Imo state

Imo PDP rejects nullification of Ugochinyere, Okeke’s elections by Tribunal

September 13, 2023 Bode Olagoke 0

The Imo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has rejected  the nullification of the elections of Members representing Ideato North/South and Okigwe South federal constituencies in the House of Representatives, Barr. Ikenga Ugochinyere, and Hon. Jonas Okeke, respectively, by the Imo State National/State Assembly Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Mararraba, Nasarawa State. According to a statement on Wednesday Read More

Tribunal ruling: Lawmakers, CUPP, IPMAN, others pay solidarity visit to Ugochinyere  

September 12, 2023 Bode Olagoke 0

Members of the House of Representatives, Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP), Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) and other well-meaning Nigerians have paid visits to give their full support to the member representing Ideato North/South Federal Constituency of Imo State, Hon. Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere, following the judgement of the Election Petitions Tribunal ordering his removal from office. Recall Read More

Works minister assured attention for Ideato erosion, failed Imo-Anambra road — Ugochinyere 

September 7, 2023 Bode Olagoke 0

A member of the House of Representatives, representing Ideato North and South Federal Constituency of Imo State, Hon. Ikenga Ugochinyere, has said that he got the assurance of the Minister of Works, David Umahi, that the bad roads and gully erosion in his constituency will be repaired. Recall that Ugochinyere in a statement  on Tuesday had pleaded with the Minister Read More

ACJHR accuses Imo APC of blackmail, intimidation of election Tribunal members

September 2, 2023 Bode Olagoke 0

The African Centre for Justice and Human Rights (ACJHR) has raised the alarm over alleged messages being shared on pro-Imo government and APC WhatsApp groups aimed at allegedly blackmailing, intimidating and tarnishing the image of the three different panels hearing the National and State Assembly Election Petitions in Imo State by loyalists and agents of Imo State government led by Read More

Imo Guber: PDP appoints Ugochinyere campaign DG, Ozuruigbo, Ogbu, Ibe as Deputy

August 22, 2023 Bode Olagoke 0

There’s widespread jubilation in Imo State Tuesday following the announcement by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) that the House of Representatives member representing Ideato North, South federal constituency, Hon. Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere Ikeagwuonu, will be the Director General of its gubernatorial campaign council. The main opposition party, in a statement signed by Dr. Arthur Bruno Ekwelem, the Principal Secretary to Read More

Imo Guber: Ugochinyere, Anyanwu, Onyeriri meet, as PDP candidate seeks support

August 22, 2023 Bode Olagoke 0

Ahead of the 2023 Imo State governorship poll scheduled to hold on November 11, a member of the House of Representatives, lkenga Imo Ugochinyere Ikeagwuonu (PDP, Imo), has met with the PDP candidate, Senator Samuel Anyanwu, and his deputy gubernatorial candidate, Jones Onyeriri, at his office in the National Assembly in Abuja on Monday. This unprecedented meeting signified a significant Read More

Guber poll: CSO raises alarm, demands transfer of Imo REC

August 21, 2023 Bode Olagoke 0

A civil society organisation (CSO) known as International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, has raised the alarm over the alleged plot to compromise the forthcoming Imo State Governorship election scheduled to hold on November 11, 2023. The CSO, who petitioned the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, sought the immediate transfer of the Resident Read More

Breaking: Monarch’s residence razed in Imo

August 13, 2023 Solomon Arowolo 0

Hoodlums have razed the residence of the traditional ruler of the Ndia Iche Arondizuogu community, Eze Kanu Ikenolu. The hoodlums on Sunday stormed the community in Ideato North Local Government Area of Imo State. The hoodlums, who stormed the home of the monarch in the early hours of Sunday, shot sporadically causing panic in the community as villagers, including the Read More

Iyere canvasses support for Uzodinma, meets with Obidients

July 23, 2023 Benjamin Samson 0

A social activist and an entrepreneur, Comrade Kennedy Iyere, on Saturday convened a town hall meeting of Key support groups of the Obidients Movement and their coordinators drawn from the 27 Local Government of Imo state and across the 301 electoral wards in Imo state. The town hall meeting titled “Imo Obidients Townhall Meeting ” which held at the Foret Read More

Imo governorship election: Achonu loses appeal

July 22, 2023 Solomon Arowolo 0

Chidiebere Iwuoha, Owerri The Labour Party (LP) factional governorship candidate in Imo state, Senator Athan Achonu, Friday, lost at the Appeal Court sitting in Owerri, when a three-man panel dismissed his suit and upheld Joseph Ukaegbu as the authentic candidate of the party for the November 11 election in the state. Another claimant to the position, Sir Basil Maduka, had gone Read More

Imo CP bars personnel from checking phones, palmtops, laptops

July 22, 2023 Solomon Arowolo 0

Chidiebere Iwuoha, Owerri The Commissioner of Police in Imo state, CP Mohammed Ahmed Barde, has barred police personnel posted on patrol and guard duties  from harassing members of the public and checking their phones. This is sequel to series of complaints received from members of the public, especially from the youth, alleging indiscriminate harassment, extortion and illegal checking of their Read More

There’s plot to attack Appeal Court President, Imo Tribunal members – Group

June 30, 2023 Bode Olagoke 0

Stakeholders in Imo state under the aegis of Imo Political Stakeholders Forum (IPSF) have condemned the alleged conspiracy by agents of the state to attack and blackmail the President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Monica Dongban-Mensem, and members of the State Election Petition Tribunal. According to the group, the development followed the relocation of the National/State Assembly Election Petitions Read More

Lawyers raise alarm over plot to malign Imo Election Tribunal

June 30, 2023 Deputy Online Editor 0

A group, Lawyers in Defence of Democracy (LIDD), has condemned alleged plans by the Imo state government to malign and damage the reputation of the President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Monica Dongban-Mensem, and members of the Imo State Assembly/National Assembly Election Petitions Tribunal, which is now sitting in Nasarawa state. The group of lawyers in a statement signed Read More

40-year-old lawmaker elected Imo Speaker

June 17, 2023 Chidiebere Iwuoha, Owerri 0

A new speaker has been elected for the Imo State House of Assembly. He is Rt. Hon. Chike Olemgbe, the immediate past Transition Committee chairman of Ihitte Uboma local government area. Olemgbe, a first timer was nominated by Vitalis Azodo of Ideato South State constituency and the nomination was seconded by Hon Ugochukwu Obodo from Owerri Municipal constituency. When no Read More

Imo: Uzodinma deserves second term, committed to raising bar of governance – APC chieftain

June 6, 2023 Bode Olagoke, Abuja 0

A chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) former member of the National Executive Committee of Council of the party, Chief Nduka Anyanwu, has commended the giant strides of Governor Hope Uzodinma in Imo State, saying the governor deserves re-election. Anyanwu who is also the Chairman of Governing Board Council of Administrative Staff College of Nigeria (ASCN), Tuesday, in Read More

Gunmen abduct another catholic priest in Imo

May 27, 2023 Chidiebere Iwuoha, Owerri 0

Another Catholic priest, Rev. Fr. Mathais Opara, was Friday evening abducted by gunmen along Ogbaku/Ejemekwuru road in Imo state. This incident is happening five days after a catholic priest in charge of Christ the King Catholic Church Ezinachi/Ugwuago parish in the Catholic Diocese of Okigwe, Rev Fr Maduka, was kidnapped while preparing for last Sunday’s service. This Friday’s incident involved Fr. Read More

Gunmen abduct another catholic priest in Imo

May 27, 2023 Chidiebere Iwuoha, Owerri 0

Another Catholic priest, Rev. Fr. Mathais Opara, was Friday evening abducted by gunmen along Ogbaku/Ejemekwuru road in Imo state. This incident is happening five days after a catholic priest in charge of Christ the King Catholic Church Ezinachi/Ugwuago parish in the Catholic Diocese of Okigwe, Rev Fr Maduka, was kidnapped while preparing for last Sunday’s service. This Friday’s incident involved Fr. Read More

Again, gunmen invade Imo community, kidnap APC chairman

May 12, 2023 Chidiebere Iwuoha, Owerri 0

The All Progressives Congress (APC) chairman in Umuarugo village, Umueze 2 in Ehime Mbano Local Government Area (LGA) of Imo state, Chinedu Eleliam, has been abducted and taken to an unknown destination by gunmen suspected to be herdsmen. This happened barely 48 hours after the coordinator of Tinubu/Shetima Presidential Campaign Council for Oru East LGA of Imo State, Captain Tony Read More

Imo: At last, INEC declares Accord party’s Azodo winner of Ideato south assembly election

April 19, 2023 Lekan Olaseinde 0

After weeks of contention, the Independent National Electoral Commission has finally declared Accord Party candidate for the Ideato South State Assembly election, Ichie Vitalis Azodo, as the winner of the election. Azodo had won the first election held March 18, 2023 in spite of the abduction of all the electoral officers posted to the seven polling units in his Ugbelle Read More

Supplementary elections: Prevail on Imo REC to announce credible results, Ugochinyere alerts INEC chairman

April 16, 2023 Lekan Olaseinde 0

The House of Representatives member-elect for Ideato North and South Federal Constituency of Imo State, Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere, has appealed to Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) chairman, Prof Mahood Yakubu, to prevail the electoral officials to announce credible results in the supplementary elections. Ugochinyere in a statement issued in Abuja and made available to Blueprint correspondent had alleged that the Read More

Labour Party speaks on ‘invasion of Imo secretariat’

April 3, 2023 Admin III 0

Labour Party has condemned the “invasion and occupation of the party secretariat” in Owerri by those it described as “agents of Imo state Governor, Hope Uzodimma.” In a statement on Monday April 3, 2023, signed by its national secretary, Mallam Umar Farouk, the leadership of the party said, “No reason was given by the state government on why it took Read More

Imo: Sam Amadi joins 2023 governorship contest, reveals choice party

March 31, 2023 Admin III 0

Ahead of Imo state governorship election, a former Chairman of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), Dr Sam Amadi, has declared his intention to contest. In a tweet on Friday, via his official Twitter handle, Amadi said, “The courageous life is a life lived in the practice and defence of truth. “Dream of NEW IMO. Don’t mind those who are frightened Read More

Ihedioha pulls of Imo governorship race

March 29, 2023 Admin III 0

Former governor, Emeka Ihedioha, has pulled out of Imo state gubernatorial race. This was disclosed in a letter dated March 27, 2023, and released on Tuesday, March 28, 2023. The letter reads, “As I turned 58 years last Friday, March 24, I had cause to reflect on so many things, including the state of the Peoples Democratic Party. “Having been Read More