With the emergence of Chief Peter Obi as the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, ahead of the 2023 general elections, a gale of defections apparently looms in the major political parties in the South East as many Aspirants who lost out during the just concluded primaries of the major parties have either defected to the Labour Party or have started making subterranean moves to join. Obi, a former Governor of Anambra State, left the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, a couple of days before the party’s Presidential primary to…
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Owerri Municipal Assembly: My Return To Imo Assembly Will Favour Owerri Municipal, Says Osuji
…I’d attracted over 100Jobs … As Majority Leader, I Initiated 98 Bills A former Lawmaker, Hon. Lugard Osuji, who was the Majority Leader of Imo State House of Assembly, has said that he desires to return to the State Legislature, to do more of effective representation for the people of Owerri Municipal. Speaking to newsmen in Owerri, recently Hon.Osuji, who is the candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, for Owerri Municipal State Assembly seat, said his records as a first time lawmaker was impressive and outshines those of…
Read MoreImo Primary Election: Anyanwu-Akeredolu Insists On Primaries, Flays APC ‘s Attempt To Write Results
Crisis appears to loom in Imo State as the Senatorial election of the All Progressives Congress, APC was said to have been compromised by the state Governor, Sen.Hope Odidika Uzodinma. The First Lady of Ondo State and Senatorial Aspirant for Imo East(Owerri Zone) in the state, Mrs. Betty Anyanwu-Akeredolu was seen at the state secretariat of APC on Okigwe Road, Owerri, Imo State, protesting the alleged irregularity. Mrs Anyanwu-Akeredolu who addressed journalists at the gate of the party Secretariat said election did not hold in the state and called…
Read MoreIndustrial Court Stops Illegal NUJ Election In Imo, Demands Verification List Of Membership
The lingering leadership tussle in the Imo state council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists is gradually coming to an end as the National Industrial Court sitting in Owerri, yesterday, barred the Nigeria Union of Journalists from conducting election in the state, pending the determination of the matter instituted with suit number OW/NICN/01/2019 in respect of the inconclusive 2018 election. The court also ordered for a membership verification exercise, aimed at sanitizing the system and separating the wheat from the chaff. The verification exercise as ordered by the court entails that,…
Read MoreTETFUND: IMSU White Paper: We’ll Go To Court If Mbata Secures APC Ticket For Owerri Senate
…Petitions Party’s screening committee …Insists on implementation of White Paper The controversy elicited by the ambition of Prince Alex Mbata, the Ngwoma, Obube born C.E.O of ABM Global and former Pro-chancellor of Imo State University during Rochas Okorocha’s tenure as governorr of Imo state, to secure the Owerri zone senatorial ticket on the platform of the All Progressive Congress APC, has assumed a different dimension, as a human rights group known as Every Child Education Advancement Foundation, ECEA, has threatened to seek redress in court, if Prince Alex Mbata under …
Read MoreIkenga Shuts Down Ideato In Grand Reception
After the failed attempt to scuttle his political ambition, indigenes of Ideato nation over the weekend trooped out, in massive solidarity to formally receive their son, Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere. The jubilant crowd went wild on sighting Ikenga for the first time since the reaffirmation of his qualification by the National leadership of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and clearance to participate in the forthcoming primaries of the party for the Ideato federal constituency. Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere, former aide to the former Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki and former President, National…
Read MoreYou Can’t Intimidate Delegates In Orji Owerri North With Suspension Threat, Onyeagucha Warns Onyewuchi
…Says: Purported suspension, irrational Hon Barr Uche Onyeagucha, the frontline PDP Senatorial Aspirant in Imo East Senatorial District, has noted with consternation the purported suspension of the PDP Orji Ward Chairman and Secretary as masterminded and sponsored by Senator Ezenwa Onyewuchi on the suspicion that they are supporting his Senatorial ambition. Both the chairman and the secretary were not accused for any wrong doing except that Senator Onyewuchi directed the PDP Chairman in Owerri North to issue them with a two months suspension notice on the allegation that they may…
Read MoreOwerri Senate: Anyanwu-Akeredolu Declares Interest To Run
…Says: She is fit for the position By Williams Odunze The Emeabiam, Owerri-West-born First Lady of Ondo State, Mrs.Betty Anyanwu-Akeredolu has officially declared her interest to represent Owerri Zone at the Red Chambers in the National Assembly under the platform of All Progressives Congress,APC.She maintained that she is fit and capable for the position. Accompanied by different groups from Owerri Senatorial Zone to the APC State Secretariat in Owerri where She addressed the State Party Executives under the Chairmanship of Hon.MacDonald Ebere, the First Lady of Ondo State maintained that…
Read More2023 Owerri Zone Senate: Njemanze Declares Interest
…Promises Quality Representation …Obtains APP Nomination Forms As the race over who represents Imo East senatorial district (Owerri zone) in the 2023 general election gathers momentum, a frontline politician and humanist from the zone, Hon. Christian Kelechi Njemanze has thrown his hart in the ring, with a promise to provide quality and purposeful representation to the zone. Speaking after he obtained his expression of interest and nomination forms from the African Peoples Party (APP), Hon. Njemanze, said it was time to wipe away tears of Owerri senatorial district after many…
Read MoreTETFUND Projects: NGO Demands Explanation On Abandoned Projects At IMSU
…May Go To Court Over Whitepaper Implementation The Registered Trustees of a group known as Every Child Education and Advancement Foundation (ECEAF) after a meeting in Owerri, the Imo state capital yesterday where they reviewed the alarming infrastural decay at the Imo State University (IMSU), Owerri called on Prince Alex Mbata, who was Pro-Chancellor of the university to explain why some TETFUND projects in the institution were abandoned despite the enormous resources provided for them. The group in a released signed by the Director of Publicity Comrade Dominic Nwankwo frowned…
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