Transparency in democratic society centers on the elected representatives of the masses; those charged with the distribution and management of our resources, common good, power and authority. It is a self-testifying mechanism for the assessment and valuation (or estimate of importance and usefulness) of public servants and elective officeholders. With its existence or inexistence, the masses get or are deprived of the actual political performance of their elected representatives. Its presence or absence also draws the inquisitive eyes of the masses to measure the gap between the actual performance of their…
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Killings In Igboland: Ohanaeze Youths Disown Iwuanyanwu, Describe Ohanaeze Ndigbo, S/East Govs. As Ant-Igbo Youths
The attention of Ohanaeze Youth Council (OYC), under the dogged and astute leadership of Comrade Igboayaka O. Igboayaka, has been drawn to a malicious cum spiteful, yellow Press statement credited to Ohanaeze Ndigbo World Wide, under the anti-Igbo leadership of the duo, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu and Dr Alex Ogbonna disassociating herself from the selfless position of Ohanaeze Youth Council on the incessant, political killings in Imo state under the alleged ruthless reign in Imo State. The said Ohanaeze Ndigbo World Wide, who dissociated herself through her anti-Igbo feudal demagogues of…
Read MoreJudgement Day: Tinubu May Go Or Remain,As Presidential Election Tribunal Gives Judgement Today.
…Atiku,Obi,APM know fate as well over Petitions Anxiety has engulfed the supporters of the three leading Presidential candidates in the last general elections in Nigeria as the Presidential Elections Petitions Tribunal, PEPT, is set to deliver judgement in the petitions filed by the Labour Party candidate, Peter Obi, the Peoples Democratic Party candidate, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, the Allied Peoples Movement, and others, against the declaration of Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC, as winner of the February 25 Presidential election. It was gathered that there would be live…
Read MoreCoups: Wake Up Call For African Leaders
A new wave of coup d’etat has been sweeping across Africa in recent years. At the last count, about six countries in west and central Africa including Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Gabon, among others. While efforts by ECOWAS were on-going to sort out issues surrounding the military interventions in Mali, Guinea and Burkina Faso and Niger, another military putsch occurred in Gabon in the Central African sub-region last week. Surprisingly, the citizens of these countries where coups occurred, took to the streets in celebration. In fact, the wide jubilation…
Read MoreImo Guber: Mbaike Has No Need For Deputy Governorship Candidate, It Hasn’t Any Democratic Benefits-Aguocha
…Drums support for PDP’s Samdaddy The leader of Ogwa Ward 11 of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Dave Aguocha has said that Mbaitoli LGA in Imo State doesn’t need the position of a Deputy Governor. Speaking to Journalists in Owerri recently,Chief Aguocha noted that Mbaitoli Local Government is a PDP Area and so urges the entire Mbaitoli and Ikeduru LGAs to vote for the Party’s flag bearer in the November 11 poll,Senator Samuel Nnaemeka Anyanwu. The PDP chieftain opined that Mbaitoli and Ikeduru LGAs has gotten the Deputy Governor…
Read MoreImo Guber: Political Campaigns Must Be Issue-based, Not Name-calling
The November 11 Imo governorship election is a matter of weeks away. At the moment, candidates of the various political parties have begun flagging off their campaigns and unveiling their manifestoes. Sadly, rather than tackle opponents on the basis of the programmes they present, as contained in the manifestoes, supporters of some of the Governorship candidates are busy chasing shadows on the Social Media. Sometimes they choose to talk about attendance to flag-off events instead of focusing on critically analysing what each candidate has in stock to do for Ndi-Imo.…
Read MoreImo Governorship: I’ll Lift Civil Servants Welfare, Pay N80,000 Minimum Wage -EJiogu
…As APGA flags off Campaign With the November 11 governorship election in Imo State just weeks ahead, the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Sir Tony Ejiogu has pledged his commitment to improving the working conditions of Imo civil servants via upward review of the Minimum Wage to Eighty thousand Naira (N80,000), monthly. This is even as he also assured that he would settle Pensions and Gratuities promptly. Ejiogu who made this pledge in his speech at the flag-off of his Campaign,last Thursday in Owerri, Imo State…
Read MoreAthan Achonu-Apostle Of Aku Ruo Ulo And Travails Of Patriot
By Nick Opara-Ndudu All across the South East Nigeria and practically in all Senatorial districts within the zone, one would find the ubiquitous and conspicuous presence of billboards propagating the clarion call for investment in the Igbo homeland. The messages on those billboards which have been disseminated over the past five (5) years have been articulated by a truly patriotic Igbo son, Senator Athan Achonu, to reinforce and support the movement that is fast gaining grounds in the consciousness of Ndi-Igbo that investment in the South Eastern homeland must be…
Read MoreImo Guber: Uzodinma, Chasing Shadows While Losing Grips Of Governance.
Ahead of the November Governorship election in the state, Hope Uzodinma is in disarray, confused and has resorted to shadow chase simply because Imo people have unanimously rejected him and his government. He cannot buy the support of Imo people by threatening them. Never! Today in Imo state, no community, LGA, or Zone is taking the APC government serious since the rejection became intense. As a result of this; Uzodinma is threatening and forcing Imo people to be loyal to him under duress by illegally arresting innocent Imo citizens for…
Read MoreSamdaddy: History Beckons On November 11
By Ken Nwadiri A man is not measured by the size of physical body but by the size of his heart. When Distinguished Senator Samuel Anyanwu (Samdaddy) was overwhelmingly elected the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the November 11, 2023 Imo gubernatorial election, not many believed his emergence would translate into a rapid rebirth and overhauling of the fortunes of Imo PDP which at the time, was faced with internal wrangling. To naysayers and sworn critics of PDP including those already stricken by ‘Samdaddy-phobia,’ a concocted,…
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