Imo Guber 2019: WHO WINS, TRIBUNAL GIVE JUDGMENT IN ABUJA, TOMORROW …PDP- Uphold our victory …APC- Declare us winner AA- PDP won without spread …APGA- Nullify poll

Palpable tension has apparently enveloped the political atmosphere in Imo State ahead of the Saturday sitting of the governorship election petition tribunal deliver judgment in the petitions filed by three leading opposition parties and their gubernatorial candidates in the state. The candidates include Senator Ifeanyi Araraume of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Senator Hope Uzodinma of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and Chief Uche Nwosu of the Action Alliance, AA. At the moment, high level political horse-trading is believed to be going on among the principal actors in power…

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Youth Development is Priority of Ihedioha Led Administration -Irona

By Mohammed Ogbo The state government has declared youth development as one of its cardinal objective of past administration. The state deputy governor made this declaration while speaking on behalf of the Governor, Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha during the flagging off of a free training for youths in Mobile Money and Information Communication Technology (ICT). The programme was organized by Imo state Ministry of Technology Development, in partnership with the Iwuanyanwu Foundation, with support from the Ministry of Youths Development. The deputy governor made it clear that the multiplier effects…

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Rebuild Imo: Imo govt to spend N3.9bn on 120 new classroom blocks,renovate 140 schools – Iheduru …45 new Bore holes to be drilled in schools

In keeping with his rebuild Imo agenda, a total of 120 new classroom blocks has been enlisted for construction while 140 dilapidate schools will receive facelift in a couple of weeks from now. Also 45 new boreholes will be drilled in schools where the need for water is higher. These and more are parts of the projects lined up for the 100 days in office of His Excellency, Governor Emeka Ihedioha. Briefing Newsmen about these forthcoming projects of the state government in his office, weekend, the state chairman, Imo State…

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Orlu elders tell Ihedioha, Prosecute Okorocha now …Irona: We’ll recover stolen funds

Elders of Orlu Senatorial zone of Imo State, under the aegis of Orlu Elders Council have called on Governor Emeka Ihedioha to probe and prosecute the immediate past Governor of the State, Chief Rochas Okorocha. In a 3-page address read by the Chairman of the Council, Professor Francis Dike SAN, during a courtesy visit to the Deputy Governor of Imo State, Engr. Gerald Irona, the group accused the former Governor of leaving a legacy of Garnishee Orders and indescribable looting of the state treasury. The group lauded the Imo State…

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Araraume clears N2.5m bill for 10 poor patients in FMC …Beneficiaries, relatives jubilate

For the second in barely two weeks, Senator Ifeanyi Araraume has cleared the hospital bills of 10 additional patients who have been fully treated but could not go home due to inability to pay their treatment bill. Presenting a cheque of N2.5 million to the hospital management Thursday, Senator Araraume represented by the chairman of the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, Imo State, Prince Henry Okafor said the gesture was in fulfillment of Senator Araraume’s promise when he visited the hospital few weeks ago. He said Senator Araraume decided to…

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BOB NJEMANZE FLAYS IHEDIOHA’S 27 LG STADIA PROJECTS“Its another Okorocha’s 27 general hospitals”…Warns Governor to be wary of moles

Elder statesman and fiery critic, Ndaa Bob Njemanze says Governor Emeka Ihedioha’s 27 stadiums project and construction of local government secretariats are not in tune with expectations of beleaguered Imo people at this point in time in the state. Njemanze who spoke to Nigeria Newspoint on vexed issues of governance in Imo weekend also advised Governor Ihedioha to be careful with those banner peels that derailed the outgone Rochas Okorocha administration in the state. The Owerri Nehi-Ise-born member of the 2014 Political Reform Conference of then President Goodluck Jonathan made…

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AA accepts Nwosu’s court disqualification as Guber candidate

The National leadership of the Action Alliance (AA), has welcomed in good fate, the eventual disqualification of Uche Nwosu, as the flag-bearer of the party in the March 9, 2019, governorship election in Imo State. In a release signed by the National Chairman of AA, Kenneth Udeze and National Secretary, dated August 22, 2019,addressed to Barr. Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere, the National Chairman of Action Peoples Party (APP), who obtained the court judgment disqualifying Uche Nwosu, as candidate, the AA leaders stated that they were conveying their unalloyed acceptance of the…

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YPP members join PDP: Woman leader- Okoroji, vows to mobilize women

The Imo State members of New Young Progressive Party (N-YPP) in the 27 council areas numbering over one hundred thousand persons have unanimously joined the ruling party, Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP) in their bid to actualize the earlier quest to enthroned good governance in the state. In his speech, the State Chairman New YPP, Chief Damian Ogu, a former Imo State House of Assembly Member for Onuimo state constitutiency said that the decisions to joined PDP finally was premeditated by the uninflinching and overwhelming support of the members before,…

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Okorocha blasts Imo PDP over petition to IGP

The immediate past governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, has tackled the state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over a petition against him by the party to the Inspector General of Police (IGP), accusing him of making inciting comments against Governor Emeka Ihedioha’s administration. The petition, which was signed by the state secretary of the party, Nze Ray Emeana, and made available to journalists yesterday, urged the IGP to look into Okorocha’s comments while addressing his supporters during his return to the state last Tuesday and call him…

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Periscope on Rochas’ morbid phobia for jail

The article entitled: Governor Emeka Ihedioha And The Contract Award Panel From 1999 To 2029 (20 Years)” written by Sam Rochas Onwuemeodo, the Special Antagonist on Media to ex-governor Rochas Okorocha, has only one deep structure theme and leaves one message: “Rochas is afraid of jail”! On the surface structure, however, the ex-governor presented his usual façadé of crying for Jesus instead of crying for himself. He waxed advisorial, analysing the down side of the probe of contract awards in the State since the advent of the 4th republic, 1999-2019.…

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