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Orbih urges PDP presidential aspirants to focus
on issues
By Gabriel
Enogholase
BENIN—EDO State
Chairman of the
Peoples Democratic
Party, PDP, Chief Dan
Orbih, has advised
presidential aspirants
seeking the party’s
ticket to address issues
instead of running down
one another.
He gave the advice in
Benin City, when
Senator Muhammed
Markafi and former Vice
President Atiku
Abubakar visited the
state separately to seek
the support of delegates
to the party’s convention
slated for September,
2018.
Orbih said, “You can
see that those of us from
Edo State are usually
very objective before we
Odili urges support for Wike as special
birthday wish
By Egufe Yafugborhi
FORMER
Rivers
State governor, Dr
Peter Odili, has called on
all Rivers people,
irrespective of political
affiliation, to totally
support Governor
Nyesom Wike, to
consolidate the rapid
rise of a new Rivers
State.
This came as the
Chaplain of Our Lady of
Holy Chaplaincy of
Catholic Institute of West
Africa, CIWA, Rev
Monsignor Pius Kii, said
that lowest point in the
70 years of former Rivers
State Governor, Odili
was when his political
godson, also a former
governor of the state,
attempted to destroy his
political life through a
kangaroo Truth and
Reconciliation
Commission.
Both leaders spoke at
the special Thanksgiving
Mass to mark the 70th
birthday celebration of Dr
Peter Odili organised by
the Rivers State
Government at Our
Lady of the Holy Rosary
Chaplaincy, CIWA, Port
Harcourt, yesterday.
Odili said: “Let me use
this opportunity to urge
our people, all Rivers
men and women, our
A-Ibom women rally for Emmanuel's 2nd
term
By Harris-Okon
Emmanuel &
Chioma Onuegbu
U YO—THO-
USANDS of
women drawn from the
three senatorial districts of
Akwa Ibom State marched
through the streets of
Uyo, the state capital, to
drum up support for the
re-election of Governor
Udom Emmanuel in
2019.
The women in different
uniforms sang and
danced, and ended the
solidarity march at
Government House, Uyo,
take decisions. You are
the first set of
presidential aspirants to
visit our state without a
sitting governor, but I
want to assure you that
the party is very strong
here.
“You have given our
people food for thought
after listening to your
speeches. This party is
truly blessed because we
have the best brains in
chiefs and the entire
political class, everybody
that is proud to be
identified and called a
Rivers man or woman, to
give your total support to
Governor, Wike.
“I am not saying it from
a political position. I am
talking from the position
where they re-affirmed
their unalloyed support
for the governor and
vowed to mobilize others
to vote for him.
In thinly veiled remarks,
the women taunted the
former governor, Senator
Godswill Akpabio, for
defecting to the All
Progressives Congress,
APC.
In her remarks,
Commissioner for Women
Affairs and Social Welfare,
Dr. Glory Edet, who led
the women, insisted that
there was no vacancy in
the Hill Top Mansion, the
Akwa Ibom State
our party to give
Nigerians the leadership
they deserve.
“I, therefore, appeal to
you our presidential
aspirants visiting us to
address issues. Do not
run down anybody. We
must run civilized
campaigns and at the
end of the day, we will
support the person who
God wants to use to win
the election.”
MoU:From left: Compliance Manager, Nigerian Bottling Company Limited, NBC, Mrs. Abiodun Peters;
Executive Secretary, Lagos State Employment Trust Fund, LSETF, Mr. Akintunde Oyebode and Public
Affairs and Communications Manager, Coca-Cola Nigeria, Mrs. Amaka Onyemelukwe, at the signing of
Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, for the empowerment of 1,000 women in Lagos State, today.
of an elder-statesman.
This is because, with his
leadership, we can
achieve total cohesion
and unity of our people.
Once that is achieved,
the sky is the take off
point for the New Rivers
State that he is
building.”
Government House, noting
that the women of the
state supported the governor’s
two predecessors,
who governed for eight
years each, as such the
incumbent governor deserves
to serve for two
terms in office as well.
Speaking on behalf of
Eket senatorial district,
Mrs. Patience Ukpa,
supported the
commissioner's position,
saying that they would
not support any other
party apart from the
People’s Democratic Party,
PDP.
Okowa restored peace to riverine
communities —House of Reps
aspirant
Asaba, said the governor
By Victor Ahiuma-
Young
ASABA—A House
of Representatives
aspirant for 2019 election
and Senior Special
Assistant to Delta State
Governor on Intelligence
Gathering and
C o m m u n i t y
Development, Mr Smart
Yomi, has called on
Deltans to emulate
Governor Ifeanyi Okowa’s
honest and efficient
administrative style in fast
tracking development in
the state.
Yomi, who spoke in
Wait for God’s appointed time,
Onuoha tells Biafra agitators
By Festus Ahon
A SABA—PASTOR
Olisadebelum
Onuoha of Jehovah’s
World Ministerial
Outreach, has told the
leadership of Indigenous
People of Biafra, IPOB,
Ohaneze Ndigbo and
Movement for the
Actualisation of the
Sovereign State of Biafra,
MASSOB, to resolve their
differences, saying that the
time for the realization of
Biafra Republic was not
now.
Onuoha who spoke to
newsmen in Asaba, Delta
State, appealed to those
agitating for the Biafra Republic
to wait for the appointed
time ordained by
God, adding that at the
appointed time, the Biafra
Republic would be
actualized.
He said: “Make no
mistake about it, the nation
must emerge but not now
because God has time for
everything that He has
ordained. Those agitating
for the State of Biafra should
seek God first because the
land of Jerusalem that had
been handed over to Israel
with the backing of
America’s President Trump
is yet to enjoy genuine
peace."
Businessman petitions IGP over
alleged police intimidation
By Davies
Iheamnachor
PORT
HAR-
COURT—A Port
Harcourt-based
businessman, Ernest
Nwanku, has petitioned
the Inspector-General of
Police, Ibrahim Idris, over
alleged violation of his
human rights by men of the
IGP Monitoring Unit in
Rivers State.
Ernest decried alleged
threat to his life and his
School proprietress lauds teachers
for students’ performance
S APELE—PROP-
RIETRESS of Great
Child Secondary school,
Sapele, Delta State, Mrs
Roseline Okotie, has
attributed the good
performance of students of
the school in the last Senior
Secondary School
Certificate Examination,
SSSCE, to the commitment
of the teachers to duty.
Okotie at the school’s
cultural day/graduation
ceremony, said all the
demonstrated an
administrative style that
had brought courage and
hope to Deltans, noting
that he had also
delivered on his
campaign promises.
According to him, the
peace in the creeks and
what the governor was
doing in the riverine
communities in terms
rural infrastructural
development are
unprecedented, adding
that it was what some
sons and daughters of the
state who had
opportunities could not
do.
family by an officer (names
withheld) in the IGP
monitoring unit in Aluu,
Ikwerre Local Government
Area of the state.
The petitioner said: “The
police officer has been
harassing me and my
family. He beat my wife and
slapped me. He threatened
to kill me with a knife. He
called me a ritualist for
reasons I do not know. He
has been infringing on my
fundamental human
rights."
students who wrote the
2017/2018 SSSCE had
credits in all their subjects
including Mathematics
and English.
She said: “The students
were able to do so well
because of the dedication
of the teachers to duty and
the sound cultural values
received from their
parents,” urging the
students not to abandon
such values wherever they
go.