Wed Jul 21 2021
The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has said it would take advantage of alleged crises in the All Progressives Congress (APC), Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) to win the November 6, 2021 governorship election in Anambra State.
Addressing a press conference yesterday in Awka, the state capital, the ADC National Chairman, Chief Ralphs Okey Nwosu, said there was need for a paradigm shift in the way governance was administered in the state.
“Everybody in Anambra and Nigeria is witness to what happened in Anambra as far as the primaries of APGA, APC and PDP are concerned.
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Chris Baywood-Ibeh
Frontline entrepreneur, Emperor Chris Baywood Ibe, has said only a progressive-minded Igbo person could summon the courage to participate in the 2023 presidential contest.
Ibe, who is a chieftain of All Progressives Congress (APC), said although he was surprised by an online poll that placed him atop other possible aspirants for the top job, his decision to seek the presidential ticket of APC is borne out of historical necessity.
He declared that nearly all the big names in Nigerian politics know that 2023 would be a year of reckoning for leaders that have betrayed the trust of the masses. x
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Lauretta Onochie
Beyond all reasonable doubt, Lauretta Onochie, senior special assistant (New Media) to President Muhammadu Buhari since October 2016 should never have been nominated at all as a commissioner in the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). It is just as well that the Senate has rejected Onochie’s nomination. The Constitution, in the Third Schedule, Part1 (F) (14(1) (b) requires a member of the commission to “be non-partisan and a person of unquestionable integrity.” This is a weighty consideration incompatible with desperation, which is never in the character of an integrated person. Onochie’s candidacy was simply a misnomination.
Onochie, in her role as an officer in the office of the President from where the best social examples should flow, has evidentially proven herself to be a bit too controversial. In December 2016 when she was barely two months in her new job, she released on the social media a statement against a state governor that was n