Power Rotation in Ahiazu Mbaise: Returning to Our Ancestral Compass
By: Wincent Chinweuchem Ahiazu Mbaise is not a political accident; it is a carefully ordered society built on history, ancestry, and balance. Long before modern political offices emerged, our people were already governed by a clear understanding of equity, rooted in clan structure and ancestral lineage. Any sustainable political arrangement in Ahiazu must therefore draw strength from this foundation, not attempt to erase it. Ahiazu Mbaise is divided into two ancestral clans: Ahiara and Ekwerazu. Each clan is made up of five ancient communities (the ancestral Ofor), from which our forefathers derived the principle of rotation, fairness, and inclusion. This ancestral wisdom is the very basis upon which political rotation in Ahiazu was conceived and accepted. Once a system is initiated, justice demands that it be completed within the same framework before a new order is introduced. To abandon the ancestral rotation midway, in favor of newly created political conveniences, is to sow seeds ...