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APC Enugu State Announces Barrister Ogara Winner of Guber Primaries

Wild jubilation heralded the announcement of Barrister George Ogara Tabugbo (GOT) as the winner of the All Progressives Congress (APC) gubernatorial primaries held in Enugu State on Thursday, the 4th of October 2018. The primary, which was rescheduled to 4th of October by the NWC of the party after the crisis that rocked the 30th of September primaries that was to be held at the UNEC mini stadium, saw Barrister Ogara winning the direct primaries with 57, 675 votes.
Declaring the results, the returning officer Chief S.N.C Nwagu, stated that the total number of votes collated from all 260 wards of the 17 local government areas of the state in the direct primaries ordered by the party leadership, was 128,166. Out of this, Barrister Ogara polled 57, 675 votes to beat his closest rival Mr. Ifeanyi Nwoga who scored 38, 449 votes. Others in the contest were, Akubue Augustine = 11, 536, Eche Benjamin = 12, 816, Ayogu Eze = 7, 690.
Presenting the result to party faithfuls in Enugu and a cross section of observers, Chief Nwagu declared Barrister Ogara duly elected and the flag bearer of the APC for the 2019 governorship elections in Enugu State. It’ll be recalled that Enugu State APC has been in a protracted conflict for the governorship ticket for the next general elections with multiple accusations of intimidation, fraud and impositions that led the NWC of the party to resort to direct primaries rescheduled to the 4th of October.
Addressing journalists and party faithfuls after the declaration, Barrister Ogara expressed gratitude to the party and his supporters for the enormous support he has received since he declared interest in the position as APC guber candidate for the State. His words: “My gratitude goes first and foremost to my great party APC, my leader Mr. Geoffrey Onyema, the honorable minister of Foreign Affairs, my family and everyone that believed we could pull this off”. He recounted the several pains and trauma he had undergone for APC over the years as the lawyer of the party in the south east and how the party had kept faith in him even while the candidates of the party preferred ‘settlements’.
The APC candidate expressed his desire to make Enugu State express the ‘true change’ from clueless leadership to one focused on the emancipation of the State. He also declared that the current governor of the state, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi is living on borrowed times and will be soundly defeated in the 2019 elections. He stated that. “Enugu State is about to be liberated, and the ordinary people on the streets are my constituency”.

APC can never screen someone that didn't purchase the nomination form, so, I wonder how they screened out someone that couldn't even afford the nomination form.

I discovered that many ladies on nairaland are above 35years, and most of them are feminist, why?

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dukie25:
Ok

Bookings

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freecocoa:
Ofcourse I get your point but then, something needs to be done about the men, otherwise things will only get worse. I bet you that, most said cases of women passing off another man’s child on their hubby, had something to do with how irresponsible said hubby is/was, as the case may be.

You sound as if you're guilty.

AreaFada2:
Just wait. They will come to say men play away too.

I have always said it here. Around 35% of firstborn kids belong to another man. All those pregnancies that lead to rush rush wedding. Around 25% of all kids belong to another man.

All those situations where people live in face-me-i-face-you. Hubby is long distance driver or works at night and yet the family struggles for money. Some married women will open their legs for neighbours for only 2k to make ends meet.

Absolutely correct.

Amberon:
What the lady did was really pathetic and I understand that the man is going through a lot but this right here is not enough for nairalanders to tag women as hoes, devil's etc. Men do so much worse everyday but you don't see women making such hasty generalisations.

98% of women will tell you that men are the same (cheating)

Most women wouldn't like this kind of front-page, very few of them have contributed something. If it should be domestic violence, it would have gotten to page 15 now. Early DNA Test saves a lot.

henro4niger:
I wish this umahi will rule Nigeria

Don't wish. Go to the state and ask questions first.

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Headline with different story.

Who introduced him to you?
Do you know his facebook name?
If yes, from his facebook page, get some of his friends that looks good, inform them about the incident. Use them and get his location. It has happened to me before and the guy paid me back with apology.

It was gathered that the lawmakers would like to take a final decision on their continued membership of the APC this week to be sure of the platform on which they would contest the 2019 elections.

s Congress has offered its aggrieved National Assembly members automatic tickets in their constituencies in a last-ditch effort to stop the impending defection of the lawmakers from the party.

This offer, among others, has become necessary to scuttle the planned mass defection of the legislators, which has been slated for the floor of the National Assembly on Thursday, SUNDAY PUNCHhas learnt.

Investigations by our correspondents on Saturday showed that aggrieved APC senators and members of the House of Representatives were determined to formally announce their defection before the National Assembly goes on its eight-week recess on Thursday.

It was gathered that the lawmakers would like to take a final decision on their continued membership of the APC this week to be sure of the platform on which they would contest the 2019 elections.

Primaries of most of the political parties will hold between August and September, a period the National Assembly may still be on vacation.

It was learnt that the only thing that could prevent the defection of the lawmakers was the ongoing negotiation between the APC and the leadership of the Reformed APC.

It was also gathered that the aggrieved lawmakers in the R-APC would hold a make-or-break meeting with their leaders on Tuesday where a final decision on the planned defection would be taken.

A senator, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of identification, said the proposed mass defection from the APC at the National Assembly was scheduled for the last day of the session to manage the tension that would likely follow the announcement.

He said what could stop the mass defection on Thursday was the automatic ticket the APC was offering the lawmakers. The lawmakers, it was gathered, had insisted that the APC must put the offer in writing.

Asked to confirm the Thursday declaration of the defection, the senator said, “It is true. It is most likely on Thursday, but I can assure you that if the APC gives Saraki and the rest of us letters (on automatic tickets), that is all (about the planned defection).”

R-APC lawmakers meet faction’s leaders on Tuesday

Also, in the House of Representatives, investigations showed that members were waiting for the outcome of the ongoing negotiations between the leadership of the R-APC and the APC National Working Committee before taking a final decision on whether to defect on Thursday or not.

It was gathered that one of the issues on offer was the automatic tickets for the lawmakers in the 2019 elections.

One of the members said, “Nothing has been concretised, but I will say there have been talks, including the offer of automatic tickets.”

Another member confided in SUNDAY PUNCH that the R-APC lawmakers were expecting to be briefed on Tuesday by their leaders to decide on the way forward.

“Our plan to defect has not changed. But our leaders are in talks with them (APC) and we are patiently waiting.”

We have not shelved defection plan – Atunwa

But a key member of the factional group and Chairman, House Committee on Justice, Mr. Razak Atunwa, told SUNDAY PUNCH on Saturday that members were ready to accept any offer that would ensure “justice for all at the end of the day.”

Atunwa, like others, confirmed that the group had not shelved the defection plan, but admitted that members were also ready to accept offers that would treat all parties as equals.

The lawmaker from Kwara and an ally of Senate President Bukola Saraki, added, “In politics, you never say never. I am aware that a lot of negotiations have been going on.

“Right now, there is no justice. If it (offer) doesn’t lead to justice, we will go ahead and do what is okay for us in the week.”

Automatic tickets: Legislators demand written agreement

In the meantime, it was learnt that the aggrieved lawmakers were ready to accept the automatic ticket offer from the APC to remain in the party.

SUNDAY PUNCH gathered that the lawmakers, led by President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, had given a condition to the leadership of the APC.

The condition, according to the aggrieved lawmakers, who spoke to one of our correspondents, is that the offer must be put in writing.

One of the lawmakers, who spoke on condition of anonymity, disclosed that Saraki and Dogara had insisted on a written agreement to retain their leadership of the National Assembly as there were forces in the APC, who worked against their emergence as Senate President and Speaker, respectively.

The source said, “They want to give us automatic tickets. The return ticket is for everybody and there are those who are giving it a thought. They are making an offer to all of us but it all depends on what we finally agree with them.

“If the offer being made will be written, we are going to take it. It has to be written. If it is not going to be written, nobody is going to take that risk (of believing the party). It must come through a letter. If they could write that they are giving us automatic tickets, I believe that many will not defect, but if they refuse, certainly, they would be on their own.”

The lawmaker further disclosed that his colleagues, particularly senators, were considering either the Peoples Democratic Party or the African Democratic Congress, a coalition led by former President Olusegun Obasanjo.

He stated, “If it is not PDP, it is ADC. Right now, about three senators have moved to the ADC – two from Oyo State and Senator Abdul-Azeez Murtala-Nyako from Adamawa State. If they give us a written agreement, personally, I will not defect, but it must be in writing.”

The lawmaker stated that the condition became necessary as most of the APC governors were not happy with the National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, for making the offer.

The lawmaker noted that some outgoing APC governors had planned to contest the seats currently occupied by some senators from their respective states.

He also said some of the governors were bent on imposing their successors on the APC and blocking senators who wanted to get the governorship tickets ahead of the 2019 elections.

Negotiation ongoing, says APC

When contacted on Saturday the National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, said he was not aware of the automatic ticket offer.

He said, “I do know there are ongoing meetings but I am not aware if anyone is offering anything and what offers are being made. I honestly don’t know.”

No offer can appease Saraki’s embarrassment – Baraje

Meanwhile, the leader of the defunct new PDP, Alhaji Kawu Baraje, said there was no offer from President Muhammadu Buhari to Saraki that could atone for what he called the embarrassment Saraki allegedly suffered in the last three years.

In an interview with one of our correspondents in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, on Saturday, Baraje stated that though Saraki was an experienced politician, his loyalists and supporters in Kwara State had taken a decision that with or without Saraki, they no longer wanted to continue being members of the APC.

Baraje said, “I am not concerned with the offer reportedly made by the Presidency to the Senate President. I do not see how that concerns me. As far as I am concerned and as far as our supporters and followers are concerned, they have taken a decision.

“If the Senate President is going to waiver, all well and good. The followers have indicated that with or without him, they are going out of APC. So, it is left for him to take a decision.

“As far as I know, there is no recent decision that can replace the kind of embarrassment, debasement and horrifying experiences that the Senate President has gone through in the past. It is unfortunate.”

Also, the R-APC expressed confidence that attempts by the Buhari-led administration to use the “carrot and stick” approach to break its ranks would fail.

The National Publicity Secretary of the R-APC, Kassim Afegbua, in a telephone interview with SUNDAY PUNCH, in Abuja, on Saturday, said the R-APC was committed to the Memorandum of Understanding it signed with other opposition parties.

He added that “no amount of carrots” dangled by the Buhari-led administration would derail the process.

Speaking about offers allegedly made by the President to Saraki, Afegbua urged the Senate President not to fall for what he described as a booby trap.

Afegbua said, “Why does the President now feel it is important to play politics? Since when did he begin to consider Saraki as important? Where was he when Saraki was being humiliated?

“Does he now think that by taking such a man into the inner sanctuary of Aso Rock, he has done a great thing?

“There is no sincerity of purpose; he is just running around because he is desperate to return to power so that when he wins the election, he will now come out in full force to deal with his perceived enemies. Such a man cannot be trusted.”

Source : NIYI ODEBODE,JOHN ALECHENU, JOHN AMEH, LEKE BAIYEWU AND SUCCESS NWOGU, PUNCH NEWSPAPER

dopemama:
If u want ur in laws to hate you! Marry their breadwinner!... African proverb!

You're a prophet.

Clonus:
When problems arise in a marriage, relatives are so in a hurry to take sides further dividing the couple.
Some are so quick to encourage the lady to leave him and come back to the house only to start chasing her again after six months: go back to your husband's house.

You're absolutely correct.

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Eketem:
I am confused as to why you are begging him.

You both got paid from a business
He used his own share for his parents, you used your own to build a house now he got angry and decided to kick you out of your own house, you told him it wasn't possible.

He gets angry and moves out
Let him stay out, he is a wicked man that would have been happy to see you out on the streets with your kids begging him up and down.

I don't understand why you are now begging him.

I don't know why Nigerian women are so desperate to keep wicked men

I wonder the type of a woman you are...

massinola:
Which Chimaroke? Just say it as it is. Just as Buhari is it to Nigeria, so was Chimaroke to Enugu. Blood shed everywhere. Sack, sack and sack were what we experienced during his tenure in Enugu state. If you are not seeing anything good in Ugwuanyi, then you need to see your eye doctor ASAP. Ugwuanyi is trying so much in Enugu.

Can you mention those things you think Gov Ugwuanyi's administration has done so far "

Kissup:
Madam know it all

See them..

Did you notice that there's no comment from any woman yet, but say the opposite, they'll assemble here immediately. Feminist movement is the cause of all this marriage breakup everywhere.

I expected this guy to call the girl in question, and clear his conscience once and for all, if he is innocent as he claims, because I can remember when my babe did such, immediately I threatened her, she said the truth. I instructed her to send a text to the guy with her line and inform him that you've told me everything. Shikina, no need of arguments again, the guy knows I'm aware of everything.

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jusRadical:
That may be one if the reasons his marriage failed.

This message will only end up wrecking homes.

You've a guilty conscience.

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WHO IS A HUSBAND AND WHAT IS HIS ROLE?
~ Rev Chris Oyakhilome Ds.c DD

Husband does not mean the male partner in a marriage, husband means master.

The reason for most problems in Christian marriages is the fact that women refute God’s definition of marriage and form theirs. They believe they are equal partners.

If most women had their fathers bold enough to talk to them, they will be very successful in their marriage and they will be very happy people. Most women have never been taught by their parents, their fathers particularly and that’s their biggest problem because they don’t know who a man is, they think he is another woman.

In marriage, you have the man who is the head of that union and because he’s the head of that union, its important to understand him. You think he’s the one that needs to understand his wife and that is where you are wrong. He will eventually but you have to know the type of man you are married to and his needs.
When you say you are marrying a man, you are coming under his authority. The Bible says, the man is the head of the woman (1 Corinthians 11:3) so when you marry him you come under his authority, you are not authority sharers even though you are both heirs to the kingdom of God.

When you decide not to subject yourself to that authority, you are a rebel and God is not going to accept what you are doing because you are not functioning correctly. Why did God make the woman?
Making woman was not God’s original plan because after God created Adam and before He made Eve, He said in Genesis 1:31 “Then God looked over all he had made, and he saw that it was very good”. God made woman because of man so woman was not His original idea. This is reality.

Genesis 2:18a “And the Lord God said “for it is not good for a man to be alone..” The Bible didn’t say “lonely” but “alone”. There is a big difference. Man wasn’t lonely but alone. Genesis 2:18b “…I will make him an help meet”. He didn’t say a partner or a supervisor or a special advisor or someone to tell him what to do.
I will make him someone to help him. God gave man a responsibility so woman was made to help man achieve that responsibility. If this is understood in every home then you won’t have problems.

I tell people that you don’t need a marriage seminar, you need the Word Seminar. Let me tell you, no husband wants another mother, he has had one all his life. He doesn’t want an older sister, he probably had one.
Your secret is in obedience, your secret is in listening to your husband, your secret is in doing the things that please him. When you don’t do the things that please him, you take the role of a mother or of an older sister.

A man loves the one he serves (God) and the one that serves him (a good wife). He fights the one that wants to be at the same level with him (a rebellious wife).
To be happy in your family and home is the easiest thing in the world, just take your role. Take your place. That place that God gave you is a beautiful place. Its a place of peace. Its a place of love. It’s a place of excellence.

Every wise person listens to wise voices (advice) but he listens to a wise voice that is presented wisely.
Everyone rebels against the voice that is trying to make a fool out of him. When you want to correct your husband, don’t lord it over him,present it as a wise suggestion. Humble yourself and be smart.

A wise woman will always be an influence to her husband, the foolish one will always annoy the husband, make him mad, make him angry and when you make him angry, you will be the victim. Learn to listen to your husband, practice it, tell yourself that you are going to do it because that is where your beauty is.

Once you stop listening, your beauty evaporates. You wonder why you are dressing and he can’t see it, he doesn’t remember your last hair style. Beauty is in obedience. That’s where the Glory is.

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Minister of health or Minister of doctors. I'm still wondering how he managed to find himself in that position.

Which evil and useless Minister is this?

Megaflex:
Send me a DM

Done that already.