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2023: Anyone supporting Amaechi, Wike is backing Igbo Presidency – Ohanaeze

2023: Anyone supporting Amaechi, Wike is backing Igbo Presidency – Ohanaeze

Apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has said it would not be out of place for either Rotimi Amaechi or Nyesom Wike to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023. The Igbo group spoke through a statement made available to DAILY POST by its Secretary-General, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro. He said the Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide had broadened its search for a Nigerian President of Igbo extraction beyond the scope of the South-East zone to include “our own in the South-South Nigeria.” According to him, “it became necessary for the Igbo to jettison artificial separation through boundary adjustment by the Military and then…
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Daniel Imo vows to use his experiences, contacts, to resuscitate Arochukwu/Ohafia healthcare system

Daniel Imo vows to use his experiences, contacts, to resuscitate Arochukwu/Ohafia healthcare system

In furtherance of his reiteration and commitment to the general well being of the good people of Arochukwu/Ohafia Federal Constituency, the US-Based Businessman, Technocrat, Reverend Gentleman, and foremost APC contender, Rev. Daniel Imo, has vowed that he will employ every tool at his disposal to change the deplorable state of the health care system of the Constituency to ensure good health for all. He made this disclosure in a short message to the people during the just celebrated Easter Holiday, a season that is significant for its all-round healing in the life of every Christian. In his words: "I will…
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2023 Presidency: Osinbajo, Tinubu, Amaechi are liabilities – Arewa youths

2023 Presidency: Osinbajo, Tinubu, Amaechi are liabilities – Arewa youths

The Arewa Youths Consultative Forum, AYCF, has downplayed the chances of Bola Tinubu, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, and Rotimi Amaechi emerging as the Presidential flagbearer of the All Progressives Congress, APC. National President of AYCF, Yerima Shettima, said Osinbajo, Tinubu, and Amaechi are liabilities that should not be taken seriously. Shettima said the APC chieftains are unpopular candidates, contrary to some Nigerians’ beliefs. Shettima said Nigerians were yearning for a new breed of politicians, and not the likes of Osinbajo, Tinubu, and Amaechi. According to Shettima: “Tinubu, Osinbajo, and Amaechi are the most unpopular candidates as far as I’m concerned.…
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2023 Presidency: Wike rubbishes consensus, says only death will make him quit race

2023 Presidency: Wike rubbishes consensus, says only death will make him quit race

Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has vowed not to step down for any consensus candidate of the party ahead of its presidential primary. The Governor said only death will make him quit his ambition to become the President of Nigeria. “The only thing that will make me to quit is death; if I’m alive, we will finish it on 28/29 of May (date for PDP presidential primaries).” He made the assertion in an interview with BBC pidgin in Port Harcourt on Friday. Wike, who spoke in pidgin English, said “I have been a local government chairman which is the grassroots,…
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Why Okamu need to test elective position in Ohafia to break a jinx – Ebin Kalu

Why Okamu need to test elective position in Ohafia to break a jinx – Ebin Kalu

By Comr Amos Kalu As the 2023 general election approaches, Hon. Ebin Kalu (a.k.a Chief Obia), a strong contender for the Ohafia South State Constituency in the Abia State House of Assembly, has continued to make case for the need for Ohafia to, in the spirit of equity, unity and Fairplay, support the election of a candidate from Okamu ward to break the jinx of the long drought of the impossible test of elective positions. To buttress his argument, Ebin Kalu, who is contesting on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, took time to chronicle the political history…
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RDIF Celebrates Senator Orji Uzor Kalu On His Birthday.

RDIF Celebrates Senator Orji Uzor Kalu On His Birthday.

In marking of the birthday of the Senator representing Abia North Senatorial Zone, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, the formost contender for the Arochukwu/Ohafia Federal Constituency, Rev. Daniel Imo and his RDI Foundation, have joined numerous  admirers, friends and well-wishers to celebrate the notable achiever who has turned the tide of representation in a very short period. "You mean so many things to many people, but we at Rev. Daniel Imo Foundation; you are the quintessential politician, a leader, and an employer of labour. "Your leadership style is unequalled, It is such that provides direction,  implementing plans and motivating people. "As…
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2023 presidency: ‘Blame IPOB, not me’ – Oluwo tells Ohanaeze, demands apology

2023 presidency: ‘Blame IPOB, not me’ – Oluwo tells Ohanaeze, demands apology

The Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrosheed Adewale Akanbi has again accused the South-East of engaging in self-inflicted punishment in a united Nigeria. This is as the monarch also called on the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to sheath their sword and embrace one Nigeria. The Iwo monarch, who was reacting to the response of Ohaneze Ndigbo to his earlier statement on why he would not support an Igbo presidency, demanded that the Pan Igbo group should tender an apology to the throne of the Oluwo. The reason for the apology, Oba Akanbi explained, was because the conclusion of Ohaneze Ndigbo…
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Igbo Presidency: Ohanaeze tells Oluwo of Iwo to grow up, learn from experienced monarchs

Igbo Presidency: Ohanaeze tells Oluwo of Iwo to grow up, learn from experienced monarchs

Ohanaeze Ndigbo World Wide, on Tuesday, hit back at Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrosheed Adewale Akanbi, advising him (Akanbi) to learn from experienced traditional rulers in the country how to be civilized in conducting himself as a traditional ruler. Ohanaeze through the National Publicity Secretary, Alex Ogbonnia, made this statement to newsmen in Owerri, while replying to the Oba, who said that the “Igbos cannot be trusted with power.” According to the Apex Igbo group, “The attention of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide has been drawn to a comment by the Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrosheed Adewale Akanbi to the effect that…
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Drop your presidential bid, Afenifere leader tells Tinubu, Osinbajo

Drop your presidential bid, Afenifere leader tells Tinubu, Osinbajo

Kayode Oyero and Victor Ayeni Leader of Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, has said that presidential aspirants from the South-West geopolitical zone including Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and former Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu, should forget their presidential ambitions. He said it was the turn of the South-East to produce Nigeria’s next President after the regime of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), in May 2023. The elder statesman made his position known in an exclusive interview with The PUNCH on Tuesday. According to him, it is an injustice for a South-West President to emerge in 2023 after ex-President…
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Amuru Abam Youth Executive Endorses Prince Ike Okorafor For Assembly 2023

Amuru Abam Youth Executive Endorses Prince Ike Okorafor For Assembly 2023

The House of Assembly hopeful for Arochukwu State Constituency, Prince Ike Okorafor today being 17th April, 2022 received in audience the Executives of Amuru Abam Youth for a courtesy visit in his country home at Ozu Abam. The group was a composition of Past and current home and abroad Exco ably led by Mr. Ukansi Huoma and while addressing the APGA aspirant, the spokes-person of the group described the conquest as Abam project and pledged their unflinching support to ensure that Abam is not found missing in action in the scheme of politics come 2023. This decision according to the…
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