2021, we got to a point where as a people, we gathered together to proclaim that our revered Ogiame Ikenwoli had been called to join his ancestors.

“And, because we know the king never dies, on that same day we proclaimed to the whole world that we have a new Olu-designate in the person of Prince Tsola Emiko. After the funeral rites of the departed king, we can then enthrone the new king.”

The delegation also condoled with the governor on the demise of his father, Pa Arthur Okorie, who died in January.

Highpoint of the visit was the presentation of a letter to the governor formally notifying him of the demise of the monarch

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