Category: POLITICS

A frontline House of Assembly aspirant for Oguta state constituency under the All Progressive Grand Alliance APGA, Mr. Gerald Okechukwu Onyemaobi has reinstated his promise for a better future enshrined on from effective representation for all Oguta sons and daughters come 2019. The state Assembly hopeful made the statement while marking the 2018 Democray Day Celebration in Owerri, the capital. During the occasion which took place on May 29, 2018, Mr. Onyemaobi said it is important to celebrate Nigeria as a united entity as well as the existence of a…

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Prof. Itse Sagay SAN, Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC) has denied granting any interview with a reporter from Vanguard newspaper where he called for the cancellation of the recently held Imo ward congresses. Sagay, who was disappointed at the fake report said from all indications, some faceless people are trying to use his name to advance their cause in the controversy trailing the election. He said ” I have always willingly responded to requests for my views, on virtually any subject matter issue by Members of…

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A prominent leader in the All Progressives Grand Alliance ,APGA, in Imo State, High Chief I.I. Ekeiwu, has frowned at what he described as “a litany of lies by the incumbent administration in the state”, which only achievement he said is to take Imo State four decades backwards. Speaking to journalists in Owerri on Wednesday, the IsialaMbano-born politician said it is unfortunate that instead of apologizing to Imo people for squandering their resources, wasting their time and plunging the state into disaster, GovOkorocha once again occupied public space on Democracy…

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One of the foremost aspirants for the senate seat of Imo West (Orlu Zone) in the National Assembly com 2019, Engr. Ikenna Akubueze, has vowed to uplift the standard of living of people of the area, if chosen to represent the zone in 2019. Speaking during a sensitization visit to people of the zone, weekend Engr. Akubueze lamented that the zone which is blessed with abundant natural resources including oil and gas have been left to suffer in neglect and deprivation because of inept representation and lack of vision and…

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The Imo State chairman of the African Democratic Congress ADC, Barr Ignatius Nlem has predicted that his party would soon take over the political scene and go ahead to win 2019 election at all levels in the country. The state chairman who painted this optimistic picture recently in Owerri, the Imo State capital while fielding questions from journalists on the visit of ex President Olusegun Obasanjo to the State recently added that his predictions were informed by current realities and happenings in the political scene. He highlighted some of these…

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The African Democratic Congress ADC in Mbaitoti Local Government Area of Imo State, held a public enlightenment and sensitization rally in the area, on Saturday May, 26 2018 r with a call on party faithful and Mbaitoli electorate to support the ADC ahead of the awaited 2019 general election in the state. Earlier in his address at Nkwo Orodo, Chairman of tl party in Mbaitoli LGA, Chief Chris Opara said that the essence was to intimate the ward executives and party supporters on the benevolent activities and programmes of the…

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Professor of landscape architecture and former president, Academic Staff Union of Universities, Aloysius Ukachukwu Awuzie has made public, his intension to vie for the Imo West (Orlu Zone) senatorial seat in the 2019 general elections. Declaring for the upper house of the National Assembly seat under the platform of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA). Ukachukwu Aloysius” Awuzie who was also, vice chancellor of Imo State University, Owerri noted that although each of the many senators that represented Orlu since the last 19 years of democratic governance in Nigeria’s 4th…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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