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201	Michael Okpara was Premier of Eastern Nigeria during the First Republic, from 1959 to 1966. He was the nation's youngest Premier.	Dr OKPARA Dr Michael Iheonukara (I916)
202	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Brigadier NWACHUKWU Brigadier Ike Omar Sanda, fss, mni (X500)
203	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Gov. OBI Gov. Peter Gregory (I897)
204	Muonagor was nominated for the 2017 Africa Magic Viewers’ Choice Awards for Best actor.	MONAGO Amaechi (X731)
205	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	IKPELUE Ngozi (X4)
206	Nigerian businessman and lawyer who became governor of Anambra in 1983 at the end of the Nigerian Second Republic.	ONOH Christian (I540)
207	Nigerian businessman from Ojukwus family of Nwakanwa quarters obiuno umudim Nnewi	Sir OJUKWU Louis Phillip Odumegwu, OBE (I543)
208	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	ONOH Bianca Odinaka Olivia (I530)
209	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	MUONAGOR Tony (X709)
210	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	ADICHIE Chimamanda Ngozi (I523)
211	Nineteenth Chief of Nnewi	ORIZU Josiah Nnaji (I417)
212	Ninth Chief of Nnewi	Udude (I342)
213	Njideka and Ojukwu, according to a source, had what was called ordinance wedding then and the reception was in the family house, Eastern House in Lagos. Ojukwu married Njideka when he was the 5th Battalion Commander and they stayed on till he wa s appointed the governor of Eastern Region. The marriage reportedly ended in separation in Cote d’Ivoire when Ojukwu decided to take a second wife. Njideka was alleged to have left him angrily.	Family: ODUMEGWU OJUKWU Chukwuemeka / ONYEKWELU Njideka (F148)
214	Njideka had earlier been married to one Dr. Mends, with whom she had a set of twins, a boy and a girl, before they separated.	Family: MENDS Dr. / ONYEKWELU Njideka (F151)
215	Nnamdi Azikiwe: My Genealogy and Nativity "Thus, in tracing my paternal lineage, I could say that both parents of my father are direct descendants of Eze Chima. As for me, I can trace my paternal ancestry in this wise: I am the first son of Chukwuemeka, who was the third child and first son of Azikiwe, who was the second son of Molokwu, who was the third son of Ozomaocha, who was the second son of Inosi Onira, who was the fourth son of Dei, the second son of Eze Chima, the founder of Onitsha." SOURCE - Nnamdi A zikiwe: My Odyssey, Chapter I (Spectrum Books, 1970) "My Genealogy and Nativity" p4 "I can trace my maternal ancestry thus: I am the first son of Nwanonaku Rachel Chinwe Ogbenyeanu (Aghadiuno)Azikiwe, who was third daughter of Aghadiuno Ajie, the fifth son of Onowu Agbani, first daughter of Obi Udokwu, the son who descended from five Kings of Onitsha. Five of these rulers of Onitsha were direct lineal descendants of Eze Chima, who led his warrior adventurers when they left Benin to establish the Onitsha city state in about 1748 AD." SOURCE - Nnamdi Azikiwe: My Odyssey, Chapter I (Spectrum Books, 1970) "My Genealogy and Nativity" p5 "One day I asked her (grandmother) the meaning of the word 'Onitsha'. She explained that it had historical significance. The terminology meant one who despised another. It is a contraction of two words, Onini to despise, and Ncha meaning others. So that the two words when joined together mean one who despises others. Then I asked her why we despised others. She patted me on the back and told me that it was due to our aristocratic background and tradition. I insisted that she should explain to me the basis of this supercilious social attitude. She told me that we despised others because we descended from the Royal House of Benin and so regarded ourselves as the superiors of other tribes who had no royal blood in their veins....." "I continued to belabor my grandmother to tell me more of the history and origins of the Onitsha people. She narrated that many many years ago, there lived at Idu (Benin) a great Oba who had many children. Due to a power struggle regarding the right of precedence among princes of the blood and other altercations, there was a civil war in Benin. One day, the supporters of one of the princes insulted and assaulted Queen Asije, the mother of of the Oba of Benin, who was accused of having trespassed on their farmland. Enraged at this evidence of indiscipline and lawlessness, the Oba ordered his war chief and brother, Gbunwala Asije to apprehend and punish the insurgents. In the attempt to penalise them, Chima, the ultimate founder of the Onitsha city-state, a prince of the blood in his own right, led the recalcitrants against his Uncle, Gbunwala. This intensified the civil war which rent the kingdom of Benin in two and led to the founding of Onitsha Ado N'Idu....... ..." "As the great trek from Benin progressed, some did not have the stout heart of the pioneer-warrior, and decided to settle at different places, known today as Onitsha -Ugbo, Onitsha-Olona, Onitsha-Mili, Obior, Issele Ukwu, Ossomari, Aboh, etc..." SOURCE - Nnamdi Azikiwe: My Odyssey, Chapter I (Spectrum Books, 1970) "My Genealogy and Nativity"	Source (S10)
216	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	KANU Nnamdi Kenny Okwu (I1259)
217	Nollywood Actor	OKAFOR John Ikechukwu (X2119)
218	Nollywood Actor	ODONWODO John Paul Obumneme (X2142)
219	Nọnọ Uduji would not sleep well at night even though she had gone to bed. She knew what was at stake. The children of Ezeagha (her husband’s elder brother and the former monarch who had transferred the reins of Obiship of Nnewi and Otolo to Ifeluonye, her son) had not slept too. Ezeagha had deemed his numerous sons unfit to succeed him. Even though her son, Ifeluonye the son of Ezenwa, had mounted his throne at a very tender age, he needed to quickly get wives for him to have children to attenuate the vengeance of of his transducers, his cousins who were still enraged that their father bypassed them and handed over the rein of power to him. Ifeluonye Ezenwa later took an Ozo title of Ezeoguine. He was a ruler who lead his people from the front in so many wars and was to earn the title of “Ọnụọ Ọra” or a field marshal. Nọnọ Uduji his mother, found a wife for her son in Miss Imediugwu, the first daughter of Dim Ogeli from Inyaba Umudim. Dim Ogeli was of Dim Naagu the first Obi of Umudim. Theirs was a family of warriors. Dim Naagu was a great warrior who emigrated from Ojoto and settled on a swathe of land called Inyaba in the present day Umudim. He co-mingled with the children of Nnewi, married some of them and was able to take over the headship of the Umudim through clear act of manifest leadership in waging wars with neighbouring Ozubulu and Ụkpọ. Uduji rightly believed that her son’s marriage of the first daughter of a warrior would help strengthen his stool. That was how Ezeoguine, the Obi of Nnewi and Otolo married Imediugwu as his first wife. Imediugwu immediately got pregnant and begot a son named Obiesie (which means that the throne has now been fortified). In quick succession, Ezeoguine married another wife called Onyebuchi who bore him many children and the first of which was Ezechukwu. Imediugwu the first wife, had problems with conception after her first child. She was however able to have another son and a daughter but that was after some other wives of her husband had given birth to many male children. Her second child and a son was named Ojiakonobi. The child was later to take an Ozo title of Ezenwegbu that is the writer’s ụmụnna. In line with “ụba madu” or “aggressively populating his homestead with children” plan, Ezeoguine married four other wives that bore him many children. Tragedy struck as Obiesie the first son of the Ezeoguine and the child of Imediugwu, the first wife died before his father. Obiesie’s mother, Imediugwu, was not only aggrieved over a loss of a son but also the loss of the throne of Nnewi and Otolo. Her other son, Ezenwegbu or Ojiakonobi had had other elder brothers from her husband’s other wives. First sons who die before their fathers are not buried inside their fathers’ compound. They are buried outside. Those first sons who had had children before they died are buried in a portion of land where the father of the deceased would later give to the deceased’s children as their homestead. Naturally, Ezechukwu the first son of Onyebuchi and the eldest surviving son of Ezeoguine succeeded his father as the Obi Otolo and Nnewi. He inherited his father’s compound and his harem. That was how Umuezenwegbu lost the Obiship of Nnewi and Otolo due to the death of Obiesie the first son of the king. In Igbo land, the first surviving son inherits his father’s compound and his Obi. He would also inherit the throne if that is by heredity. If the deceased first son had married and had male children before he died, his children would be given the second position in the perking order or right to choose when assets or meat are being shared amongst the child of their grandfather. But if a son died without any male child, whatever he acquired before his death would be inherited by his father and would later be acquired by the person who nature has bestowed the first sonship. The tragedy of the death of Obiesie was double in that he had not married nor had any male child before his death and was as such forgotten and is not even mentioned when the sons of Ezeoguine are being called. When Ezeoguine died in around 1754 and his eldest surviving son, Ezechukwu succeeded him, the perking order in the royal family was recalibrated. In an Nnewi polygamous setting, all the male children queue behind their mothers. The mother that begot the eldest surviving son of her husband would stand in front only with the very eldest of her sons who shall bring home his own share to be distributed among all his male siblings. It is immaterial even if the mother of the heir has other sons are older than the sons of other wives. This tradition is called “mkpa” or a “block”. The next on the sharing perking order is the woman whose first son is the immediate younger son to the eldest surviving son of the father. And so on. In other words, only the first son of each wife of a polygamous man will step out in order of age or seniority to take a share of their father’s assets and liabilities. Once the first son of a mother collects his share, he would now go and share same with his siblings. There is an Nnewi saying that “ekechaa na nna, ekee na nne” meaning that “the first son’s share from a polygamous father’s assets would further be distributed among siblings of the same mother” In the paternal and the maternal sharing sessions, the first son presides and nobody questions his modus operandi in sharing the assets. But there are some rules that are sacrosanct. One, the first son takes a double portion. One for the office of his Obi and the other for himself and his family or siblings as the case may be. Two, the only son of a woman in a polygamous setting gets the largest share of a land as sharing is never based on the number of children a mother or beneficiary has. Three, the first son reserves the unquestionable right to reserve any portion of land he decides not to table amongst those to be shared. That one too belongs to him. Four, in the sharing amongst siblings, that portion of land housing the homestead of their mother or purchased by her belongs to the last male child except the mother stated otherwise. Five, a father while alive could change the order or the ranking of his male children. He might choose any of the sons from any of his wives as the Obi. Six, the new Obi so chosen by his dad shall preside over the sharing of his father’s assets and would be entitled to all that should have accrued to the first son. The demoted first son shall be treated as the second son in rank if he is not from the same mother as his replacement. He is given a land to establish his homestead outside his father’s obi or compound. Seven, most often than not, a father shares all his assets (except his wives) amongst his sons before he dies in a traditional process known as “idu ana obi”. Whatever a father failed to share, automatically belongs to first son or he who succeeds him. Eight, the first son only shares his father’s estate if his father failed to do so before he died. He can’t undo or redistribute that which his father had done. It then happened that my ancestral grandmother, Imediugwu and her surviving son, Ezenwegbu were ranked 3rd by Nnewi tradition in the perking and sharing order in the palace where she was the first wife of the ruler and had the first son who died before his father. But, Ezenwegbu, my great-great-grandfather, being the only son of his mother had the largest portion of land received as a share of his father’s estate. He had no brother to share with. He had no “adị m na nne” or siblings. Those who had many brothers had had to slice their shares according to their numbers.	Eze EZE NWA Eze Oguine Ifeluonye (I364)
220	Nọnọ Uduji would not sleep well at night even though she had gone to bed. She knew what was at stake. The children of Ezeagha (her husband’s elder brother and the former monarch who had transferred the reins of Obiship of Nnewi and Otolo to Ifeluonye, her son) had not slept too. Ezeagha had deemed his numerous sons unfit to succeed him. Even though her son, Ifeluonye the son of Ezenwa, had mounted his throne at a very tender age, he needed to quickly get wives for him to have children to attenuate the vengeance of of his transducers, his cousins who were still enraged that their father bypassed them and handed over the rein of power to him. Ifeluonye Ezenwa later took an Ozo title of Ezeoguine. He was a ruler who lead his people from the front in so many wars and was to earn the title of “Ọnụọ Ọra” or a field marshal. Nọnọ Uduji his mother, found a wife for her son in Miss Imediugwu, the first daughter of Dim Ogeli from Inyaba Umudim. Dim Ogeli was of Dim Naagu the first Obi of Umudim. Theirs was a family of warriors. Dim Naagu was a great warrior who emigrated from Ojoto and settled on a swathe of land called Inyaba in the present day Umudim. He co-mingled with the children of Nnewi, married some of them and was able to take over the headship of the Umudim through clear act of manifest leadership in waging wars with neighbouring Ozubulu and Ụkpọ. Uduji rightly believed that her son’s marriage of the first daughter of a warrior would help strengthen his stool. That was how Ezeoguine, the Obi of Nnewi and Otolo married Imediugwu as his first wife. Imediugwu immediately got pregnant and begot a son named Obiesie (which means that the throne has now been fortified). In quick succession, Ezeoguine married another wife called Onyebuchi who bore him many children and the first of which was Ezechukwu. Imediugwu the first wife, had problems with conception after her first child. She was however able to have another son and a daughter but that was after some other wives of her husband had given birth to many male children. Her second child and a son was named Ojiakonobi. The child was later to take an Ozo title of Ezenwegbu that is the writer’s ụmụnna. In line with “ụba madu” or “aggressively populating his homestead with children” plan, Ezeoguine married four other wives that bore him many children. Tragedy struck as Obiesie the first son of the Ezeoguine and the child of Imediugwu, the first wife died before his father. Obiesie’s mother, Imediugwu, was not only aggrieved over a loss of a son but also the loss of the throne of Nnewi and Otolo. Her other son, Ezenwegbu or Ojiakonobi had had other elder brothers from her husband’s other wives. First sons who die before their fathers are not buried inside their fathers’ compound. They are buried outside. Those first sons who had had children before they died are buried in a portion of land where the father of the deceased would later give to the deceased’s children as their homestead. Naturally, Ezechukwu the first son of Onyebuchi and the eldest surviving son of Ezeoguine succeeded his father as the Obi Otolo and Nnewi. He inherited his father’s compound and his harem. That was how Umuezenwegbu lost the Obiship of Nnewi and Otolo due to the death of Obiesie the first son of the king. In Igbo land, the first surviving son inherits his father’s compound and his Obi. He would also inherit the throne if that is by heredity. If the deceased first son had married and had male children before he died, his children would be given the second position in the perking order or right to choose when assets or meat are being shared amongst the child of their grandfather. But if a son died without any male child, whatever he acquired before his death would be inherited by his father and would later be acquired by the person who nature has bestowed the first sonship. The tragedy of the death of Obiesie was double in that he had not married nor had any male child before his death and was as such forgotten and is not even mentioned when the sons of Ezeoguine are being called. When Ezeoguine died in around 1754 and his eldest surviving son, Ezechukwu succeeded him, the perking order in the royal family was recalibrated. In an Nnewi polygamous setting, all the male children queue behind their mothers. The mother that begot the eldest surviving son of her husband would stand in front only with the very eldest of her sons who shall bring home his own share to be distributed among all his male siblings. It is immaterial even if the mother of the heir has other sons are older than the sons of other wives. This tradition is called “mkpa” or a “block”. The next on the sharing perking order is the woman whose first son is the immediate younger son to the eldest surviving son of the father. And so on. In other words, only the first son of each wife of a polygamous man will step out in order of age or seniority to take a share of their father’s assets and liabilities. Once the first son of a mother collects his share, he would now go and share same with his siblings. There is an Nnewi saying that “ekechaa na nna, ekee na nne” meaning that “the first son’s share from a polygamous father’s assets would further be distributed among siblings of the same mother” In the paternal and the maternal sharing sessions, the first son presides and nobody questions his modus operandi in sharing the assets. But there are some rules that are sacrosanct. One, the first son takes a double portion. One for the office of his Obi and the other for himself and his family or siblings as the case may be. Two, the only son of a woman in a polygamous setting gets the largest share of a land as sharing is never based on the number of children a mother or beneficiary has. Three, the first son reserves the unquestionable right to reserve any portion of land he decides not to table amongst those to be shared. That one too belongs to him. Four, in the sharing amongst siblings, that portion of land housing the homestead of their mother or purchased by her belongs to the last male child except the mother stated otherwise. Five, a father while alive could change the order or the ranking of his male children. He might choose any of the sons from any of his wives as the Obi. Six, the new Obi so chosen by his dad shall preside over the sharing of his father’s assets and would be entitled to all that should have accrued to the first son. The demoted first son shall be treated as the second son in rank if he is not from the same mother as his replacement. He is given a land to establish his homestead outside his father’s obi or compound. Seven, most often than not, a father shares all his assets (except his wives) amongst his sons before he dies in a traditional process known as “idu ana obi”. Whatever a father failed to share, automatically belongs to first son or he who succeeds him. Eight, the first son only shares his father’s estate if his father failed to do so before he died. He can’t undo or redistribute that which his father had done. It then happened that my ancestral grandmother, Imediugwu and her surviving son, Ezenwegbu were ranked 3rd by Nnewi tradition in the perking and sharing order in the palace where she was the first wife of the ruler and had the first son who died before his father. But, Ezenwegbu, my great-great-grandfather, being the only son of his mother had the largest portion of land received as a share of his father’s estate. He had no brother to share with. He had no “adị m na nne” or siblings. Those who had many brothers had had to slice their shares according to their numbers.	Nono Uduji (I751)
221	Nwakanwanwa in Ezeoguine Royal family Obiuno	EZUKWO Timothy (X2031)
222	Oba of Benin	ASIJE Idu Benin (I1042)
223	Obi of Eze Enwe	Chief NWOSU Chief Benedict Chukwuemeka (X1288)
224	Obi of Nnewi	His Royal Highness Eze His Royal Highness Eze Ugbonyamba (I416)
225	Obi of Nnewi	ORIZU Josiah Nnaji (I417)
226	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	His Royal Highness Igwe Dr. ORIZU His Royal Highness Igwe Dr. Kenneth Onyeneke, III (I790)
227	Obi of Okpuno Otolo	OKAFO Okpunyo Eze Chukwu (I387)
228	Obi of Uruagu Nnewi	His Royal Highness Obi OBI His Royal Highness Obi Nnamdi A.C. (X2151)
229	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	OBI Obi Afamefuna Charles (X2154)
230	Obi, don't kill Obele Chuka- Igwe family Obi can't kill! Obele is a rabble rouser- Obienyem The last is yet to be heard of the dastard murder of two (couple) lawyers, Barnabas and Abigail Igwe, in Onitsha, the commercial town of Anambra state, on September 2, 2002, during the regime of Dr. Chinwoke Mbadinuju as governor of the state. Mbadinuju governed the state from 1999 till 2003. Before now, the mindless killings pitted the Igwe family, being represented by their lawyer, Chuka Obele Chuka, against former Governor Mbadinuju. But at the moment, the bereaved Igwe family drags Peter Obi, the incumbent governor of the state, into the endless controversies trailing the murder of the couple (with their unborn baby). The family, in a press statement made available to KlinReports, among other things, accuses Obi’s government of planning to assassinate Chuka Obele Chuka, her lawyer because of his (Obele)’s legal tussles for justice in the couple’s murder. The statement, signed by Vincent Igwe on behalf of the family, recollects that the on-going verbal attacks on Obele in the state present the same scenario which led to the mindless assassination of the couple in 2002. The Igwes were, in the first instance, murdered amidst a lingering face-off between the Onitsha branch of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA), chaired by Barnabas Igwe, and Mbadinuju government concerning Mbadinuju’s alleged maladministration of the state. Of course, Obi’s government roundly debunks the allegations contained in the Igwe family’s press statement. It is, also, the conviction of the government that that the statement was instigated by Chuka Obele to settle a perceived personal score with Obi’s government. Below are both the text of the statement and Obi’s government’s response to it: Igwe family’s press statement: Our attention has been drawn to the vile campaign of calumny sponsored by Governor Peter Obi of Anambra state against our family lawyer, Chuka Obele-Chuka, in which he (Obi), through his party chairman, one Akunwata Mike Kwentoh, sought to politicize the tragic events of September 1, 2002 when our brother, Barnabas Chidi and his wife, Amaka blessing, were cruelly ‘macheted’ to death by Bakkassi Boys under the control and management of the state government then, headed by Dr. Chinwoke Mbadinuju. First, it is no longer in doubt that it was Mbadinuju’s Bakkassi Boys that murdered our brother and his wife. The Bakkassi Boys who were hired to carry out the cold blood murders had made confessional statements confirming their involvement and they were charged to court for the offence. We need not bother reminding Governor Obi that our brother and his wife were brutally killed by the state government for the principled stand against Mbadinuju’s misgovernance of Anambra state. As chairman of Nigeria Bar Association (NBA), Onitsha branch and the committee of five branches of the bar in the state, our brother had called on the then Governor Mbadinuju to resign following abundant evidence of his incompetence to govern the state. Although we (the Igwe family) are not from Anambra, our brother and our wife felt obliged to refuse all monetary inducements offered them by Mbadinuju government, and insisted that Mbadinuju should quit and not be allowed to return for a second term in office. Tragically, obsessed by his second term ambition, Mbadinuju saw our brother as an obstacle to his ambition. He thus became jittery and when his monetary inducements failed, he turned round to accuse our brother of being sponsored by Sir Emeka Offor to destabilize his government. We recall that agents of Governor Mbadinuju, particularly, his special adviser on special projects, Ms Anthonia Tabansi-Okoye, accused our brother and his wife of having “pathological hatred against Mbadinuju”. In fact, the said adviser had used these words against our brother and his wife few weeks before they were attacked and slaughtered by the Bakkassi Boys. We condemn the reference to our family lawyer (Obele) as an opportunist in his unwavering quest for justice for his two friends despite the enormous risk to his life, legal practice and family, a quest that exposed and brought to trial those involved in the murders of our brother and his wife. There is no gainsaying the fact that Obele-Chuka who is not from Imo state, and who knew our brother only in 1999 has exhibited unparalleled acts of friendship and brotherhood. He has become a brother to our family and a son of Atta town. The specie of this human being is, indeed, rare. In other parts of our country and in other climes around the world, his type is celebrated. But rather than celebrate him, Governor Peter Obi, who was the greatest beneficiary of this young man’s consistent resistance to injustice, and who was proud to claim, at every turn, to be Obele-Chuka’s friend has decided to unjustifiably tarnish his character for speaking out against his on-going mis-governance of the state. We consider Governor Obi’s accusation that Obele-Chuka wanted to be the Attorney-General of the state as the unkindest lie ever to be uttered. We attest that our family was among the many that mounted pressures, to no avail, on the lawyer to accept an offer of an appointment made by the Governor to serve in his government. Our family was aware of the request made on the governor by our lawyer, as he rejected the governor’s offer to serve in his government, to award scholarship to the children of our brother and his wife. We were aware that Obele Chuka, also, recommended the slain couple for national honors, having lost their lives for the GOOD GOVERNANCE of the state. Apart from this, Obele enjoined Obi to set up a judicial commission of enquiry into all the extra judicial killings carried out between 2000 an 2002. It is sad that rather than do what even a sadist would have conceded to, Governor Obi continues to play politics with our family’s plight. During many of his usual television programs, he lied to the people of Anambra state that he is the highest donor to the Endowment Fund established for the three orphans of the Igwes, and that his government has done a lot more. Let us put on record that the best Governor Obi has done was to request our family to release the three orphans to pose for a photo session with him during the last National Executive Committee (NEC) of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) meeting which held in Onitsha recently! We are terrified by the similarity of the current pattern of events with the ones that culminated in the unlawful killing of our brother and his wife. We are worried because our lawyer (Obele) has, as in the case of Mbadinuju against our brother, been accused of being sponsored by the man the current governor sees as his tormentor in chief, Dr. Chris Ngige. Ngige was the immediate past governor of Anambra state. Again, Akunwata Mike Kwentoh’s words that our lawyer “has pathological hatred against Governor Obi” were the exact words used by Mbadinuju’s special adviser, Ms Anthonia Tabansi Okoye, against our brother, Barnabas, shortly before he was, alongside his wife, assassinated. Today, there are signs everywhere that Governor Obi, like Mbadinuju in 2002, is desperate for a second term in office. And like Mbadinuju, Obi is extremely unpopular and, therefore, jittery. And our enquiry revealed that this present government has, in its ranks, several persons who are notorious thugs and fugitives of the laws of many foreign lands and who are capable of repeating the tragic event of September 1, 2002, this time around, against our lawyer, friend and brother Chuka Obele Chuka (Esq). We shall, therefore, hold the present governor responsible should anything untoward happen to Obele-Chuka or any member of his family, either now or in the future. What Governor Obi owes Anambra people is to use their money to deliver quality jobs now instead of inferior jobs, and not to save the money in the banks where he holds substantial interest. Governor Obi must, also, stop deceiving outsiders that he is performing and, also, leave former Governor Ngige alone, as Ngige has acquired the status of a demi-god following his extra-ordinary service to Anambra people. The same Governor Obi who has refused to set up a commission of enquiry into the unprecedented UNLAWFUL KILLINGS of over 50,000 people on the streets of Anambra between 2000 and 2002 has set up a kangaroo commission of inquiry into the tenure and transactions in the Electronic Dealers Association, a non governmental traders organization, and also awarded scholarship to the siblings of an unmarried young man who lost his life during the infamous screening exercise by the Nigerian Immigration Services, an award the Governor is even yet to redeem. We do not wish to engage Kwentoh as we know that a primary school graduate could not have possibly authored such a document. We will not, therefore, be dignifying such a graduate whose work before he veered into politics was his management of a small brothel located in a high density area of the town with a reply. Obi’s government replies: Valentine Obienyem, special assistant to Governor Obi on Media, dismisses the allegations against his governor (as contained in the press statement by Igwe family) as tissues of lies. Obienyem sums up the allegations as a vein attempt to distract Obi from carrying on with his good works in the state. Below is an excerpt of our telephone interview with Obienyem: A recent press statement made available to KlinReports accuses Governor Obi of plotting to assassinate Chuka Obele Chuka, just like the Igwes were murdered in 2002. How would you react to this? Every Nigerian knows that Governor Peter Obi does not play such politics of assassination, and could not have, in anyway, contemplated any harm on Chuka Obele. Governor Obi can’t kill. For somebody to allege easily that somebody wants to kill him, examine that person very well because it is only killers that make such an allegation. It is only people that kill that always want to say that somebody wants to kill them. My governor is not a killer. Chuka Obele is a rabble rouser and one of the senseless distractions we have in Anambra state, but our governor is too focused to be distracted by somebody like Chuka Obele. Governor Obi and Chuka Obele were one time soul mates. What has gone amiss? Nothing has gone wrong. You Know Governor Obi is somebody who believes in principle and uprightness. And he wants people who are focused and chaste in anything they are doing. And once you want him to empty the treasury of the state for you, that is where the problem starts. How do you mean? Chuka Obele wants my governor to empty the treasury of the state for him because he was one of those that fought for his success. That is wrong, and that was why Chuka Obele took up fight against Governor Obi. But Obi remains focused. He is too busy to be distracted by Chuka Obele’s shenanigan. Your government reportedly alleged that Chuka Obele is making trouble because he wanted to be appointed Attorney-General of the state, but he was not? Yes, Chuka Obele wanted to be appointed attorney general and commissioner for justice in Anambra state just because he claimed to have worked for Peter Obi’s success, but there are more competent people than him. And Governor Obi is a man who believes in competence, not sentiments. Are you saying there is no current plan by Obi’s government to assassinate Chuka Obele Chuka? Well, to say that government is planning something against Chuka Obele is to give him the prominence he does not deserve. The governor is busy flagging off road projects everywhere and executing so many projects every week to recognize that somebody like Chuka Obele exists. So, we don’t want to give Chuka Obele that prominence. What about this talk of Obi’s second term ambition? Is he really interested in a re-run? You know that Governor Obi still has over a year to serve out his term. He is in a haste to develop the state. Therefore, his attitude is ‘let us work and develop the state’. Whatever happens tomorrow God will decide. Second term or no second term, Obi’s pre-occupation for now is the development of Anambra state.	Barrister IGWE Barrister Barnabas Chidi (X1350)
231	Ogene of Onitsha	Chief NWOKEDI Chief Edward Nwurai, OBE (I647)
232	Okafor acted in more than 200 Nollywood films including Mr. Ibu (2004) Mr. Ibu 2 (2005) Mr. Ibu and His Son Coffin Producers Husband Suppliers International Players Four Forty (2006) as Okukuseku Store Keeper (2006) as Innocent Issakaba (1999) Mr. Ibu in London (2005) as Ibu Police Recruit (2003) Bafana Bafana (2007) as Mazie 9 Wives (2005) as Onuwa Ibu in Prison (2006) Keziah (2007) as Cletus.[4][5][6][7] Desperate Search (2007) as Job Most Wanted Kidnappers (2010) as Akawo Sherikoko (2010) as Highjack Open and Close (2011) as Okwuti Ibu in Sierra Leone (2013) as Ibu Chinbundu (2014) as Okoro Love Wahala (2014) as Thomas London Fever (2017) Prince of Deceit (2017) as Emeka The Eve (2018) as Uncle Festus Okafor was known as "Nigeria's Borat" and in 2012, described homosexuality in Nollywood as akin to a virus, saying "If there is any way in this world that people can make them stop it or kill it, please do it." Okafor also ventured into music for a short period of time. On 15 October 2020, he released his songs titled "This girl" and "Do you know".	OKAFOR John Ikechukwu (X2119)
233	Okafor died at Evercare Hospital in Lagos, Nigeria on 2 March 2024 at the age of 62 as a result of cardiac arrest.The burial took place in his home town on the on Friday 28th of June 2024. Following his death, his adopted daughter Jasmine renamed his million-follower TikTok account to her own name and deleted all of the videos that did not feature her.	OKAFOR John Ikechukwu (X2119)
234	Okafor was born on 17 October 1961. He was from Umunekwu Village in Eziokwe, Amurri, NKanu West Local Government Area of Enugu State.. After elementary school and the death of his father in 1974, Okafor moved to Sapele to stay with his brother. In Sapele, he did menial jobs so he could send himself to school and support his family. Okafor then worked as a hairstylist, ventured into photography and also worked in a company that produced crates. After secondary school, he was admitted into the College of Education, Yola, but pulled out due to financial difficulties. He later enrolled in the Institute of Management and Technology (IMT), Enugu.	OKAFOR John Ikechukwu (X2119)
235	Okechukwu Okoye, the Member, representing Aguata II Constituency and the House Committee Chairman on Information	Hon Dr OKOYE Hon Dr Okechukwu I. (X1221)
236	On November 26, 2017, Muonagor was installed into the Nze Na Ozo clan of Obosi and Ndigbo as Aguiyi Mbauwa Omeokachie Obosi.	MONAGO Amaechi (X731)
237	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	MUONAGOR Tony (X709)
238	One of the wives of Digbo had no child and she therefore married another woman who give birth to a male child known as Ikwuabo	Eze Kwuabo (I334)
239	Onuo Ora Title (Conqueror of nations)	Eze Agha (I359)
240	Onuo Ora Title (Conqueror of nations)	Eze EZE NWA Eze Oguine Ifeluonye (I364)
241	Onuo Ora Title (Conqueror of nations)	Eze Enwe (I439)
242	Onuo Ora Title (Conqueror of nations)	Eze Eze Onyejemeni (I442)
243	Onuo Ora Title (Conqueror of nations)	Eze Eze Odumegwu Nwosu (I667)
244	Onuorie Ogrishi Village, Nkanu West LGA, Enugu State, Nigeria	OGBU Lucy Ngozi (X371)
245	Onyeka Onwenu MFR (31 January 1952 – 30 July 2024) She was born January 31 1952 in Imo state. [1] She was a Nigerian singer and songwriter, actress, human rights and social activist, journalist, politician, and X Factor series judge. Dubbed the "Elegant Stallion" due to her significant impact on African culture and entertainment, Onwenu was a chairperson of the Imo State Council for Arts and Culture. In 2013, she was appointed the Executive Director/Chief Executive Officer of the National Centre for Women Development	ONWENU Onyeka (I1882)
246	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	OBI Peter Oseloka (I3659)
247	Otolo is ruled by a monarchy, the Nwosu family which is a part of a larger nwakanwa family has ruled Otolo for centuries. The current traditional ruler Chief Chukwuemeka Ofili Nwosu is the son of the late chief A.B.C Nwosu, former lawyer and general in the now deposed Biafran army. Chief Ofili Nwosu has three children with his first wife Chief Mrs Ebele Nwosu. Next in line to the throne of Otolo is the first son of Chief Ofili Nwosu and heir apparent to the throne, Prince Nwosu Chukwudumebi obidimma, Princess Adanna Nwosu who is the first daughter of Chief Ofili and also the ADA of Otolo, Prince Chukwukamso Nwosu who is the last child of the three children. The Nwosu family is a very large and dense family which is also part of the even larger Nwakanwa family which is also part of an even larger Obiuno family. In addition, Chukwuemeka Ofili Nwosu(The prime minister of Nnewi) passed on the 9th October, 2019 and was buried this year. The heir to the throne he left has not been announced.	Chief (Barr.) NWOSU Chief (Barr.) Ofili Chukwuemeka Nnanyelu (X1292)
248	Past military governor of Old Imo State	KANU Ndubuisi (I888)
249	Patience Mbakwe is the Commissioner for Industry and Non-Formal Sector in Imo State. Currently, She is the member representing Okigwe in the Imo State Universal Basic Education Board.	MBAKWE Patience (X344)
250	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	OZOKWOR Patience (I1227)