Counsel to Senator Ifeanyi Araraume in the legal battle over the authentic candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Imo State Chapter in last year’s bye- election for Okigwe senatorial zone, Barr Emmanuel Nwosu has disclosed that the Supreme Court never made any consequential orders directing the Independent National Electoral Commission ,INEC, to issue certificate of return to Mr Frank Ibezim as winner of the election. Barr Nwosu also hinted that the same Supreme Court “never said that Ibezim is the APC candidiate” Speaking to newsmen recently, the lawyer further…
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Good Governance: APC’ll Rule Nigeria For Next 30 Years –Emeziem …Lauds APC’s revalidation exercise
Following the on-going nationwide revalidation/registration exercise of the All Progressive Congress, APC in Imo, the speaker of the Imo State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Paul Emeziem has informed that the APC membership card remains the only ticket the dividends of democracy in the country. The Speaker who is the Technical Committee Chairman of the political exercise, disclosed this while addressing newsmen during a press conference of committee members in charge of the revalidation/registration exercise held at the party Secretariat, Owerri, yesterday. Rt. Hon. Emeziem noted that the purpose of…
Read MoreOkigwe Senate: Araraume, Ibezim Who Wins Today … As Imo APC Crack Deepens
At last the D- day is here and the Supreme Court of Nigeria will today, Friday, February 5, enter judgement on the matter pending before it in respect of who, between Senator Ifeanyi Godwin Araraume and Mr Frank Ibezim, is the authentic candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, for the Imo North Senatorial election held and won by the Party on December 5, 2020. The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had declared the APC winner of that bye election without a candidate, following court judgements against the two claimants…
Read MoreArmy – Esn Clash: Stray Bullets Allegedly Kill 10 In Military/IPOB Gun Battle In Imo …Governor declares Curfew in 9 LGAs …Residents lament food shortages, hunger, fear
At least ten civilians were reportedly killed in the ongoing gun fight between members of the Eastern Security Network, ESN and military operatives which broke out a few days ago in Orlu and its environs. It was learnt that the civilian casualties were mainly victims of stray bullets of the military operatives who landed the town with the intention to dislodge the ESN operatives, though some accounts claim some were shot at by the military men. Reports said Nigerian soldiers had landed Orlu LGA to flush out the ESN operatives…
Read MoreImo Salary Palaver: Go On Strike, Lose Your Salary, Uzodinma Tells Imo Workers … May Close Hotels, Supermarkets, Eateries …Defaulters to be jailed over COVID-19 Protocol …Labour keeps mum
The government of Imo State has threatened to stop the salary of any civil or public servant in the state who embarks on strike action. Imo state government also threatened to shut down hotels, supermarkets,eateries , stores and others which fail to adhere strictly to the COVID-19 protocol as stipulated by the state’s COVID-19 committee, the Ministry of Health and other relevant agencies. A release from Imo State Government House notes that Governor Hope Uzodinma had, via a statewide broadcast on Friday, also threatened to jail any proprietor of a…
Read MoreArmy Vs IPOB: Imolites Flay Udenwa, Okorocha, Other Leaders For Keeping Mum As Orlu Burns …FG allegedly deploys 400 soldiers …Eze Okeke: We’ve not seen them
Prominent leaders of Orlu Zone have come under barrage of attacks from indigenes of the area ein particular and Imo in general over their graveyard silence amid the killings and destruction going on in the zone. Many Orlu indigenes who spoke to Nigeria Newspoint on the issue expressed shock and disappointment that almost all prominent political leaders from the area particularly ex-Governors Achike Udenwa and Rochas Okorocha and other elected representatives of the zone are keeping mum in the face of the sudden disaster that has hit their area. According…
Read MoreOWERRI NORTH WOMEN BEG IHENACHO NOT TO QUIT POLITICS… Say: Job creators like him needed by Imo, now. … As he distributes palliative
Women of Emekuku Autonomous Community in Owerri North Local Government Area, Imo State have passionately appealed to Captain Emmanuel Ihenacho not to quit politics, saying the State needs job creators like him now. The women, who, bared their mind on Monday, December 28, during the distribution of the second tranche of palliative of over one thousand cartoons of Indomie Noodles by the 2015 Imo governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, said the call has become necessary in view of parlous state of things in Imo state, particularly…
Read MoreOru Nation Holds Grand Reception For Uzodinma Tomorrow, Dec. 26 … Hails Onyeako, As worthy Son
It was a gathering of who is who in Oru Nation, comprising Oru East and Oru West Local Government Areas, Sunday, December 20, in the palatial home of an Industrialist and a son of the soil, Chief Edozie Evans Onyeako Udenga, to fine tune strategies for grand reception for Governor Hope Uzodimma, slated for tomorrow, Saturday December 26. The people are planning a grand reception for one of their own, the Governor, to appreciate his impressive performance in office in the last one year. Declaring the meeting open the host,Chief…
Read MoreOkigwe Senate Bye-Election: I’ll Strengthen Apc In Imo, Says Araraume … “Uzodinma has always been a friend”
The candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC in the December 5 Senatorial bye election, Ifeanyi Araraume has assured that his going to the Senate would benefit the Governor Hope Uzodinma, Imo and entire Okigwe zone. He insisted that he would add fervour and bring strength to the party, adding that he is a party man that appreciates hierarchy and that within the first year, the entire Imo will appreciate his contributions towards the growth of the party in the State and the South East in general. Sen. Araraume,…
Read MoreMILITOCRACY: UZODINMA DEPLOYS SOLDIERS TO STREETS …Gags protests …Soldiers: We don’t know our mission
In his bid to check protest which is gradually becoming incessant in Owerri, the Imo State capital, it has been observed that the Governor, Sen. Hope Uzodinma has deployed military personnels within Owerri metropolis to clamp down on intending protesters. It could be recalled that the Governor recently, while receiving members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers NURTW, and Joint National Association of Persons with Disabilities (JONADWAP) who were on solidarity visit to Government House made it clear that he would no longer tolerate protest in order to…
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