“Report Just Reaching Me Has It That My Own Governorship Candidate Was Attacked in Owerri West LGA” The Labour Party’s National Chairman, Julius Abure, has disclosed that shortly before the security town hall meeting got underway, he received a report indicating that his party’s candidate for governor had been attacked in the Owerri West Local Government area. It is difficult for the party to have faith in the assurances given by security agencies about the conduct of free and fair elections in the three states, according to Abure, who noted…
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Imo Guber: Ohaneze Youths Rejects Uzodinma, Warns Against Rigging
…Demands redeployment of INEC REC, security agencies rejig The Ohaneze Youth Counci,OYC has called on the Independent National Election Commission, INEC, and security agencies to ensure a peaceful, free, fair and transparent conduct of the scheduled November 11 governorship election in Imo State. This is even as the Ohaneze Youth Council raised fears that there could be alleged plot to compromise the process using electoral officials. The youth body therefore called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the Inspector General of Police,IGP and other top security chiefs in the country to effect…
Read MoreImo Guber: Yiaga Africa deploys 328 Observers, calls for credible election
Ahead of the Saturday Governorship election, a non governmental organization, Yiaga Africa has disclosed that it is mobilizing 328 local observers for the election to ensure that it’s free, fair and credible This was made known during Media and Civil society Organisation round table discussion held in Owerri. Speaking through its Director of programmes Cynthia Mbamalu, the Organization emphasized on the need for citizens participation in the elections to foster democracy and social inclusion. She stated that the media and the CSOs should collaborate with Yiaga to sensitive the citizens…
Read MoreNOV 11: Imo INEC fully prepared to conduct credible Guber elections -Agu
By Onyinyechi Nwankwo The Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC. Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Imo State, Prof. Mrs Sylvia Agu has announced the preparedness of the commission to conduct a free, fair and credible governorship election come Saturday Nov. 11, 2023. Prof. Agu stated this while addressing Journalists in a press briefing at the State Office, Owerri, recently. She noted that the Commission has conducted all the pre-electoral activities prior to the Saturday elections within the timeline stipulated by the Electoral Act and election guidelines in a professional, credible and transparent…
Read MoreImo Guber: Uzodinma, People’s Choice -Iwuoha
Business man and top leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state, Chief Kingsley Iwuoha has disclosed that the forthcoming governorship election in the state would most certainly swing in favour of the incumbent governor, Governor Hope Uzodinma, going by opinions available to him from interactions with people in the state from diverse walks of life. Chief Iwuoha made this observation on Tuesday in Owerri during a chat with newsmen in his office. According to the oil and gas business guru, the nature of his business avails him…
Read MoreInter-Community Football tournament takes stand against FGM
Orji, Owerri North, Imo State, in a pioneering effort to raise awareness and advocate for the abandonment of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), an inter-community football tournament brought together over 200 youths from Mbaitolu and Owerri North in Imo State. The event, held at Orji Primary School, was organized by the Young Men’s Network Against Sexual & Gender-Based Violence, Imo State Chapter, with support from Youth Hub Africa under the UNFPA-UNICEF joint programme on the erlimination of Female Genital Mutilation. Felxfame Enisire, the State Program Coordinator of Young Men’s Network, emphasized…
Read MoreImo D-Gov, Iwu, Others Grace Catholic Social Forum
…As Uzodinma bags Award of Excellence The Catholic Social Forum, an arm of the Laity Council of Nigeria, Owerri Province, has honoured the Imo State governor, Senator Hope Uzodinma for his developmental strides in the state. The Council conferred the honour on the governor during a Diocesan Re-orientation and Sensitization Programme with the theme: “Healing the Land.” The event aimed at encouraging the Catholic faithful to actively engage in politics and exercise their voting rights, responsibly. The program which was Coordinated by the President of the Laity Council of Nigeria, Owerri…
Read MoreNLC President- Ajaero Compromises Position To Derail November 11 Guber Poll -Group
Fresh facts have emerged on the reason why the Nigerian Labour Congress-NLC President, Comrade Joe Ajaero stormed Imo State with a mission to derail the November 11, governorship election scheduled for this Saturday. In a press statement issued by the South East Transparency Initiative (SETI) of which a copy was made available to Correspondents in Owerri, and signed by its National Coordinator and National Secretary, Chief Darlington Nwogu and Christian Ukachukwu, respectively, the group revealed that it uncovered some nocturnal meetings held in Abuja between Ajaero and some aggrieved politicians…
Read MoreImo NUJ Condemns Attack On NLC President-AJaero
The executive and members of the Nigeria Union of Journalists,NUJ, Imo State Council, has received with pains and grieves the unprovoked and mindless attack visited on the national President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Comrade Joe Ajaero, by thugs and police officers said to be working for Imo State Government. The Wednesday, November 1 vicious attack on the NLC president is most unfortunate, unfounded and absolutely smacks of gross insensitivity and reckless disregard for human rights as well as institutional molestation on the part of the government. We are…
Read MoreImo Govt Reserved All Hotels: We’ve Lost Our Humanity Because Of Politics, Says Akeredolu’s Wife
…As Federal Girls Owerri old students’re stopped after months of reservation. Betty Anyanwu–Akeredolu, the wife of the Governor of Ondo State, Rotimi Akeredolu has made a grave assertion. She declared” We have lost our humanity because of politics!”. The wife of the Ondo Governor made the assertion along with a video for clarity. She posited, “Happening in my home state, Imo state. Is it fair? We have lost our humanity because of politics!” The video captures the protest by the old students of the Federal Government Girls College, Owerri who…
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