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By Osita Chidoka 2015 election data at a glance. Registered Voters: 67,422,005 Voter turnout: 31,746,490 Percentage turnout: 42% Valid Votes: 28,587,564 Invalid Votes: 3,158,926 APC Vote Share: 15,424,921 PDP Vote Share: 12,853,162 APC Winning Margin: 2,571,759 In 2015, voters countrywide cast 8,103,011 votes with “No PVC, No Biometrics.” In plain words, these votes were “manufactured” as there were no records of PVC validation with the Card Reader; there was also logically no match of the biometric data. Interestingly 60% of the 8.1M votes with “No PVC, No biometrics” were cast in the South-East and South-South, while 40% of the “No…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Pandemonium broke out over the weekend at Item in Bende Local Government Area of Abia State as a stray bullet allegedly fired by a security guard hit and killed a Primary School teacher simply identified as Mercy. According to a local source, Mercy had gone for a funeral service of a relation being held at the community when she met her untimely death. The source said the deceased highly reputed for her enterprising spirit and obedience was busy serving at the funeral function when the stray bullet hit and pierced her chest region. According to the source,…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Senator Mao Ohuabunwa has restated his total support for full financial autonomy for Local Government Areas in the country. The former Leader, ECOWAS Parliament, who made the call while addressing Peoples Democratic Party, PDP stakeholders from the Arochukwu Local Government Council, lamented the precarious state of LGAs across the country due to inadequate funds. He argued that if LGAs were allowed to manage their allocations from Abuja without unnecessary tampering by the states, more developments would have been recorded in council areas. On the future of the party in the area, Ohuabunwa regretted that Arochukwu, a stronghold…
Stephen Ukandu (News/Features Editor) At last, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), has fixed the expression of interest and nomination forms for its presidential ticket at N100m. This was announced by the leadership of the party today in Abuja. The main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), sells both forms for N40 million while the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), pegged its own at N25 million. Details later…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Senator representing Abia Central Senator Theodore Orji, has said that free and fair primaries are sacrosanct for good governance. Senator Orji who made the remarks when one of the PDP governorship aspirants, Mayor Lucky Igbokwe, came to consult with him in his Umuahia country home, argued that if the processes that produced candidates for election were not credible, the products of such processes would also not be credible. According to the former Governor, free and fair primaries remained the incubator for good governance. He promised not to renege on his responsibility as an elder statesman to ensure…
Chukwudike Ndubeze, Awka Anambra State Governor, Professor Charles Soludo, Tuesday, announced the appointment of popular actor, Bob-Manuel Udokwu along with seven others into key offices in the state. The names of the fresh appointees were contained in a statement signed by the State Commissioner for Information & Public Enlightenment, Sir Paul Nwosu. According to the statement, the new appointees are : Mr Chukwuemeka Fred Agbata – MD/CEO ICT Agency; Mr Chike Anyaonu – MD/CEO Anambra State Housing Development Corporation; and Mr Joe Anatune – MD/CEO Anambra State Signage and Advertising Agency and Arch. Others are: Okey Ezeobi – GM/CEO Anambra…
By Wole Soyinka “It is finished!” Easter greetings to you, Reverend Mathew Kukah and to all your followers. All has been said, I think. I am impelled however not to miss an opportunity to add my own Easter drop to the overflowing vessel of pietistic sentiments, if only to reassure Christians – and also Moslems in turn – that even we, non-believers, do partake of that same ethical communion to which most humanity aspire. Also, your Easter sermon opens up yet again those sluices of juridical hypocrisy to which we dare not cease to draw attention. Such, in the immediate,…
Chukwudike Ndubeze, Awka Barely 48 hours after unknown gunmen reportedly attempted to strike the residence of Anambra State Governor, Professor Charles Soludo, in Isuofia, Aguata Local Government Area, the hoodlums had again invaded the area and kidnapped about five individuals at gunpoint. Ikengaonline gathered that the five persons kidnapped by the arm-wielding hoodlums were returning from a traditional marriage ceremony of a cousin to the Anambra State Commissioner for Special Duties, Sly Ezeokenwa. A source said the victims were kidnapped around Akpo community in Aguata LGA at about 10pm on Monday, and that no contact has been established with them…
Stephen Ukandu (News/Features Editor) A military aircraft belonging to the Nigerian Air Force, NAF, Tuesday, crashed in Kaduna State with unspecified number of people on board. The incident occurred when a Super Mushak aircraft which is a trainer aircraft crashed inside the Nigerian Air Force facility while on a training mission. It is feared that all aboard the aircraft may have died. This is coming barely one year after a military aircraft conveying the former Chief of Army Staff, Ibrahim Attahiru, and 10 others crashed also in Kaduna killing all the officers onboard. The cause of the crash is yet…
Nonsochukwu Uwa, Owerri Imo state branch of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, on Tuesday, ended their state congress in a fight as a group of the SDP members accused the party’s national body of working for a few members in the state to favour a governorship aspirant. The Acting Imo State Chairman, of SDP, Mr Ben Anochie, alongside some members of the party, confirmed this to Ikengaonline in Owerri. According to Anochie, “The Problem was that some of the members of the SDP, who have been committed to this party for over ten years said they were marginalised. The national…