Abia State Archives - Page 236 of 299

Jan

27

2023

Picking Right Man To Serve Is Vital To Progress Of Our Constituency – Dr Samuel

Abia State, Opinion, Politics2023, Abia State, Next Level, Nigeria, Opinion, Politics, Samuel Uba Okorie

PICKING A GOOD PERSON TO SERVE AS OUR REPRESENTATIVE IS VITAL TO THE EFFICIENT RUNNING OF OUR CONSTITUENCY When you are thinking about your Constituency plan, it is easy to focus on the big issues, like deciding who will get your assets, and neglect the smaller, but just as important, decisions. One of such decisions is choosing a competent person to act as Representative of your Constituency. Failing to do so could mean that your Constituency is managed poorly, suffers setbacks, ends up in ruins, or suffers similar undesirable outcomes. A Representative should carry out many important duties such as:•…

Jan

26

2023

By Amos Oge Kalu

INEC directs Abia PDP to conduct fresh primaries for Ikonne’s replacement within 14 days

Abia State, Opinion, Politics2023, Abia State, INEC, Nigeria, Peoples Democratic Party, Politics, RIP, Uche Ikonne

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has announced that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Abia State chapter should conduct a fresh primary within 14 days following the death of its governorship candidate, Uchenna Ikonne. Festus Okoye, INEC’s National Commissioner and Chairman Information and Voter Education Committee, told Daily Sun that since the election is still one month aware, the State’s ruling party still have the window to conduct fresh primary within 14 days of Ikonne’s death. He further explained that; “if the candidate dies when polls have commenced, section 34(3)(b) of the Act provides that the running mate shall continue…

Jan

24

2023

By Amos Oge Kalu

2023: I am no politician, I am on a rescue mission for Abians – Emeka Nwankpa

Abia State, Amos Oge Kalu, Economy, Opinion, Politics2023, Abia State, ACCORD, Emeka Nwankpa, Next Level, Nigeria, Opinion, Personality, Politics

The ACCORD candidate for Abia 2023 governorship contest, Bishop Dr. Emeka Michael Nwankpa, has re-emphasized the need to place a fine gap between being a career politician and a man on a mission borne out of a burden to salvage his state from instituted maladministration from leaders without direction who are hell-bent on subsuming the state in perpetuity without a plan for her feature. He made this known during an interactive session with supporters and stakeholders in Ukwa East Local Government Area where he challenged the electorate to hold him by his words said to them directly, and not through…

Jan

23

2023

By Amos Oge Kalu

Dr. Samuel Uba Okorie Prays for the Constituency

Abia State, Amos Oge Kalu, Opinion, Politics2023, Abia State, Next Level, Nigeria, Opinion, Politics, Samuel Uba Okorie

Lord, thank You for the diverse personalities, abilities, passions, and ways of seeing the world that you’ve placed around me. I beg you today for unity in this Arochukwu Constituency and Abia State. We are highly divided. You alone are the Prince of Peace; you alone are the One whose name is Love. Cover our constitency with Your peace. Teach us—teach me—to love. Show us the ways of forgiveness, of loving our neighbour—even those most outcast—as ourselves. Open our eyes to those who are rejected, powerless, oppressed, or overlooked. You have such great promises for us when we shoulder their…

Jan

21

2023

By Amos Oge Kalu

My Decision To Contest In Borne Out Of Necessity To Salvage Abia – Emeka Nwankpa

Abia State, Amos Oge Kalu, Opinion, Politics2023, Abia State, ACCORD, Emeka Nwankpa, Next Level, Nigeria, Politics

"The only thing necessary for evil to triumph in the world is that good men do nothing"Edmund Burke Abia State is blessed, and like every other state of the federation, she deserves better, her citizens are desirous of good health, quality education, better welfare packages for civil servants, better employment opportunities for her teeming youths, and hope for the future. Unfortunately, she has been denied all these for almost two decades as a result of a lack of purpose and direction in handling her affairs by successive leaders since 1999. The time to change the narrative is long overdue. The…