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Nonsochukwu Uwa, Owerri The Imo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, led by Engr. Charles Ugwuh, on Tuesday said the party had started mobilising Imo electorate against any plot to rig 2023 Imo elections. The PDP stated this in a statement issued in Owerri, through the state Publicity Secretary, Collins Opuruzor, after the party stakeholders meeting held in the state. According to the PDP, the APC has allegedly run Imo aground and the time has come to weed out the APC, from power. The statement read in part: “The action plan which has been put in place to…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The crisis plaguing the Abia State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, is far from over, as one of the governorship aspirants , Chief Daniel Eke, has warned that the party might not field any candidate in the 2023 governorship election. Eke who dragged the party and its governorship ticket claimants, Chief Ikechi Emenike; and Dr Uche Ogah; products of parallel primaries, to court has vowed not to give up in the matter until he gets justice. Dr Eke who addressed newsmen at the premises of the Federal High Court Umuahia, lamented that after paying a whopping…
Lawrence Nwimo, Awka Youths under the aegis of Igbo Youths for Positive Change, have replied the comments directed at Anambra State Governor, Chukwuma Soludo, from the Ohanaeze Youth Council over his recent comments on the activities of gunmen in the state. The state had witnessed successive attacks by gunmen and it was only few weeks ago that the senator representing Anambra South senatorial district, Ifeanyi Ubah, escaped assassination after his convoy was attacked in the state. Following this, the governor in his recent comment, said that all unknown gunmen terrorising the state were Igbo. Ikengaonline gathered that the comment did not…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia “The South-West as I have pointed out has produced a President and currently sits as VP, the South-South has spent a total of six years in the Presidency, but the Igbo people of the South-East have never tasted presidency in Nigeria, and now that the power is due back in the South equity demands that it be ceded to the Igbo.” – Pa Ayo Adebanjo Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, has declared that if truly Nigeria is sincere about her continuity as one united political entity, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, who hails…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has strongly condemned the disruption of Labour Party meeting in Enugu by unidentified gunmen. Ohanaeze which described the incident as alien to Igbo shared values, sternly warned that the incident should be the last of such ugly scenario. Ohanaeze in a press statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Dr Alex Ogbonnia, said it was shameful that at a time when other parts of the country, were warmly embracing the clamour for power shift to the South-East, hooligans were coming to disrupt the gathering of the party set to actualise the Igbo dream. The…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Immediate-past President of the Igbo apex socio-cultural organisation, the Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief John Nnia Nwodo, will this Thursday, September 29, 2022, appear as the Keynote Speaker at the Monthly IkengaOnline Town Hall meeting. According to a press release by the Editor in-Chief of the online news platform, Uche Ugboajah, the former Minister for Information, will speak on the topic, “Igbo Nation and the Rudderlessness of our Ship: The Big Elephant in the Room.” The forthcoming town hall meeting, according to the release, will be the third in the series. Immediate-past Senate Minority Leader, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, in…
Ike Nnachi, Abakaliki The National grid might have collapsed again throwing the entire South-East into total power blackout. Spokesperson of Enugu Electricity Distribution Company PLC (EEDC), Emeka Eze, in a statement on Monday said the system collapse occurred at 10:51am. It is not clear the extent of the collapse this time but the statement from Mr Eze confirmed that the entire South-East had been without power since the incident occurred Mr Eze explained that as a result of the system collapse all the transmission stations in the region are out of power supply. He said the situation has led to total blackout…
By Owei Lakemfa Once the Muhammadu Buhari government had failed to get striking lecturers in our public universities back to class, I knew it would head for the National Industrial Court, NIC, shopping for an injunction. Tragically that is what governments in the country and rich employers have turned the NIC into: a fishing pond for injunctions against employees and labour unions they consider recalcitrant. The NIC with the regalia of the judiciary was established in 1976 primarily as an industrial court to promote reconciliation, arbitration and the justice of a case rather than an unnecessary reliance on technicalities for…
Stephen Ukandu, News & Features Editor Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State rode to power in 2015 on the goodwill of the people of the state who saw him back then as a victim of political persecution in the hands of his boss and the former governor, Martin Elechi, who never wanted him (Umahi) to succeed him. Umahi, then a Deputy Governor, challenged the power of incumbency and prevailed as the people of the state rallied round him as a democrat and beacon of new hope. Expectedly, Dave Umahi, as he is fondly called, started on a good note through his infrastructural revolution with…
By Hassan Gimba There must be something that does not sit well between Adamu Maina Waziri, a former minister of the Federal Republic, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and one of Atiku Abubakar’s right-hand men, and Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, governor of Rivers State and runner-up in the presidential primary election of the PDP. Wike lost the primary election to Atiku by 237 votes to 371. Without a doubt, that loss, which he never expected, hit him hard. A few weeks later, he lost the chance to be Atiku’s running mate. That completely unhinged him and, frustrated, he…