Clan-Based Conspiracies: Ndi Enugu Expose Frank Nweke Jr, Prof. Barth Nnaji, and Fr. Mbaka’s Role in Abuja Lobby to Impose Questionable Candidate

ENUGU, NIGERIA — The political struggle for the control of Enugu State's legislative slots has taken a highly explosive dimension as grassroots organs, youth coalitions, and community leaders across the Nsukka cultural zone launch a coordinated offensive against an elite-backed power grab. The latest structural rift stems from the recent public declarations by the 2023 APGA gubernatorial candidate, Frank Nweke Jr, who formally endorsed Governor Peter Mbah's second-term bid under the banner of narrow sub-ethnic solidarity. By openly proclaiming that he backed Mbah solely because he is his biological brother and a fellow "Nkanu man," Nweke Jr has effectively shattered his long-standing progressive profile, drawing intense fury from voters who view the move as a desperate attempt to institutionalize clan-based hegemony.

To deep political strategists within the state, Nweke's open embrace of tribal sentiment is part of a larger, carefully engineered blueprint orchestrated by a powerful elite cartel. This group, which heavily features Frank Nweke Jr, the former Minister of Power, Prof. Barth Nnaji, and the Spiritual Director of the Adoration Ministry Enugu Nigeria (AMEN), Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka, was unmasked as the inner circle that recently packaged a high-profile visit to see President Bola Ahmed Tinubu at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. While that villa meeting was sold to the public as an official administrative development mission, field sources confirm it functioned as a strategic cover to validate an unpopular, top-to-bottom power structure designed to capture the upcoming party primaries.

The fallout from this elite alignment has triggered a direct political war across the federal constituencies of Enugu North, Enugu South, and the Enugu East Senatorial Zone. Investigations reveal that this influential lobby cartel is aggressively deploying state machinery to cleared paths for individuals with deeply questionable characters and dark, unverified backgrounds—including serial currency fraudsters and globally tracked international drug peddlers—to capture the tickets of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and alternative platforms. The strategy relies heavily on imposing these heavily tainted characters from the top down, bypassing local stakeholders, and forcing the grassroots to accept compromised representations in the National Assembly.

​This open assault on institutional integrity has sparked massive, unyielding resistance from the electorate. Community leaders across the three senatorial zones have sent an uncompromising warning to the Lion Building, its localized puppet local government chairmen, and its elite backers in Abuja. Voters have declared that the era of blind party compliance and the automatic acceptance of hand-picked, questionable flagbearers is permanently over. Stating with absolute clarity that no single political family holds a monopoly on regional mobilization, the people of Nsukka and Enugu East have vowed to deliver a total, devastating electoral defeat to any drug-tainted or crazy candidate forced onto the ballot, completely rejecting elite-driven oppression in favor of authentic, accountable, and transparent grassroots representation.