The recent endorsement of President Muhammadu Buhari by the United Progressives Party, UPP may have held no significance for Imolites but emerging indications seem to suggest that the endorsement allegedly signals Gov Rochas Okorocha’s activation of his plan B for the 2019 governorship election. According to sources who spoke to Nigeria Newspoint that event as innocuous as it look actually was a momentous event not only for the president but also for the governor and his political camp in the wake of their disappointing showing in the APC primary in…
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Imo governorship: fasted, prayed against Rochas’ succession plot-Traders, mechanics …His govt is anti- people, it made us poor
Some of the traders and mechanics displaced by Gov Rochas Okorocha’s urban renewal programme have expressed joy that his plot to install his in law, Ugwumba Uche Nwosu as his successor has hit the rocks. The artisans who spoke in Owerri on Wednesday added that the crashing of the agenda is proof that their prayers and fasting against the project has been answered by God. According to the visibly elated artisans who craved anonymity now that their prayers have been answered the onus has shifted back to them to go…
Read More2019 Governorship: Uzodinma returns with Imo APC ticket …Debunks arrest report
Sen Hope Uzodinma, All Progressives Congress, APC governorship candidate for Imo State will arrive the state today weeks after flooring Gov Rochas Okorocha to pick the governorship ticket of his party. The lawmaker representing Imo West Senatorial District in the Senate it was learnt is coming back to the state for the first time since October 1 2018 when the party’s governorship primary election committee headed by Alhaji Ahmed Gulak declared winner of the hotly contested poll. Following his declaration Gov Okorocha and his camp have been waging relentless battle…
Read More2019: Rochas storms Abuja as INEC clears Uzodinma, Araraume, Ihedioha for Imo governorship …Agburu camp shamed, in disarray
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has finally put to rest speculations about the authentic governorship candidates of various political parties in Imo state with the release of names of candidates in Owerri, the state capital, weekend. Expectedly, the APC which nomination process has been mired in controversy was the cynosure of all eyes in the state and even beyond when news of the publication broke late last week. After initial confusion regarding whose name was published, it later emerged that the name of Sen Hope Uzodinma which the party…
Read MoreImo 2019: YPP, Okorie can be credible alternative as next Governor …Imo needs new ideas, …fresh breath, super economy
Imo governorship election for 2019 is gradually taking shape with the primaries of political parties now over. However, events after the primaries have shown that the ‘old brigade’ appear bent on consolidating on their grip of Imo State especially, when one looks at the candidates of the acclaimed big political parties who have just emerged from the exercise. The implication of the seeming vice grip on power in Imo State by these old war horses can readily be seen on the palpable state of affairs in the state evident in…
Read More2019 Imo Guber: Uzodinma’s home turns Mecca for aggrieved Agburu APC members …As impeachment scare forces Speaker Ihim to adjourn Assembly sitting
In the wake of his emergence as the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, for Imo State, the homes of Sen Hope Uzodimma in Abuja and Imo have reportedly turned Mecca of sorts for aggrieved members of Gov Rochas Okorocha’s Agburu camp. While this is going on, the much anticipated reconvening of the State Assembly last Tuesday began on a shaky ground following the abrupt adjournment of sittings by the Speaker, Rt Hon Acho Ihim citing non formation of quorum as reason for his action. According to sources…
Read MoreImo Guber: Anyanwu drags Okey Eze, INEC to court over ticket “He never took part in primary”
Against the backdrop of alleged move to snatch the governorship ticket from him, Dr. Casimir Anyanwu, standard bearer of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, in Imo State has dragged Chief Okey Eze to a Federal High Court, Owerri on grounds that Eze did not participate in gubernatorial primary of the party for the 2019 general elections. In the said suit, Dr. Anyanwu put three questions for determination which include, “whether having regard to the provision of Section 87 (1 and 2) of the Electoral Act of 2010 (as amended), the…
Read MorePolitical Bruise: Okorocha’s Political empire crumbles as APC chases him into SDP …Party gives Uzodinma Guber ticket …Agburu men lose out in State, National Legislative posts
Barely two weeks after Nigeria Newspoint graphically captured how Imo State Governor, Rochas Anayo Okorocha lost his alleged self succession battle in the All Progressives Congress APC, the National Working Committee, NWC of the party has finally drove the nail into his crumbling political empire and positioned it for a free fall with the choice of Sen Hope Uzodinma as the party governorship candidate for Imo State. Not satisfied with that catastrophic blow it was also reliably gathered that the governor’s wings were clipped further by the sharing of tickets…
Read MoreImo APC guber battle: Okorocha walksout on Buhari in Abuja …Wants to keep guber, senate slots…Gambles with Orlu zone ticket.
The governorship ticket battle rocking the ruling All Progressives Congress APC, in Imo State recently took a shocking twist following Gov Rochas Anayo Okorocha’s reported walk out on President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja,seat of power. Nigeria Newspoint was informed by reliable APC sources that the visibly angry governor staged the walk out after several efforts made to woo the president to back his succession plan failed . It was learnt that the Imo State helmsman had in the wake of the ticket crisis approached President Buhari to seek his support…
Read More2019 Presidency: Atiku parleys with IPOB leader –Kanu “I’m interested in Ndigbo come 2019”
The intrigues emanating from the preparation to the 2019 presidential elections appear unending. According to correspondent report the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Presidential flag bearer, AlhajiAtikuAbubakar has opened communication channels with the leader of the proscribed group, the Indigenous People of Biafra,IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. In the highly secretive arrangement, the two involved talks on issues of possible mutual benefit. According to a source Alhaji Atiku has expressed interest in having talks with the leader of the IPOB group. The PDP flag bearer intends to understand in real terms the…
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