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Politic, Entertainment,Sport, Business News, Health,Technology, International NewsNAIJA SOCIETYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15557144269978550026noreply@blogger.comBlogger167212125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4902974658828810601.post-49383172485147898822024-03-07T02:09:00.000-08:002024-03-07T02:09:29.948-08:00THE CONTRIBUTION OF ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION ( Weak Penis erection), TO THE HIGH DIVORCE RATE .<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidCLWXmrIRVG4d7xzlydqj1wYofK3_zW0br6Bk8xNKN9dzdkV9gNY6BgzsBwZvrxycSOvhdTNEqDKvYI-GQxdXuFGa4ZsNZyBat1VfbzDZj_Ur1NHvY2wya95zZFEklokVRIrMTiO8h98nEa-O0ug11r1U_A6f1zrNwEeWgiRoUucBMcDMh928ArttsHDf/s651/Weak%20Penis%20erection.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="651" data-original-width="633" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidCLWXmrIRVG4d7xzlydqj1wYofK3_zW0br6Bk8xNKN9dzdkV9gNY6BgzsBwZvrxycSOvhdTNEqDKvYI-GQxdXuFGa4ZsNZyBat1VfbzDZj_Ur1NHvY2wya95zZFEklokVRIrMTiO8h98nEa-O0ug11r1U_A6f1zrNwEeWgiRoUucBMcDMh928ArttsHDf/w389-h400/Weak%20Penis%20erection.PNG" width="389" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.65pt; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.5pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.65pt; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.5pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Dr
Ejiro Imuere<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.65pt; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.5pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a topic so many have shied away
from addressing. But this topic is what we expected many online
"relationship experts and therapists" and Marriage Counsellors to
tell us.....Even many Clergymen don't know.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.65pt; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.5pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many women are all over the Social media,
claiming to be "sex and relationship therapists", without knowing
nothing about the sexual psychology of a man. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.65pt; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.5pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Women accuse men of CHEATING, and men justify
cheating claiming that it is in the Nature of a man to cheat with many
women....they QUARREL over this and they DIVORCE without knowing that ERECTILE
DYSFUNCTION is the Root cause of the Problem.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.65pt; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.5pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I
will be discussing this issue in 5 parts, I will bring out the various types of
ERECTILE DYSFUNCTIONS and how you can treat them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.65pt; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.5pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But before I start you should ponder the
following points.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.65pt; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.5pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">1).That
ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION is very very common amongst men of today.....and because
of that it is a Multibillion Naira industry<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.65pt; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.5pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a) The drugs Tramadol, anafranil, Viagra (
Vega) hundred and Cialis( Tadalafil) have a very high rate of sales today in
our pharmacy shops Because of ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.65pt; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.5pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">B)
Many Herbal Products in Motor parks, online and staphylococcus therapists in
Public markets have ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION as the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Reason<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.65pt; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.5pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">2).
Many Marriages and DIVORCE starts with ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION. This is because
both couple can Forgive each other and let go of their anger, when they are
hungry for sex. When a man is annoyed with his wife or the wife annoyed with
her husband, it is understandable that the anger may affect their sexual
appetites, but when the sexual urge becomes so strong and one of them needs it
badly, then that one will have to sue for PEACE and FORGIVENESS. But if the
sexual satisfaction is no longer there due to ERECTION Dysfunction, then the
QUARREL can go on indefinitely and Marriage break up is certain.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.65pt; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.5pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">3)
Now this number 3 above is important...and this is the most form of ERECTILE
DYSFUNCTION that is<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>highly
misunderstood...what I choose to call the Trickish or "satanic ERECTILE
DYSFUNCTION"...the monogamous home breaking type...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.65pt; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.5pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this one, a man loses sexual attraction
or libido to his own wife, but gets erection to other women outside that is not
half as beautiful as his wife. The man is confused why this is happening, the
woman too is angry why her man is cheating on her with such a woman of lower
beauty and status. Some men will even get sexually attracted to their house
maids..and madam finds out , her ego and pride is killed .<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.65pt; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.5pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet both of them do not realize that it is
actually a very serious disease.....<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.65pt; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.5pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A man wants to make love to his wife, his
penis is fully erect but suddenly at the point of inserting it into her vagina,
the Penis shrinks and becomes limp like "indomie"....this happens
sometimes when the man is stressed out. But what happens when it begins to
happen repeatedly?? Then it will now induce fear , fear and torment to touch
your wife BECAUSE you are afraid that the erection will fail... Performance
anxiety takes hold of you leading to depression. You are now frustrated and
your wife too is also frustrated.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.65pt; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.5pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You think something is wrong with your
sexual system and with time you are withdrawn from her. Then suddenly there is
another lady that is not even as half as beautiful as your own wife, and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>she has been making passes at you but you are
fateful to your wife...but one day both of you get talking and from mere talk,
your erection gets very hard and you end up having a satisfactory sex with
her.... Waooooo you suddenly realize that you are now a man, again that nothing
has been wrong with you all along ....you try it again with her it worked ,
again it worked...then one day you try to do it with your wife again and the
Penis limps again like indomie. Then you begin to look for answers... Could she
have a spiritual husband killing your Penis?? Well there is a medical answer
and solution we will get to that. Then you try to experiment again with another
woman and the thing works. And so you degenerate, to sleeping outside, because
that is where you can Perform. Your wife finds out that you are having an
affair with another woman...she becomes very mad, not Because of the affair,
but Because you cannot Perform at home. She begins to think that the reason why
you couldn't Perform or satisfy her all along was because you have been wasting
all your sexual prowess or energy on this strange woman , and that it is your
exhausted body that you now bring home to her..But she doesn't even know that
it was because you failed to Perform or satisfy her for reasons unknown to the
both of you, that made you run to the arms of the strange woman......she
accuses you of breaking your marriage vows of being a cheat, you accuse her of
having a spirit husband or being too jealous and Protective. After some time
you try again and the "indomie" is still there....and this situation
is now exceeding 6 months, there is now tension in the home. Little things now
cause QUARREL, things that ought to be overlooked and forgiven will degenerate
into full blown QUARREL. Man will even want the QUARREL to extend Because it
gives him room to avoid his fear and depression, which will expose his sexual
impotence before his wife.....<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.65pt; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.5pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And many Modern Women will respond in any of
the following ways.......<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.65pt; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.5pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">1).
Many will report the matter to Family friends and relatives, and counsellors
but she will want to hide that area that my husband Penis na indomie, Because
the man has girlfriends outside to their knowledge...she will be advised to
bear, say na the Nature of men. She gets frustrated.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.65pt; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.5pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">2)
The very good one will Forget about sexual pleasure and redirect her mind to
either love of her children or her work or business. She will accept her fate,
cohabitating with the man, yet Without sex....she does well in raising her
children and her Work, leaving her "husband for God to judge arrest or
have mercy on him".<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.65pt; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.5pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">3)
Others will transmute their sexual urge into religious activities. They will
then become evangelist and prayer Warriors, forgetting their husbands and
leaving him to do whatever he likes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.65pt; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.5pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">4).The
realists will buy sex Toys and use it to Masturbate, get sexual satisfaction
and move on. The reason sex Toys sell well nowadays like mad.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.65pt; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.5pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">5).Then
some will become so frustrated that they too will have a boy friend to satisfy
them too and start to cheat....and the day they are caught , they are
brandished as evil and a "Prostitute woman" and the Marriage is
broken.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.65pt; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.5pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">6).Then
finally some will out rightly file for DIVORCE BECAUSE, they want to satisfy
their sexual urge, yet do not want to cheat......<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.65pt; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.5pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So far I have discuss the Preamble of this
topic...Now we are about to enter.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.65pt; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.5pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">So
what are the likely causes of ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION in Wado city and Urhobo land<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.65pt; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.5pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">1)
Stress 2) Performance anxiety 3) Untreated and Chronic Sexually transmitted
infections 4) DIABETES..... PLEASE YOU ALL SHOULD NOTE THIS NUMBER 4... Because
diabetes is "that spirit wife" that is taking your husband from you
yet you don't know it. 5) Prostrate Problems 6) Hypertension.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>7) Others.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.65pt; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.5pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I
will continue to discuss them one by one starting tomorrow for their various
treatments, you can inbox me.....But before I proceed tomorrow...Go online,
read or Watch videos relating to the "Physiology of Human Penis
erection".<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.65pt; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.5pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Then
read this and it is very very important....this is were most people suffering
ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION find it difficult to understand and treat it..many don't
know that brain chemicals called Neurotransmitters mediate the erection process
and over or under secretion of these chemicals can enhance or impede your
erection. And many drugs used to treat erectile Dysfunction is just to balance
these chemicals....so read about.... Adrenaline, noradrenalin, Serotonin and
Dopamine and their role in Penis erection......<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.65pt; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.5pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To be CONTINUED in Part 2<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="ember-view" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif";">Vice President Kashim Shettima made
two crucial stops in the SouthEast on Monday, 27 February 2024, all connected
with power and the region’s progress.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="ember-view" id="ember49" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 1.6rem 0px; orphans: 2; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif";">At
Enugu, Shettima launched the South-East leg of the Light-Up Nigeria Project as
part of the South-East Business Roundtable. Four governors of Enugu, Anambra,
Ebonyi and Imo supported him.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="ember-view" id="ember51" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 1.6rem 0px; orphans: 2; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif";">At
Aba, Shettima commissioned the 181MW Geometric Power Plant that would serve the
commercial city of Aba and a ring-fenced area covering nine of Abia State’s 17
local governments.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="ember-view" id="ember53" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 1.6rem 0px; orphans: 2; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif";">The
optics of both occasions were brilliant and positive for the Federal and
regional governments. Geometric Power in Aba attracted massive publicity and
attention, and citizens ululated it for its significance and promise.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="ember-view" id="ember55" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 1.6rem 0px; orphans: 2; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif";">The
20-year trajectory of the Geometric Power Plant in Aba was part of the backdrop
for the significant interest in the project. The project's many sub-plots,
twists and turns speak to resilience, entrepreneurial drive, sabotage, and
overcoming obstacles.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="ember-view" id="ember57" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 1.6rem 0px; orphans: 2; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif";">Geometrics
received a federal government concession to run an independent power operation
to service Aba and a ring-fenced area off the area covered by the Enugu
Electricity Distribution Company. Enugu Electric refused to let go.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="ember-view" id="ember59" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 1.6rem 0px; orphans: 2; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif";">In
that period, the project featured roles by many of the region’s power brokers.
Former governor Orji Uzor Kalu received the expression of interest and
allocated land for it. Governor Theodore Orji constructed the access road to
the project site. Governor Okezie Ikpeazu invested Abia State’s $3.5mm for a
three per cent stake.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="ember-view" id="ember61" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 1.6rem 0px; orphans: 2; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif";">Dr
Benedict Oramah of Afreximbank kept faith with the vision of empowering Aba and
the region.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="ember-view" id="ember63" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 1.6rem 0px; orphans: 2; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif";">Incumbent
Governor Dr Alex Otti approved the initial loan of $75m for Geometrics as a
director in First Bank. Still, the loan was only realised when he served as
managing director at Diamond Bank.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="ember-view" id="ember65" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 1.6rem 0px; orphans: 2; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif";">WTO
Director General Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and the former President of the World
Bank, the late James Wolfensohn, inspired and triggered Nnaji to consider the
project in the first instance.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="ember-view" id="ember67" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 1.6rem 0px; orphans: 2; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif";"></span><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">Prof Barth Nnaji, an engineer
and one-time Nigerian minister, is the promoter of the $800m project. Geometric
Power Group will manage Nigeria’s first integrated independent power plant.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="ember-view" id="ember70" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 1.6rem 0px; orphans: 2; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif";">Geometric
Power has a license to produce 188 MW. It has an embedded power plant to
generate and distribute its power. While Geometric Power Aba Ltd (GPAL)
develops, consumers will interface with Aba Power Limited Electrical (APLE),
which would service Aba and the nine local governments.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="ember-view" id="ember72" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 1.6rem 0px; orphans: 2; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><strong style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-bold); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif";">The Significance</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="ember-view" id="ember74" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 1.6rem 0px; orphans: 2; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif";"></span><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">Aba Power will address a
critical need. Aba, a major commercial and manufacturing hub in Southeast
Nigeria, has been severely hampered by chronic power shortages. This new
Geometric Power Plant addresses this critical infrastructural gap that has
stunted productivity and development.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="ember-view" id="ember76" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 1.6rem 0px; orphans: 2; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><strong style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-bold); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif";">Geometric Power represents symbolic
progress for the company, Aba, and the region. It confirms the region’s
trajectory of private enterprise and the tradition of striking out against the
standard run.</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="ember-view" id="ember77" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 1.6rem 0px; orphans: 2; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif";">The
commissioning of this plant represents a significant step towards reliable
power supply in the region. It marks a tangible victory against crippling power
problems, which have long frustrated residents and businesses alike.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="ember-view" id="ember78" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 1.6rem 0px; orphans: 2; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif";">Aba
Power would potentially catalyse faster economic growth. Consistent power supply
is crucial for industrialisation and sustainable business growth. Aba Power
promises to attract new ventures, support the expansion of existing businesses,
and create significant job opportunities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="ember-view" id="ember79" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 1.6rem 0px; orphans: 2; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif";">It
should improve the quality of life. Reliable electricity enhances residents'
overall quality of life in Aba and surrounding areas. With stable power,
families can improve their daily lives, students can have more effective study
hours, and businesses can thrive beyond daylight limits.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="ember-view" id="ember80" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 1.6rem 0px; orphans: 2; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif";">It
could lead to demographic shifts and the expansion of Aba and increase its
appeal and attraction. With regular power, Enyimba City would grow in interest
and appeal among cities in the South of Nigeria.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="ember-view" id="ember81" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 1.6rem 0px; orphans: 2; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><strong style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-bold); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif";">The Potential</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="ember-view" id="ember82" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 1.6rem 0px; orphans: 2; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif";">Aba
Power would boost manufacturing in the city, renowned for innovatively cobbling
things together. Aba Power can revitalise and supercharge this sector and
transform this city into an even more productive regional hub.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="ember-view" id="ember83" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 1.6rem 0px; orphans: 2; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif";">It
can expand Aba’s service sector. Improved power supply will allow growth in the
service sector. Businesses in hospitality, entertainment, information
technology, and many others can now operate with fewer restrictions and provide
enhanced services.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="ember-view" id="ember84" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 1.6rem 0px; orphans: 2; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif";">A
guaranteed power supply is vital in attracting foreign and domestic investment.
Aba Power could position the city as an attractive destination for diverse
economic ventures.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="ember-view" id="ember85" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 1.6rem 0px; orphans: 2; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif";">Aba
Power's success could be a successful model for other regions facing power
challenges. This pilot could spark similar initiatives across Nigeria,
catalysing more comprehensive improvements in the nation's power sector.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="ember-view" id="ember86" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 1.6rem 0px; orphans: 2; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><strong style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-bold); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif";">Important Considerations</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="ember-view" id="ember87" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 1.6rem 0px; orphans: 2; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif";">While
Aba Power holds significant promise, vital factors will determine its long-term
success. To achieve its full potential, the power plant needs sustainable
revenue models for efficient operation, maintenance, and future expansion.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="ember-view" id="ember88" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 1.6rem 0px; orphans: 2; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif";">Even
with adequate generation, reliable distribution networks are essential to reach
consumers effectively. Investments in transmission infrastructure must be
prioritised.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="ember-view" id="ember89" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 1.6rem 0px; orphans: 2; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif";">Effective
government, private sector, and local community collaboration will be critical
for ongoing maintenance, security, and expansion efforts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="ember-view" id="ember90" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 1.6rem 0px; orphans: 2; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif";">The
commissioning of Aba Power's first turbine represents a hopeful turning point
in Aba's history and a potential game-changer for the region's socioeconomic
development. The extent of its success depends on the ability to build on this
momentum, address long-term sustainability, and invest heavily in associated
infrastructure. Aba Power could ignite a transformative era of progress and
prosperity in the Southeast if adequately nurtured.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>NAIJA SOCIETYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15557144269978550026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4902974658828810601.post-57476128588239251482024-02-21T01:46:00.000-08:002024-02-25T02:23:11.609-08:00Stop Your Plan Relocation of Our School, Ozoro People Tells GOV. Sheriff.<p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoghzRzBk_zEHZ6siIsBrA17vNkwiRYuhOdwbiJ94_dssAXHTYQ8HskWjKKTg1dGFBQVsaFHsGy-YTVIcnlX0T0ea5JWSe4McmSUp-5L3q_JH8X1RAd8mZoBQzUP-ufxbLqOBQKU2ihYkCgrvIyd8_oqoY-NJgQ_9k_fsjQs8mennHTtzUJSQChe1drMTz/s654/Your%20Plan%20Relocation%20of%20Our%20School,%20Ozoro.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="572" data-original-width="654" height="560" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoghzRzBk_zEHZ6siIsBrA17vNkwiRYuhOdwbiJ94_dssAXHTYQ8HskWjKKTg1dGFBQVsaFHsGy-YTVIcnlX0T0ea5JWSe4McmSUp-5L3q_JH8X1RAd8mZoBQzUP-ufxbLqOBQKU2ihYkCgrvIyd8_oqoY-NJgQ_9k_fsjQs8mennHTtzUJSQChe1drMTz/w640-h560/Your%20Plan%20Relocation%20of%20Our%20School,%20Ozoro.PNG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">By Comrade Joseph Owigho.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Earlier today, the people of
Ozoro, in Isoko North Local Government Area of Delta State took to the street
in their large numbers to protest against the plan relocation of the faculty of
Management Science, of the Delta State University of Science and Technology,
Ozoro to Orerokpe.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The protest which was organized
to demonstrate the people's disapproval over the plan relocation was generally
peaceful.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Recall that, Rt.Hon. Sheriff
Oborevwori, the Governor of Delta State in a letter now circulating in the social
media has directed the Governing Council of the Delta State University of
Science And Technology, Ozoro to relocate the faculty of Management Sciences of
the newly established University from Ozoro to his home village, Orerokpe<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The move by the State Governor
which now appears to prioritize political interest over educational integrity
has met with strong opposition from the people of Ozoro, and Isoko Nation
generally.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The people view the move as a
well-calculated attempt by the State Governor to further marginalized Isoko
Nation and weaken the newly established university hence, they staged out a
peaceful protest to registered their disapproval of the over plan relocation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So, as early as 6am, the people
of Ozoro and its neighborhood united together in a just cause and staged a
walkout from the center of the town to the University main gate to pressed home
their demands.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The protesters which comprises
of men, women, youth and even children were seen carrying placards and banners
bearing different inscriptions to demonstrate their positions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">During the protest, major
economic activities and vehicular movement in the town and along the Asaba
express road were completely grounded.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Obviously for the moment, there
is no gainsaying in the fact that, the Delta State University of Science And
Technology, Ozoro is under an attacked by the Governor Sheriff led
administration.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">If his plans relocation of our
faculty is allowed to succeed, he will surely comeback for another, and the
current established academic environment will be disrupted with serious
economic impact on the town and the quality of education provided hence, this
move must be resisted by all and sundry.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Again, let us not forget that,
the Delta state University of Science and Technology Ozoro is not a legacy
project of His Excellency, Rt.Hon Sheriff Oborevwori.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The school is the default Delta
State Polytechnic, Ozoro which was established by His Excellency, Chief Jame
Ibori, and was among the three (3) state-owned institutions that was formally
upgraded to state universities by His Excellency, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Two (2) of the upgraded
institutions were located in the Delta North Senatorial District and one in the
South.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Relocating the faculty of
management science, which is considered the biggest faculty, with eight (</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">😎</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">
departments to Orerokpe under any disguise is completely malicious against the
good people of Isoko Nation and Delta South Senatorial District.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This move must not be allowed
to stand.<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><p></p>NAIJA SOCIETYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15557144269978550026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4902974658828810601.post-23261432443158646272023-12-25T08:45:00.000-08:002023-12-25T08:45:39.041-08:00Basketmouth, AY Once Lived In My Boys Quarters – Alibaba<p style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje3rrR_y2ec9CESgEyBwDlaOlsgpBMnEAGVp4kdcvDZFyjFVlWjvTcuW7BL9TW6px8w-evcQlZGxqWtHQPAtT_u1RAMUoMuJGxaDNHw2WqvFlT5qvrHFZ1UJDidIgqHf3KQ7GGmX3i-O2Ilo_JSvDmprfcHFnVmf6HJ4jIUDXNOF-5szFs8ykRFaPQKY01/s665/Atunyota%20Alleluya%20Akpobome.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="414" data-original-width="665" height="249" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje3rrR_y2ec9CESgEyBwDlaOlsgpBMnEAGVp4kdcvDZFyjFVlWjvTcuW7BL9TW6px8w-evcQlZGxqWtHQPAtT_u1RAMUoMuJGxaDNHw2WqvFlT5qvrHFZ1UJDidIgqHf3KQ7GGmX3i-O2Ilo_JSvDmprfcHFnVmf6HJ4jIUDXNOF-5szFs8ykRFaPQKY01/w400-h249/Atunyota%20Alleluya%20Akpobome.PNG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, "serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, "serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Veteran Nigerian
comedian, Atunyota Alleluya Akpobome, popularly known as Alibaba, has disclosed
that he once accommodated Basketmouth and his rival, AY Makun. He recall that
Basketmouth and AY were engaged in a 17-year-old rift until recently when the
former publicly apologised to the latter.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.65pt; margin: 12.5pt 0in 6.25pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.65pt; margin: 12.5pt 0in 6.25pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Basketmouth also sent an
invite to his former rival, AY, to attend his recent comedy show at the Eko
Hotel & Suites in Lagos. Speaking on the relationship between the duo,
Alibaba stated that they were living in his Boy’s Quarters years ago when they
were still newbies in the entertainment industry.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.65pt; margin: 12.5pt 0in 6.25pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.65pt; margin: 12.5pt 0in 6.25pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">The comedian made the
disclosure during the latest episode of The Honest Bunch Podcast co-hosted by
actor Chinedu Ani Emmanuel, aka Nedu. He said, “Basketmouth and AY… When you
think about it, these are people who were living in BQ [boys’ quarters] with me
back in the days.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.65pt; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.5pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">By
Reuters<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.65pt; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.5pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">Nigeria's
central bank has lifted a ban on transacting in cryptocurrencies, while saying
global trends had shown a need to regulate such activities, the bank said in
its latest circular. The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in Feb. 2021 barred
banks and financial institutions from dealing in or facilitating transactions
in crypto assets, citing money laundering and terrorism financing risks.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.65pt; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.5pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.65pt; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.5pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">Subsequently
Nigeria's Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in May last year published regulations
for digital assets that signalled Africa's most populous country was trying to
find a middle ground between an outright ban on crypto assets and their
unregulated use. In a circular dated Dec. 22, the CBN said current trends
globally have shown there is a need to regulate the activities of virtual asset
service providers (VASPs), which include cryptocurrencies and crypto assets.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.65pt; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.5pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">The
latest guidelines spell out how banks and financial institutions (FI) should
open accounts, provide designated settlement accounts and settlement services
and act as channels for forex inflows and trade for firms transacting in crypto
assets. VASPs would need to be licensed by the Nigerian SEC to engage in the
crypto business.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.65pt; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.5pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.65pt; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.5pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">"From
the commencement of these Regulations, Fl shall not open or permit the
operation of any account by any person or entity to conduct the business of
virtual/digital assets unless that account is designated for that purpose and
opened in line with the requirement of these Guidelines," the CBN said<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.65pt; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.5pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">But
banks were still barred from trading, holding or transacting cryptocurrencies,
the CBN said. Nigeria's young, tech-savvy population has eagerly adopted
cryptocurrencies, for example using peer-to-peer trading offered by crypto
exchanges to avoid the financial sector.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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channelstv.com<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.65pt; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.5pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Since the news of
Mohbad's passing, public attention has turned to Larry as the subject of old
social media posts by the late singer which have raised concerns. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.65pt; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.5pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The
Lagos State Police Command has confirmed that music promoter, Balogun Eletu,
also known as <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b>Sam Larry, is now in its custody as the
probe of Afrobeats singer Mohbad’s death continues.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>This was made known by the Nigerian Police Public Relations Officer
SP Benjamin Hundeyin via his X account on Thursday.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>“Balogun Olamilekan Eletu aka Sam Larry is now in our custody. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.65pt; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.5pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">He
is currently assisting with ongoing investigation,” Hundeyin said.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>Balogun Olamilekan Eletu aka Sam Larry
is now in our custody. He is currently assisting with ongoing investigation. #justice4Mohbad
#justiceforMohbad<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>— SP Benjamin
Hundeyin (@BenHundeyin) <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.65pt; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.5pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The
development comes less than 24 hours after Naira Marley said he was willing to
fly back to Nigeria for investigation. According to the statement, Naira Marley
said all manner of stories had been peddled against him in respect of the death
of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mohbad, whose real name is Ilerioluwa
Aloba.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.65pt; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.5pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Since
the news of Mohbad’s passing, public attention has turned to Larry as the
subject of old social media posts by the late singer which have raised
concerns.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.65pt; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.5pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Though
no further information was given by Hundeyin on the manner of Larry’s arrest,
online reports indicate he was picked <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>up
at the airport upon arrival in the country. Like Larry, there have been calls
for Azeez Fashola aka Naira Marley’s arrest in the light of alleged clashes
with the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>late Mohbad who had parted ways
with Marlian Records in 2022 under less than amicable circumstances.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.65pt; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.5pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Responding
to the allegations against him in a statement on Tuesday, the record label
owner said, “I’m dedicated to proving my innocence and I’m cooperating with the
authorities to clear my name with sufficient evidence.” The police probe began
last week with an autopsy on Mohbad as they vowed to thoroughly probe the
circumstances <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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to the singer’s death.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Aljazeera<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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least 35 people, including a child, killed after a blaze engulfs an illegal
fuel depot along Benin’s border with Nigeria, officials and residents say. At
least 35 people have been killed in Benin after a fuel depot exploded into
flames, sending a black cloud of smoke into the sky, according to officials and
witnesses.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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fire broke out on Saturday at a warehouse for smuggled fuel in the town of Seme-Podji
near the border with Nigeria, where cars, motorbikes and tricycle taxis came to
stock up on fuel, residents said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Nigerian singer, Abiola Ahmed
Akinbiyi, popularly known as Bella Shmurda, has revealed that his mother told
him not to return to Nigeria yet following the death of his close friend and
fellow artist, Promise Ileri Oluwa Aloba, a.k.a Mohbad.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Bella Shmurda disclosed this
during a candlelight procession in honour of late Mohbad in Canada on last
weekend Saturday, September 23, 2023. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">His death has sent shockwaves
into the Nigerian music industry with fans and celebrities calling for
investigation into the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>circumstances
surrounding his death.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">“This person is my brother,
he’s my guy, he’s my best friend. It’s so sad that when I left Nigeria, like
two or three days after, I got a call that Mohbad was dead, it was so funny.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">“Even my mum had to call me,
‘Bella don’t come home yet, stay put there’. I understand what she’s saying.
RIP Mohbad, God bless you wherever you are, even in your grave. I don’t know
what to say, just thank you everybody for coming and #JusticeForMohbad,” Bella
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The
Descendants of Ogondi , founder of Jamagie Community in Egbema have
punctured the spurious claim of one Mr. Akin German who is
surreptitiously laying claim to the title of Pere Koriwei<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">of
Egbema kingdom. The Ogondi Descendants in the same communique also asserted
collectively and unequivocally that' HRM Barr Napoleon Egin Bini
Pere 1V as the authentic Agadagba of Egbema Kingdom. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The
Ogondi Descendants without any iota of doubt stated clearly and
firmly that Chief Simeon Ebidouwei David lgbedikuru (JP) from Ogondi
quarter of Jamagie in line with the Chieftaincy gazette is the Pere
Koriwei of Egbema kingdom but not Mr Akin German who have no
hereditary or any right to the title of Pere Koriwei because the kekewei
quarter which Akin German hails from, met the Ogondi Descendants who
are the founders of Jamagie Community adding that if the title is
actually hereditary as he claimed, then only the Ogondi Descendants
can unilaterally lay claim to it, but they have not done that
because they have respect and honor for the ancient history and tradition
of Egbema kingdom.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The
Ogondi Descendants affirmed that the title of Pere Koriwei is the exclusive
right of Jamagie Community in Egbema kingdom traditionally from our
history conferred on a designated person selected by the whole community
and endorsed by the Amakosuowei ( the eldest Man ) of Jamagie Community who in
turn recommends the designated candidate to the Agadagba of Egbema kingdom
for confirmation as Pere Koriwei of the kingdom inline with Egbema kingdom
chieftaincy gazette.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Mr.
Sunday Sagbene, the Chairman of Ogondi Descendents who spoke made the
facts clear saying: ‘’Jamagie community, founded by Ogondi
have three quarters namely b Ogondi quarter, Amabenemor quarter
and Kekewei quarters of the 3 Kekewi quarters is the youngest and
the last to come and settle in Jamagie community .<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Mr.
Sunday Sagbene further disclosed saying : " Our gazetted Pere
Koriwei of Egberma Kingdom is Chief Simeon Ebidouwei David lgbedikuru
(JP) and we want all relevant agencies of Government and the general
public to know for record purpose that Mr Akin German is not the Pere
Koriwei of Egbema kingdom , and he lacks jurisdiction and locus standi to
lay claim to the tittle the way and manner he is doing now , which is
sacrilegious to the custom and tradition of Egbema kingdom.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Mr
Sunday Sagbene, the Chairman of the Ogondi Descendants explained that the
tittle of Pere Koriwei is owned and controlled by the entire
Jamagie Community which is given in trust to one person at a time in line
with the laid down rules and procedures and our Pere Koriwei who passed
through due diligence and the laid down procedures of becoming Pere
Koriwei with official Government endorsement and dully certified is
Chief Simeon Ebidouwei lgbedikuru (JP)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Mr
Sunday Sagbene the Mouth Piece of the Ogondi Descendants emphasized that
Mr Akin German or any other person who is parading himself as Pere Koriwei of
Egbema kingdom is an impostor , and he should be made to face the music
by the appropriate quarters for disparaging such a highly covetted
office of the Egbema kingdom.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Speaking
further Mr Sagbene said :<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">"
It is true that Late Chief Boye German the father of Akin German
was one time Pere Koriwei of Egbema kingdom but that does not translate to mean
that the son Akin German is also Pere Koriwei any perception of that manner is
an aberration because the post of Pete Koriwei is not hereditary."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Mr
Sagbene emphasized that people should understand that the tittle is for the
community not for one quarter, noting that Ogondi is the founder of
Jamagie community if anyone have intrest or issues about this tittle should
wait after chief Simeon Igbedikuru who is from Ogondi quarter is through with
his reign before any one can aspire to become Pete koriwei not this time when
he is still alife because this tittle is not for politics nether for
family affairs, we don't have this tittle for two persons but for only one
person. After Chief Boy German we have chief simeon Igbedikuru as next
perekoriwei of Egbema Kingdom he said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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summation Mr Sagbene said : " l wish to reiterate that
the general public should disregard the malicious claim of Mr Akin German and
point out the fact that Chief Simeon Ebidouwei David lgbedikuru (JP ) is the
authentic and only Pere Koriwei of Egbema kingdom<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.65pt; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.5pt; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">By sunnewsonline.com<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.65pt; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.5pt; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Nigerian
comedian Oghenekowhoyan Onaibe Desmond, popularly known by his stage name,
“Destalker”, has again won the best comedian of the year award 2022.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.65pt; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.5pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The award was conferred on Destalker by
Cheq TV, an online entertainment TV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.65pt; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.5pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Destalker is described by fans as very
creative and talented and has never climbed stage without making people laugh
and his comedy skits centre around social, political and economic issues.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.65pt; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.5pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The comedian who is a graduate of Public
Administration from Enugu State University of Science and Technology is also an
event planner and radio presenter. He has organised several successful shows in
Nigeria and abroad, with the most recent being the August 7 Destalker Laughter
Crusade Tour.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.65pt; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.5pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In March, he toured 16 cities in the UK
tour Basiloon, London, Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Aberdeen,
Glasgow, Coventry, Bristol, Leicester, Newcastle, Leeds, Milton Keynes, Bedford
and Dublin, and all tickets were sold out.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.65pt; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.5pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Another show coming up is Destalker
Laughter Crusade, taking place in Transcorp Hilton, Abuja on November 13.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.65pt; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.5pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In 2021, Destalker emerged as Humour
Awards Comedian of the Year. He was nominated alongside the likes of Kennyblaq,
Acapella, MC Edo Pikin, among others<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.65pt; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.5pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.65pt; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.5pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Popular Nigerian comedian, Gbadamasi Agbonjor, otherwise known as
Edo Pikin, and his wife, Lily, have welcomed their second child, a boy.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.65pt; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.5pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The comedian took to his Instagram page on Monday evening, August
22, to share the good news.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.65pt; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.5pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">He shared adorable family photos alongside photos from his wife’s
maternity shoot and wrote,<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.65pt; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.5pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“WOW AND ITS A BOY. Help us thank God ooooooo , I say make I rush
am oo, I Dey hurry Abeg. Weldone my beautiful and strong wife @lilytom_
@kingojie2021 you are now an old taker”.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.65pt; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.5pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">A while ago, MC Edo Pikin took to social media to share his
experience after he travelled outside the country.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.65pt; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.5pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In a video he shared on his IG page, the comedian who is currently
in the UK for his comedy tour, filmed the view from his apartment and compared
what he saw with what is obtainable in Nigeria.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.65pt; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.5pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">He pointed out how drivers obeyed the traffic lights, traffic
rules and waited patiently for pedestrians to cross the road.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.65pt; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.5pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">He also mentioned that drivers abroad don’t honk unnecessarily
like in Nigeria, where drivers honk at the slightest provocation.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.65pt; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.5pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
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others in power can see how things are done in other countries.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.65pt; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.5pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">While sharing the video, he asked, “Who really swear for us <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The State Publicity Secretary of Rivers State Chapter
of the All Progressives Congress APC, Senibo Chris Finebone has described the
formal exit of Magnus Abe and his supporters as a good riddance.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The APC
spokesman stated this during a press conference held today, July 20, 2022 at
its <b>State Secretariat, 118 Woji Road, GRA, Port Harcourt</b>. According to
him, “This press conference is essentially to explain to you and the public
that Rivers APC considers the formal exit of Abe and his associates from the
APC as good riddance.”.</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Excerpt of the Press Conference:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Gentlemen
of the Press,</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">This
press conference is a direct response to the anxiety and concerns members of
our great Party, the public and particularly the media have expressed privately
and, sometimes, publicly over the resignations of some Party members in the
past two weeks or so. We consider that our stakeholders, sympathizers, well-wishers
and the general public deserve honest clarification on the development.</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">To start
with, we believe that movements of politicians in and out of political parties
in Nigeria have become part of the political culture of politicians especially
towards the end of every election cycle. It cuts across all political parties.</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Recently,
a few members of our Party in Rivers State resigned their membership of the
Party. It is very pertinent to state that the persons that resigned belong to
two categories. The first is made up of a few persons who either resigned to
pursue other interests in life or exercised their right of free association by
seeking greener political pastures elsewhere. To these persons, we acknowledge
the contributions of some of them to the Party and wish them well in their
future endeavours.</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">However,
it has also come to our notice that a few persons that are loyal to Senator
Magnus Abe have also resigned recently. These are individuals who have, for the
past couple of years, spoken and acted in every way to destroy the APC in
Rivers State. Led by Abe, these persons tried all they could to factionalize
our Party in the State. They connived endlessly with the governor of Rivers
State and used some elements in the State Judiciary to frustrate and destroy
our Party through needless litigations. The culmination of their evil
machinations was the exclusion of Rivers APC from the ballot in 2019. Evidence
exists how Senator Abe and his lieutenants broke into celebration the day the
Party was excluded by the court from participating in that election due to
their litigation. </span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">After the
2019 unfortunate development, Abe continued to receive support from outside the
State and persisted in undermining Rivers APC through every imaginable means
principally through frivolous litigation executed through his proxies. At a
time, they attacked and completely destroyed the then Rivers APC Secretariat at
Forces Avenue, Old GRA, Port Harcourt. Recently, they also hired hoodlums and
attempted to destroy the present Secretariat of the Party. </span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Tired of
Abe’s antics, majority of his supporters openly joined the ruling Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) in the State while others found their way back to the
mainstream of the Party. However, it recently came to our attention that
Senator Abe and the few persons still with him had concluded plans to join the
Social Democratic Party (SDP) on whose platform Abe will run for governor,
hence their persistent hype to the effect that Abe will be on the ballot come
2023.</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In what
appears to be a carefully planned exit plan, close associates of Abe started
resigning from the APC and making heavy weather of their exit in the social
media as part of their exit plan as though they have been functional members of
the Party, just to hoodwink the public.</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">This
press conference is essentially to explain to you and the public that Rivers
APC considers the formal exit of Abe and his associates from the APC as good
riddance. We liken it to a successful excision of a debilitating cancer from
the body. Rivers APC can now heave a sigh of relief from the sustained
destabilizing onslaught by Senator Abe. We wish him well as he joins the SDP.
We pray that he takes everything he exhibited in APC particularly his nuisance
value to his new party so that the world would see him for who he truly is.</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">We make
bold to state without an iota of doubt that Senator Abe and his supporters had,
by their actions and utterances, long ceased to be functional members of APC.
They shunned and refused to participate in the Membership Revalidation exercise
that was carried out nationwide by the Party. They also abstained from other
legitimate activities of the Party, making their recent purported resignation a
mere formality and part of their face-saving exit strategy aimed at deceiving
the public.</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">We
appreciate your understanding that there is no blanket exit or exodus of
well-meaning members of Rivers APC. We believe that you and the public would
appreciate that our Party is, by far, better off without Abe and his motley
supporters. </span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Be
informed that an ongoing process of reconciliation led by the Party Special
Contact Committee is proceeding apace. The outcome of the good job the
Committee is undertaking will be concluded early enough for us to consolidate
and kick off campaigns in September.</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Rivers
APC is glad to, once again, emphasize that we were very careful to ensure that
the Party conformed to the Electoral Act 2022, Party rules and regulations, and
the Nigerian Constitution all through the various congresses and primaries that
culminated in the emergence of the governorship Candidate for our dear Party, <b>Arc.
Tonye Patrick Cole, mni</b> In spite of being an established and successful
Entrepreneur and Philanthropist, he recently attended the University of Oxford
and, on graduation, was inducted into the prestigious Transformational
Leadership Fellowship of Oxford University's Blavatnik School of Government.
Hope you all would agree that he is well-equipped for the task ahead to redeem,
recover and turnaround our beloved Rivers State.</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">This
press conference cannot be complete without using this medium to call on all
well-meaning members of APC in Rivers State, particularly the energetic youth
who have sacrificed their future and destinies in the past seven years to the
sustenance and wellbeing of our dear Party, to see the evolving situation as a
clarion call on them to step out and step in to provide the much needed
support, direction and energy that will ensure victory for our Party come 2023.
Your focus should be unwavering and aimed at taking full charge of your various
units in the State. This is critical to ensuring success in the 2023 general
elections and subsequent elections.</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Let me
use this opportunity to raise the alarm that just yesterday, evil people
launched fake news concerning our leader, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi
purporting that he has resigned from the APC. This is a lie taken from the very
abyss of hell. Kindly ignore it and any such fake news that may be concocted and
circulated in the media particularly the social media to smear the former
Minister of Transportation. He remains a loyal member of the APC and he has
re-iterated this at every opportunity and that he would work to ensure the
Party resoundingly wins the 2023 elections.</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Finally,
we express our profound appreciation to you, the press, for not lending
yourselves and your platforms for the propagation of fake news and other
mischief against our Party, leaders and members. We want to emphatically state,
for the umpteenth time, that well-meaning members of Rivers APC are intact.
What you might have seen recently is the usual self-cleansing mechanism of the
Party at work.</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></p>
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<p></p>NAIJA SOCIETYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15557144269978550026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4902974658828810601.post-83401290257761363862022-07-03T08:23:00.001-07:002022-07-04T08:42:01.281-07:00Ecobank, Basketmouth out with “Papa Benji” Season 3<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-3FpBUNn0AbBR5jAUjvGCB3CLByM29X5MBN8hvuqjqGyp2Stpsx7ocdg9zvh3vCwdFlYAxktxyOt4dtLQl5SbNf5hlhnZ33ZCjlloz_0GhEBc_qp9bt6mJcaqGZEvQU6RP2TpHuRiy5qbsdKN_JXCc1rJgoyBbir7i2-zZY4zk6nIdqNF0z2ShqwYgA/s873/2022-07-04%2016_33_18-Window.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="589" data-original-width="873" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-3FpBUNn0AbBR5jAUjvGCB3CLByM29X5MBN8hvuqjqGyp2Stpsx7ocdg9zvh3vCwdFlYAxktxyOt4dtLQl5SbNf5hlhnZ33ZCjlloz_0GhEBc_qp9bt6mJcaqGZEvQU6RP2TpHuRiy5qbsdKN_JXCc1rJgoyBbir7i2-zZY4zk6nIdqNF0z2ShqwYgA/w400-h270/2022-07-04%2016_33_18-Window.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="background: white; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">By
pmnewsnigeria.com<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Ecobank Nigeria has announced Season
3 of Papa Benji, the comedy web series it is sponsoring in partnership with
popular comedian and filmmaker, Bright Okpochia better known by his stage name
Basketmouth.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0in; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">The bank said its main aim in sponsoring the comedy is to
promote the African entertainment industry.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0in; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">‘Papa Banji’ is a free-to-watch comedy web series showing on
YouTube and can be viewed across the globe.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Season
3 of ‘Papa Benji went live last Wednesday, months after seasons one and two
premiered with positive reviews.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0in; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Papa Benji tells the story of a man, his family, customers,
everyone and everything surrounding them and how it impacts society.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0in; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Its depiction of the life of an everyday Nigerian relies on the
use of comedy to take one off the heat of daily hassles.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0in; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Babajide Sipe, Head Marketing and Corporate Communications at
Ecobank Nigeria said the bank’s decision to bring ‘Papa Benji’ to the screen
from inception is to take entertainment to a higher level.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">He
added that the show also “serves as a platform to showcase the bank’s
ubiquitous digital payment platforms, providing people with entertainment
whilst showing them how to bank hassle-free on their phones.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0in; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">“This is banking at your fingertips which is endearing the Pan
African bank to many Nigerians.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0in; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">The first season of the web series premiered with 13 episodes in
December 2020.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0in; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">It starred actors such as Bethel ‘Senator’ Njoku, Onyebuchi
Ojieh, Nedu Wazobia, Jemima Osunde, Basketmouth, and a host of other comic
stars.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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character, Papa Benji, an industrious Igbo man who took a loan to start his
pepper soup joint, which attends to many other interesting characters that come
into the joint.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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identified as Sammy Desh has shared impressive photos of his father's old house
showing 'medieval' furniture and decoration The house looks like it was built
and decorated in the 70s but still appears very neat with button chairs and
wall frames of old photos Sammy says he is moving into the house having
relocated from the city to the village even as Nigerians are reacting to his
photos</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Erstwhile
National Publicity Secretary of the defunct New People’s Democratic Party
(nPDP) and member of APC Legacy Projects Media Team, Chief Eze Chukwumeka Eze
has said that it is not unusual for perfidious characters and disgruntled
elements to always device satanic schemes to scuttle the breakthrough of former
Rivers Governor, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Amaechi, at the brink of every milestone in
his political journey.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In a statement made available to media houses in Port Harcourt,
Chief Eze said he was concerned about the worries expressed by Nigerians in
several quarters over the latest attempt by Gov. Nyesom Wike to
smear, impugn and deride the persona of his benefactor and predecessor, Rt.
Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, erstwhile Governor of Rivers State and immediate
past Minister of Transportation.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Describing Wike’s loquacious rambling and his self-styled
interpretation of the recent judgement of the Supreme Court, Chief Eze said it
is usual for Amaechi to go through trials and tribulations ahead of any elevation
as such challenges equip him better to face the task of his new status in
public service with courage and foresight.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Explaining the purport of the Supreme Court judgement, the party
Chief said the Judicial Commission set up by the Wike's Administration lacked
Powers to try Ameachi as the probe panel was a mere fact-finding commission and
most importantly too, the said N96B was duly captured in the 2014 budget of the
State.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">According to the Supreme Court, the Rivers State commission of
inquiry that indicted former governor Chibuike Rotimi Ameachi, is a mere
fact-finding body with no powers to engage in the trial of anybody for anything
whatsoever.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The seven-member of Justice of the Supreme Court in a unanimous
judgment, said the findings of the probe panel are not enforceable in law.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The decision of the apex court was contained in the appeal No:
SC/911/2017, lodged before it by Ameachi who is a frontline presidential
candidate of the All Progressives Congress(APC), against the Governor of Rivers
State, the Attorney General of the State, the Judicial Commission of Inquiry
and others.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In the judgment rendered by Justice Emmanuel Agim, the apex
court went further to hold that the Rivers State commission of inquiry “is not
an adjudicatory body and so does not try or determine disputes as to any rights
or obligations of liabilities.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Justice Agim said: “A commission of inquiry is a factfinding or
information-seeking body. It carries out factfinding or information seeking by
the process of impartial investigation to find out certain facts or information
about the subject of the inquiry.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Chief Eze said wit the judgment, the Supreme Court has
vindicated the former Transportation Minister Chibuike Amaechi and cleared him
of all purported or alleged indictment by Governor Wike’s commission.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">It is therefore laughable to hear Wike threaten over the TV to
engage some of his bootlickers and members of the Rivers PDP, whom he
garrulously christened Rivers Elders, to determine whether or not Amaechi will be
dragged to court.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">While thanking the Supreme Court for clearing Amaechi on the
matter, Eze called on Governor Wike to stop his macabre dance and allow sanity
and peace to prevail within the politics of Rivers State.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Supporting Amaechi’s frugality, careful management of Rivers
resources and recounting his ordeals preceding every new level, Eze referred
the public to an article he penned in November 2015, titled, "Amaechi:
Tortuous Journey To The Next Level" which was reflected in chapter 14 of
his new book on the former Minister.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Excerpt</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">1.<b> 1999 State House of Assembly election</b></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Signs of the mission of Governor Amaechi in the politics of
Nigeria started when FEDECO, the then electoral umpire, announced Uche Okwukwu,
a lawyer, of the defunct APP winner of the State House of Assembly election of
the Ikwerre Constituency in place of Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi of PDP.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Amaechi contested this at the then Election Tribunal and
the Court of Appeal and won, and was subsequently sworn-in as member, State
House of Assembly representing Ikwerre Constituency. Thus, began his political
struggles through the courts. Reacting to this, Okwukwu stated: “Yes, I
contested against the present governor, Rt Hon Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi. Like I
said, the Court of Appeal said I didn’t win and I should not be in the Rivers
State House of Assembly. So, as a lawyer, by my training, I have since accepted
the verdict of the court, particularly, when you do not have the right to
appeal beyond that point.”</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">2.</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> <b>Battle over control of local governments</b></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In 2003, Governor Amaechi came up with another feat through the
courts. When the National Assembly moved to hijack the legislative functions of
the State House of Assembly as enshrined in the constitution. He led his
colleagues to take the matter to Nigeria’s Supreme Court, and the court gave a
judgement that the control and supervision of local government is the
prerogative of the</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> State House of Assembly.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">3.<b> His most celebrated Supreme Court ruling</b></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">A lot of articles and statements were written following the
‘k-leg’ episode that was the outright hijack of the 2007 PDP gubernatorial
ticket from Amaechi ahead of the April 14, 2007 election in Rivers State. This
occurred despite his landslide victory at the primaries, where he clinched
6,527 of the 6,575 possible votes while seven other aspirants that included
political heavyweights like Hon Chief Austin Okpara, a former Deputy Speaker of
the House of Representatives, late Senator Martin Yellowe, Pawariso Horsfall
and Mr. Chris Orji shared the remaining 48 votes among themselves. Amaechi’s
name was subsequently forwarded to the INEC on December 14, 2006 in compliance
with Section 32(1) & (2) of the Electoral Act 2006. INEC, thereafter, duly
published Amaechi’s name as the gubernatorial candidate of the Peoples
Democratic Party in Rivers State. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The story, however, took a different turn when, speaking at the
presentation of the party flag to its gubernatorial candidate at the Liberation
Stadium, Port Harcourt, former President and then “Emperor” of PDP, Gen Olusegun
Obasanjo (rtd), declared that Amaechi’s candidacy had ‘k-leg.’ Following this
outright abuse of office, the dreaded bulldog that was the Nuhu Ribadu-led
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) was let loose on Amaechi,
resulting in his decision to seek legal redress for his travails. Suffice to
say, Amaechi went on self-exile to Ghana, and the powers that be further showed
their contempt for him by selecting his cousin, Sir Celestine Omehia, who
neither purchased nor filled a form, as PDP flag-bearer in his stead.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Amaechi’s vindication came with the October 25, 2007 landmark
ruling by the Nigerian Supreme Court, declaring him as not only the authentic
flag-bearer of PDP but also ordering that he be sworn-in immediately to replace
Omehia, who had previously been sworn-in on May 29, 2007 as the Governor of
Rivers State. Thus, Amaechi became the first and only person to occupy the
office of governor in the country without standing for election. In explaining
the ruling, the Supreme Court has since stated that it is the party that
contests elections and that the PDP won the gubernatorial elections, and that,
consequently, Amaechi, being the rightful candidate, should assume power as
governor.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">This epochal feat stands as Amaechi’s greatest input towards the
growth of judiciary in the political life of Nigeria, as it has become a
reference case in determining similar cases in Nigeria today. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> 4. Undemocratic suspension from PDP</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">When the PDP national leadership undemocratically decided to
suspend Governor Amaechi from the party without any sound reason on May 27,
2013 and was to follow it up with expulsion. He resorted to the courts, once
again, to stop them from taking any further step on his case until he decided
to join APC. The suspension of Amaechi from the party was agreed during an
unscheduled and unusually early morning meeting of the National Working
Committee (NWC) of the party at the residence of the then National Chairman,
Alhaji Bamanga Tukur. The meeting commenced at 8:00 am and came two days ahead
of the regular meeting of the NWC, which normally holds on Wednesdays. It was
also three days after Amaechi beat the odds with his re-election as chairman of
the Nigeria Governors’ Forum. He had been allegedly opposed by the PDP Governors’
Forum (PDP-GF) ahead of the election.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The governor’s suspension was hinged on what the party described
as his refusal to order the reinstatement of members of the Obio Akpor Local
Government executive who were suspended from office on the orders of the Rivers
State House of Assembly upon allegations of corruption raised against the LG
executive. Hours after the suspension was announced, the party, at a press
conference, said that it had constituted a committee headed by Mr Joe Gadzama,
SAN, to probe allegations raised against Amaechi. Other members of the
committee were PDP National Legal Adviser, Victor Kwon; Inalegwu Onche, Friday
Nwosu, Udorji Amedu, Ola Kukuyi, Wakil Mohammed, Yusuf Jangwe, Mr Bola Doherty,
Mr Tanimu Adamson and Anicho Okoro as secretary.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Reacting to his suspension during an interactive session with
youths of the state, Amaechi asked: “Who has power to suspend Obio/Akpor
council? Now you see political witch-hunting. It is so ridiculous; my party
must rise above political witch-hunting. The governor did not suspend Obio/Akpor
council, I hope you know. My power is to dissolve and remit it to the House of
Assembly, but I have not done that yet, what the Assembly has said is ‘we are
investigating corruption’ then the party says we should not investigate
corruption: Is that fair?” He went further to state that the NWC issued a press
statement to suspend him without any invitation and fair hearing. His words: “I
was not invited by the National Working Committee of PDP; I was not given fair
hearing. What I heard was ‘why did I refuse to reinstate the suspended
Obio/Akpor Council executive? Who suspended them?’ His questions received the
enthusiastic response of the youths who chorused: “The Rivers State House of
Assembly.” Again, the governor asked: “Who has the power to investigate Obio/Akpor
council executive?” The youths again replied: “The State Assembly.” </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">It was this suspension of Governor Amaechi from PDP, not minding
all that he did to uplift the party that started the decimation of PDP and its
reduction from a ruling national political party to an opposition regional
political party.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">5. Intrigues in appointment of Justice Agumagu as Chief Judge
Rivers</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The indefatigable and indomitable Chibuike Amaechi recently
started another legal battle, but this time with the National Judicial Council
(NJC). Like other cases involving Amaechi, this case is unprecedented in the
annals of judicial adjudication, and Nigerians are watching with keen interest
to see how he may win it. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Based on the Federal High Court ruling approving Justice Peter
Nwoke Chukwuma Agumagu as the Chief Judge of Rivers State, Amaechi supervised
his formal swearing-in ceremony. However, after few days, the NJC came up with
a verdict suspending the newly-appointed Chief Judge. This, again, is
unprecedented in the history of appointment of chief judges in any other state
in Nigeria. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">6. Transfer of Rivers’ oil wells to Akwa Ibom</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">As the serving Governor of Rivers State, Amaechi caused his
attorney-general to challenge the transfer of some oil wells from Rivers State
to Akwa Ibom State. The Supreme Court eventually ruled in favour of Rivers
State in that case. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">7. Travails in the hands of Jonathan</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Despite his great show of love to former President Jonathan,
former Governor Amaechi was subjected to monumental humiliation by the Jonathan
Administration. A few examples: The plane of the Rivers State Government was
grounded for no just cause; the PDP structure in Rivers State was taken away
from Amaechi and his election as the chairman of NGF duly certified and acknowledged
worldwide was annulled by President Jonathan and his cohorts. As if that was
not enough, Amaechi was suspended from a party he so much loved and spent so
much to build. Indeed, if not for divine providence, he would have been
illegally impeached by five legislators in a House of 32 members; a Police
Commissioner by name Mr Joseph Mbu was posted to Rivers State to haunt, insult
and abuse him publicly, calling him a despot. What is more, governors that came
to visit him were stoned! In the eyes of Nigerians, Amaechi stands as a great
man while in the eyes of those haunting him he is a persona non grata.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">To an illustrious son of the State and former Minister of
Petroleum Resources, Prof Tam David-West, Amaechi is an innocent man and his
travails illustrate the Nigerian paradox where excellence is relegated to the
background and mediocrity is elevated. His words: “I’m particularly worried
about the trend, not only because I am a Rivers State elder, not only because I
am a strong supporter of Amaechi without any regret, I am also worried as a
Nigerian, because what is happening to Amaechi underscores a terrible Nigerian
paradox: which I call the paradox of excellence. We support him because those
of us who grew up in Port Harcourt as a famous ‘Garden City’ knew how the city
changed to a rotten city. And Amaechi, who is also a Port Harcourt boy,
returned the city back to its glorious ‘Garden City’ status. Any person that
does not realise this is not only blind but terrible.” This great sage reminded
Amaechi’s opponents that he who laughs last, laughs best, stating with emphasis
that the governor would laugh last because his first name, Chibuike, means ‘God
is strength’.”</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">8. Why Amaechi joined APC</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The desperation of the PDP leadership to completely destroy
Amaechi led to his departure, alongside six other PDP governors, to form the
New PDP, with five of them later joining the mega opposition political party,
the All Progressives Congress. Explaining why he joined APC, Governor Amaechi
said: “Unfortunately, recent events within the PDP have given me reason to
reconsider our collective interest as people of the South-South and, indeed a
Rivers people. At various times, as the one whom you gave your mandate, I had
cause to complain about the marginalisation of our state and our people,
despite our huge contribution to the national coffers and our unflinching
commitment and support for the ruling PDP. While the political and economic
importance of Rivers State cannot be contested, we continue to hold the shorter
end of the stick.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“A few instances may suffice: Our demand that the Federal
Government return oil wells belonging to Rivers State to us has gone unheeded
and been treated with levity under this administration. Rather, our oil wells
have been ceded to Bayelsa, Abia and Akwa Ibom states. Even after we got a
judgment that the oil wells were wrongly ceded to Akwa Ibom State and should be
returned to us; only dry wells that were no longer producing oil were returned.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“In the specific case of the Soku oil wells, despite a decision
reached that the monies should remain in an escrow account till all matters
concerning it are resolved, the Federal government continues to pay
neighbouring Bayelsa State the revenues meant for Rivers State in a classic
case of robbing Peter to pay Paul. It is indeed noteworthy that we have made
several representations formally and informally on this matter.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“A second instance is the total absence of federal presence in
Rivers State. The ‘National Good Governance Tour’ provided a good opportunity
for the Federal Government to showcase its presence in Rivers State. The tour,
if nothing else, proved that there was not much to show in a state that is the
cash cow of the federation. The East-West Road remains abandoned, work has been
deliberately slow on the Port Harcourt International Airport, the third busiest
airport in the country, while all airports started along with it have long been
completed and commissioned. The Bonny-Bomu Road that leads to the only
functional liquefied natural gas project remains uncompleted. In the midst of
all these, our administration went ahead to fix federal roads to the tune of
N103 billion. Several representations and letters after, not one kobo has been
repaid. The Federal Government is actively discouraging investments in Rivers
State.”</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">8. Challenges of ministerial nomination and confirmation</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Chief Nyesom Wike’s desperation to drag Amaechi’s name in the
mud in order to frustrate his nomination or appointment as a minster, made he
(Wike) to sponsor a satanic documentary on Amaechi aired on Africa Independent
Television (AIT). This satanic documentary was part of Wike’s propaganda war
against Amaechi, for which he earmarked billions of naira in his wicked plot to
destroy and decimate the person and character of Amaechi. Other propaganda
tools planned and deployed during this period, in the war against Amaechi,
include sponsored publications such as advertorials, columns, editorials and
Op-Ed articles in major international, national and local print media;
sponsored personality discussion programmes in the electronic media and
sponsored special documentaries on television and radio through independent
groups and organisations.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">This insidious plot by Wike include commissioning a team made up
of persons within and outside Rivers State to ‘initiate, formulate and contrive
false damaging reports bordering on alleged corrupt practices by Amaechi, which
were circulated to individuals and institutions within Nigeria and abroad with
a view to damaging the incorruptible character and rising profile of Hon Rotimi
Amaechi, in order to blackmail and put pressure on President Buhari not to
appoint the former governor into his government. These cooked reports to the
shock of many Nigerians was sent to the Senate and presented through one
misguided Senator Thompson Sekibo, which the Senate referred to the Ethics
Committee of the Senate, which caused the delay in Amaechi’s screening and
confirmation as a minister. Amaechi has through both the immediate past
Secretary to the Rivers State Government, George Feyi, and the Commissioner for
Finance, Dr Chamberlain Peterside, and others denied any form of corruption
against him by Wike and his cohorts.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Wike did not stop at these but went further to set up Justice
George Omereji Panel, to investigate the administration of Rt Hon Chibuike
Amaechi. Though the panel did not found any wrong-dealing, or corrupt practices
by Amaechi, Wike went ahead to issue a white paper indicting him of embezzling
the sum of N53 billion, How on earth can someone in his right senses describe
funds withdrawn with the approval of the legislature and spent as prescribed by
the state budget to be missing? Wike, in his desperation to stop Amaechi’s
appointment as a minister, resorted to dancing naked in the market place.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">But as God will have it, and contrary to the expectations of
Chief Wike and his gang of miserable ingrates, their ferocious campaign to
blackmail, disparage and portray Amaechi as a very corrupt person
unfit to be appointed as a Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, failed
to achieve the desired objective; as on September 30, 2015 President Muhammadu
Buhari went ahead to list and submit the name of Chibuike Amaechi along with
those of 20 other great Nigerians as ministerial nominees to the Senate for
confirmation.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And to the shock and chagrin of Wike and his cohorts, the
Senate, after three sittings on the ministerial screening of the ministerial
nominees, screened Amaechi on October 22, 2015 and formally confirmed him on
October 29, 2015. He was subsequently sworn-in with the 35 other ministers on
Wednesday, November 11, 2015, by President Buhari, who as a further mark of
confidence in the Lion of Ubima assigned to him the strategically important
Ministry of Transportation.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">9. Amaechi as Minister of Transportation</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, who was on Nov. 11, 2015 sworn-in as
Nigeria’s Honourable Minister of Transport pledged to complete all ongoing rail
projects around the country and extend rail lines to all parts of the country.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Amaechi made the pledge during his first day in office as
minister shortly after his inauguration by President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja
on 11th November, 2015. He has since resumed work as the Minister of Transportation
of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on 17th November 201 with a meeting with the
Permanent Secretary and the Directors to look at the budget and its level of
implementation. The meeting is necessary to chart a new course toward
completing all ongoing projects, especially the rail and extending it to
different part of the country.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Amaechi, however, called for cooperation from all parastatals
and agencies of the ministry and the aviation sector. He promised to ensure a
smooth working relationship with the Minister of State for Aviation for the
development of the sector as well as meeting the expectations of Nigerians.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The minister also urged the staff to always play by rule, adding
that “I belief in principles of discharging my duties. We are interested in
completing all ongoing rail projects around the country because we don’t want
to disappoint Nigerians. It is important that we realise that we have a mandate
to deliver on our promises and there is competition among the ministers to
deliver and we don’t want to take last. Amaechi also emphasised on the issue of
corruption, warning that anybody that would work with him must not approach him
for money.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">the Rivers State APC Chapter in a press statement of 12th
November, 2015 congratulated her leader, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi on
his historical appointment as a Minister of Transportation, “We heartily
congratulate our leader on his meritorious appointment as Honourable Minister
of Transport while at the same time extending our heartfelt gratitude to
President Muhammadu Buhari for his confidence in Amaechi. We wish to assure Mr.
President and all Nigerians that Amaechi, who has a track record of
performance, will deliver even beyond expectations if given the necessary
cooperation,” Rivers APC said in a statement signed by the Chairman, Dr. Davies
Ibiamu Ikanya. Drawing Amaechi’s attention to some of the most pressing
problems that deserve his attention, Rivers APC noted that he is assuming
office as Minister of Transport at a time when the Port Harcourt International
Airport is rated as the worst in the world and the Nnamdi Azikiwe International
Airport, Abuja, the seventh worst on the African continent, while the Murtala
Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, is ranked 10th worst on the continent.
“This is not acceptable to us and we wish that Amaechi quickly corrects this
shameful anomaly imposed on us by the immediate past visionless administration
of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan and his misguided Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),” the
party said.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Continuing, the party said: “Amaechi is coming in as the
Transport Minister at a time when the railway system is moribund and the
maritime sector in a chaotic state. We know what Amaechi is made of and we
expect him not only to turn around the fortunes of the railways but also to do
same to the maritime sector.”</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The party appealed to all Rivers people and the entire Nigerian
population to accord Minister Amaechi all the support and prayers he needs to
enable him translate his magic wand exhibited at the state level to the
national level for the benefit of all Nigerians. It equally congratulated the
35 other ministers and called on Nigerians to give them every needed
cooperation to deliver and make Nigerians feel the positive change promised by
APC.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In postulating his point very clearly, Eze reminded Nigerians
that challenges is what gives Amaechi the stepping stone recalling his ambition
to be reelected as the Chairman of the Governor's Forum, and how the powers
that were then told Nigerians that 16 is superior to 19 but still he came out
of it unscathed</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">When he decided to install the next of President of Nigeria by
2015 was it easy for him of course no! Hell was opened on him. Did he succeed
of course yes, today President Buhari is still the President of Nigeria. When
in 2019 Amaechi was to be reappointed as the DG for Buhari Presidential
Campaign Organisation, was it easy for him of course no? but God who has being
his Guide prevailed and he became the first person in the entire world to Head
a Presidential Campaign Organisation on two occasions and won.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In order to frustrate his Presidential bid, some elements
resolved to throw in a stumbling block by inserting an unconstitutional clause
in the Electoral Act Section 84(12) and this notwithstanding, Amaechi has been
cleared to contest the presidential primaries of APC come 6th June 2022.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Conclusion</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">After all said and done, I am counselled by this special quote
from my good friend, ALH. IBRAHIM ABDUL GANIYU.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">"My dear Chief Eze, no animal loves the Lion in
the Jungle because, when he takes the stage, no one can challenge him. He
always make his ways to victory as a result of the fact that he is a Grand
master Strategist, bold, full of speed, strong, calculative and powerful with a
great foresight. He knows their weak points. Don't expect them to love Ameachi
because, he posseses the aforementioned qualities. The only one that can stop
Ameachi is God, not even Satan the devil." ALH. IBRAHIM ABDUL GANIYU.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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because what most of us see travails pertaining to Amaechi and the 2023 general
election are those plots that will make him the next President of Nigeria.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">By Obiaruko Christie Ndukwe</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Since the
concluded PDP presidential primaries, there have been different narratives
canvassed in the media space for and against the aspirants. One of such who has
attracted more attention than the eventual winner of the election is Governor
Nyesom Wike of Rivers State.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Back home, the age-old rivalry between his camp and that of his
former boss and predecessor, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has triggered a
new frontier of arguments.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">While Wike and Amaechi come from Rivers State but belong to
different political parties, PDP and APC, respectively, there has been an
attempt to put them on the same scale on the premise that what affects one will
almost likely affect the other.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">The governor went into the PDP battle with a full war chest
financially and without a known loyalty to any godfather or political leader.
He owes no one any allegiance; rather, he was upbeat about his attempt to secure
the grand prize of his party, PDP. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">His style was a crass display of brute force against any
dissenting voices, not excluding the media where he publicly told his host on a
Television programme that he is the candidate for the PDP and not an aspirant.
Wike urged Seun Akinbalode of Channels Television to congratulate him in
advance since he was sure to win the ticket.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">The delegates in some states were not left out as they were made
to believe that only a Wike candidature could help the party defeat the ruling
party. Governors and aspirants also felt the pang of Wike's unnerved theatrics
during his consultation around the country. Everyone, including non-PDP
members, had a good dose of laughter or anger, listening and watching the
Rivers Bulldog unleash at every doubting Thomas. There was no one to stop the
governor or take the mic off from him. The PDP seemed to be in his pockets,
having successfully dislodged his kinsman, Uche Secondus, as National Chairman
of the party for an Iyorchia Ayu who is an avowed Atiku loyalist.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">But, the result of the primaries showed otherwise that the party
remains in the clutches of the North.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">The gang up against Wike by the governors of the South can best
be described as a payback for his indecorous manner while addressing them. They
blame him for the exit of some PDP governors who joined the APC.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">While Wike may have come very close to the ticket considering
his intimidating ability to match a supposedly richer Atiku Abubakar money for
money, his ambition to become the next president was punctured by those who
never saw themselves less than him. The governors from the South are his
contemporaries, and so do not amount to his loyalists.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Wike's fate lay on his brothers.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">On the other hand, Amaechi is also a frontrunner in his party,
APC, for the presidential ticket. The story of this former Speaker and Governor
needs no elucidation as every Nigerian knows that he played a key role in the
presidential aspiration of General Muhammadu Buhari in 2014 primaries of the
APC. Amaechi, like Wike, is also strong-willed, but his style of
politics since becoming a Minister under Buhari has changed considerably.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">The Rivers born politician understands political diplomacy where
everyone who aspires to be in authority must be under authority.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">The APC has a sitting President who, by their Constitution, is
the leader of the party. All party leaders and members owe him allegiance.
Amaechi knows that as much as Buhari is a Democrat, he has not also ceased
being a military General.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">The President has told the sitting Governors of the party that
he would nominate his choice of successor for the party. He also said
consultation will continue amongst stakeholders and aspirants.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Amaechi is not expected to toe the same path as Wike with a
party that has an overall leader with whom he enjoys a deep
affinity. It would amount to political suicide for Amaechi to adopt
the dollarized kind of campaign beyond what is considered normal.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">There would be no need to threaten anyone who is perceived not
to be in support of his ambition. While on his tour of the states, Amaechi did
not dissipate energy and financial resources to visit leaders and members of
the opposition PDP. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">With a leader like Buhari, there is a place for endorsement and
eventual consensus. If Amaechi gets the nod of the President, which is 80%
likely, his fate would surely not be the same as Wike.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h3 style="background: white; line-height: 12.5pt;"><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">By </span></i><span class="gd"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: .15pt;">FAUS Nwaorgu</span></span><span style="color: #5f6368; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: .2pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Chieftain
of the All Progressives Congress and erstwhile National Publicity Secretary of
the defunct New People’s Democratic Party (nPDP), Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze has
described as unhealthy for the fair political chances of the South, the alleged
entrance of former President Goodluck Jonathan into the APC ahead of the
party’s presidential primary rescheduled for June 2023.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Eze recalled that it was Governor
David Nweze Umahi of Ebonyi while addressing Journalists at the State House,
who first described the efforts to conscript Dr. Goodluck Jonathan into the APC
as one of the wonders of the century. According to this Seer, " if former
President Goodluck Jonathan joins the All Progressives Congress (APC), it would
be a development worthy of the Guinness Book of World Records. it would be
difficult for the ruling party to campaign with the former president as its candidate.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">This engimatic and fearless leader
went further to state, “The reason is that if you go and see the campaign
programmes of APC and you now ask President Jonathan to come and run, I don’t
know what will be our campaign promises and what will be the stories we’ll be
telling Nigerians. I believe strongly that he was not aware of the forms
assumed to have been purchased for him and I want to believe those people are
mischievous and may have bought the forms to embarrass him."</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In a statement made available to
media houses in Port Harcourt, Chief Eze said with the waiver granted to
Jonathan by the leadership of APC to contest the party’s Presidential primaries
and coupled with some underhand schemes to hand him the ticket, the former
President qualifies for a recognition and induction into the Guinness Book of
Records as one of the wonders of this century as postulated by Governor Umahi.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Now that this is clear with the
Federal High Court sitting in Yenagoa, the State capital of Bayelsa, the home
State of the former President, giving him nod to go ahead, Eze pointed out some
of the consequences of the move.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">From findings, it is the
calculation of some Northern Leaders behind this devious plot is to take over
power as early as possible after seeing the impossibility of presenting a
Northerner to fly the flag of the party in the 2023 general elections.
According to the calculation Dr. Jonathan is expected to govern for only one
term of four years then power will move back to the North in retaliation of what
Dr. Jonathan in cohorts with some Southern leaders did to them by refusing to
allow a Northerner to take over from former late President Yaradua.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">But far from it. The above is not
actually the calculation of those behind the Jonathan's candidature.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Though, I am aware that Jonathan
is not willing to contest for the APC presidential ticket against long-time
members like Bola Tinubu, Ahmad Lawan, Yemi Osinbajo, Rotimi Amaechi and others
unless he is assured of emerging as the consensus candidate of the party and
from what is going on viz the ceaseless postponement of both the screening of
candidates and conduct of the Presidential Primaries, there seems be an iota of
truth in the alleged pursuit of some persons to pave way for the former
President to emerge as the Flag-Bearer of the party.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The fact remains that Jonathan is
a neophyte in the APC with no structure in the party and no delegate of his own
and there is no way he could be contesting openly against Chibuike Amaechi,
Bola Tinubu, Yemi Osinbajo and others who have gone round the states to solicit
delegate’s support, as that will be setting himself up for defeat if he does
that.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Eze exposes that the strongest
consideration for Jonathan's candidature is the potential four-year one-term
limit of another Jonathan presidency. But the trap is that a post-election
litigation over the 2017 constitutional amendment on “swearing-in”, could
disqualify Jonathan and hand the position over to his running mate who could be
one of the current serving Governors from the North if he wins there retiring
power back to the North.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">This is the trap that Jonathan is
setting himself up against the eight year rule of his people in the South and
it is indeed unfortunate. “I wish him luck if this is what he wants to achieve for
himself.”</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“I shares the fear of Governor
Umahi and wish to state further, what will be our manifesto or selling point
for a man most APC Leaders collectively disgraced out of office based on his
obvious incompetence and high level of corruption associated with his
administration.”</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Eze further highlighted that apart
from all these faulty calcaulations with the emergence of a great strategist
and deadly political tactican like Atiku Abubakar as the PDP Flag-Bearer
fielding a person like Dr. Jonathan as APC Flag-Bearer to the detriment of the
founding fathers of the party and those who have continued to sustain and water
the party till now will be indirectly gifting to Atiku and PDP the Presidency
on a platter of gold thereby achieving the purpose of retaining the Presidency
in the North.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Besides, those behind this unholy
move coupled with all the macabre dance going on nothwithstanding maybe jealous
of the International stature that Jonathan may have acquired since handing over
power peacefully to APC to ridicule him and bring him to a State of a common
man.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Eze maintained that President
Muhammadu Buhari that “he knows will never allow this high level conspiracy
against those who have stood by him during his trying period in politics to see
the light of the day no matter the odds.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Should This Happen Though Unlikely
Too</span></i></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">, Eze said he sympathizes with the former Minister of
Transportation, Chibuike Amaechi, who may have been dead since 2015 by
sacrificing his life to ensure the success of the party on two occasions and
whose punishment is endless in the hands of his brothers for doing everything
to make the party a huge success.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">My heart goes to Engr. Umahi who
told his Igbo brothers that in APC lays their hope.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I sincere sympathize with Bola
Tinubu, Ogbonnaya Onu, Chris Ngige, Okoroacha, Lai Mohammed and some of us who
did everything to discredit the administration of Dr. Jonathan and now we find
in him the Saviour of our country. What a country and what a crop of leaders?
As a matter of fact, most of Jonathan’s Minsters that stole our common
patrimony with impunity are still in exile.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h3 style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 12.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"> By </span><span class="gd"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: .15pt;">Nwaorgu Faustinus</span></span><span style="color: #5f6368; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: .2pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Erstwhile
National Publicity Secretary of the defunct New People’s Democratic Party
(nPDP), member of APC Legacy Projects Media Team and chieftain of the All
Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Eze Chukwumeka Eze, says one good strategy
adopted by guber aspirants from Rivers State, under the platform of the APC, is
the agreement to support a consensus arrangement and form a strong, united
front ahead of the 2023 general elections.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">The party chieftain however
regretted the current discordance seeming to have permeated the circle upon the
emergence of Arch. Tonye Cole as the choice candidate to fly the party’s flag in
the election. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">In a statement made available to
media houses in Port Harcourt, Chief Eze said Tonye Cole’s emergence was the
resolution of leaders and elders of the party who met, weighed each aspirant
and accordingly, decided to approve Arch. Tonye Cole as the consensus
candidate, based on records within their disposal and the parameters for the
scrutiny.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">“I was elated when key Rivers APC
Gubernatorial candidates resolved to come together through a memorandum to
support whoever amongst them that would emerge as consensus candidate of the
party, to wrestle power from the visionless administration of Gov. Nyesom Wike
and the People’s Democratic Party, but hearing that some aspirants who are
signatories to the memorandum are singing discordant tones gives me concern.
This is because we have suffered and sacrificed so much to keep the party
afloat in th State.”. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">The party Chief said all the 13
gubernatorial aspirants are eminently qualified to represent the party in the
2023 gubernatorial race but reminded everyone that not all 13 can represent the
party at the same time. The elders and leaders having decided on Tonye Cole,
Eze said party faithful and loyalists ought to team up and ensure that the
party succeeds, noting that the interest of the party must rank topmost in all
individual considerations.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Eze referred party members to the
recent teaching of the Transportation Minister and Nigeria’s next President,
Rt. Hon. Chibuike Amaechi, on loyalty. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">According to Eze, Rt Hon. Amaechi
explained that it is sad that many politicians do not understand the concept of
loyalty. “Loyalty is not when you are not chosen, you become disloyal. Loyalty
means you follow the man that leads you, the man to whose leadership you have
already surrendered. If you don’t follow, it means you are not loyal, you are
only benefitting from the man politically and economically. The day he’s not
able to give you that economic reality, is the day you become disloyal.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">“Let me tell you something about
loyalty. In 2007, we were in a meeting and somebody asked me if Dr. Peter Odili
(former Governor of Rivers State) says you will not run for the office of
governor, what will you do? I said I will surrender and support whoever he
brings. We fought the battle for me to be Governor because Dr. Odili called me
and said ‘go to court,’ if not we had met as a group and said we would stand by
his choice. But he called me and said ‘…go to court.’</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">“I am a very loyal person, and
those who are disloyal, I wish them well, those who want to do whatever they
want to do, I wish them well. The opportunity will be given to everybody, we
will run this presidential election, we will run, and I am loyal to the
President and I am loyal to the Party. If the party says it is me, thank God.
If the party says it is not me, whoever the party chooses, I will support. If
the Party and President choose anybody, I will support the person. If the party
chooses me, I will be glad and say thank God,”</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Responding to those offering
negative opinions about consensus, the party Chief said so far as the party's
constitution supports such arrangement as one of the options through which a
candidate can be selected to fly the flag of the party in an election, it
becomes immoral for anyone loyal to the party and her leadership to think
otherwise.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Eze categorically stated that
though Tonye Cole is not his preferred candidate for the race but as a
party loyalist and blind one at that, he is restrained from acting in any
manner that will turn the party into a laughing stock by those who have been
making efforts in the last seven years to ensure that the party is destroyed.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">“I accept and agree with some
school of thought that Tonye Cole is not an ideal politician by keeping off
from most of our political activities and welfare of members, I wish to plead
and urge each one of us to sheath our swords and team up with him to salvage
Rivers State before it is too late. Besides, I am convinced that Tonye Cole
being a successful Entrepreneur and international one in that matter will bring
his wealth of wisdom in this regard to turn around the fortunes of the State
positively so let us give him a chance to serve the State.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">I sympathize with Dr. Dakuku
Peterside who has stood fiercely behind the party all these years fighting and
taking a lot of troubles on our behalf and appeal to him to be calm and retrace
any step that may be interpreted as an anti party activity because the future
is greater than where we are at the moment.”</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">“Our major goal as party faithful
is to ensure that we get back the Brick House and occupy the Aso Rock and when
that happens, we all will be tired of appointments. So, why fight over little
or inconsequential issues while we are capable of having better opportunities
by tomorrow”.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">For those who feel that Amaechi
must be blamed for every mishap or mistake, Eze said propagators of such
opinion should tone down such mentality, stressing that the very day the 19
Wise Elders met to discuss on consensus, Amaechi was not in that meeting as he
far away Delta State with Vice President Osinbanjo, attending the burial of the
father of the Minster of State for Labour and Employment Festus Egwarewa
Adeniyi Keyamo so how can Amaechi be blamed for a decision taken in his
absence?</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Chief Eze emphasized that the task
ahead of the party is a serious one as he noted that when politics is involved,
Governor Nyesom Wike is not a pushover no matter his shortcomings and
underperformance as Governor. The party is dealing with a deadly and crude
political strategist. It is only when the APC gets her acts together that the
party can teach Wike and the PDP some serious political lessons as he retires
from politics come 2023.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Eze counseled Pastor Tonye Cole to
sit down and reflect on reasons for opposition to his candidature and make
relevant amendments to his style of politics because according to him, Rivers
APC has very credible party members that can help him to win election in Rivers
State comfortably without much thought over bringing outsiders in that regard.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">He encouraged Cole to unite
and liaise with all those who contested this office, adopt some of their
policies and incorporate some of their members into the campaign Team, assuring
that by so doing, the journey to the Brick House will be smooth and enjoyable.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">He said Wike has done much of the
campaign for the APC with his visionless style of administration and therefore,
it is only left to the party to capitalize on most of his shortcomings and
teach a lesson that he will live to cherish throughout his retirement years
from politics come 2023.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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to inculcate the Spartan strategy of Dakuku Peterside, the humility of Dawari
George, the royalty of Tonye Princewill, the listening style of Dr. Davies
Sonkote, the flamboyant style of Alabo Ebenezer and most importantly the
uncommon wisdom of Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, these are qualities that
will make you the desired leader of Rivers State. Some of us will be ready to
help out if we are still found to be relevant.” Eze stated</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h3 style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 12.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"> By </span><span class="gd"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: .15pt;">Nwaorgu Faustinus</span></span><span style="color: #5f6368; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: .2pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">The
Minister of Transportation and presidential aspirant of the All Progressives
Congress (APC), Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi on Friday told Delta State
delegates of the party to vote for him on the merit of his past achievements
and not because he hails from Niger Delta.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Chief Amaechi also told the Delta delegates to be wary of those
making political promises, assuring them that he is the only one that would
complete the $11.1billion Lagos - Warri - Calabar railway project
which will pass through Asaba, if voted as president.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">The APC Presidential hopeful who was at the party state
secretariat in Asaba as part of his zonal consultation tours said the Lagos -
Warri - Calabar rail project holds enormous economic potential for Delta state,
adding that there is a strong possibility that it would be abandoned unless APC
returns to power with himself as president.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">"Don't listen to those who say l will do. Ask them what
have they done. I fought insecurity in Rivers, l generated power which l cannot
distribute because it is only the federal government that can distribute. If
l'm elected president, l will make sure power is removed from the exclusive
list," he assured.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">He reminded the delegates that the Warri - Itakpe railway
project was abandoned until the Buhari-led APC administration revisited it.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Chief Amaechi also paid a courtesy call on the Asagba of Asaba,
Prof. Nnemeka Achebe where he paid glowing tribute to the monarch.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">"President Muhammadu Buhari has done well, you can agree or
disagree. In October/November he will commission the 2nd Niger Bridge. We have
started the $11.1billion Lagos - Calabar project which will pass through Asaba,
the single biggest project in the world. This project must be finished.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">"If l don't win the primary and the general elections,
nobody else can do it because it is capital intensive. The moment we complete
the Lagos - Calabar, Warri, things will be okay. What should bother us is how
do we move forward. It takes courage and that was why we came up with that
theme 'Forward with courage'. It requires courage to confront the challenges
ahead," Amaechi added.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">The minister also applauded the Asagba of Asaba and his Council
of Chiefs promising to work with the National Assembly to create a
constitutional role for traditional rulers in Nigeria.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">"Most of our traditional rulers are highly read. We need
their wisdom, exposure and ideas in government," he further said.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Chairman of APC in Delta State, Elder Omeni Sobotie pledged to
deliver the state delegates to the minister, saying "our own is different
from my own.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">"Our own son, the crown prince of Niger Delta is a man with
the heart of a lion. He is courageous. If he had not come out it would have
been difficult to market South-south after our short time in government. The
statutory delegates present here are 88, by the time we add others we have 151
delegates. We will ensure you have the whole of Delta," he said.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">The Asaba monarch noted the past record of achievements of Chief
Amaechi while praying for opportunity for higher service for the visiting
presidential aspirant.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"> </span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 10.55pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Source: Amaechi Presidential Media Committee</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The
Minister of Transportation and Presidential hopeful of the All Progressive
Congress (APC), Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has urged party members in
Lagos State to support his presidential aspiration by voting for him in the
party's primary slated for May.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Chief
Amaechi who stressed the need for APC to present a sellable candidate in the
2023 presidential elections, said he represents the ideal candidate first as
the youngest with much energy and a public service record that towered him
above other contenders.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The presidential aspirant
spoke during a courtesy call on the governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu
at Government House, Marina Lagos on Thursday.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Chief
Amaechi while speaking at the occasion, said it was a difficult decision he had
to take to contest the 2023 presidential election knowing fully that the
party's national leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is in the race."It is a
difficult thing to contest with our leader, he is our leader and l know it is
really a difficult decision that you have to take. He is eminently qualified to
contest but I'm more qualified than him.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">"I'm
the bridge between the old and the young. I understand the language of young
people. And if we consider the reality of our current security situation, I'm
the only one with experience in handling difficult security situations having
served as governor at a time when kidnapping and violent crime was high in
Rivers.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">He urged the Lagos governor
to take what he described as a difficult decision to support him as party's
choice and Nigeria choice.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">"l
come with experience of having served as speaker, l come with experience of
having served as governor, l come with experience of having served as minister.
I was chairman of governors and l also served as director general in the
presidential campaign to deliver victory for our party APC.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">"I have tremendous respect for our leader but we have to
make the hard choice. I always say there is no second position in this contest,
the party must make a winning choice. It is a hard decision but it is a
decision that is doable," Chief Amaechi told the governor.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Responding,
Mr Sanwo-Olu noted that the minister is eminently qualified going by his record
of experience. "I have listened and l have listened very well.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">He said it was important for the party to make good choices in
the next election. "I'm a direct beneficiary of our leader, Asiwaju. For
those of us in Lagos, he is our rallying point, we will continue to do the best
for the country.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Earlier,
Chief Amaechi met with the Lagos State party executive council members at
Ikeja, Lagos.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">According to the minister,
there is a temptation for the Lagos delegates to want to vote for APC National
Leader Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, whom he acknowledged as eminently qualified
to contest.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">He
said that beyond the sentiment of being a former governor and party leader,
"l know I'm a better qualified candidate and a Nigeria candidate", he
added.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The minister said as a
former speaker, governor and serving minister, he possesses more experiences
that put him ahead of other contenders.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">He
cited examples of the economic reforms in the country, which the rail lines
contributed greatly, especially in areas of economic diversification,
employment opportunities and income generation in Lagos state. Others he
mentioned are decongestion of ports and construction of new ports in parts of
the country with enhanced economic values.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">He was
particularly elated about the Ebutte Meta Railway station in Lagos which he
described as the most iconic of all.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">"This
is why I'm different, I'm a pan-Nigerian candidate, he said.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The Chairman of Lagos State APC, Cornelius Ojelabi acknowledged
the role Chief Amaechi played in the events leading to the party's victory in
2015, describing him as courageous.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Hon.
Ojelabi, however, said that the role played by Lagos State which he said led to
the emergence of a progressive government at the federal for the first was what
gave the party its ultimate victory.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">He also
stressed the need for the party leaders to come together in the manner they did
that led to the defeat of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2015.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">"You
are welcome to our party secretariat. You are our party member. And as for the
reason for your visit which you just told us, there is a way we do our things
in Lagos, we have a leadership and we will convey your message to the
leadership," Ojelabi added.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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