Ekweremadu, Nnaji pick PDP ticket to contest 2015 senatorial election in Enugu state

 Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu and Sen. Gilbert Nnaji Chairman, Senate Committee on Communications, have won the PDP primary to contest the 2015 senatorial election in Enugu state.
Ekweremadu won the Enugu-West senatorial seat after his opponent; Gov. Sullivan Chime of Enugu State withdrew from the race in the primary conducted in Enugu on Sunday.
Nnaji, representing Enugu-East senatorial zone was returned after he secured 231 votes of the 247 accredited votes.

EXPOSED: Why Ini Edo’s marriage Crashed

It is no longer news that top actress Ini Edo’s marriage to Philips Ehiagwina has collapsed. So much has been written mostly by writers relying on third party sources as to why the marriage failed.
The widely speculated reason has been the issue of infidelity that the husband alleged.
But was that the main reason the couple went their separate ways? According to a source close to the couple and was there when the romance started in 2008, and remained close to the now divorced couple, the media has been scratching the surface of what indeed was a story of irreconciliable differences the actress endured for over six years of her marriage to her estranged husband; and why she gave her all to sustain the marriage. It is a story as told by an insider who knew the couple way back from New York, where Philips once lived, before moving to Texas, then to Atlanta and now Ghana.

Obiano Moves to Modernize Anambra, Launches Intercity Taxi to link Onitsha, Nnewi, Awka

 In a bold move to give the three leading cities of Anambra State an outlook of modernity and shore up their social index, the governor of Anambra State, Chief Willie Obiano has launched three landmark initiatives that will change the face of the State.

SEN ANNIE OKONKWO EMERGES ANAMBRA CENTRAL PDP CANDIDATE

In the usual dramatic epic consistent with Anambra state PDP politics, different candidates have emerged from different primaries for the National Assembly election.
In a major come back upset Sen Annie Okonkwo clinched  the ticket of the primary conducted by the recognized Ejike Ogwuebego- led state executives of the PDP.
The veteran PDP grass root politician confirmed his mastery of the game when he defeated other contenders including House of Rep member vieing for the same office, Honurable Uche Ekwunife, Dr. Obiora Okonkwo, and his new entrant cousin, Barr. Sylvester Okonkwo.
In the massively attended congress at Emmaus House, Awka, the freewill of the party members turned the edge in favour of the senator Annie Okonkwo against  other rumoured  anointed candidates from the presidency and  other quarters.

Anambra PDP Senatorial Primaries : Uba Brothers; Ekwunife; Annie Okonkwo; Oduah Others Declare Selves Winner

BY ABUCHI IFESINACHI, AWKA

It started at the Commissioner Of Police office in the morning where most of the senatorial aspirants of the PDP in Anambra State went for the materials for the Primary election since the panel deposited the materials to CP when they arrived Awka .

Due to the tension at the station , CP then told the aspirants that he would not release the materials for the election since it was likely to cause break down of law and order due to the existing Court Judgement against the delegates list.

Oduah Wins PDP Primary for Anambra North Senatorial Seat

Business mogul and former Minister of Aviation,Princess Stella Oduah has won the People Democratic Party (PDP) primary for Anambra North Senatorial zone, polling the highest number of votes above other contenders that include Senator Margery Okadigbo, the outgoing Senator representing the zone in the last four years.

The result of the election which was held at Nteje,Anambra state Sunday morning were: Sam Ikemuefuna 10 votes; John Emeka, 15 votes,Senator Margery Okadigbo, 8 votes, Princess Stella Oduah, 259 and 5 invalid votes recorded, making it a total of 297, which is the number of voters that were accredited.

My relationship with Fashola cordial –Tinubu

The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and a former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has in­sisted that his relationship with Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola was cordial and intact.
He said that political char­latans and enemies were just peddling rumours of an al­leged feud between them.
In a statement by his media office yesterday, the former governor said he had “noticed and read many published political stories on Lagos politics in particular and the personali­ties involved that are either concorted, unsubstantiated, pure conjectures or outright falsehood.”

APC: FRESH TROUBLE FOR AMBODE •Faces perjury probe •May be arrested this week

NEWLY-ELECTED Lagos State governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, is likely to be arrested by security agencies this week over an alleged criminal conduct, Sunday Tribune has learnt.
Checks within security circle pointed at Wednesday as the likely day he would be taken in for questioning and possible detention over alleged perjury.
His current travail is from within his party, with some party members behind the petition upon which the probe would be predicated.
Sunday Tribune gathered that the petition alleging perjury against Ambode was authored by Lagos APC Integrity Group, and that copies were submitted to the police and the Department of State Security Service (DSS).
Attached to the petition, which got to the leadership of the two security bodies in Abuja last Wednesday, were documents to prove the alleged perjury against the governorship candidate.
The petitioners accused him of lying on oath by claiming in his Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) examination form in 1981 that he was from Ilaje in Ondo State, only to claim in his APC nomination form, on oath again, to be from Epe in Lagos State, during the governorship primary contest.

Breaking News: Former NCC Boss, Ernest Ndukwe Clinches Anambra South Senatorial Ticket

Nigeria’s most successful and celebrated Chief Executive Officer of Nigeria Communications Commission, Dr Ernest Ndukwe, OFR has won the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) primary election for the Anambra South Senatorial Zone.

The result of the election held at Beverly Hills Hotel, Nnewi is as follows:

Dr Ernest Ndukwe - 344 Votes

Dr Okey Udeh – 136 Votes

Chief Maja Umeh - 24 Votes

Kate Henshaw loses PDP primary election