Abia State Governor, Okezie Victor Ikpeazu, has warned the Chairman of the Aba South Local Government Area and his female deputy over quarrels attributed to sexual harassment.

The council’s deputy chairman, Princess Peace Nwobilo, had accused the chairman, Clinton Ebere, of sexually harassing her.

She had in a three-page petition titled, ‘Sexual Harassment and Abuse of Office Conduct,’ addressed to the LGA stakeholders, alleged that on two occasions, the chairman had tried to sexually harassed her, adding escaped all his traps “by the grace of God.”

She said Ebere first harassed her “on the eve of the governorship primary in 2018,” adding that “the second attempt he made to rape me was after we were sworn in, precisely on January 14th, 2021, when he invited me over for a meeting at Trace Garden Hotel, Brass Street, Aba.”

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The council chairman denied the allegations and set up a committee to investigate the allegations which the panel said was false.

But the governor in a statement his Chief of Staff, Prof. Anthony Agbazuere, reminded the chairman and Nwobilo that they were elected to provide democracy dividends to the people of Aba South and not to fan the embers of rancour and discord.

The governor cautioned both officials “in their own interest to refrain from such dissension and begin to work together for the good of the people except they are imploring the councillors to review their commitment to service.

“A word should be enough for the wise,” the statement said.