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Nov. 6 Governorship Election: Why Anambra electorate should vote Soludo

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Alphonsus Nweze In a matter of days, about 2.7m Anambra electorate will file out in over 4000 polling units to elect the Governor of Anambra State for the next four years.He will replace the Aguleri born accountant and corporate player, Chief Willie Obiano who will complete his statutory eight- year tenure on March 17, 2022.As expected many key political gladiators are in the race for the plum job but three of them, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Senator Andy Uba of All Progressives Congress (APC), and…

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Nov. 6 Governorship Election: Provide adequate security as promised, Archbishop Okeke tells FG

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Alphonsus Nweze The Archbishop of Onitsha Catholic Archdiocese, Most Rev.(Dr.) Valerian Okeke, has asked the Federal Government to provide adequate security as promised for the November 6 , 2021 Governorship election. The Archbishop spoke weekend when he had an interaction with newsmen as part of his 68 years birthday, which he as usual celebrated with the inmates of Onitsha prison .He said : The Federal Government promised adequate security. I think government will fulfill their promise”.The Metropolitan, appealed to those who felt they have been aggrieved to resist the temptation…

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Defection: PDP wants court to sack 3 Zamfara senators, 27 lawmakers alongside Gov. Matawalle

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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Friday sought court order, joining the three Zamfara senators and 27 other lawmakers who defected from the the party to All Progressives Congress (APC) in a suit against Gov. Bello Matawalle. The PDP, through its counsel, O.J. Onoja, SAN, told Justice Inyang Ekwo of a Federal High Court, Abuja in a motion for joinder marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/650/2021 dated and filed Sept. 30. The PDP specifically is asking the court to sack Matawalle, the three senators, six House of Representatives members and all the lawmakers in…

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Alleged N400m fraud: Court okays arraignment of ex-PDP Spokesman, Olisa Metuh

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The Federal High Court, Abuja on Tuesday fixed Oct. 14, 2021 for the arraignment of former National Publicity Secretary of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Olisa Metuh, over alleged N400 million fraud.The date was fixed following the absence of the new trial Judge, Obiora Egwuatu, in court.At the court, all the parties in the matter, including Mr Metuh, were in court. But Metuh’s retrial could not proceed because of the judge’s absence.Recall that the Court of Appeal, Abuja on Dec. 16, 2020, nullified a Federal High Court judgement that convicted and…

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