Growing up, two proverbs stuck out for me, one by my father, and the other was a Pidgin English saying. One was: “If one person buries himself, one hand will stick out”. Young, impressionistic, and inquisitive, I asked for an explanation. My father explained it away both as an idiomatic expression and a literary saying….
The Independent National Electoral Commission has postponed the governorship and state assembly elections scheduled to hold on March 11 by one week. The elections will now hold on March 18, 2023. Details later…
Over ten thousands citizens in Nkanu West Local Government Area of Enugu State have benefited from a free medical outreach organised by the Sally Gold Development Foundation as a way of supporting the governorship aspiration of the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state, Dr. Peter Mbah. The mammoth crowd which gathered…
Archbishop Onaiyekan‘Our attention has been drawn to a post making the rounds on the internet that His Eminence John Cardinal Onaiyekan, during his homily at Church of Assumption Asokoro urged Nigerians to “accept the result of the 2023 presidential election as announced by INEC.” ‘This is to let the general public know that such post…
The United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Mary Beth Leonard, has said that the presidential polls of February 25 failed to meet the expectations of Nigerians. The ambassador acknowledged that many are angry and frustrated with the results, while some others are celebrating victories they believe were hard-fought and well-earned. She, however, commended Nigerians for demonstrating…
WHY ONGOING COLLATION OF PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONRESULTS ARE UNCONSTITUTIONAL AND A POSSIBLE INVITATION TO ANARCHY THAT MUST BE AVERTED NOW BY IMMEDIATE HALT. AS A CONSTITUTIONAL LAWYER, FOREMOST ADVOCATE FOR CREDIBLE ELECTION, SPOKESPERSON OF THE OPPOSITION COALITION, AND ELECTED MEMBER OF THE NIGERIAN PARLIAMENT, I HAVE COME TO THE CONCLUSION TO ADVISE THAT IN THE NATIONAL…
The Obi-Datti Media Office has raised the alarm over what it alleged is an underhand move to manipulate the presidential election results across the country following the alleged refusal by officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission to upload much of the election results to the INEC server at the polling stations. This was contained…
The National Chairman of the Labour Party, Julius Abure, has raised the alarm that some officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission in Lagos, Rivers and Delta states have refused to upload the results of the presidential elections collated in various polling units in the states unto INEC’s Central Server. According to Julius Abure, the…
My attention has been drawn to a spurious, unfounded, malicious and misleading fake news on Governor Ugwuanyi’ s withdrawal from the senatorial election for one Ideke of the Labour Party by a shameless online media outfit Enugu Monitor. This infamous outfit is notorious for fake publications against the State Government and guilty of street-level mendacities.I…
February 19, 2023. The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Enugu State, Dr. Peter Mbah, has received an unprecedented massive endorsement from the various communities, towns and villages from the five local government areas in Enugu West Senatorial Zone who came out in large numbers to reaffirm their position about the forthcoming…
