By early December 2023, an ominous cloud of uncertainty, tension, danger and trepidation crept into the horizon of Uhueze-Nenwe Autonomous Community and settled discomfortingly. The Community which is located in the present Aninri Local Government Area of Enugu State, Nigeria lies along the Enugu-Port Harcourt trunk A Road; about 169km North of Port Harcourt and 47km South of the coal city of Enugu. It is located East of Enugu-Okigwe hills on a topography of low lying plain with a vast and productive agricultural land. Right from the ancient times, the community has been one of the most peaceful in the area. But an unsettling darkness was now gradually creeping in to the dismay of many concerned citizens. The trees trembled as the ground shook at the tension which had gripped the hearts of her inhabitants – the descendants of the first offspring of Mazi Joku Onwe, the great hunter from Nenwenta and progenitor of Nenwe. The ominous cloud was birthed by a scheduled December 20, 2023 Igweship election that would produce the second traditional ruler of the Community eight years after the demise of the first one. It had been a difficult and rancorous journey finding a successor to the throne of the Community with a virile republican spirit characteristic of communities in Igboland of Southeastern Nigeria. Against the wishes of a vast majority of the citizens to select the next Igwe of the Community through the principle of rotation in order of seniority of the villages as enshrined in the Town Union’s gazetted constitution, and most importantly, as it had already been done during the selection of the first Igwe, the Town Union’s executive led by a certain character had insisted on an election predicated on an ungazetted constitution believed to be doctored to serve selfish ends. The Community has been held hostage by this sort of insistence for several years. The difference now was that the leadership was daring enough to fix an election date against the desires and expectations of an overwhelming majority of the citizens. In foreseeing the imminent harvest of danger the situation would most likely produce, many wailing voices rose to the high heavens; calling upon the elders and prominent personalities of the Community to intervene before it was too late – before a pregnant goat suffers the pains of childbirth while an elder watches idly, a situation considered both as a sign of gross irresponsibility on the part of the elder as well as a sacrilege. While the storm raged and the danger loomed, a prominent son of the Community – a general of the Nigerian Air Force rose to the challenge and mobilized other notable figures from the Community, giving birth to a team known as Uhueze Elders and Senior Stakeholders Group (UESSG). With determination and patriotic courage, the group fashioned a blueprint – a model which effectively averted the impending conflagration. In examining this situation, this paper also evaluates kingship institutions in Igboland in the context of the widely acclaimed Igbo republicanism.