Ahead of the 2019 general elections, President Muhammadu Buhari has assured Nigerians that he would perform better if given another chance to return as president. The president’s statement believed to have been prompted by the shout of marginalization and neglect by mostly the Igbo and Middle Beltans under his watch, was also aimed at re-assuring a group of Nigerian professionals based in the United States and Canada, of his readiness to make amends and do better than he has done in his current first tenure as president. Buhari had reportedly…
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“Rescue Mission” comes to grief
For starters, “Rescue Mission” is the name the incumbent Governor of Imo State, Owelle Rochas Okorocha gave his political organization, under which he structured his rise to power in 2011. Before Okorocha, Imo had witnessed such political structures before; the Chief Achike Udenwa’s era came with “Redemption 98”, Dr Ikedi Ohakim was the proponent of “New Face”. And Senator Araraume called his own, “Destiny Group” under which he has prosecuted Imo Governorship ambition without success till date. However, under Udenwa and Ohakim regimes, “Redemption 98” and “New Face” were simply…
Read MoreOn 2019 election campaigns
With the primary elections of Political parties almost over and done with, serious politicking is about to commence in earnest. Parties and their chosen candidates are about to march into the field to start campaigning and wooing the electorate to support and vote them into office. When the campaigns begin Nigerians would be looking and listening to the hundreds of candidates jostling for various offices, sell themselves and their manifestoes and agenda to them in the hope of winning their votes. As we all know campaigns is a critical component…
Read MoreImo Guber: Uzodinma, better choice, says Uju Okoro
Former Transition Committee Chairman and frontline House of Assembly contender for Isu State constituency, Engr. Uju Okoro has called on the good people of Imo State to give their full support to Senator Hope Uzodinma, describing him as the best option for the state in 2019. Engr Okoro made this appeal Friday while answering questions from newsmen in Owerri over the outcome of the APC Governorship primary election in Imo State. According to him, out of the Governorship candidates presented by political parties in the state, Senator Uzodinma posseses the…
Read MoreMadumere explodes; politics is about people, not family …Says: Attacks on me, mere distractions
The Deputy Governor of Imo State, Prince Eze Madumere has thrown more light on the reason he has resolved to fight on in spite of the political land mines laid against him by his estranged longtime friend and political ally, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, lamenting that Imo people have not felt the impact of good governance. Prince Madumere’s statement was contained in a press release issued by his media aide, Uche Onwuchekwa. According to the release, the number two citizen of the State maintained that the essence of politics is for…
Read MoreImo APC guber battle: Okorocha walksout on Buhari in Abuja …Wants to keep guber, senate slots…Gambles with Orlu zone ticket.
The governorship ticket battle rocking the ruling All Progressives Congress APC, in Imo State recently took a shocking twist following Gov Rochas Anayo Okorocha’s reported walk out on President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja,seat of power. Nigeria Newspoint was informed by reliable APC sources that the visibly angry governor staged the walk out after several efforts made to woo the president to back his succession plan failed . It was learnt that the Imo State helmsman had in the wake of the ticket crisis approached President Buhari to seek his support…
Read MoreImo Guber: What Okorocha never knew about Oshiomhole
When RochasOkorocha was fighting to unseat Chief John Odigie-Oyegun in order to enthrone Comrade Adams Oshiomhole as National Chairman of the APC, some of us who have closely associated with Oshiomhole immediately knew that the fall of Okorocha was near. Okorocha vigorously mobilised and lobbied against a tenure extension for the APC NWC members. Vowing never to allow his party’s constitution violated which would have been the implication of a tenure elongation for Oyegun and co, Okorocha made himself an emergency advocate for rule of law and constitutionalism. At last,…
Read MoreAraraume tasks youths on need to recover, rebuild Imo …Says his government would accommodate all interests
The Imo State governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Sen.Ifeanyi Araraume, has saluted the youths from the state for their on-going efforts and commitment to help recover and rebuild the state in line with the aspiration of “the long-suffering Imo people, who have been surchanged by the present state government” in the past eight years. He said his steadfastness to serve as the rally-point for the hope of the people on the platform of APGA is predicated on selfless service and not personal interests.He promised not…
Read MoreImo 2019: Onwuliri extols Irona’s emergence as Ihedioha’s runing mate
Ex- Minister of Foreign Affairs, Prof Viola Onwuliri has commended the nomination of the National Deputy Financial Secretary of PDP, Hon. Gerald Irona as the Imo State PDP Deputy Governorship Candidate. The governorship flagbearer of the PDP, Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha on Monday, through a astatement, signed by Dr. Vin Udokwu, Director General, Ihedioha Campaign Organization, announced his choice of running mate. Prof. Onwuliri exclaimed with joy, “Wow! This is great. Congratulations Your Excellency. Hon . Irona is a very good choice”, adding that, “together we will definitely rebuild Imo,…
Read More2019: Vote for Buhari to return power to South-West In 2023 – Fashola
The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, on Thursday, urged the people of South West to vote for President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2019 elections to guarantee a return of power to the region in 2023. The minister stated this at a special Town Hall Meeting on infrastructure organised by the Ministry of Information and Culture and the National Orientation Agency. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed led three other ministers including Fashola, Ministers of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi…
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