EBU Crisis Deepens As Purported Suspension Letter Of PG Circulating

 

EBU Crisis Deepens As Purported Suspension Letter Of PG Circulating 

NKIRU NWAGBO.

A wave of confusion and anger has swept through the Enugwu-Agidi community following the circulation of a document dated November 20, 2025, claiming to suspend the President General of the Enugwu-Agidi Brotherly Union (EBU-Nigeria), Hon. Ebuka Onuorah, with immediate effect.

The letter, which lists seventeen allegations ranging from financial impropriety to land-grab complicity and the use of thugs, has been widely condemned as a poorly executed forgery aimed at destabilising the union ahead of its December General Conference.

In a prompt and authoritative response issued yesterday, the Public Relations Officer of the union, Comrade Amaku (Ive Dinma), declared the suspension letter legally baseless and constitutionally impossible. 

He reminded members that the union’s constitution explicitly reserves the power to remove an elected officer, including the President General, to the General Conference alone, and that only the President General himself has the right to preside over any Central Executive Committee meeting. 

A meeting that purports to suspend the very officer mandated to chair it, he stressed, is a contradiction in terms and has no standing whatsoever.

The rebuttal gained immediate credibility when the union’s Financial Secretary, Engr. Chinedu Okoye Akuamia, publicly stated that he neither attended any such emergency meeting nor appended his signature to the document. 

Several branch chairmen and secretaries whose names appeared on the circulated lists have since followed suit, describing the letter as a complete fabrication. 

Community sources note with concern that some of the individuals nominated in the forged letter to act in interim capacity or to investigate the President General were also listed as signatories, a clear indication of premeditated bias.

At the heart of the controversy is the National Executive Council’s decision, under Hon. Ebuka Onuorah’s leadership, to schedule the 2025 General Conference and elections for December 16, rather than the customary last week of the month. 

Supporters of the President General insist that the constitution grants the NEC full discretion to fix the precise date within December, and describe the earlier timing as a practical measure to ensure a smooth and orderly transition.

Members who have worked closely with Hon. Ebuka Onuorah since his election in December 2022 describe him as one of the most energetic and development-focused leaders the union has ever had. 

They point to numerous completed and ongoing projects in Enugwu-Agidi as evidence of his commitment, and express dismay that personal ambition appears to be driving attempts to truncate a tenure that still enjoys broad community support.

As the community digests these events, the union’s leadership has urged all indigenes, both at home and in the diaspora, to remain calm and disregard what it called the handiwork of a tiny minority bent on sowing discord. 

The statement reaffirmed that the General Conference will proceed as planned on December 16, 2025, and called on the good people of Enugwu-Agidi to rally behind their lawfully elected officers.

With calm gradually returning and the alleged architects of the forged document facing mounting accusations of criminal impersonation and forgery, the consensus in Enugwu-Agidi appears to be that the attempted coup against Hon. Ebuka Onuorah’s administration has not only failed but has further strengthened resolve to protect the union’s constitutional order and the progress recorded under the current leadership.