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Umuahia Central Constituency: Afaraukwu Youths Insist power must cede to them in 2023

Umuahia Central Constituency: Afaraukwu Youths Insist power must cede to them in 2023

In the build-up to the political contest for the Abia State House of Assembly representation for Umuahia Central State Constituency in 2023, the Youths of Afaraukwu Ibeku Community made up of 3 autonomous communities (Okwulaga, Enyiukwu & Isiama) have insisted that power must be ceded to Afaraukwu in tandem with the existing power-sharing arrangement in the constituency. This call was contained in a communique issued by youths of Afaraukwu Community and made available to OHAFIA TV News, after a well-constituted emergency meeting of the leadership of the respective autonomous communities over the weekend. Among other contentious issues, the youths maintained…
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Rt. Rev. Daniel Imo: True Liberation 2023.

Rt. Rev. Daniel Imo: True Liberation 2023.

By Dave Uma Are you aware that there are people who never believed or even imagined that certain things that had gone wrong in the past could still be changed for the better? Especially due to the conditional state of mind of an average electorate as a result of institutionalised maladministration that has forced the people to accept defeat at all times, with no ray of hope for the future full of uncertainties. But in reality, this is a very wrong impression our people have had about the way we play politics in our constituency and beyond, mostly because there…
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Aro/Ohafia Fed. Constituency: Our Youths Need Investments And Not Handouts – Ibe Okwara

Aro/Ohafia Fed. Constituency: Our Youths Need Investments And Not Handouts – Ibe Okwara

Ibe Okwara Osonwa has called on government at all levels to make its youths drivers of the economy through investments in the young people. He said that making youths the drivers of the economy will help eliminate crimes and other security challenges facing the nation. He made the remarks in an interview with journalists at the national headquarters of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Abuja Osonwa who is a House of Representatives aspirant for Arochukwu/Ohafia Federal Constituency of Abia State under the All Progressives Congress, APC, said politicians must stop giving out handouts and peanuts to the youths but…
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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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ARO 2023: Feature an Attacker as a Defender and Loose the Match.

ARO 2023: Feature an Attacker as a Defender and Loose the Match.

Parading and featuring ineligible candidates for political offices stiffles societal development. It is as same as featuring a defender as an attacker in soccer. It's a coaching and technical error and breeds no positive result. Each time the unfits , asinine and uneligible candidates who emerged by human error and ofcourse who donot understand the concept of governance unfortunately get holds of power, abuse becomes inevitable. The end products of the error described are embezzlement, mismanagement, poor bargaining, misrepresentation, attracting and abandoning of consistency projects, swimming in white elephant projects to steal money, debasement of clear cut objectives, O-Yes member…
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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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Supporters besiege Jonathan’s office, urging him to contest 2023 presidency

Supporters besiege Jonathan’s office, urging him to contest 2023 presidency

Hundreds of supporters, including women and youth groups, Friday, stormed the office of former President Goodluck Jonathan in Abuja calling on him to contest for President in 2023. The supporters arrived at the office with a musical band around 8:50 a.m. They lamented that since he left office, hunger, insecurity, and unemployment, among others have become the order of the day. The supporters said that both men and women have turned to beggars because of the unfavorable policies of the present administration. Speaking, Ms. Ngozi Okafor said since the former President left in 2015, both men and women have been…
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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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