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OBIORA IFOH’S OUTBURST: WHEN COURTROOM DEFEAT IS REBRANDED AS “JUDICIAL RASCALITY” 😂😂😂 Mr. Obiora Ifoh has issued another statement in the name of the Labour Party, attacking Justice Peter Lifu, Governor Alex Otti, OFR, and Senator Nenadi Usman. But before the drums become too loud, one simple question must be asked: Which Labour Party is Obiora Ifoh speaking for? Is it the Labour Party recognised by the courts and led by Senator Nenadi Usman? Or the defeated Abure faction that continues issuing press releases from a political office whose legal foundation has collapsed? 😂😂😂 Obiora Ifoh’s statement is long on…

DENNIS C. IKPE, PLEASE GET YOUR FACTS RIGHT BEFORE WRITING Let us begin with the elementary fact you failed to establish: AIR PEACE DID NOT ADVERTISE ANY LAGOS–UMUAHIA FLIGHT ROUTE. There is no official Air Peace Lagos–Umuahia route. So, Dennis C. Ikpe, whom exactly were you attacking? 😂😂😂 You took an unauthorised graphic bearing an Air Peace aircraft, treated it as an official airline advertisement, and proceeded to write a lengthy lecture condemning a claim Air Peace never made. That is not scholarship. That is not fact-checking. That is a conclusion desperately searching for evidence. 😂 Please get your: FACTS,DATA,HISTORY,INFORMATION,LOGIC,AND…

FROM OBAMA’S OVAL OFFICE TO TRUMP’S WASHINGTON: g NEW SCRAMBLE FOR AMERICAN ATTENTION There is something almost ritualistic about Nigerian presidential politics. As another election approaches, Abuja begins to look nervously across the Atlantic. Politicians polish their international credentials, lobbyists rediscover Nigeria, photographs from Washington acquire mystical importance, and every handshake with an American official is presented at home as evidence that history has already selected its favourite. In 2015, the foreign personality at the centre of Nigeria’s political imagination was Barack Obama. Ahead of 2027, it is Donald Trump. The actors have changed. The choreography has not. Today, President…

ABIA INDUSTRIAL INNOVATION PARK: FACTS, NOT FUNERAL SPEECHES 😂 Comparing Governor Alex Otti’s Industrial Innovation Park with an abandoned project is premature. Evidence shows measurable progress, although completion has not yet been achieved. The park covers 1,995 hectares, with industrial, commercial and residential zones. The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board confirmed discussions with Abia State and described investments exceeding $1.3 billion. In 2024, Otti engaged the NCDMB to accelerate development. In 2025, the Federal Government approved a modular refinery for the park, while Abia commenced the 11.1-kilometre Obehie–Umudobia–Owaza access road. So, where exactly is the “no tangible progress”? 😂…

UMUNWANWA BRIDGE: TINUBU DESERVES CREDIT—BUT PLEASE, DON’T DELETE OTTI FROM THE STORY! 😂😂😂 The propaganda orchestra has started again: 🎺 “Tinubu reconstructed Umunwanwa Bridge!”🎺 “Tinubu has remembered Abia!”🎺 “Everybody kneel down immediately!” 😂😂😂 Excellent! President Bola Tinubu deserves genuine commendation for allowing the Federal Government to continue, redesign and fund efforts toward completing the historic Umunwanwa Bridge. But before political magicians begin pulling bridges out of campaign hats, let us arrange the facts properly. The project was first awarded by the Federal Government in 2019 under President Muhammadu Buhari. It was redesigned and re-awarded under President Tinubu in 2024. Therefore,…

THE FALL OF SIR KEIR STARMER: THE FREE SUITS, BROKEN PROMISES AND POLITICAL GHOSTS THAT FOLLOWED HIM OUT OF DOWNING STREET Britain was promised stability. After years of Conservative chaos, Sir Keir Starmer presented himself as the calm adult entering a disorderly room: disciplined, respectable, legally trained and almost painfully serious. No drama. No scandals. No circus. Then the gifts began to surface. The expensive clothes. The football tickets. The concert hospitality. The access enjoyed by a wealthy Labour donor. The painful welfare decisions. The abandoned promises. The policy reversals. The revolt inside his own party. And finally, on 22…

APC SHOULD STOP BLAMING GOVERNOR ALEX OTTI, OFR, FOR A CRISIS CREATED BY ITS OWN PRIMARIES The latest statement issued by the Abia State Publicity Secretary of the APC, Mr Uche Aguoru, is long on accusations, insults and imaginary conspiracies, but painfully empty of evidence. Governor Alex Otti, OFR, did not conduct the APC governorship primary. He did not announce two competing results. He did not persuade thirteen members of the APC State Working Committee to adopt Chief Henry Ikoh. He did not compel another group to declare Dr Eric Opah the winner. These are disagreements arising from the APC’s…