The leading House of Assembly aspirant for Owerri Municipal under the platform of APG/0/V Evangelist victor Tochukwu Anowey has re-assured the leadership of his party of his total commitment to effective representation and of building a stronger APGA in t he municipal council and state. Evangelist Tochukwu Anowey stated this last week in Owerri during meetings with the principal ward and EGA women leaders and youth leaders. Anowey who hails from Umujiaku kindred in Umuonyeche village of Owerri Municipal council noted that he had spent all his life in Owerri…
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Imo 2019: Araraume, ‘Allied Forces’ dismantle Okorocha
It is an indisputable fact that Sen. Ifeanyi Ararume’s last minute political mutiny enhanced the second straight victory Gov. Rochas Okorocha recorded over the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) in Imo State. After defeating Chief Ikedi Ohakim, who re-contested the governorship under the platform of the PDP, the rescue mission governor in 2015 also defeated Hon. Emeka Ihedioha, who was nominated as the PDP governorship candidate during the 2015 governorship election in Imo. After a rancorous governorship primary election that produced Ihedioha, the former Deputy Speaker of Federal House of Representatives, Sen.…
Read MoreAPC fight, not in Imo people’s interest – Nneji
A leading All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, governorship aspirant in Imo State, Mr. Frank Nneji has expressed his views about the internal wrangling currently going on in the APC as a result of their recent congresses. He said the wrangling, which is the result of the clash of selfish interests, was diversionary, and urged Imo people to maintain their resolve to vote the APC government out in next year’s elections Mr Nneji pointed out that what was happening in the APC in Imo state was a consequence of the hardship…
Read MoreWe never endorsed Osuji or any other Guber aspirant – NAISS …Says: Students shouldn’t be misled
By Buchi Iwuji The National Association of Imo State Students NAISS has frowned at an alleged rumour making rounds that the association has endorsed the gubernatorial aspiration of Chief Barr. Aloysius Osuji of the MAJA party. In a release signed by the President, Comrade Anyaoha Tochi C., the students body affirms that the masterminds of the rumour must have collected money from the aspirant and as such, do not represent the interest of the union. Comrade Anyaoha stressed that those constituting nuisance at NAISS must surely face the consequences adding…
Read MoreGovernorship: Ideato North, South support Nneji
Both leaders of All Progressives Grand Alliance in Ideato North and South Local Government Areas of Imo State have pledged their unflinching support to the governorship ambition of Mr. Frank Nneji. The leaders of the two local government areas trooped out en masse to receive the Frank Nneji campaign team on its sensitisation tour to the areas and assured of their unalloyed support which they said was informed by the credibility of Mr. Frank Nneji. The two sets of leaders made up of men, women and youths poured encomiums on…
Read More2019 Governorship: Imo Diaspora supports Madumere
In the face of the recent excruciating defeat of Imo state governor, Owelle Rocha’s Okorocha by the All Progressives’ Congress, APC coalition group at the wards, LGAs and state Congresses of the party in the state, an Owerri zone indigene based in the United States Of America, USA, Hon. Anderson Iheme, has restated his commitment and support for the endorsement of the state deputy governor, Prince Eze Madumere, as flagbearer of the party in the awaited 2019 governorship election. Speaking in an interview with journalists in Owerri on Tuesday, Chief…
Read MoreRochas, God’s divine project – Obowo TC
In the midst of crises presently bedeviling the Imo State Chapter of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), a stalwart of the party and incumbent transition committee chairman of Obowo local government, Hon. Prince Chidi Nwoke has cautioned all ARC stakeholders operating under the aegis of coalition group to drop all arsenals of war directed against the leader of the party and governor of the state, Owelle RoChas Okorocha in the overall interest of the party and Imo people in general. According to Prince Chidi Nwoke, the Imo state rescue…
Read MoreAkubuo floats NGO for rural development
A renowned female legal practitioner based in Abuja from the Isu/Njaba/Nwangele/Nkwerre state federal constituency in Imo West, Barrister Doris Akubuo has stated her commitments to ensure that the good people from her federal constituency are welfare taken care of through her God given wealth. Barrister Akubuo in a telephone chat with Nigeria Newspoint during the weekend said that she is prepared to assist the rural indigents to improve on their standard of living such that they will be self reliance and actualized their purpose in life. She maintained that her…
Read MoreTragedy: Airforce man shoots, kills corper in Imo “The soldier slapped the deceased Corper”
Tragedy struck in Awaka, near Owerri the Imo State Capital weekend when an Airforce man in a military checkpoint in the community shot and killed one Emeka Amadi from Umunkwe, Nde Egbelu, Awaka, Owerri North LGA. The young man, who was a Youth Corp member was said to be doing his one year mandatory national youth service in Plateau State, North Central Nigeria, according sources was killed by the Airforce man allegedly because of communal crisis. Nigeria Newspoint gathered that trouble started after another village went to the military men…
Read MoreWhy Mbaike and Mbaise Nations must back old Owerri Local Government Area
In recent time, issues ofmarginalization, political balancing, fairness, equity and justice has occupied the center stage of political discourse in Imo state ahead of 2019 general election. The strongestprotests against marginalization in Imo today is coming from fair minded individuals who believe that Okigwe and Orlu Zones have dominated the governorship position in the state and argue therefore, that Owerri Zone should produce the next governor in the next election. Since Imo is built on the tripod of Owerri, Okigwe & Orlu Zones. Beside the topical issue of marginalization in…
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