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Headlines, Imo, INEC Politics, State News
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
Some staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, serving in Imo State have been suspended from office and others charged to court for alleged complicity in the political stalemate in the state. The supervisory Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, for Imo State, Aniedi Abasi Ikoiwak, who disclosed this Thursday in Owerri while briefing the press, […]
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Headlines, Imo, State News
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
The Imo State political logjam has taken a strange twist as the All Progressives Grand Alliance and its governorship candidate, Chief Rochas Okorocha, on Wednesday invoked the jurisdiction of the Federal High Court in Abuja to stop the Independent National Electoral Commission from conducting supplementary elections slated for the state onFriday. They warned that […]
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Headlines, Imo, State News
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
ABAKALIKI- Barely two days to the supplementary election ordered by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in the stalemated Imo State governorship poll, the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Wednesday alleged plot by the ruling party in the state to rig the supplementary election through stuffing of ballot boxes with already thumb-printed ballot papers in favour […]
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Articles, Columnists, Imo, INEC Politics, NNP Columnists, Philips Akpoviri., State News
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere” – Martin Luther King Jr. By Philips Akpoviri, NNP, May 4, 2011- I am neither an Imo state resident nor an Imo state indigene. I am of Delta state extraction – a proud Deltan but a prouder Nigerian. My friend who saw this piece prior to publication […]
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Articles, Columnists, Imo, Kenneth Uwadi, NNP Columnists, State News
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
By Uwadi Kenneth, Imo, Nigeria – May 4, 2011 – I drove into Easy Gate Hotel in Owerri,Imo State of Nigeria, last week Friday with burning anger in my heart, hot, bitter anger. I have good reasons to be angry. It tears out my heart. The governorship election conducted on April 26, 2011 in Imo […]
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Imo, State News
Sunday, May 1st, 2011
Ahead of Friday’s supplementary election in some disputed local government areas in Imo State, the governor, Chief Ikedi Ohakim, has paid a visit to the governorship candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria, Senator Ifeanyi Araraume, for reconciliation. It was gathered that with the visit, Ohakim had allegedly gone to solicit Araraume’s support in […]
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Elections 2011, Imo, INEC Politics, NNP Elections 2011 Updates, State News
Friday, April 29th, 2011
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is in a quandary over its inability to conclude the gubernatorial elections in Imo State. The INEC Chairman, Professor Attahiru Jega and the National Commissioners will meet today, to take a final decision. The Imo State Returning Officer, Professor Enock Akobuzor had declared the elections inconclusive and hinted of a […]
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Elections 2011, Imo, NNP Elections 2011 Updates, State News
Thursday, April 28th, 2011
Riot broke out yesterday evening at the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) office, Port-Harcourt Road, Owerri, Imo State over the stalemated governorship poll results. They literally laid a siege on the INEC office and prevented free movement in and out of the office. The youths urged INEC to declare the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) […]
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Elections 2011, Imo, NNP Elections 2011 Updates, State News
Wednesday, April 27th, 2011
The Imo State governorship election lived up to its billing, with tension and drama, and has been declared inconclusive by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Before then, Governor Ikedi Ohakim of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and Rochas Okorocha of the All Progressives Grand Alliance(APGA) were running head to head. Okorocha led in 12 […]
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Elections 2011, Imo, NNP Elections 2011 Updates, State News
Wednesday, April 27th, 2011
With Rochas Okorocha, the governorship candidate of the All People’s Grand Alliance (APGA) leading comfortably in yesterday’s polls, embattled Governor Ikedi Ohakim of Imo has put the state under siege, using police and the army to harass and intimidate opponents in a bid to steal the election. Early results emerging from yesterday’s gubernatorial elections in […]
