8 Ase Communities disassociates self from ADU as Ase elites reacts

By Owho Warri

The President-General of Ase Elite League and Assembly (AELA) has called on Ase Development Union (ADU), to stop deceiving themselves by the claim that ADU is the only recognised Union in Ase Kingdom. The Elites claimed that the Union desires to swallow-up any other Union in Ase, while also seizing the Kingdom source of fund is not acceptable.

The League’s President-General, Patrician Balogun I.E Abanum made this remark while reacting to issues raised in the just concluded ADU conference held on the 14th of April 2017. The League again reminded the ADU that every Ase Indigene is a member of Ase community, but not all Ase indigenes are member of Ase Development Union. As such, the Elites called on ADU to stop calling their conference, Ase Community Conference but instead, ADU conference. The President-General noted that the mere fact that Ase Development Union (ADU) has numerical strength does not make it a paramount Union in Ase Kingdom.

The League however, praised Egbeme-Ase, Ogboko-Ase, Ekregbesi-Ase, Sapele-Ase, Otorka-Ase, Iwene-Ase, Egwe-Ase and Asaba-Ase communities, for detecting the fraudulent activities of Ase Development Union (ADU) early and disassociating themselves from the Union; an act which the ADU is interpreting as autonomy claim by these Ase sub communities. The League therefore warned all serious minded Ase Persons and communities to emulate the antics of the above communities, as Ase Development Union (ADU) will never abandon their usual characteristics, notwithstanding the change of Leadership.

Further, the League’s President-General, called on the Traditional Ruler of Ase kingdom, HRM, Peter Ifeanyichukwu Ogeh I (JP+) to disregard the insinuations by the ADU that the mere action of the above communities by disassociating themselves from Ase Development Union (ADU), is a claim of autonomy by these communities. The League reasoned, that these communities disassociated themselves from Ase Development Union (ADU) but not from Ase Kingdom, even when their ancestral home is Isoko-Land.

More also, the League warned that ADU is still on the move to arrogate the monarch’s powers to itself, and advised the Traditional Ruler to tread cautiously with Ase Development Union (ADU).