Obidients Makes U-Turn, Endorse Another Guber Candidate In Enugu Information reaching Ibom Focus says that Obidients Makes U-Turn, Endorse Another Guber Candidate In Enugu The Obidients have endorsed Peter Mbah, the Peoples Democratic Party governorship candidate in Enugu, days before the March 18 elections. The Obidient Movement directed all its members in Enugu to vote for Mr Mbah on Saturday. A founding member of the movement, Kennedy Iyere, gave the directive on Tuesday at a ceremony attended by hundreds of Obidients in Enugu. Mr Iyere said the PDP gubernatorial flag bearer was elected among various governorship contestants based on his…
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JUST IN: Buhari To Sack EFCC Chairman Information reaching Ibom Focus says that Buhari To Sack EFCC Chairman Civil society organisations demanding the sacking of the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Abdulrasheed Bawa, over his disregard for court orders, resumed the call on Tuesday. The activists during a joint press conference in Lagos, on Tuesday, stated that their demand was also connected to Bawa’s alleged politicisation of the EFCC and infringement on human rights of Nigerians. The ‘Bawa Must Go’ protests are being led by the Chairman, Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership, Debo Adeniran; Executive Director,…
EXCLUSIVE: Real Reason Why Rivers Accord Party Candidate Kidnapped Real Reason Why Rivers Accord Party Candidate Kidnapped The Rivers State police command has confirmed the kidnap of House of Assembly candidate of Accord Party in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital. Gunmen kidnapped the Accord candidate for the Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area Constituency 2 in the Rivers State House of Assembly for the March 18 election, Engr. Chukwudi Ogbonna, while driving in his car at Rumuigbo, near Port Harcourt on Monday night and forced him to stop and whisked him away in his car. Ogbonna’s cousin, Ifeaka Nwakiri, who confirmed…
March 18: INEC Appoint APC Apologist As ICT Head March 18: INEC Appoint APC Apologist As ICT Head The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has reacted to the report making the rounds that it has appointed a partisan politician to head its ICT department in Lagos ahead of the governorship and State Houses of Assembly elections on Saturday. Chief Olabode George, a former deputy national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, had on Monday insisted that INEC boss, Prof. Mahmoud Yakubu, must remove the Commission’s Director of ICT, Mr. Femi Odubiyi, arguing that he is partisan. The elder statesman…
Wike Spends N50m On Alcohol Per Week, He’s A Drunkard – Amaechi Wike Spends N50m On Alcohol Per Week, He’s A Drunkard – Amaechi In furtherance of his campaign for the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in Rivers State, the immediate-past Minister of Transportation and former governor of the State, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, has described the incumbent State governor, Nyesom Wike, as a drunk, who allegedly spends N50million on alcohol every week and should not be allowed a third term through his stooge. Amaechi stated this on Tuesday during his campaign for the APC candidate, Tonye Cole,…
March 18: Five Governorship Candidates Step Down For Sanwo-Olu On Monday, nine political parties under the Alliance of Registered Political Parties (ARPP) declared support for the reelection of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu and Deputy Governor Obafemi Hamzat in Lagos. Governorship candidates of five of the political parties in the ARPP also stepped down for Mr Sanwo-Olu ahead of Saturday’s gubernatorial election. The political parties are the Young Progressives Party (YPP), Action Democratic Party (ADP), Action Peoples Party (APP), Zenith Labour Party (ZLP) and Allied Peoples Movement (APM). Others are the National Rescue Movement (NRM), the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), the…
I Have Done Well, You Can’t Unseat Me – Uzodinma Blasts Labour Party I Have Done Well, You Can’t Unseat Me – Uzodinma Blasts Labour Party The Imo State Government has described as laughable a statement credited to the state Chairman of Labour Party, Festus Onyekwulisi, where he boasted that LP will sack the state governor, Hope Uzodimma, during the November 11 governorship election in the state. The Special Adviser to the governor on Public Communications, Collins Ughalaa, in a statement in Owerri, advised LP to first put its house in order before thinking of how to unseat Uzodimma whom…
PHOTO: Woman Hires Men To Kill Her Husband Information reaching Ibom Focus says that Woman Hires Men To Kill Her Husband A 47-year-old woman who paid hitmen R20,000 to k^ill her husband so she could cash in on insurance policies was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Mpumalanga High Court on Monday, March 13, 2023. Phumaphi Gloria Gwebu and her husband Sipho Shadrack Dimba, 52, lived together at Msogwaba Trust with their children. The accused pleaded guilty before the court. In her plea explanation, Gwebu stated she took out five insurance policies for Dimba, one of which was to pay…
JUST IN: Reps Member On The Run As Police Declare Him Wanted, Places Ransom, Photo Reps Member On The Run As Police Declare Him Wanted, Places Ransom, Photo The police have declared a member of the House of Representatives, Bauchi Federal Constituency, Yakubu Shehu, wanted. Yakubu, a member of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), is being wanted in connection with a case of criminal conspiracy, causing grievous hurt, inciting disturbance of public peace, and culpable homicide. This was contained in a gazette citing CRO Form 5 issued from the Office of the Inspector General of Police. The security agency…
Guber Poll: Vote For PDP – Peter Obi Tells Obidients Guber Poll: Vote For PDP – Peter Obi Tells Obidients Peoples Democratic Party in Cross River says endorsement of its governorship candidate, Sandy Onor, by Peter Obi attests to the candidate’s pedigree as a man of the people. PDP chairman in the state, Venatius Ikem, said this in Calabar on Monday when he spoke with journalists about Mr Obi’s endorsement of Mr Onor for the March 18 governorship election. Mr Obi is a Labour Party member who dumped PDP to have a chance to contest the presidential election. During a…