Tag: Imo State

IPAC urges INEC to ensure free, credible elections in Kogi, Bayelsa, Imo

Aminu Imam

The Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC) has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to ensure free, fair, and credible elections in Kogi, Bayelsa, and Imo States. The National Chairman of IPAC, Egnr. Yabagi Sani, said this yesterday, ahead of INEC’s conduct of these off-cycle governorship elections, scheduled for Saturday, November 11, 2023. Sani, in a statement released by the electoral body on X (formerly Twitter), said there is no doubt that INEC is showing its best efforts in its preparations in spite of obvious encumbrances. He, however, said that a lot…

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Nov. 11 Imo Election: Soludo gives reasons APGA’s Ejiogu will win

Aminu Imam

Anambra State Governor, and national leader of the All-Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Professor Charles Soludo, has given reasons for tipping the party’s Governorship candidate, Sir Tony Ejiogu, to win the upcoming governorship election in Imo State. Soludo, who stated the reasons while playing host to Ejiogu at Anambra Government House in Awka recently, also reiterated his firm belief that APGA is poised to reclaim Imo State. According to Soludo, from highlights of his speech during the visit, one of the reasons he believes Ejiogu is the right man for Imo…

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IReV: ‘No result upload glitches for Bayelsa, Imo, Kogi polls’ – INEC assures voters

Aminu Imam

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has reassured voters that there won’t be glitches with the upload of results on the INEC Result Viewing Portal (IReV) for the Bayelsa, Imo, and Kogi polls. The INEC Chief Press Secretary, Rotimi Oyekanmi, who made this known during a television programme on Friday, said: “We have been using the IReV for all governorship elections, but it (2023) was the first time we deployed it for the general election setting. Well, we had a glitch for some hours, and we fixed it. But I can…

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INEC makes U-turn; says results of Bayelsa, Kogi, Imo guber elections will be transmitted electronically

Aminu Imam

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that the results of the November 11 governorship elections in Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi States will be transmitted electronically. Recall that the Bayelsa State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Ofiong Efanga, recently, at a press conference, said that the commission would adopt a manual mode of transmission of the governorship election results.  However, INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmoud Yakubu, during the monitoring of the mock election in Lokoja, Kogi State, said whatever the Bayelsa REC must be disregarded. He said: “The method is as…

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Imo: CNG raises alarm over burning of structures, assets, ‘unprovoked eviction of northerners

Aminu Imam

The Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) has raised the alarm over what it described as the unprovoked eviction of northerners by officials of the Imo State Government. The spokesperson of the group, Suleiman Abdul-Azeez, in a statement issued yesterday, said that it has taken stock of events unfolding in Imo State in the past two days, with alleged clear orders to destroy, demolish, burn every structure and assets belonging to the peaceful northern settlers. The group noted that the latest organised arson in Imo State left in its wake thousands…

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Fuel Subsidy Removal: Gov. Uzodinma increases minimum wage to N40, 000

Aminu Imam

Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo state has increased the minimum wage of workers in the State to N40, 000. The governor made this known while addressing members of the state executive council yesterday. He  said the current economic situation caused by the removal of fuel subsidy is biting hard on the people and that the increment in salaries is to help cushion the hardship civil servants in the State are facing due to the fuel subsidy removal. In a statement by his chief Press Secretary, Oguwike Nwachukwu, Governor Uzodinma said…

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INEC releases final list of candidates for Kogi, Imo, Bayelsa Gov. polls

Aminu Imam

The Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) has released the final list of candidates for the November 11 governorship elections in Kogi, Bayelsa, and Imo States. The approval of the list followed a meeting held by the Commission yesterday in Abuja. According to a statement signed by INEC’s National Commissioner and Chairman of the Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, all 18 political parties nominated candidates in Kogi, 17 in Bayelsa, and 16 in Imo States. Two political parties are also fielding female candidates in Bayelsa State, one in Kogi…

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2023: Election monitoring teams attacked in Abuja, Imo 

Aminu Imam

Election monitoring teams of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), were attacked yesterday in Abuja and Imo State. The officers were targeted by political thugs near the Chief’s palace in Bwari area of the Federal Capital Territory, (FCT). The attack followed the arrest of a man for allegedly orchestrating a vote-buying procedure at the polling unit at Science Primary School, Bwari. EFCC spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, said operatives arrested a middle-aged man and retrieved a list of beneficiaries he already paid some money to through a banking app. According to…

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Imo: ‘Efforts still ongoing to rescue abducted female officer’ – Army PRO 

Aminu Imam

The Nigerian Army says efforts are still on-going to rescue the newly-commissioned female officer, Lt. PP Johnson, abducted in Imo allegedly by the banned Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, (IPOB). Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, who stated this yesterday in Abuja, said that the female officer was abducted on Dec. 26 while visiting her grandmother in Aku-Okigwe in Imo. That was shortly after the completion of her cadet training and subsequent commissioning as a lieutenant into the Nigerian Army, he added. Nwachukwu stated that the video footage of her…

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IPOB deputy commander allegedly responsible for killing Ahmed Gulak nabbed in Imo

Aminu Imam

Nigerian troops have arrested the Deputy Commander of the banned Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB), one Nwagwu Chiwendu, who is also responsible for the killing of a Northern politician, Ahmed Gulak.  Chiwendu, a deserter personnel of the Nigerian Army, who was arrested in Imo State during the burial of his father at Mbaise, is accused of training IPOB members on the use of weapons.  He has also confessed to participating in the killing of the politician, Gulak, and kidnapping of two expatriates along Owerri-Okigwe Road and the killing of two…

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