Politics

I have always known that public service in Abia and other States in Nigeria is not a tea party especially if you are occupying a strategic position. You would be faced with lots of issues especially from those who feel threatened by your position, moreso when you refuse to compromise your integrity and play to their self - serving rules of engagement. Having served different governments outside Abia State in the past, I have always enmeshed myself in the Supreme God as the only true God who saves. My trial moment came around April 2018. It was a weekend of…

An Abuja based Islamic cleric, Sheikh Mohammed Idris says the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu will shock Nigerians with massive infrastructural development in the Southeast and Northwest geopolitical zones. Addressing journalists on Sunday at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja, Idris said his members were delighted to identify with the APC presidential candidate as the foremost national political leader in contemporary Nigeria and political dispensation, “who is in the forefront of providing good governance and dividends of democracy in our developing society.” Idris stated that having carefully extolled Tinubu’s visionary leadership qualities, forthrightness, and uncommon…

House of representatives candidate of the Labour Party for Arochukwu/Ohafia Federal Constituency, Chief Ibe Okwara Osonwa has vowed to make life better for his constituents if elected in the 2023 general elections. Osonwa made the remarks on Saturday evening in Ohafia while outlining his manifesto to newsmen, saying: "Remember, our goal is simple: Which is to do everything we have to do, to make this Consituency the envy of all the other districts in Abia State. And subsequently be the benchmark upon which other districts launch their transformative initiatives towards a better future." "My vision is to effectively serve the…

Nothing could be further from the truth than Governor Ikpeazu's statement in his New Year's Message that his friends who are contesting elections in other parties are 'renegade apprentices'. This confirms our worries that the majority of those who hide under the cloak of other parties and masquerading as opposition governorship candidates are of the PDP stock. By implication, they are part and parcel of the system that has held Abia down in the past 24 years. As PDP apprentices, they have been schooled in the art of misgovernance, graft and ineptitude. These, no doubt, are the signature traits of…