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leokid866:
LOL you people don't really understand Nigeria that's why you talking like this....I suggest you Google romanapur and realise Nigeria is the real life...bigger version of it....but if you want some...come get some....Sips tea.

Nigeria can't fight any external war now.. It will lose. The internal division will be of greater help to SA.

Don't forget this. Nobody wins war when the house is not in order.

leokid866:
LOL. Please take a sit....your brain must be tired.

Seriously it won't SA fleet much time to finish Nigeria and Nigerians.
They have the logistics to do so.

leokid866:
Forget the Nigerian naval fleet....these ones forget ordinary tompolo has a war ship....if they try us we just unleash our brothers in rivers to handle them while the Nigerian navy shares beer for the boys.

People like Tompolo will help SA end Nigeria fast.

Men no get joy. Don't take your luck too far.

Dathypebruv:
oponu,who ask you... ITK ' is scatter across '

Hope you're a millionaire with English language by now.
Don't tell me you still poor

Dathypebruv:
I'm still looking for Cubana chief priest in the picture....

Has anybody seen him ?

Cubana no be one hotel.

The hotel Is scattered across nation.....BAN.

Ekakamba:
Having a child is very important than marriage walahi. Argue with your spouse.

If not for children, What's then is the essence of marriage?

Nice one
Welcome beautiful baby

Oduclemz:
Total number of registered voters is 108,000 and its Akpabio’s LG

Turn out no go even reach 15k
Akpabio should sit tight in his office jaree.

Congratulations Mr President on your birthday.

Age with Grace.

We love you.

Demzlent:
They said we are the poverty capital of the world.
Our President decided that we should just close our poverty stricken borders to the outside world so that we can manage on our own. Suddenly, scarcity hits Benin republic, Demonstration hits Ghana, Vietnam, Indonesia and Philippines envoys all came calling.

Their economy depends on our poverty.
They are begging the most corrupt nation on Earth to do business with them. They have no buyers for their commodity.
Just In our neighbors domain, scarcity have hit them hard.

Meanwhile at home we are coping just fine. Our markets have not been hit by scarcity. It turned out they need us more than we need them. We have all it takes to stand alone as a nation.
All we need is a plan and a willing leader.

I love Nigeria ��.

Your personal text says it all

seunmsg:
PDP is a party of hypocrites. If they agree with this judgement, they should have disagreed with the silly judgement that gave an illegal victory to Olujimi in Ekiti instead of ordering for a rerun.

The court of appeal should have a standard to follow as far as election petition is concerned. They cannot cancel the result of a local government in Ekiti as a result of violence and irregularities without ordering a rerun in the council while cancelling the result a local government council in Akwa Ibom for the same reason and ordering a rerun in the affected local government.

What is good for Akwa Ibom should be good for Ekiti. The judiciary should not promote double standard.

Stop wailing.

Mehn People can be wicked.
Pdp haba.

Akpabio stay where you are. There is grand plan against you.

South Africa is stronger than Nigeria.
6 hours is enough to take Nigeria and Nigerians to dust.

Something is fishy.

Akpabio please sit tight in your ministry. They want you out and at same time frustrate you at polls.

They don't mean well for you.

Look at the margin in a senatorial election. You can't beat this.


NDDC wolves at work.

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Mr Osinbajo addressed the memo directly to the president, and it is unclear why the chief of staff had to sit on it and eventually rubbishing the content before passing it to the president.
“It is not for the chief of staff to advise the president on a memo that came directly from the vice-president,” an official told PREMIUM TIMES under strict anonymity to avoid being victimised for discussing confidential State House matters.
“The vice-president issued the memo based on a policy he had been personally supervising,” the official said. ” So there is no basis, especially in writing, that it should be subjected to the advice of a subordinate.”
The official said it was not uncommon for a president to call his chief of the staff of other aides to seek verbal advice on an action he wanted to take over a request from the vice-president, but he would then have to first revert to the vice-president for further briefing and suggestions on areas that need improvement.
Another official told PREMIUM TIMES Mr Kyari took the step to retain powers for himself by proxy. If the approval sought by Mr Osinbajo had been granted, matters around the farmers-herders crisis would have been joint federal-states concerns and issues would have to be vigorously debated before funding is earmarked.
“He knows that if the president is in charge, he will be the one issuing orders over the livestock matters in the president’s name,” the source said. “That would include spending monies without any questions or accountability unlike what would have happened if the Steering Committee had been approved.”
Mr Buhari abruptly suspended the ruga projects in July following an outcry from Nigerians that the establishment of Ruga settlements should be voluntary amongst states and not imposed by the federal government through the takeover of state lands.
Presidential spokespersons Femi Adesina and Garba Shehu did not return multiple requests for comments from PREMIUM TIMES for this story.
Managing a jungle
PREMIUM TIMES obtained the memos as Mr Buhari was embarking on a private two-week visit to the United Kingdom.
The president did not hand over power to Mr Osinbajo. Instead, he has been asking his aides to bring crucial documents to him for assent in London. The Nigerian law requires that the president hand over power if he would be away from duty for 21 days.
On Monday, Mr Kyari flew to London
to submit a new bill on offshore oil fields to the president for assent. The action drew sparked among Nigerians, who said it was embarrassing that the presidency would make a public show of such a controversial action.
“One of the acute dangers of the executive presidency in the third world is that it gives too much power to whoever the president chooses,” said political analyst Sola Olubanjo.
“If the president gives you attention you become powerful,” he said. “Even if you are a cook or cleaner, you will be controlling the vice-president and the ministers without anyone questioning you.”
Mr Olubanjo said under an ideal situation, especially in advanced societies, the vice-president would resign his position immediately for what Mr Kyari did.
“It was a clear case of insubordination and it also showed that the vice-president does not have the president’s ears,” Mr Olubanjo said. “But the seat of power is a jungle here and those in power are only looking to perpetuate themselves in office even under very humiliating circumstances.”


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When Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo wrote to President Muhammadu Buhari seeking approval for funds to continue his role in resolving the deadly farmers-herdsmen conflict earlier this year, he did so with little awareness that a middleman would intercept it, moderate it and ultimately discard his role altogether.

Yet, that was exactly what transpired after Mr Osinbajo pushed a memo to Mr Buhari earlier this year that was subsequently undermined by Abba Kyari, the president’s chief of staff.

After successfully rubbishing Mr Osinbajo’s request to Mr Buhari, Mr Kyari went on to instigate the president to sack Mr Osinbajo from his role as the head of a committee that was raised to resolve the perennial violence between farmers and herdsmen, PREMIUM TIMES can report based on official documents and interviews with people familiar with the tussle for influence at the Presidential Villa.

The exclusive documents in our possession provide a rare glimpse into the humiliation Mr Osinbajo is facing at a time speculations are rife nationwide about how poorly the vice-president was being treated by the president’s senior aides and allies.

A Request Made
The documents showed Mr Osinbajo sought the president’s approval for three proposals relating to the development of the National Livestock Transformation Plan (NLTP). Mr Osinbajo had earlier been mandated by the president to lead the initiative with other governors in the National Economic Council (NEC).

The NLTP was proposed when the Buhari administration came under pressure to find a lasting solution to the incessant herdsmen violence that killed nearly 4,000 people between 2016 and 2018.

The plan included programmes of rehabilitation of displaced persons in states ravaged by the farmers-herders’ violence and development of ranches for nomadic herders in any willing state of the federation.

After months of preliminary consultations and inputs from affected states, an agreement was reached by states to form a substantive committee that would oversee implementation of the compromise, make NLTP the coordinating institution of all outstanding issues bordering on herdsmen crisis and coordinate funding for the transformation efforts.

In an April 12, 2019 memo to the president, the vice-president detailed the agreement to the president and requested approval. He mentioned that N35 billion had been earmarked for the livestock transformation policy, out of which N12 billion had already been released for ruga projects (construction of ranches for Fulani herders along designated grazing routes).

The entire N35 billion was pulled from the ecological funds of federal and state governments. The N12 billion was earmarked for emergency ruga projects in Niger, Zamfara, Kebbi, Kogi, Niger, Plateau, Taraba, Nasarawa, Benue, Kaduna, Katsina and Adamawa. The states were designated frontline states affected by the farmers-herders crisis.

Subsequently, since N12 billion had been earmarked for immediate use, Mr Osinbajo pleaded with Mr Buhari to release N22 billion for the longtime implementation of the project, including providing succour for people displaced by the violence in Benue, Plateau and other states.

Mr Osinbajo also stated in the memo (reference: SH/VP/NLTP/02/1) that the N22 billion would be deposited in a dedicated account with the CBN and only withdrawn for specific purposes as may be approved by the member states in the proposed Steering Committee.

‘Duplication of Efforts’
But rather than forwarding the vice president’s memo to the president for approval, Mr Kyari held it for more than a month, eventually submitting it to the president on May 16. But before he submitted it, the chief of staff reworked the memo to include his own observation and recommendations to the president.

Mr Kyari told the president that the request by Mr Osinbajo should be rejected because the N12 billion voted for the Ruga projects had not been fully utilised.
“Given that the president has approved N12 billion for intervention for the Ruga Model, through the National Food Security Council (NFSC), we respectfully recommend that we first evaluate the development impact of this particular project before releasing further amounts for the NLTP,” Mr Kyari wrote. “This is key especially as major security operations are ongoing in some of these locations.”

On Mr Osinbajo’s request for an inclusive Steering Committee to be inaugurated to drive the livestock transformation policy, Mr Kyari knocked it as a duplication of efforts.

“This plan may not be an effective strategy due to the overriding importance of farmer/herder issues in the National Food Security Council, which Mr President is the chairman,” he said.

The chief of staff then proceeded to recommend that Mr Buhari should scrap the NLTP, an initiative by state governors and the vice-president as a representative of the administration.

“To avoid duplication of efforts, we respectfully recommend (with emphasis) that Mr President retains oversight of the farmer/herder issues under the NFSC,” Mr Kyari said, adding that the council includes all heads of security and intelligence agencies as well as representatives of governors from the six geopolitical zones.

Finally, Mr Kyari proposed the establishment of a National Livestock and Fisheries Commission that would be responsible for “formulating, implementing, monitoring and evaluating all projects relating to ranching, fisheries and other related issues.”

A Vice-President Undermined
On May 24, the president approved Mr Kyari’s request, consequently discarding Mr Osinbajo’s request.

“Your recommendations above endorsed,” Mr Buhari said when he signed the memo with reference number: PRES/65-I/COS/2/996.

In approving Mr Kyari’s recommendations over Mr Osinbajo’s even without consulting with his deputy, Mr Buhari appeared to have more respect for his aides.

Presidency sources told PREMIUM TIMES there was no basis for the president’s action, which is just one of several acts of insubordination against the vice-president.

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Wife of late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, Mrs Bianca Ojukwu, has on Monday told the governor of Anambra state, Chief Willie Obiano, Akpokuedike Aguleri, to stop avoiding the memorial lecture of Late Biafran leader, Dim Chukwuemeka Ojukwu, noting that there were no evil spirits in the venue.


“This is the second time the event is holding and Obiano doesn’t want to attend by himself. “Tell Obiano that there is no evil spirit in the venue of Ojukwu memorial lecture”, Bianka said.
She expressed reservation over the absence of Obiano at the second memorial lecture of her husband.
Mrs Ojukwu spoke during the lecture at the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University (COOU) Igbariam, Anambra State on Monday.
She said that Obiano was one of the greatest beneficiaries of Ojukwu’s legacy.
She called on the governor not to erode the legacy of her late husband especially regarding All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA).
She thanked former Gov. Peter Obi for renaming the state University after Ojukwu who was truly a hero in life and death.
Reacting, Obiano who was represented at the event by his deputy, Dr Nkem Okeke, said the governor was absent at the event due to other official engagement.
“It is unfortunate that Obiano has not attended the memorial lecture since it started last year, but that is not to say that he will not attend.
“The governor still has time in office and could still attend in future,” he said.
Muoghalu whose lecture was titled: Ndigbo in the contemporary Nigerian politics, problems, prospects and way forward, said the Igbo people must be given equal treatment like other tribes.
Muoghalu regretted that since the Nigeria/Biafra civil war, the effect had held the nation backward due to inability of the leaders to address the matters arising.

“I suggest that key actors during the war like retired Gen. Yakubu Gowon should speak to heal the wounds to ensure lasting peace,” he said.
Former Deputy Senate President, Dr Ike Ekweremadu who chaired the event called for restructuring of the country and introduction of state police.
He said restructuring and de-centralisation of the police were key to addressing the mirage of problems plaguing the nation.


https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/11/bianka-ojukwu-to-obiano-there-are-no-evil-spirits-in-the-venue-of-ojukwus-memorial-lecture/?fbclid=IwAR0sebQozZ7L7dVWi1fbUZbq7knIn4LkbYz4jBVSDlrLZK5STeUA4-Rjuq4

The Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency has alerted state government of possible flooding in Edo, Delta, Anambra, Rivers and Bayelsa States as a result of current flooding in Adamawa because of the release of water from the Lagdo dam in Cameroon.

Director General of the agency, Engr. Clement Oyeaso Eze told newsmen in Abuja on Monday that states along the bank of the River Niger should begin to identify higher ground to relocate villages along the river, adding that the current flood in Adamawa, Taraba and Benue will still find its way into the villages before emptying into the Atlantic Ocean.

He said the Cameroonian authorities only confirmed the release of water from the dam on the 1st of November, 2019 after series of enquiries by the agency.


According to him, “Nigeria signed an MOU with the Cameroonian government to inform us in advance when they want to open their dam so that we can prepare and evacuate our people. Unfortunately, they did not inform us and we noticed the unusual water level, we started asking questions and sending them videos. That is when they confirmed to us that they opened the Lagdo Dam on the 10th of October and closed it on the 31st of October.

That is what is responsible for the flooding in Adamawa, Taraba and Benue and this water is finding its way to Lokoja. This will be joined by the water released from Jebba and Kainji Sam’s and this must empty into the downstream states before emptying into the Atlantic Ocean.

“So, we are warning the states downstream Kogi such as Edo, Anambra, Delta, Rivers and Bayelsa to be prepared. So, this is a flood alert.”


https://thenationonlineng.net/edo-delta-rivers-two-others-to-witness-more-flood-soon-agency/

The Imo state monarchs yesterday backed the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, when the commission said it would be appealing the Federal High court judgment, in Abuja, that ordered Senator Rochas Okorocha be issued with the certificate of return for Imo west senatorial district.
The monarchs led by Eze Cletus Ilomuanya, in Owerri, spoke through his Media consultant Kennedy Eweama, adding that as Royal fathers that their duty was to speak out the truth and at the same time condemn evil in the land.

The thinking of the Imo Royal fathers was that INEC’s move will restore the image of the commission is an unbiased umpire in the election.
According to them, “Traditional Rulers in Igboland under the auspices of Igbo Traditional Rulers Forum (ITRF), have okayed the decision of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to pursue to a logical conclusion, its appeal against the judgment of the Federal High Court, Abuja, which acquitted former Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State, of allegations of obtaining his senatorial election victory through coercion.
“The Returning Officer for Imo West senatorial election, Prof Innocent Ibeawuchi had alleged that Okorocha’s thugs forced him at gunpoint, to declare him the winner.
“Based on that, INEC, therefore, withheld Okorocha’s Certificate of Return but Justice Abang Okon of the lower court overruled INEC and ordered that Okorocha be issued with CoR as winner of the election.
“We, the monarchs commended INEC’s decision to go ahead with Okorocha’s prosecution, as it will restore its integrity as an unbiased umpire, help in safeguarding the nation’s electoral process and serve as a deterrent to others who may wish to emulate Okorocha’s alleged unlawful and reprehensible conduct during the elections.”
It was Ilomunanya’s view that “The former governor’s alleged misdemeanor was a dent on the federal government’s genuine and concerted efforts at enthroning a transparent, credible, free and fair electoral process.
“Okorocha’s alleged insensitive action was capable of undermining the integrity of elections in Nigeria before the international community, such misbehavior credited to a former governor is very unfortunate and embarrassing.

“The 2019 general elections were commendable because of its relative peaceful and transparent nature, INEC lived up to expectations despite the herculean challenges it faced.
“As royal fathers, we have a duty to speak out when evil beckons. Evil only thrives where noblemen keep silent. Who knows who will be the next victim? He may not even be alive to speak out as Prof Ibeawuchi did.”


https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/11/imo-west-imo-monarchs-back-inecs-appeal-against-okorocha/?fbclid=IwAR0IGjW4UFTZNk7y20_0m2ltEIDXAqkLsxg0vACPz5B30mVgG85lTs1lSgM

Governor Willie Obiano yesterday assured victims of Upper Iweka tanker fire, which raised some houses, Plazas, shops and traders goods at Amobi and Emeodi Streets, Zik Avenue and some shops at Ochanja Central Market, Fegge Onitsha that his government will not abandon them
Governor Obiano who spoke through his Deputy, Dr. Nkem Okeke whom he sent to visit the trades and landlords, visited the fire accident scenes at Amobi and Emeodi Streets and Ziks Avenue where he told the traders and their landlords that he has started the compilation of lists of the victims for compensation.




The Governor’s Obiano’s visit is coming one day after the victims took their protest to the Onitsha South Local Government Chairman Prince Emeka Asoanya, over alleged diversion of government officials and well-placed individuals and their gifts to the victims, by some elements in Ochanja Central Market.
Governor Obiano also promised that he will make available fire trucks that will be stationed on Amobi and Emeodi streets by Zik Avenue, just as he will dig a borehole in some strategic places for water to be available for whatever it will be needed for in future.
Meanwhile, the affected victims of the Onitsha fire disaster at Amobi, Emeodi Street, and Ziks Avenue have thanked Governor Obiano for having listening ears towards their plight, saying that one day after egg their protest, the governor sent his deputy to come and interact with them.

Spokesman of the victims and one of the owners of the plazas Mr. Anthony Okonkwo helandlordsothe wish to thank Governor and his deputy Dr. Okeke for not neglecting them even when wrongly impressions are being and rumours are being peddled that the traders are not happy with the Governor.
“We must commend Governor Obiano for heeding to our cry of negligence, by sending his Deputy Governor Dr. Nkem Okeke to visit and commiserate with us.
“We appreciate your deep kindness and promise that the State Government must do something for us as help, as we rebuild the destroyed shopping plazas and businesses so we get back on our feet as quickly as possible.
“Our heartfelt appreciation goes to Igwe Nteje and all in your entourage who felt and shared our pain, that what was wrongly tagged ‘Ochanja market fire disaster was actually a monumental conflagration that totally burnt and destroyed the buildings and shopping plazas in ochanja area, particularly numbers 59b Amobi Street, 58 Amobi Str, 56 Amobi, 53 Amobi Str, 23 Emodi Street, 24 and 25 Emodi Str and some few shops at Ochanja market along Zik’s Avenue
“The two gates leading to both sides of Ochanja market through Amobi and Emodi Street were not affected by the fire incident.
“We also appreciate your promise to provide station fire fighting equipment and vehicles at strategic points around the market to contain future mishaps.
“Your visit to us on the ninth day of the fire debacle has finally wiped away our tears, and we rest assured that our colleagues who died in the preventable incident will go home in peace.
“As you were informed by our spokesman, Mr. Okonkwo, the Onitsha Local Government Chairman who visited us on October 24, 2019, will give you the actual fact concerning the buildings and shopping plazas affected, as he followed and walked with us to all the affected sites.
“We now know we have a father in Governor Obiano, the business community of Onitsha is behind your good Government.
“We want to use this opportunity to call on our President Mohammed Buhari, the international community, Non-Governmental Organizations NGOs and well-meaning Nigerians to come to our aid, we pray that the souls of the departed in this inferno rest in peace.”


https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/10/
governor-obiano-finally-visits-victims-of-onitsha-tanker-fire-accident/

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Dismissing zoning, the Russia-Trained Political Scientist said only selfish politicians in Anambra State would still be canvassing for zoning for the position of governor, “especially with the state of fatal paralysis we now have.”

“The danger of zoning,” he argued, “is that very soon we start zoning to religious denominations, hamlets, and clans; Anglican Bishops are also canvassing for zoning. They want the governorship zoned to Anglicans.”

But despite the groundswell of opposition to zoning, a group is known as Great Anambra Forum (GAFORUM), said they are in support of powershift to Anambra South Senatorial District in 2021.

The group disclosed that it was mobilizing select politicians and opinion leaders from the three senatorial districts to sensitize them on the imperative of rotational arrangement ahead of the 2021 gubernatorial poll.

According to the convener, Fab Ozoigbo, who spoke to journalists in Awka at the end of its tour, GAFORUM is urging all political parties wishing to participate in the governorship election to ensure that their standard-bearers are selected from Anambra South Senatorial District.

Ozoigbo noted that although all the three senatorial zones have competent governorship materials that can deliver democracy dividends to the masses, there has always been divine intervention in the emergence of past and future governors of the state.

While denying that the group was being sponsored by yet-to-be-identified governorship hopeful in the state, Ozoigbo charging stakeholders from Anambra South Senatorial District to put forward a grade ‘A’ candidate with proven integrity, character, performance, competence, and education to do the job.


His words: “We need a home-grown person as governor, who sees the entire state as his constituency. Anambra North would not have produced a governor in a long time to come if advocacy and principled enforcement were not made to ensure a candidate from the zone emerged.”

Ozoigbo condemned the attitude of some politicians and beneficiaries who, according to him, are keen to dump the arrangement on the ground that each of the three affected zones has served a period of eight years of two terms.

Also speaking, a former Commissioner for Information in the state, Joe Oforkansi, went down memory lane, recalling how power rotation started from Anambra South zone.

Oforkansi said the governorship seat was in Anambra South for almost six years before it shifted to Anambra Central zone to serve for a period of almost eight years, before it moved to Anambra North zone, arguing that a fresh rotation ought to start with Anambra South zone once more.

He remarked that much squabbling over which zone should govern the state after Obiano’s tenure on March 16, 2022, informed the move by GAFORUM to embark on the outreach to educate different zones on the need to allow a candidate from Anambra South zone to succeed Obiano.

The group appealed to Ndi Anambra, particularly major stakeholders in the state, including the political class, religious leaders, community cum opinion molders, business community, former as well as serving elected officials among others for support.




A former House of Representatives member for Onitsha North and South Federal constituency and former Onitsha South Council Chairman, Ezeobi Okpala; former Deputy Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Keluo Molokwu; former Deputy Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Peter Onuorrah; one-time Oyi Council Chairman, Osy Ilozue; and former member of state House of Assembly, Ossy Chinwuba, among others said power shift is in the interest of equity, justice, and fair play.

The stakeholders recalled that former governor Peter Obi from Anambra Central zone respected the rotational principle mooted by GAFORUM and Hon. Ezeobi Okpala-led G-99 and ensured that Anambra North zone produced his successor, appealing to governor Obiano from Anambra North zone to appreciate the move of GAFORUM by ensuring that a candidate from Anambra South succeeds him.

They revealed that some politicians and money bags in the state wooed Anambra South zone at the time the North was clamoring for Obiano to complete his second term in office.

While appreciating the stance of the majority of politicians and citizens from Anambra South zone, who objected and worked for the Anambra North zone to complete its second term in office, the stakeholders mandated them to select ten politicians and opinion leaders to take the campaign to the grassroots.

They are also expected to drum support for the movement, saying it is aimed at checking wasteful spending through campaign funds, urging the people of Anambra South Senatorial District to do their homework well and pick a credible candidate to deliver the goods to the entire state

Ahead of the 2021 gubernatorial election in Anambra State, stakeholders in the state are divided along growing calls for the merit-based selection process and need to sustain the zoning principle enunciated by the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in 2013.
It would be recalled that at the twilight of his second and final term in office as governor, Mr. Peter Obi reflected on the political dynamics of the state and concluded that it would make for fairness if a candidate from Anambra North Senatorial District succeeded him.


Although major stakeholders in the state tackled the then governor for introducing what they called ‘alien leadership selection culture’ into the state, Obi remained resolute and mobilized the entire Anambra North or Omambala belt, for the 2013 governorship.

Assisted by the power of incumbency and the fact that APGA had entrenched itself within the eight years Governor Obi held sway, as well as the federal might from the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Willie Obiano was returned as the winner.

Nonetheless, despite the sloganeering and catchphrase of zoning, which APGA canvassed relentlessly, most stakeholders in the state declared that at no point time did anybody sit down to institute zoning, arguing that Anambra State has remained as the beacon of light for excellence.

Eight years after the introduction of zoning by APGA, there have been calls for a paradigm shift in the leadership selection process, with a greater consensus on the need for meritocracy against quota or allocation.

To compound matters, even the Grand Commander of zoning, Obi, has shifted his political base to Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on which platform he contested the 2019 Presidential election as the running mate of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the standard-bearer.

The argument against zoning seems to be gaining in decibels as most of the citizens look at the past five years, especially the way the beneficiary of the zoning has fared to dismiss it as bolstering mediocrity.


Furthermore, it has been noted that whether during the 2013 or 2017 gubernatorial polls, virtually all Senatorial Districts in the state took part in the election, thereby making nonsense of zoning.

However, protagonists of retention of zoning argue that it would not be right for Ndigbo to be agitating for the zoning of the 2023 Presidency to Southeast, while an important state in Igbo land would be moving against the same principle.

But those voices have been shut down with the exposition that no section of Anambra State has suffered similar marginalization as Igbo in Nigeria.


According to the opponents of zoning, both Anambra Central and Anambra South have produced governor prior to the emergence of the incumbent, Obiano, including Chief Chukwuemeka Ezeife, Chinwoke Mbadinuju, Dame Virgy Etiaba, Senator Andy Uba, Dr. Chris Ngige and Mr. Peter Obi.

Recently, a prominent stakeholder, Dr. Obiora Okonkwo, who endowed a research chair at UNZIK Business School in Awka for Onitsha Market, contended that what is lacking in the state is intellectual support for business and leadership.

Dr. Okonkwo blamed the uninspiring leadership in the state to the culture of paternalism, stressing that a governor that has not been able to take his state to the highest level according to global standards has nothing to celebrate.

Insisting that the next governor of Anambra State should be an individual that is fired by his or her personal imagination and ideas, Okonkwo stated: “I have seen things happen in other parts of the world. I have seen transformation orchestrated by some individuals as a result of a change in leadership.

“I am saying this as somebody who is exposed and an economist who understands economic indices and as a political scientist who understands political dynamics and knows what is happening around the world. So, my yardstick is looking at the world around me.”

He lamented that “Competence, credibility has been brought entirely to the least of criteria for choosing leaders,” stressing that instead of resigning to fate, citizens should exploit constitutional provision to remove those enthroned by default.

https://m.guardian.ng/politics/anambra-state-stakeholders-divided-over-mode-of-selecting-obianos-successor/

majamajic:
Victor umeh representing Anambra governor or on his own ?

Umeh is on his own.

He taught they will share money.

Every day SE Governors meeting.

Abeg to your tent O Isreal.

This is the funniest Yahoo crime, I have ever read.
Efcc no get shame at all.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC Enugu Zone, today Monday, October 14, 2019, secured the conviction of one Samuel Orie, a serving NYSC member before Justice I.N Buba of the Federal High Court, Enugu on one count of impersonation and obtaining by false pretence to the tune of $150.


Orie was arrested on August 23, 2019, based on intelligence regarding his fraudulent activities. The charge against him reads, “that you SAMUEL ORIE( alias SCOTT GIBB) sometime in 2019 in Enugu within the jurisdiction of this honourable court , fraudulently presented yourself as Mr Scott Gibb, an American contractor travelling around the world and using your email address to wit:scotgibb23@gmail.com with the intent to obtain money from unsuspecting victims on the internet and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 22(3) (b) and punishable under Section 22(4) of the Cybercrimes(Prohibition, Prevention)Act 2015″.





When the charge was read to him, Orie pleaded guilty. The prosecution counsel E.V Dalyop consequently urged the court to convict him as charged.

But the defendant’s counsel E.O Isiwu pleaded with the court to temper justice with mercy as his client was a first time offender who was remorseful and willing to make restitution for all his actions.

Justice Buba convicted Orie and sentenced him to one-month imprisonment starting from the date of his arrest.

He is also to forfeit the sum of $150 and his Techno Camon M phone.


https://www.independent.ng/serving-corper-jailed-for-150-fraud/?utm_source=&utm_medium=facebook

I pity this nation?
It will never work..

NwaNimo1:
Where is Willie?
Because of bad road you no attend?

Willie has no business been there please.

Confusion in enemy camp.

Trash.
Go and rescue the kidnapped chibok.