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2023: Ibe Okwara Osonwa Meets NDU Abuja Branch, Promises Quality Representation For Arochukwu/Ohafia Federal Constituency (Photos)

2023: Ibe Okwara Osonwa Meets NDU Abuja Branch, Promises Quality Representation For Arochukwu/Ohafia Federal Constituency (Photos)

Labour Party candidate for Arochukwu/Ohafia federal constituency, Mr Ibe Okwara Osonwa has declared that his ambition is triggered by his passion to give quality and effective representations to the good but deprived people of Arochukwu/Ohafia federal constituency in House of Representatives. Osonwa stated this while interacting with members of Ndi Ibe Ohafia Development Union (NDU), Abuja Branch on Sunday afternoon. He lamented that the bane of the Federal Constituency since the political dispensation has been unpatriotic representations and vowed to change the status quo for the betterment of the populace. The candidate insisted that he has the Midas touch for…
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2023: Rivers Governor Nyesom Wike Gives Atiku Condition To Support Presidential Bid

2023: Rivers Governor Nyesom Wike Gives Atiku Condition To Support Presidential Bid

Details of the demand made by Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, to support the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, in the 2023 election has emerged. According to an online blog, TheWhistler, Wike, who was the runner-up in the recently held presidential primary of the PDP, has demanded to be paired with Atiku as vice-presidential candidate to give his support to the party’s flagbearer ahead of the February 25 poll. At the keenly contested presidential primary held on May 28, the Rivers governor had scored 237 votes to emerge second position behind Atiku who polled…
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We only felt dividends of democracy during Orji Kalu’s tenure – Ikwuano leaders reveal (Photos)

We only felt dividends of democracy during Orji Kalu’s tenure – Ikwuano leaders reveal (Photos)

A socio-political group, OUK Movement Ikwuano Chapter has revealed that the dividends of democracy in Abia State is comprehensively abysmal. The Ikwuano Chapter Coordinator of the group, Mr Uchenna Nwaogbo stated this when the State Coordinator Hon. Ojisi Iro and his team paid a familiarization visit to the council area. Receiving the team, Mr Uchenna expressed gratitude to the developmental strides and leadership qualities of the former Governor of Abia State, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu. He lamented the absence of good governance in the state since Kalu left office in 2007, noting that the people of Ikwuano local government area…
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PDP House of Reps primaries: OmoBarca denies false allegation of attacking, bribing Returning Officer by Rita Orji

PDP House of Reps primaries: OmoBarca denies false allegation of attacking, bribing Returning Officer by Rita Orji

Chief Francis Barthlomew Chima popularly known as  OmoBarca, a frontline House of Representatives candidate on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party for Ajeromi-Ifelodun constitutency in Lagos State, has denied allegations of violence, bribery and presentation of fake delegates during the re-run primaries. OmoBarca who was declared winner during the May 22nd PDP primaries in Lagos State told newsmen that he was shocked by the false accusations made against him by his opponent Rita Orji in Tribune Newspaper. Rita Orji and her co-travellers had told the newspaper: "OmoBarca presented a fake delegate list during the re-run primaries, when the Returning…
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APC Presidential Primary: ‘He Demonstrated The Resilience Of An Igbo Man’, Abia Stakeholders Hail Orji Kalu

APC Presidential Primary: ‘He Demonstrated The Resilience Of An Igbo Man’, Abia Stakeholders Hail Orji Kalu

A political think tank group, Abia Progressives Arise Initiative (APAI) has praised the Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu for his performance at the last special national convention of the All Progressives Congress, APC, saying the former Abia state governor demonstrated capacity, courage and the resilient spirit of an Igbo man. According to the group, "Kalu fought so hard to integrate Ndigbo into mainstream politics by backing Ahmad Lawan in the presidential contest." Coordinator of the group, Chief Maxwell Onubogu, in a statement issued in Abuja on Friday, said Kalu was the sole voice of Ndigbo at…
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Defection Hits Kebbi APC As 2 Senators, 6 Others Join PDP

Defection Hits Kebbi APC As 2 Senators, 6 Others Join PDP

A wave of defection has hit the Kebbi State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the party has lost five members of the National Assembly and three members of the state assembly to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The mass defection to the PDP began after the primary election of APC as most of the decampees were disenchanted with the manner in which the party conducted its primary elections. Senator Adamu Aliero of Kebbi Central Senatorial District, Senate leader, Dr. Yahaya Abdullahi of Kebbi North Senatorial District as well as member of House of Representatives, representing Kalgo/Bunza Federal…
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2023: APC has no governorship candidate in Akwa Ibom – INEC

2023: APC has no governorship candidate in Akwa Ibom – INEC

The Independent National Electoral Commission in Akwa Ibom State has said that the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Akwa Ibom State has no governorship candidate for the 2023 general elections. This was contained in a report sent to the INEC headquarters in Abuja by the Resident Electoral Commissioner in Akwa Ibom, Mike Igini. “We wish to report that the APC governorship primary scheduled to hold on Thursday, May 26, 2022, at the Sheergrace Arena, Nsikak Eduok Avenue, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State did not hold at all,” Mr Igini said in a letter to INEC headquarters in Abuja dated May 27.…
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2023 Presidency: Apostle Suleman Endorses Peter Obi, Canvasses For Mass PVC Registration

2023 Presidency: Apostle Suleman Endorses Peter Obi, Canvasses For Mass PVC Registration

The founder and general overseer of Omega Fire Ministry, Apostle Johnson Suleman, has thrown his weight behind Labour Party’s Presidential candidate, Peter Obi. Peter Obi has been presented with a certificate of return as the presidential candidate for Labour Party for the 2023 general elections. The clergy made this known in a post on Social Media. In the first post, he wrote Peter Obi’s name in capital letters without any explanation. He also made another post, where he complained about terrorists using helicopters for operation and questioned where they got their licence from. He advised Nigerians to get their Permanent…
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Our Intel Shows Helicopter Drops Food For Terrorists Who Killed Owo Church Members In Secret Camp – Gani Adams

Our Intel Shows Helicopter Drops Food For Terrorists Who Killed Owo Church Members In Secret Camp – Gani Adams

The Aare Onakakanfo of Yoruba land, Chief Gani Adams, has said that the terrorists who attacked the St.Francis Catholic Church members, Owo, Ondo State, camped in a secret forest and were being fed by food supplied by a helicopter. Adams revealed that the South-West Security Stakeholders Group (SSSG) had five weeks ago raised the alarm that some terrorists had invaded the South-West, but the South-West governor ignored it. Adams made the disclosure on Friday in his reaction to the St. Francis Catholic Church massacre, Owo, according to Nigerian Tribune. According to him, he also suspected that the heinous attack was…
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BREAKING: INEC deploys additional 209 machines to South East, Lagos and Kano

BREAKING: INEC deploys additional 209 machines to South East, Lagos and Kano

INDEPENDENT NATIONAL ELECTORAL COMMISSION PRESS RELEASE ONGOING CONTINUOUS VOTER REGISTRATION (CVR) EXERCISE The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has received reports from our States indicating an unprecedented surge in the number of citizens that wish to register as voters and the challenges they face across the country. In some States, the sudden turnout of prospective registrants is overwhelming. Consequently, the Commission convened an urgent meeting with all the Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) yesterday Thursday 9th June 2022 to review the situation so that eligible Nigerians who wish to register are able to do so. The necessity to urgently deploy more…
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