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BREAKING: Alex Otti about to be declared Abia gov-elect By Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Ikengaonline can authoritatively report that the governorship candidate of the Labour Party in Abia State, Dr Alex Otti, is about to be declared the winner of the March 18 governorship poll. This is following the conclusion of collation of results this evening as the controversial Obingwa result has finally been declared. Collation Officer, Chimaroke Onyebuchi who declared the result said Obingwa had a total of 157,390 registered voters. He gave the number of accredited voters as 27,664. According to him, the total number of valid votes was…
Ebonyi2023: PDP, APGA candidates reject results, head to court Ike Nnachi, Abakaliki The first and second runners up in the just- concluded Ebonyi State governorship election have reacted to the declaration of Mr Francis Nwifuru as winner and Governor-elect. The Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) had on Monday declared Nwifurụ, candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC) winner of the election. The PDP candidate, Ifeanyi Odii came second while the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) candidate, Bernard Odoh came third. The duo in separate statements appealed for calm from their supporters promising to do all within the law to get the…
Heavy security in Abia as INEC resumes collation of guber election results By Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia There is heavy deployment of security operatives around the roads leading to the state headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Ogurube Layout Umuahia as the stage is set for the resumption of the collation of governorship election results which was on Monday suspended by INEC. Heavily armed security operatives have taken over strategic locations in the state capital apparently to maintain law and order when the final winner of the March 18 governorship poll is eventually announced. The suspension followed allegations…
CP praises Anambra residents for display during Assembly election Lawrence Nwimo, Awka Commissioner of Police, CP Aderemi Adeoye, has extolled citizens in Anambra State for their conducts and dispositions during the 2023 general elections. Recall that CP Adeoye was deployed to Anambra by the Inspector General of Police for the 2023 house of assembly election. Following the exercise, the CP was full of praise for the people of the state who he said conducted themselves peacefully during the polls. The CP who disclosed this through the Command’s Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, said the people’s conducts were akin…
Bayo Onanuga joins the league of genocide enablers in Nigeria By Rudolf Okonkwo For now, forget about MC Oluomo. He is just a leader of the foot soldiers. The Spokesperson of the Bola Tinubu Presidential Campaign Council, Bayo Onanuga, has taken his rightful place as one of the intellectuals who are midwifing Nigeria’s impending genocide. And on this list are people like Texas-based cardiologist Dr. Adeniran Abraham Ariyo. Eight years ago, Dr. Ariyo called for a xenophobic attack against the Igbo in Nigeria, the way South Africans were attacking foreigners in their country. When called out,…
Abia guber poll: AA candidate congratulates Otti, urges INEC to declare him winner By Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Despite the logjam in the collation of the Abia State governorship election results, one of the candidates, Onyekwere Akym Uche (OAU) of the Action Alliance, has congratulated the candidate of the Labour Party, Dr Alex Otti who is so far leading in 16 out of 17 Local Government Area results so far declared. Otti polled a total of 171,747 votes in 16 LGAs, while his closest rival, Chief Okey Ahiwe of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, scored 79,477 votes. INEC has suspended…
#EndSARS protests ‘ll be child’s play if INEC does wrong things in Abia, Enugu guber polls By Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia As anxiety continues to mount over the March 18 governorship election results in Abia and Enugu States, Igbo youths have cautioned the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, not to announce the wrong candidates winner as doing so could trigger protest worse than the #EndSARS protests. Igbo youths who spoke under the auspices of Coalition of South East Youth Leaders, COSEYL, expressed worries over the delays by INEC to declare winners of the contests. COSEYL in a statement by its…
Enugu guber poll: PDP says INEC overreaching itself, should stick to mandate Ben Ezechime, Enugu The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has said that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), is over-reaching itself and should stick to its mandate of seeing through the completion of the electoral process. Mr Nana Ogbodo, Spokesperson of the Campaign Council of the Enugu State PDP, said this in a press conference. The press conference was held shortly after INEC suspended the collation of the final results and declaration of a victor in the March 18 Enugu State Governorship Poll. Ogbodo said that the PDP was…
78m Nigerian children risk contracting water related diseases, group warns Lawrence Nwimo, Awka No fewer that 78 million Nigeria children risk contracting water related diseases if nothing is done to combat escalating water crisis in Nigeria. This was disclosed by the Rural Community Development Outreach (RCDO), a Non-Government Organisation (NGO) based in Nigeria with membership across the rural communities in the six geopolitical regions of Nigeria. The group said the Federal government of Nigeria must pay attention to the water crisis in Nigeria to save the Nigerian child and many more in the rural communities from the looming danger. A…
JUST IN: Collation of Abia guber poll to resume by 4 pm today By Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia As anxiety has continued to build over the suspension of collation of Abia governorship election results by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, the electoral umpire has disclosed that the exercise will resume by 4:00 pm today ( Wednesday, March 22). at the Collation Centre located inside the premises of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, headquarters Umuahia. Head, Voter Education and Publicity, Mrs Rebecca Jim, who disclosed this to Ikengaonline, said that the exercise would continue at the Collation Centre located inside…