Panic, anguish and political tension have enveloped the political landscape of Nsukka local government area of Enugu state following the sudden death of one of the suspended council law makers
Hon. Daniel Ugwu (a.k.a Aloko), councillor representing Nru ward in Nsukka local government died in the earlier hours of Friday after five months of suspension by the council chairman Hon. Jude Asogwa on August 25, 2025.
Though details of the cause of his sudden death is yet to be made public by his family, our reporter gathered that it may not be unconnected by his prolong suspension.
Why the 12 councilors were suspended
In August 2025, twelve councilors of Nsukka local government legislative house plotted impeached of their leader Rt. Hon. Emmanuel Chinonso Ugwu over an alleged “gross misconduct.”
However, in a dramatic twist of event, their plot failed and they were summarily suspended by the council chairman, Hon Jude Asogwa without monthly salary payment since then.
In any case, all the appeals by the local party stakeholders to reinstate the suspended councilors could not move the council chairman.
WITHIN NIGERIA gathered that after futile efforts to reinstate them failed, Mr. Ugwu went back to his phone retail sales business at Nsukka main market.
However, expressing his sadness, the former councilor representing Nru ward, Hon. Festus Onogwu described the deceased as a jolly good fellow who was full of life before his sudden death.
Hon. Onogwu said that he received the news with rude shock, stressing that such thing has not happened in the history of the local government.
In any case following his death and pitiable condition of other suspended councilors, the people of the council area have once again reignited their plea for reinstatement of the affected councilors.
One of the residents of the council area and a member of All Progressives Congress, APC, Jonathan Ugwuanyi appealed to the council chairman to see the death of Mr. Ugwu as an opportunity to bring back the affected councilors.
According to Mr. Ugwuanyi, ” he is their political father. You don’t reject your children for ever when they err. You may discipline them, but you don’t reject them forever because they are already your children.”
In the meantime, the local government is yet to issue official statement on the matter even as the body of the deceased councilor has been deposited at undisclosed mortuary in Nsukka.
