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By Osita Chidoka I saw the video of the attack on INEC staff and the killing of one of them by hooded armed men. The voice-over announced the date and repeated no more elections in the South-East. The attack saddened me, as my heart went out to the dead and the kidnapped. Even the Christian week of lent was not a deterrent in a profoundly Christian community like Igboland. I condemn the attack. Again, I appeal to the unknown gunmen to stop the killings. The strategy of armed insurrection to achieve a political end is not a successful method. We…
Ike Mmachi, Abakaliki David Okike, the young man whose fiancé, Helen Ozioma, called off their impending wedding 72 hours to the occasion over alleged abuse, has denied all the allegations leveled against him. Mr. Okike, in a statement on his Facebook Wall on Friday accused the soon-to-be-wife, Helen Ozioma, of living a lavish and wasteful lifestyle and aborting three pregnancies belonging to him. He was reacting to accusations leveled against him by Miss Helen that he has been physically assaulting her for over a year. While agreeing that they sometimes had disagreements, Mr Okike said such disagreements never turned physical. He…
By Chidi Omeje It must be a nightmarish dilemma for President Buhari to settle for one person out of the medley that have so far declared or indicated interest in flying APC’S flag in the upcoming Presidential election. Look at it this way: Should he settle for Bola Tinubu, a man who is weighed down by hefty corruption baggage but on alliance with his political structure, Buhari rode to success in 2015 after several misses in the past… Or Yemi Osibanjo, his dutiful Vice President who is seen by many as highly pretentious and currently rocked by weighty allegations of…
By Our Reporter Legal luminary and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Enugu State, Chief Charlie Ugwu, KSJI, has formally declared his intention to contest the 2023 presidential election under the umbrella party. In his declaration speech titled “A Journey to Reinvent Our Country Nigeria,” Chief Ugwu, on Friday, threw his hat in the ring and declared his readiness for the top job in the country. The speech obtained by Ikengaonline read in full: “Fellow countrymen and women, nearly 62 years ago, our journey as an independent nation commenced. With hope and great expectations, our founding fathers, great…
Our Reporter, Abuja An aspirant to the Presidency of Nigeria on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr Ibrahim Bello Dauda, has stressed the need for the nation to go back to democracy, its ideals and ethos. This, according to him, will help the nation find its way out of the multiple challenges currently confronting it. Dauda made this assertion yesterday while speaking to newsmen in Abuja on his intention to contest for the presidency come 2023. He said his years of experience being around the political, bureaucratic, and private sectors has imbibed him with the requisite…
By Owei Lakemfa Sometimes the difference between a coup and a democratic process can be so narrow as to be interchangeable. The move to oust Pakistani Prime Minister, Imran Khan, had been in the offing for some time, but there were questions of methodology, and how the populace may react. This was more so when his replacement was likely to come from the controversial family of Nawaz Sharif who leads the Pakistan Muslim League. Khan as the opposition leader had got the Supreme Court in 2017 to indict him for using offshore holding companies to buy luxury properties in London.…
Our Reporter, Abuja Ahead of the 2023 presidential election, stakeholders, and citizens, Nzuko Umunna, a global Igbo Think-Tank, is set to organise a historic national conversation to persuade Nigerians to see the fidelity of a Nigerian president from the South-East region. The group is of the view that a president of South-East extraction is the fairest national consensus, Nigeria should make to the region for equity, justice, and fairness. A statement by the spokesperson of the group, Collins Steve Ugwufor, said the gathering which will be conceived as the Greater Nigerian Conference (GNC), will be a significant event geared to…
Our Reporter Former Anambra State Governor and presidential aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Peter Obi, yesterday told PDP delegates in Delta State to think about the future of their children before casting their votes at the party’s presidential primaries. Speaking in Asaba during his visit to national delegates of the Delta State Chapter of PDP, Obi stated that Nigeria has to focus more on production formula than sharing formula to salvage economic situation. He said Nigeria’s economy is crippled because leaders failed to prioritise a production formula but focused on a sharing formula. Obi who said Nigeria is…
Our Reporter, Abuja Presidential hopeful and Governor of Bauchi State, Bala Mohammed, yesterday said the security crisis in the country might be self-inflicted to stall the transition in 2023. Mohammed who stated this yesterday when he met with the PDP Caucus of the House of Representatives, said such plans must be stopped. The Bauchi State governor, also lamented that the country is further drifting to a state of no-where. He said, “As a member of the sub national, we don’t share anything from the NNPC and in the next six months we will not. We are further drifting to a…
Our Reporter The rift between the Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, and his Rivers State counterpart, Nyesom Wike, appear to have deepened as the latter, yesterday, ignored the former when he visited the state to campaign for votes ahead of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) primaries. Wike, a PDP presidential aspirant, who was accompanied by the South/South vice chairman of the party, Chief Dan Orbih, met with party delegates at the Government Reservation Area (GRA) residence of former Board of Trustees, (BoT), late Chief Tony Anenih, instead of the party’s state secretariat. He until his departure from the state didn’t…