Tag: Anambra State

Anambra election: CUPP urges parties to ignore alleged $4m INEC bribe and focus on campaign

Aminu Imam

In the wake of the allegation of a $4 million bribe against officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), the Coalition of Political Parties, (CUPP), has called on politicians to focus on campaigns and leave frivolous allegations against the commission. Urging security agencies to be on top of their game, the CUPP said that it has concluded after a thorough investigation that the allegations are false and a figment of the imagination of the elements that spread the news. CUPP, in an issued statement by its spokesman, Ikenga Ugochinyere…

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Anambra Deputy Governor defects to APC, meets President Buhari

Aminu Imam

Ahead of the Anambra State Governorship election, the Deputy Governor of the State has officially defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress, President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, received APC Caretaker Committee Chairman and Yobe State Governor Mai Mala Buni, Anambra Deputy Governor Dr. Nkem Okeke and Imo State Governor Hope Uzodinma. Dr. Okeke is now a member of the ruling Party after dumping his party, the All Progressives Grand Alliance, (APGA). Dr. Okeke first served as Anambra State Commissioner for Economic Planning, and again as Anambra State Commissioner for Works and Transport in…

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Anambra insecurity: Buhari not in support of emergency rule – Gov. Obiano

Aminu Imam

…Alleges APGA members received N100m to join APC Anambra State governor, Willie Obiano, has said that the threat of a declaration of a state of emergency ahead of the November 6, 2021, Governorship election in the State does not have the support of President Muhammadu Buhari. Governor Obiano made this disclosure while briefing State House Correspondents on the outcome of his visit where he met with the President in his official residence at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The reaction of the governor is against the backdrop of the recent comment…

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Anambra: INEC, National Sec. Adviser’s office raises alarm over alleged plans to scuttle guber election

Aminu Imam

The Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), said it has received reports that one of the goals of many perpetrators of violence in the south-eastern region is that the November 6 Anambra governorship election 2021 must not hold. Similarly, the Office of the National Security Adviser, (ONSA), said the security threat posed by violent activities of separatist groups in the South-East region are bent on scuttling the election in the State in furtherance of their separatist agenda. INEC chairman, Mahmood Yakubu and National Security Adviser, Mohammed Babagana-Monguno, made these disclosures at…

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Insecurity: Senior Advocates tackle FG over threat to declare state of emergency in Anambra

Aminu Imam

Some Senior Advocates of Nigeria, (SANs), yesterday, deplored the threat by Federal Government to declare a state of emergency in Anambra State, should the security situation in the State fail to improve. In separate interviews with newsmen, the senior lawyers maintained that such action by FG could worsen the security situation, not just in Anambra State, but in the entire South-East region. They argued that the situation in Anambra state has not gotten to the stage where President Muhammadu Buhari could invoke his constitutional powers to declare a state of…

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IPOB gunmen set DSS, FRSC offices, Joe Igbokwe’s house ablaze in Anambra

Aminu Imam

IPOB gunmen yesterday set ablaze the offices of the Directorate of State Service (DSS) and Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Nnewi, Anambra State, leaving two people dead on their trail. Also set ablaze was the country home of a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Joe Igbokwe who is based in Lagos. Identities of the victims have not been known, although it was gathered that the casualties might have been hit by stray bullets during firing by the gunmen. According to an eyewitness, the gunmen drove from Owerri…

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Anambra: “Ignore IPOB’s ‘sit-at home’ order”, Obiano directs banks, markets

Aminu Imam

Anambra State governor, Willie Obiano, has ordered markets, banks, transport business owners, among others, to ignore the ‘sit-at-home order and go about their businesses from tomorrow, Monday. The governor gave the order yesterday, after a meeting with stakeholders and members of the State Security Council. Heads of commercial business operations including markets and transport leaders were also at the meeting held at the governor’s lodge in the State.

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Nigeria’s oil-producing States increase to 10

Aminu Imam

…As Bauchi, Gombe continue to wait Anambra State was formally admitted as oil-producing state, following an approval from the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission, (RMAFC), which ratified the attribution of eleven oil wells to the State. This is just as Bauchi and Gombe States continue to wait for recognition as oil-producing States, Delta, Akwa-Ibom, Bayelsa, Rivers, Edo, Ondo, Imo, Abia, and Lagos welcomed the new arrival. With the Commission’s approval, which was held at its 139th plenary session, held in July, the South-eastern State is anticipated to be eligible…

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Anambra: “There’ll be no election in Biafraland” – Nnamdi Kanu’s disciple dares FG

Aminu Imam

A self-styled disciple of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB), Simon Ekpa, has said that the upcoming gubernatorial election in Anambra State slated for November 6, will not hold. Ekpa, in a tweet on his Twitter page, said that a no-election order will be activated by members of IPOB. He boasted that South-East leaders do not know what the electorate are ready to do and that they must learn from their Northern counterparts. He wrote, ”No election in Biafraland will be activated by the Indigenous People…

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Court reinstates Soludo as APGA candidate for Anambra guber election

Aminu Imam

A Federal High Court, sitting in Awka, the Anambra capital, has affirmed Charles Soludo, former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), as the candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, (APGA), ahead of the governorship election in the State. Soludo, who belongs to the Victor Oye-led faction of APGA, had secured 740 votes to defeat Ezenwankwo Christopher who polled 41 votes, while ThankGod Ibe had four votes, and Okolo Chibuzor got seven votes. But in the list published on July 16, the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), picked…

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