In a rare display of sportsmanship, Ifeanyi Ararume, governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) and Uche Nwosu, candidate of Action Alliance (AA) joined Hope Uzodinma to pick his certificate of return at the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) office in Abuja on Wednesday. On Tuesday, the supreme court had sacked Emeka Ihedioha as governor of Imo and ordered INEC to return [...]
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"In Imo state, there is hope. Hope, hope, hope in Imo state! A new leadership that will break barriers and there would be joy in the land of Imo. Lift your candles as I bless Hope Uzodinma; and I empower him to, spiritually, to take over. How, I do not know," Ejike Mbaka, a Catholic priest in Enugu diocese, prophesied [...]
Uche Nwosu, governorship candidate of the Action Alliance in the last election, has withdrawn his appeal against the election of Emeka Ihedioha, governor of Imo state, at the supreme court. Solomon Umoh (SAN), counsel to Nwosu, announced the decision of his client when he appeared before a seven-man panel of justices of the apex court on Tuesday. “Based on the judgment of [...]
Uche Nwosu, governorship candidate of the Action Alliance (AA) during the 2019 general election in Imo state, has returned to the the All Progressive Congress (APC). Nwosu, son-in-law to Rochas Okorocha, former governor of Imo, had defected from the APC to AA when he could not secure the ruling party's ticket. Earlier in the month, the supreme court had ruled that Nwosu [...]
The court of appeal in Abuja on Tuesday dismissed several appeals challenging the victory of Emeka Ihedioha, governor of Imo state, in the March 9 election. The first appeal was filed by Uche Nwosu, governorship candidate of Action Alliance (AA); Hope Uzodinma of the All Progressive Congress (APC) and Ifeanyi Ararume of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA). They asked the appellate court [...]
Some gunmen kidnapped Kenneth Udeze, national chairman of the Action Alliance (AA), in Abuja, on Friday. Genevieve Udeze, his wife, told TheCable that the armed men, believed to be security agents, accosted her husband outside a Zenith Bank branch in Dutse Alhaji, Kubwa area of the federal capital territory. She said they showed him an arrest warrant before taking him away in a [...]
Uche Nwosu, son-in-law to Rochas Okorocha, former governor of Imo state, says Nigeria does not need a revolution. Nwosu said this in reaction to the #RevolutionNow protest that took place in some parts of the country on Monday. Speaking with journalists on Friday, the Action Alliance (AA) candidate in the last Imo governorship election, said instead of protesting, citizens should support the [...]
The European Union Observation Mission to Nigeria (EOM) says Nigerian soldiers barred them from monitoring elections in Rivers state. The observers made the allegation in their preliminary report released in Abuja on Monday. While addressing journalists, Maria Arena, the chief observer, said they came to Nigeria on the invitation of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to monitor the elections and make recommendations. She [...]
Francis Ezeonu, resident electoral officer (REC) of Imo state, has described politicians as the greatest threat to democracy. Speaking during the collation of the governorship election, Ezeonu said there were several hiccups which resulted in "unnecessary delay" of final result. “Politicians are the greatest threat to democracy," he said narrating how some supervising presiding officers (SPOs) from the Federal University of Technology [...]
A faction of the Imo All Progressives Congress (APC) has suspended Rochas Okorocha from the party over alleged anti-party activities. Marcellinus Nlemigbo, caretaker committee chairman of the Imo APC faction, said the state governor had vowed to undermine the party and its electoral interest. The Matthew Omegara-led disciplinary committee set up to look into allegations of anti-party activities against Okorocha by one [...]
Adams Oshiomhole, national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says candidates of other parties who placing President Muhammadu Buhari's pictures beside theirs are fake. Adekunle Akinlade, preferred candidate of Ibikunle Amosun, governor of Ogun state, and Uche Nwosu, the choice of Rochas Okorocha, governor of Imo state, are campaigning with Buhari's picture despite pulling out of the APC after losing [...]
Rochas Okorocha, governor of Imo state, says the crisis rocking the state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) is beyond repair. The governor said this while receiving the party reconciliation committee led by Abdullahi Ganduje, governor of Kano state, and Godswill Akpabio, senator representing Akwa Ibom north-west, at the Imo International Convention Centre (IICC), Owerri, the state capital. The governor said [...]
Ahmed Gulak says he was offered bribe to manipulate the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship primary in Imo. The APC chieftain was the chairman of the panel that oversaw the exercise. Gulak, a former adviser to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, says an unnamed person offered him $2 million and a private jet flight to Imo state before the primary began. In an interview with Vanguard, [...]
Uche Nwosu, son-in-law of Rochas Okorocha, governor of Imo state, has accused Adams Oshiomhole, national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), of opposing his governorship ambition. He said this while reacting to the decision of the national working committee (NWC) of the ruling party to recognise Hope Uzodinma as the governorship candidate in the state. Nwosu alleged that Oshiomhole was opposed [...]
Adams Oshiomhole, national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says the party has submitted the name of Hope Uzondima, senator representing Imo west, to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as its governorship candidate in Imo. Speaking with reporters at the headquarters of the party in Abuja, Oshiomhole said he would always uphold the truth in the interest of the party [...]
