A chieftaincy tussle has reared over claims to the stool of Oba of Ogbaland in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area of Rivers State.
One of the claimants to the throne, who hails from the family that claimed it was their right to produce the next king Prince Henry Nwata has dragged Nwachukwu Nnam Obi currently on the throne, the Rivers State Government, and Nigeria Agip Oil Company to court.
Nwachukwu, being the first son, ascended the throne, after the demise his father Chief Chukwumela Nnam Obi II, on the grounds that it was his position to take over from his late father.
Prince Nwata has approached a Rivers State High Court sitting in Omoku, Onelga, to stop Nwachukwu Nnam Obi, the son of the immediate past ruler of the Kingdom from parading himself as Oba.
The development had caused a sharp division in Ogba as a section of the kingdom who were against the development insisted that the stool was not that of Obi.
Prince Nwata and others who are all claimants prayed the court to restrain Nwachukwu from parading himself as Oba of Ogbaland.
Nwata and others through the writ of summon in suit no, OMHC/20/CS/2022, before the court in Omoku, ONELGA, want the court to also restrain Nwachukwu from acting in that capacity of an Oba.
