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Governor Alex Otti of Abia State has Innaugurated three roads in Aba, the commercial city of Abia State.

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Governor Alex Otti of Abia State has Innaugurated three roads in Aba, the commercial city of Abia State.

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The Governor of Abia state Dr. Alex Otti OFR, has condemned in strong terms the killing of a Chieftain of the Labour Party, Mr. Maduka Zakari, at Uturu, in Isuikwuato LGA of the State by yet to be identified assailants.

Governor Otti described the gruesome murder of Mr. Zakari who was beheaded by his killers as insane, barbaric and vicious, and called on security agents from different security agencies to swing into action and ensure that whoever was involved in the killing, directly or indirectly is brought to justice and made to pay heavily for their ungodly action.
The Governor expressed sadness that the Late Zakari who distinguished himself during the last general election as the Labour Party Campaign Manager in Uturu and who was said to have played active roles as a community leader in fighting kidnapping, had his life cut short when he was supposed to reap the fruits of good governance being initiated by the Labour Party government, and promised that the government would stand by his family and give them all the necessary support required as they deal with this sad loss...

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Abia State Governor, Dr. Alex Otti, OFR, has directed immediate restoration of power supplies to all government offices and facilities in the state.

This comes as the state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Ngozi Okoronkwo, disclosed that no fewer than 4,700 pensioners in the state have been enrolled to receive free medical treatment in both the primary and secondary health facilities across the state, under the state’s Health Insurance Scheme...

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The appointment of Senator David Umahi, the immediate past Governor of Ebonyi State among the newly appointed Ministers in president Tinubu’s cabinet was widely adjudged as a round peg in a round hole due to the massive infrastructural innovation and development David Umahi brought to Ebonyi State.

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The Lagos state government says the bodies of 103 victims of #EndSARS protest in 2020 prepared for mass burial were not from the Lekki tollgate.

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The newly appointed Chairman of Enyimba International Football Club of Aba and former Super Eagles Captain, Mr. Kanu Nwankwo, popularly known as Papilo has said that he......

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Chief Emeka Okezie, coordinator of a group of Abia pensioners known as 'Concerned Abia Pensioners' has responded to worrying concerns of pensioners in the state as regards discrepancies in payment received, believed to be pension payment.

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Hon Solomon Akpulonu, member representing Obingwa East State Constituency in the Abia State House of Assembly, has been suspended from plenary for 14 sitting days.

The announcement was made by the Speaker, Hon Emmanuel Emeruwa, on the floor of the house on Tuesday.

Akpilonu is a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PPD).

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The Abia State Government says it discovered 2300 ghost workers in its payroll system and has saved over N220 million on monthly wage bills following ongoing verification of civil servants and other public workers in the state.

State Accountant General, Deaconess Njum Onyemenam made this in Umuahia, stating that the huge savings was made using a unified payment system.

Onyemenam, who spoke after a meeting with the state Governor, Dr. Alex Otti Monday, said that the verification exercise is still ongoing and that the state government had expressed its hopes to make more savings.

“So far, we have been able to save N220 million from the ongoing verification of workers in the state, local governments and pensioners.

“Not less than 2,300 ghost names have been weeded out of the payrolls, using the unified payment system and we hope to still identify more as we continue with the exercise,” the Accountant General said.

She confirmed that following Governor Otti’s directive, last week that workers should be paid the arrears of April salaries left behind by the immediate past administration as well as June pensions to retirees.

The AG also disclosed that local government staff who had been skipped when the June salaries were paid, due to their failure to submit their verified payment schedule, will receive their salaries this week, Onyemenam said.

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A peaceful protest rocked the Abia State College of Education (Technical) Arochukwu (ASCETA) on Tuesday as staff of the institution gathered outside the offices of the Registrar and Bursar, respectfully urging their voluntary resignation from their positions.

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Governor Alex Otti has forwarded the proposed list of Honourable Commissioners and members of Abia state executive council for screening by the members of Abia State House of Assembly, candidreporters.com gathered.

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Senator Godswill Akpabio has emerged the Senate president of the 10th National Assembly.

Senator Akpabio scored 63 votes while Senator Aziz scored 46 votes.

Senator Godwill Akpabio and Aziz were nominated for the position of Senate president as the inauguration of the 10th National Assembly commenced in Abuja.

The former Governor of Akwa Ibom served as a Minister for Niger Delta Affairs from 2019 to 2022, represents Akwa Ibom North-West Senatorial zone.

The race for who becomes the Senate President for the 10th National Assembly (NASS) gets intense on Tuesday morning as voting commenced at the Red Chamber in Abuja, Nigeria.

Voting begun at exactly 08:45am on a state by state basis, alphabetically.

Voting ended at exactly 09:15am.


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As the inauguration ceremony of Abia's 4th democratically elected governor, ticks away, after taking the oath of office as the newly sworn in governor of the State, governor Alex Chioma Otti,
raised the hope and expectations of Abians as he assured citizens and residents of Abia that they will be freed from bondage under his watch as the governor of Abia State.

Governor Otti in Umuahia on Monday, gave the assurance during his inaugural speech titled: "A Time To Rebuild".

Governor Otti and his Deputy Governor, Engr Ikechukwu Emetu, won the Abia State gubernatorial election under the platform of Labour Party (LP) in the election conducted on March 18, 2023.

On March 22, 2023, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) returning officer, Professor Nenna Oti, announced that Governor Otti, polled a total of 172,386 votes to defeat his closest rival and candidate of the PDP, Mr Okey Ahiwe, who garnered a total of 88,174 votes to come a distant second.

In the colourful inauguration event held at the Umuahia township stadium, had a large turnout of residents, party faithful, supporters and guests, amid tight security.

Notable guest at the ceremony were; Former Central Bank Governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, Former minister for transportation, Chibuike Rotimi Ameachi, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, Vice presidential candidate of Labour Party, Former Abia State governor, Senator Theodore Orji, amongst Others.

In governor Otti's Inaugural speech which spans through education, health, commerce, infrastructure, security, ICT, agriculture, sports, small-scale manufacturing, fashion, leatherworks etc, received the governor's insight to critical issues bedeviling the state.

The governor described Abians freedom as his "major responsibility, and will ensure they continue to breathe freely, and go about their daily pursuit of good quality life" and bring them out from darkness.

In his own words: "It will be my duty to bring them out of pitch darkness into the bright sunlight that they deserve. It will be my duty to show them that there is more to life than the poverty, hunger, ignorance, disease, insecurity, and pot holes that, all these years, have become their daily realities. It will be my duty to continue to remind them that they are the offspring of those who once created the fastest growing economy in the world".

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First day of May is a day set aside to celebrate civil servants in Nigeria. It's a day in every year Nigeria's workforce observes a session of recognition and celebration for their sterling services to nationhood and mankind. It's observed in all the states of the country and the FCT. In this year's Workers' Day in Ebonyi State, the outgoing Governor of the state, Engr David Umahi has chronicled what he called his achievements in the civil service system of the state which as usual is an account in falsity.

Engr David Umahi met a well-stocked and structured civil service system in 2015, and upon his installation as Governor, the first dictum he made was that he's not God who promises and delivers completely. This implies that he was duty bound to renege on the promises made to the civil servants when he was campaigning to become Governor of Ebonyi State in 2015. Indeed, without mincing steps, Umahi brought the civil service system to practical and legendary ruination. He immediately polarised the system and created a divisive group within the labour structure and named it "Junior Workers Union" of the NLC, Ebonyi State, a group he regularly deferred to any time he wanted to carry out dastardly actions within the civil service system. He further christened the group, "Akubaraoha Civil Servants". Akubaraoha is his purchased chieftaincy title which he co-opted into politics and leadership of the state. This creation was aimed at rivalling the NLC and create a deluge of praise singers whose stock-in-trade was to antagonise justifiable actions of the mother union, NLC. He also fictionalised the leadership structure of the union, recognising one and chastising the other with threats of salary seizure and to their lives. He moved into the Ebonyi State University and created what he called Divine Mandate Lecturers. Divine Mandate was his 2015 campaign mantra. These lecturers were used to create friction in the system. He also created the Divine Mandate Pastors, a league of greedy and selfish clergymen singing his obdurate praises. Anyone or group of workers or lecturers who refused his overture of joining the translucent group was treated in the likeness of a slave and declared persona-non-grata at their places of work. He extended filthy hands of favoritism to the members of this nasty union just to mock the others opposed to it.

Since 2015 that Umahi assumed office, he has never promoted any civil servant till today. He has never carried out a recruitment exercise into the civil service. He slashed salaries of workers by more than 50%. He refused paying gratuities till today. He paid some varying slavish sums of money to the retired Permanent Secretaries which is against the law. Just in the middle of April, 2023, his minions at the Ebonyi State House of Assembly mustered the courage and compelled him to use the N6 billion the House was going to approve for him and offset backlogs of salaries, pension, gratuities and revitalisation of the civil service system. He's yet to be seen or heard taking any stridal step into implementation of the policy for which the humongous sum was approved by the stuttering House of Assembly. Federal Government gave out money to the Government of Ebonyi State under David Umahi to erect a 5,000 unit housing estate with topnotch facilities characterising it. It's over four years it was approved, yet, nothing is on ground to reflect the large sum of money accrued to this noble project to ease off the accommodation difficulty experienced by workers. Rather than upgrading the workforce structure he met in 2015, he vitiated the progress the preceding administration of which he was Deputy Governor made in entrenching a progressive labour mechanism.

Gov. David Umahi has at several fora pronounced empowerment and agricultural packages for the workers, but reneged after the news of the miragelike magnanimity had made headlines and garnered traction in the media. Gov. Umahi has never done anything known to time and history to better the faltering lots of the civil servants of Ebonyi State, instead, he coerces them into practical politics just to score vainglorious points. Ebonyi civil servants are about the most starved in Nigeria since 2015. He doesn't only starve them, but verbally abuses them openly. In one of the occasions, he announced that his administration would do without the civil servants. Evrryone thought it was a comment induced by intake of narcotic substance, but within little time after, he moved towards the actualisation of the selfishly malignant dictum.

Immediately he was sworn into office in 2015, he dissolved the Permanent Secretaries the outgone government into which he was second citizen recruited. His reason for the dissolution was that the promotion and appointment was to hound his administration by Elechi who didn't support his election as Governor. Just few days back, in April, 2023, he was found doing the same thing he accused his predecessor of doing to hound his administration. He appointed Permanent Secretaries and swore them into office despite the impending expiration of his tenure as Governor. Can we be wrong if we believe that he did that as landmine against his successor, just as he rightly complained about in 2015?

All the claims of giving the civil service a facelift by his administration are nothing short of fiction aimed at hoodwinking the reading and listening public. Gov. Umahi is a proud enemy of the Ebonyi civil servants. He has proven to be one at different, but repeated occasions. His celebration of the civil servants today was a step in widening the scope of his sycophantic administration that is also fraught with system mismanagement, miscarriage of priorities and brazen economic and financial malfeasance. It's public knowledge that in the employ of the Ebonyi State Government under David Umahi, only ......

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President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has congratulated Nigeria’s President-elect, Bola Tinubu on his election victory, and also invited him to Ukraine on official visit at a time convenient for him, saying he was confident that Tinubu’s visit would strengthen the dialogue between both countries.


In a statement by the Office of the President-elect and signed by Tunde Rahman, the Ukrainian leader, in a congratulatory letter he personally signed, expressed his gladness at the peaceful conduct of Nigeria’s just-concluded general election, adding that his country was determined to further strengthen cooperation with Nigeria.
Zelenskyy used the opportunity of the goodwill message to extend his invitation to the President-elect to visit Ukraine as soon as he settles down in office after inauguration on May 29, 2023.

“Please accept my sincere congratulations on your election as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Despite extremely difficult testing times, caused by the full-scale armed aggression of Russia against our State, Ukraine is determined to further strengthen cooperation with Nigeria at the bilateral level and within the framework of international organizations.


“We are grateful for your country’s support of the Resolution of the General Assembly of the United Nations Organization ‘Principles of the UN Charter underlying a comprehensive, just and sustainable peace in Ukraine’.


“I count on the active participation of Nigeria in its practical implementation. We see the further provision of global food security, of which Ukraine was and remains a reliable guarantor at the global level, as an important direction of cooperation,” the Ukrainian leader was quoted to have said.............

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Comedian Oluwaseyitan Aletile, popularly known as Seyi Law, has expressed anger at the ongoing ‘Yoruba for Yoruba jobs’ protest in Southwest states.

Candidreporters.com gathered that Tonia Somaga, a graduate from Anambra State and a Labour Party, LP, supporter who drives one of the Lagos State blue rails, was called out by some residents, urging the Lagos State government to sack her, following her campaign for Peter Obi.

Reacting to the development in a tweet on Thursday, Seyi Law noted that the female train driver is an opportunity to preach peace and show that the All Progressives Congress, APC, is different.

Sharing a picture of a man with a ‘Yoruba Jobs for Yoruba People’ poster, Seyi Law described the trend as absolute madness, insisting he didn’t support the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, to see such a trend.

He wrote: “This is absolute madness. I did not support ASIWAJU to see these things. Are you saying even the companies owned by non-Yoruba should do the same, or just those owned by Yorubas? Either way, this is wrong, so let’s stop promoting rubbish in the name of anger.

“The train girl was an opportunity to preach peace and show we are different. I’m not belittling your anger, but we must learn to compromise for the collective peace we crave. You can respect your tribe without denigrating another. Please, let’s sheath our swords.

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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has commenced an investigation into the utilization of local government funds by Abia State government officials.


The commission in a letter dated 4th April, 2023 and addressed to the permanent secretary in the ministry of Local Government and chieftaincy affairs invited treasurers and Heads of service in the 17 local government councils for questioning.
The EFCC directed that the affected officers must ‘unfailingly’ report for questioning through the Chairman’s Monitoring Unit (CMU) between 11th April to 3rd May, 2023.

The letter read in part, “this Commission is investigating a case in which the names of the Treasurers and Heads of Service of the Local Government Areas in Abia State featured.
“In view of the above, you are kindly requested to inform and release them to report for an interview through the CMU-1 HQ team on the dates scheduled against their Local Governments, at 5th Floor, EFCC Headquarters, Plot 301/302 Institutions and Research District, Jabi, Abuja by 10:00 hours, unfailingly.”

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The Organisation for Impact and Reform (OFIAR), a non-governmental organisation has alerted the stakeholders of Nigerian government, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the judiciary on the dangers of truncating or interfering in the process of the presidential election petition tribunal which would mare the transparency of the tribunal’s process in a bid to unravel the true outcome of the February 25 , 2023 presidential election in the country.

OFIAR on Monday gave the alert in a latest press release titled, “TAKE IT TO COURT”.

The group described those against free and fair election in the country as “perpetrating evil against the Nigerian people”. Also adding that the selected is mounting pressure on them to “chin up and take their abuse, their disrespect and hubris. They are now lobbying for us to accept the INEC results and the outcomes therein suggesting that we should move on in the interest of peace. On the flip side, in their arrogance, they are quick to tell us “TAKE IT TO COURT”.

OFIAR also accused INEC of “sullying further Nigeria’s image both locally and abroad”. While also describing the presidential election tribunal as “a long and brutal legal fight over the legitimacy of the election pronouncements”.

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“Come Up With Business Ideas, We Can’t Give Political Appointments To All”- Alex Otti Tell Supporters

Abia State Governor-elect, Dr Alex Otti, has advised his supporters not to expect him to give all of them jobs in his administration.


Instead, Otti has advised those lobbying for political appointments to come up with business ideas he can support.
The former bank manager spoke while addressing his supporters at Umuru, Umuehim village in Ehi Na Uguru Ancient Kingdom, Isiala Ngwa South LGA of Abia State.

He said his administration will not run a bogus system and will not indulge in waste, stressing that it would amount to hypocrisy for his administration to do the same things he accused the outgoing Peoples Democratic Party government of doing.

He said;
“I want to thank all of you my team members. I do not take your sacrifices for granted. I understand that a lot of people are lobbying for appointments, unfortunately, we cannot appoint every body, but I can assure you that government is big enough to empower people and support ideas and businesses, that’s what government does all over the world. We are going to support people, just come up with your ideas.

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Tribunal Grants Labour Party’s Paryers for Inspection of INEC Documents, As Otti’s Team Prepares for Legal Fireworks.

The Governorship Election Tribunal sitting in Umuahia the Abia state capital on Wednesday granted the prayers of Labour Party and the Abia Governor-Elect, Dr. Alex Otti for joint inspection of the INEC Documents with PDP and further directed that INEC avails Labour Party the Certified True Copy of all Gubernatorial nominations from the Late Prof. Uche Ikonne to Okey Ahiwe.

This would include official correspondences between the PDP and INEC on the Nomination of PDP’s Abia Deputy Governorship candidate(s)

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The camp of Dr Alex Otti has responded to the Court Exparte Order purported to shut down Abia State Government accounts through the freezing of all its accounts in various financial institutions.

Candidreporters.com recalls that the ruling Peoples Democratic Party Government (PDP) in the state recently suspected that the Labour Party (LP) Abia governor-Elect masterminded the Court Exparte Order.

The camp of Alex Otti has reacted to the suspicion, describing it as, “falsely in a bid to misrepresent him (Alex Otti) and mislead the public”.

The swift response was contained in a press release titled: “Frozen Abia State Bank Accounts: Leave Alex Otti Out Of Your Self-inflicted Problems“, released on Sunday by Ferdinand Ekeoma, Special Adviser(Media and Publicity) to
Abia State Governor-Elect. He affirms “that Dr. Alex Otti was not involved, directly or indirectly in freezing the said Abia state government accounts. He also does not know the person or persons behind the action”.

The statement also reads that “the governor-elect will now get involved to get to the root of the matter, since the outcome would affect his administration which takes effect from May 29, 2023”.

He also added that “Abia state government should be bold enough to tell the world that those they entered into fraudulent contract with and tried to shortchange before leaving office were responsible for the litigation”.

Alex Otti’s camp also called “on Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu to leave Otti out of his frustrations and self-inflicted disgrace” . The press “release reassure Abians that Dr. Alex Otti is coming to wipe their tears through responsible governance and thus would not waste time on actions capable of negatively affecting their welfare and well-being”.

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Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State on Thursday accused Prof Nnenna Nnannaya-Oti, the Returning Officer of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) at the just-concluded March 18 governorship election in the state of being unfair to all parties that participated in the poll.

Ikpeazu, who spoke on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme, said Nnannaya-Oti was “visibly happy” that she “favoured” the Labour Party (LP).

The outgoing governor also said before the poll, he carried out some background checks on the returning officer and complained to INEC that she won’t be fair in the electoral process but got assurances from the electoral umpire.

On March 22, Nnannaya-Oti, who is the Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, declared LP’s Alex Otti the winner of the March 18 governorship election in Abia. The declaration followed the.........

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Bruce Fein, Nnamdi Kanu’s Lawyer based in Washington DC has congratulated Honorable Dr. Richard Montgomery on his new appointment as the British High Commissioner to Nigeria.

The United Kingdom government announced his appointment in a statement on Tuesday March 7.

The high commissioner is the UK government’s representative in a commonwealth nation.

They are responsible for the direction and work of the consulate, including political relations, trade and investment, press and cultural relations, and visa and consular services.

Montgomery succeeds Catriona Laing who has been been the UK’s representative in Nigeria since 2018.

The congratulatory message was made available to newsmen by Barrister Aloy Ejimakor Esq. legal counsel to Kanu.

Also in the letter, Bruce expressed dissatisfaction on the continuous detention of his Kanu while also frowning on the British role in Nigeria’s political system and developmental pace.

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Re: Nnamdi Kanu-Biafra sovereignty

Dear Dr. Montgomery:

I am Nnamdi Kanu’s international lawyer and spokesman.

Congratulations on your appointment.

Nigeria has been challenged as a nation since independence from involuntary British colonial rule in 1960. The United Kingdom has sought to make partial amends for participating in the racist Scramble for Africa by returning looted Benin City artefacts stolen by marauding British soldiers.

But the British stole something far more valuable than artworks in Nigeria. The United Kingdom stole the right to self-determination and government by the consent of the governed in herding Biafrans at gunpoint in 1914 under a single sovereign umbrella pursuant to a cynical divide-and-conquer colonial policy. The American Revolution of 1776 carved a universal right to self-determination by distinct peoples into marble.

Igbos, Hausa-Fulani, and Yorubas were distinct peoples with incompatible religions, histories, traditions, cultures, values, and governing structures. No African was given a voice in the boundaries of Nigeria. When Britain hastily decamped in 1960, the merciless 1967-1970 genocide of Biafrans at the hands of the Nigerian government assisted by the UK was as foreseeable as the rising and setting of the sun.

Nnamdi Kanu is a United Kingdom citizen. He is the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). Its mission is to secure the right to self-determination for 70 million Biafrans, which the British filched more than a century ago, through peaceful avenues of redress. The Fulani-controlled, radical Muslim government of Nigeria attempted to assassinate Mr. Kanu in his home in 2017 for his peaceful advocacy of self-determination—a fundamental human right under international human rights laws. Nigerian courts have ordered the government of Nigeria to pay reparations to Mr. Kanu for its attempted assassination.

In June 2021, Nigeria conspired with Kenya to kidnap and torture Mr. Kanu in Nairobi followed by his extraordinary rendition to Abuja. There, Mr. Kanu has been detained indefinitely in solitary confinement without a trial by the Nigerian government on concocted charges of treason.

On July 20, 2022, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention issued an Opinion finding Mr. Kanu’s detention violated sixteen (16) international human rights covenants. The Working Group ordered his “immediate and unconditional” release and payment of reparations. The Government of Nigeria remains in contempt of the Working Group’s order more than eight months after its issuance.

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Hon. Chikamnayo made the latest position known on Arise News interview on Wednesday.

Hon Chikamnayo said issues of BIVAS should not be limited to Obingwa alone but proper scrutiny should be done to other local government areas he mentioned.
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A youth group known as Abia Youth Assembly of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) earlier today, Tuesday protested in large numbers around the Collation center of the Abia state Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

The PDP protesters were seen carrying placards of various inscription as they chanted victory songs.

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Professor Nnenna, the Abia State Electoral Officer of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has adjourned collation of results in Abia State till Tuesday 21, 2023 due to directives from the national headquarters of INEC.

According to Professor Nnenna, a directive was gotten from the national headquarters of INEC to suspend the collation of results from Obingwa local government area of Abia State.


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Result for Ukwa East Governorship Election in Abia State:

Collation Officer: Engr, Professor Gozie Ihekwoaba presented the results thus;

Reg voters 39,788
Accredited voters 7808

Parties' results 👇
A 16
AA 06
AAC 1111
ADC 13
ADP 08
APC 560
APGA 646
APM 05
APP 890
BP 05
LP 2273
NNPP 28
NRM 07
PDP 2329
PRP 08
SDP 14
YPP 759
ZLP 17

Valid votes 7595
Rejected votes 166
Total votes cast 7761.

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Prof. Anthony Chidi Brains Agbazuere, the Peoples Democratic party (PDP) Candidate for Isiala Ngwa North/South Federal Constituency in the just concluded February 25, National Assembly election, also the former Chief of Staff to Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State has threatened to file a legal suit against the Department of State Services (DSS) and any other security agencies “if Tony Otuonye is not released forthwith”.

In the latest video seen by candidreporters.com, on Tuesday, Prof ACB Agbazuere holds the position that Otuonye made a mere statement that hasn’t been matched with actions, thus, he has not committed any offence by threatening an action which he did not execute.

Candidreporters.com recalls that Tony Otuonye the Director of Abia State Signage and Advertisement Agency was arrested by DSS over treat to sacrifice and kill any Abia electorate who will vote against his preferred guber Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate Chief Okey Ahiwe.

In his own words; “Those things were mere intentions, they have not been matched with actions”…..

He also compared and argued with a said incidence where someone threatened Governor Okezie Ikpeazu and ended up with no definite punishment.

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The Court of Appeal, Abuja, on Wednesday, turned down the request of the Labour Party’s Presidential candidate, Peter Obi seeking to stop the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, from reconfiguring the BVAS equipment used for the conduct of the February 25 Presidential election.

The Court held that granting the request would..........

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Bola Tinubu, Nigeria’s president-elect, is seeking an order from the court of appeal to access sensitive materials used by the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) for the conduct of the presidential election.
With 8,794,726 votes, Tinubu, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), was declared the winner of the February 25 poll ahead of Atiku Abubakar of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), who polled 6,984,520 votes, and Peter Obi, candidate of the Labour Party (LP), who secured 6,101,533 votes.

At the court session on Tuesday, the president-elect, through his lawyer, Akintola Makinde, said he would need to inspect, scan and make photocopies of some of the electoral materials to enable him to prepare his defence against petitions that would seek to nullify his election.

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