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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has suspended its Anambra State Congress which was earlier scheduled to hold on Saturday, April 2, 2022 to elect new State Executive Officers for the Party in Anambra State,  A new date for the PDP Anambra State Congress will be communicated as soon as it is decided. Meanwhile the sale of Forms for the Anambra State Congress has been extended. A new date for the closure of the sale of Form will also be communicated. The PDP regrets the inconveniences the announced suspension of the Anambra State PDP Congress may have caused.

The Honorable Minister of State Education, Hon Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba HCN today represented the President at the commissioning of the National Housing Project at Avu, Imo State. While giving his speech, Hon Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba expressed his delight that one of the projects of the President Muhammad Buhari led government to provide affordable houses for citizens has finally been completed and available for use, while appreciating the Imo State Government and the Avu community for providing the land. It was also a day of delight for some players of the Super Eagles of 1994 who won the 1994 African Cup of Nations as the government fulfilled its promise of gifting them houses. The Honorable used the medium to appeal to citizens of Nigeria to show patriotism in every given opportunity and capacity available.

  A Catholic priest, Rev. Fr. Emmanuel Obimma, has called on Nigerians to give Igbo of the Southeast extraction an opportunity to have a shot on the presidency in 2023. The vocal cleric, who is also the Spiritual Director of the Holy Ghost Adoration Ministry, Uke, and the Parish Priest of Blessed Iwene Tansi Parish and Retreat Center, Umudioka, both in Anambra State, claimed that Nigeria has shut the door of the presidency, and has not allowed Igbo to produce elected president since inception. Speaking to newsmen at his adoration center, yesterday, Fr. Obimma, who is widely known as Fr. Ebube Muonso, said the country will hardly justify its oneness unless it is fair to all the federating units. “There are thousands of men and women of Igbo extraction, who have all it takes to move Nigeria forward. Nigeria is continually moving backwards because the Igbo have not been given the opportunity to manage the affairs of the country. Over the years, the rest of Nigerians have refused to gi...

The uphill task of who becomes the next President of Nigeria after President Muhammadu Buhari, has started with the successful National Convention of the All Progressive Congress,(APC)  which is the ruling party in the country today.  All the hearsays of possible implosion, balcanization, destruction and rumours of possible end of the party have all come to nullity. The APC came out stronger with the drive and intent to remain in power.  Hon. Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, a frontline aspirant for the Presidency from Imo state, South East Nigeria, however stole the show at the just concluded convention with many of it's supporter's canvassing for his possible emergence as the presidential candidate of the party.  Nwajiuba to Nigeria is a vision whose time has come and there is no better way to actualize it, rather than, asking the APC to give him the mandate of the party. Hon. Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba today is no longer new in the political space as he has worked close to 3 decad...

Imo State Governor, Dist. Sen. Hope Uzodimma and the Chairman, Technical Committee of the 2020 All Progressives Congress National Convention has described the atmosphere at the Eagles Square, FCT Abuja, venue for the convention as a textbook example of democracy in action. The Governor who spoke earlier to the media, expressed delight that all arrangements and activities around the convention are on top gear, signaling the commitment and dedication of the members and leadership of the party to electing a new National Working Committee (NWC) to saddle the activities of the party. “As you can see and witness, members of the party are in very high spirits and it simply shows that democracy is at work in the All Progressives Congress”, he said. The sea of heads, colourful and the sonorous environment here at the convention arena goes to buttress the point countlessly made by Gov. Uzodimma, that the APC remains the party to beat come 2023 general elections as well as being the largest polit...

  ...... receives royal blessings from Uruagu Council of Elders. Hon.Engr Sir Clement Eloka Ikeh, a frontline politician and a member of the PDP in Nnewi North LGA, from Uruagu Quarter in Nnewi, who wants to fly the flag of the PDP for the state assembly seat of Nnewi state constituency has visited the Obi of Uruagu, Obi Afam Obi and elders of the council, to intimate them of his desire to represent Nnewi North LGA at the state house of assembly.  Speaking at the palace of Obi Uruagu, Obi Afam Obi, Hon. Eloka Ikeh said that he is coming out to make a difference and to change the already existing narratives which has bedeviled Nnewi North LGA for sometime now, which has made it impossible for Nnewi to get the needed dividends of democracy they have ever yearned for. He said if the PDP gives him the ticket of the party that he will do all within his reach go ensure that he operates an open door policy. Responding Obi Afam Obi IV, the Obi of Uruagu, thanked Hon. Engr Eloka Clemen...

   - As Court Gives Declaratory Judgment  The High Court sitting in Owerri has given a judgement that Dan Nwafor and Co were rightfully dissolved and should cease to parade themselves as Chairman and member of the Executive committee of the APC in Imo State. Delivering the judgement Suit No:HOW/745/2020, Justice T.N. Nzeukwu ordered that Dan Nwafor and Co by the declaration of the court should not parade or hold out themselves as Executive committee members of the party or function in any form or manner as such Executive Committee members. The court further ruled that Dan Nwafor and Co having duly and lawfully dissolved by the NWC of the party are hereby perpetually restrained from parading or holding out themselves or in any manner functioning as members of the Executive committee of the APC in Imo State. This judgement is coming at a time when the APC is building its house to come out formidable as one united party ahead of its Saturday 26th March, 2022 National Convent...

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Hon Sir Engr Eloka Clement Ikeh, a frontline member of the PDP in Nnewi North LGA, and an aspirant for Nnewi North state house of assembly has described the late Prince Abyssinia Akweke Nwafor Orizu  (17 July 1914 – 1999, as a Nigerian of Igbo origin who has made his mark in the history of Nigerian political sphere, as a doyen of politics. Sir, Eloka Ikeh made this known while interacting with Journalists on the side lines of the 23rd memorial anniversary of late Prince Abyssinia Akweke Nwafor Orizu.  He said " Honestly if this is the way people are being Celebrated, you will live your life well. If you saw the way the children where celebrating the man today, you will see that it's good for one to leave a good legacy. He lived a life worthy of emulation. I entered his archives and I saw everything about him because the children still preserved it to his shoes, clothes,shaving stick name it. He is a man that truly planned his life and we are happy for him.  Si...

By Ogu Bundu Nwadike, M.A "Uzodimma Borrowed Over N53b In Less Than A Year"! That was the title of the reaction by Imo PDP via their New Media Office to a supposed statement of debts by respective states in the federation. The statement went on with characteristic Imo PDP lamentation spree thus: "Imo State debt profile rose from N151. 31b to N205. 18b being an increase of N53. 87b just between October to December 2021"! According to the Imo PDP alarmist: "This does not include over N30b received from the Federation Account for the State and LG over the same period of 3 months. Cumulatively between October and December 2021, Imo received over N80b"! The actual grouse of the fully frustrated party is their question: "Can anyone see where N53b (which amounts to 10 months allocation from the federation account to Imo) in the State?"  The party's state and condition of confusion can be seen and not be imagined. According to Imo PDP, th...