The beneficiaries of the 10,000 jobs offered by the immediate past governor of Imo State, Chief Ikedi Ohakim yesterday staged a peaceful protest on the major roads of Owerri, against the suspension of the programme by Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha. Okorocha in state-wide radio and television broadcast to the people of the state on Monday […]
Imo State Government has slashed the annual security vote of N6.5 billion to N2.5billion to make provision for the free education programme of the state. This was disclosed by the Governor, Rochas Okorocha while speaking during a thanksgiving church service organized in honour of the new administration at the Maria Assumpta Cathedral, Owerri. The governor […]
By Obinna Emeka, Indianapolis. Indiana – May 29, 2011 – It is no more news that the APGA, governorship candidate, Rochas Okorocha, won the Imo state gubernatorial election and will be in charge of Douglass House for four years beginning from May 29th 2011.Okorocha defeated Ikedi Ohakim the incumbent governor . The APGA candidate (Okorocha) […]
The outgoing Governor of Imo State, Chief Ikedi Ohakim, on Friday officially handed over to his successor and governor-elect, Chief Rochas Okorocha, two days ahead of schedule. The News Agency of Nigeria reported that Ohakim lost to Okorocha of the All Progressives Grand Alliance in the general elections in April. In his remark at […]
By Agatha Okoroiwu, NNP, May 25, 2011 – In spite of manipulations, vile propaganda and outright violence, the opposition in Imo State last week failed woefully to rout and remove Governor Ikedi Ohakim as they had boasted. In spite of their undisguised desperation and their utopian promises to Imo people, the voters still showed their […]
Attempts by some defeated governors and governorship candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party to become ministers may have hit a brick wall. Top among them are Imo State Governor Ikedi Ohakim, his Nasarawa State counterpart, Akwe Doma, and the governorship candidate in Lagos State, Dr. Ade Dosunmu. Their names were said to have been […]
The governor-elect of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) in Imo Chief Rochas Okorocha, Monday reassured people of the state of his commitment toward achieving the Rescue Mission Agenda (RMA) which was his campaign manifesto. Okorocha told newsmen at a news conference in Owerri that his four-year administration would fight to eradicate poverty and unemployment […]
President Goodluck Jonathan has been urged not to appoint outgoing governor of Imo State , Chief Ikedi Ohakim a cabinet Minister in order not to provoke the anger of the people. The League of Okigwe Professionals in a statement in Owerri on Saturday argued that after the disgraceful ouster of Ohakim by Imo people as […]
The supplementary election of May 6, 2011 in Imo State that culminated in the declaration of Chief Rochas Anayochukwu Okorocha of the All Progressives Grand Alliance as the governor-elect is generally regarded by most indigenes of Imo State as one of the best things to happen to the state since it was created in […]
President Goodluck Jonathan and the defeated governor of Imo State, Chief Ikedi Ohakim, have congratulated the All Progressives Grand Alliance candidate, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, on emerging victorious in the governorship poll concluded in the state on Friday. Speaking through a statement from his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Ima Niboro, Jonathan said, […]
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