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  • Anambra Decides: ‎AA candidate, Nweke impressed with voters’ turnout

    Anambra Decides: ‎AA candidate, Nweke impressed with voters’ turnout

    The Anambra Governorship candidate of the Action Alliance (AA), Chief Jeff Nweke has commended the conduct and turnout of voters during Saturday’s election.

    Nweke who spoke shortly after casting his vote at Ogbugbankwa polling unit , Awka said that the turnout of voter was Impressive.

    “I was impressed with the eagerness of the people to vote as it indicated their desire for good governance.

    “They are so excited and enthusiastic in coming out today to make a statement, The turnout is very encouraging.

    “Indeed, our democracy in Nigeria has come of age where one can say we have a democracy, however, as far as this exercise is concerned, it has been so good in spite of the fact that voting is still ongoing.

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    ‎”The day has not ended as people are still casting their votes without any manner of intimidation or otherwise. I hope the peaceful nature of the election would continue till the end of the process,” he said.

    ‎Nweke expressed appreciation for the technical functions of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, adding that the commission has really wants to improve on its previous performance.

    ‎”I am personally happy with INEC together with the manner the election is going on at this polling units in Ogbugbankwa, Awka.

    “Though, we are observing some hitches but still, so far it is commendable,” he said.

    (NAN)

  • Ondo Action Alliance joins forces with Pro-Tinubu group for 2027 election

    Ondo Action Alliance joins forces with Pro-Tinubu group for 2027 election

    The opposition Action Alliance (AA) in Ondo State has pledged to collaborate with the Progressives Network for Tinubu (PNT) to support President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s re-election bid in 2027.

    The partnership was formalised at a high-level meeting between AA leaders and the pro-Tinubu group on Thursday in Akure, the state capital.

    Director General of PNT, Pastor Olumide Obadele, described the alliance as a landmark step toward consolidating Tinubu’s support base in Ondo, adding that both groups aim to deliver over 80 percent of the state’s votes for the president.

    “Today, history is being made as we welcome the entire structure of the Action Alliance in Ondo into the Progressives Network for Tinubu. This is part of our pursuit to secure more than 80 percent of votes for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in 2027,” Obadele said.

    He credited the alliance to the efforts of Interior Minister Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo and Ondo APC Chairman, Engr. Ade Adetimehin, while stressing that the coalition is committed to driving massive voter turnout in 2027, unlike in past elections marked by apathy.

    “It is against this backdrop that we have picked up the challenge to educate, enlighten, and mobilise the electorate in the nooks and crannies of Ondo State.

    “They must be part of the emergence of a new Nigeria by supporting President Tinubu for a second term,” Obadele said.

    He added that the Tinubu administration has made significant progress in the economy, agriculture, infrastructure, and other sectors, which would be showcased during the campaign.

    Explaining the PNT’s approach, Obadele noted that the group would engage all eligible voters regardless of party affiliation.

    “We talk to groups, opposition parties, organisations, religious bodies, elites as well as ordinary people. Though we belong to the APC, it is not just about party politics. We are for Asiwaju.”

    He further described the group as a blend of old and new politicians united by passion and energy.

    “We are not violent. We are not cantankerous, and we hold no grudge against anyone. We are peace ambassadors answerable to the Honourable Minister of Interior, Dr. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo,” he added.

    Also speaking, the state chairman of the Action Alliance and former governorship candidate of the party, Fred Akinuli, said the opposition party had resolved to support and promote President Tinubu’s achievements in strategic alignment with PNT across the 18 local government areas of Ondo State.

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    “This is a meeting to synergise with PNT and not a campaign effort, as we are fully aware that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is yet to lift the ban on open campaigns.

    “We have resolved to support, propagate, and promote the good work of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in a strategic alignment with PNT across Ondo State to deliver not less than 80,000 votes come the 2027 general election.

    “Let me assure the leadership of PNT that our party shall work assiduously with you in all the 18 local governments and 203 wards in Ondo State to achieve good results in the task ahead.

    “We believe God has chosen President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to be in the vanguard of reformation and positive change in Nigeria,” Akinuli added.

  • Lagos Action Alliance elects Adegbulugbe, others new executives

    Lagos Action Alliance elects Adegbulugbe, others new executives

    Lagos Chapter of the Action Alliance (AA) has elected another set of executives that will pilot the affairs of the party for the next four years. 

    The new party publicity Secretary, Eniola Adedeji, said the executive officers emerged after the congress following strict screening by the party, and announcement after a clear demonstration of their social and political ideological congruence with the values of Action Alliance . 

    The new members of the executive brought with them years of experience in business, social, and political  management which will serve as the bedrock for the growth of the party and the proliferation of its political ideologies and philosophies. 

    The new party chairman of Action Alliance, Kehinde Adegbulugbe, in his acceptance speech, emphasised that Action Alliance has taken the bold step to infuse the values of inclusive, representative, and people-oriented politicking in Lagos State.

    “As the chairman of the Lagos State chapter of the party, myself and fellow executives are dedicated to redefining inclusive and accountable representation for the people.

    We are committed to changing the status quo by offering individuals and groups who earnestly desire to serve the cause of the people with a platform to share their ideas and plans,” he said.

    Other executives’ committee members elected include:  Adeniyi Adeoye – Deputy State Chairman; Yetunde Adebayo – State Secretary; Ibrahim Olateju Atanda -Deputy State Secretary; 

    Ajayi Iyoha – State Treasurer; Hycent Chiemeka – Deputy Treasurer; Kayode Akintade – Financial Secretary; Abosede Ehigiator -Deputy Financial Secretary , Edirinverere Emmanuel Eghagha auditor , Shanuolu Peter Oluwatosin -Deputy State Auditor, Micheal Ogunde -State Organising Secretary , Awoyemi Olamide -Deputy State Organising Secretary , Eniola Regina Adedeji-State Publicity Secretary, Emmanuel Oke-Deputy State Publicity Secretary, Adeyemi  Adeyela -State Legal Adviser, Olawale Oreoluwatomiwa Deborah-Deputy State Legal Adviser, Adedoyin Oluwatomisin Fatoyinbo- State women leader, Vivian Umeh-Deputy Women leader, Oluyomi Emmanuel Famuyiwa -State Youth leader and Muhammed Yusuf Olatunji-Deputy State Youth Leader.

    The list of executive officers, along with their respective portfolios, who emerged after the congress were ratified and registered by INEC on 8th, February, 2025.

    The State Congress received about 500 new members with 60 percent representing the youths.

  • Action Alliance explains decision not to challenge Kogi Gov poll at tribunal

    Action Alliance explains decision not to challenge Kogi Gov poll at tribunal

    The Action Alliance has distanced itself from a suit filed at the Kogi State Governorship Election Petition challenging the outcome of the November 11 poll. 

    Speaking on Monday in Abuja, its national chairman, Hon (Dr) Adekunle Rufai Omoaje, said the party is not interested in pursuing a case against Governor-elect Usman Ododo. 

    Omoaje said after emerging as the candidate, Olayinka Ibrahimoh operated without carrying the party along and his decision to head to the judiciary is not supported by the Action Alliance. 

    He said as far they are concerned there was no petition at the Tribunal.

    The party said it will sanction anyone that goes into any illegal arrangements with some persons in the tribunal to plant any petition as the time permitted for such has also elapsed.

    He said: “From the moment INEC published the final list of candidates for the Kogi gubernatorial election, Olayinka Ibrahimoh, our adopted candidate for that election deliberately built an edge around himself against the party, making it difficult to relate with him.

    “Every overture to him from the party’s leadership to discuss his plans for the election was rebuffed with bold-faced arrogance. The Deputy National Chairman of our great party, in person of Alhaji Ibrahim Isa who led the national team to Kogi State to monitor the election, was left an orphan in Lokoja throughout his team’s stay in the state. Not even a single call was made to him all through.

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    “A few days ago, we heard that the party in Kogi State had approached the Governorship Elections Petition Tribunal with a petition on behalf of the party without the national leadership knowing it at all. We have come a long way in political engagements to understand the dangers involved in such isolated arrangements. We will not allow our party to be rubbished again as we witnessed in the recent past with such arrangements that isolated the national office in similar processes.

    “Consequent upon the aforementioned, we are stating clearly here that our party; the Action Alliance has no hand in the matter before the Kogi State governorship election tribunal and we say unequivocally that we are not interested in the matter at all. “

  • Why we sued Action Alliance, national chairman – Aggrieved party members

    Why we sued Action Alliance, national chairman – Aggrieved party members

    Some aggrieved members of the Action Alliance (AA), on Monday, disclosed real reasons they sued the party and its National Chairman, Dr Adekunle Omo-Aje, at a Federal High Court, Abuja.

    The plaintiffs, who spoke through Ugochukwu Ogbuji, said to be the Deputy National Publicity Secretary of AA, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in a telephone interview that they opposed the recently conducted national convention of the party.

    Ogbuji said the national convention ought not to have been conducted since the current tenure of the national executive committee (NEC).members was yet to expire.

    “They went to Olusegun Obasanjo’s Library in Ogun State on October 7th, 2023 and do what they called selective election without the consent of the National Working Committee (NWC) and NEC of the party.

    “There was no meeting that was held that the NWC took a decision that we should have a national convention,” he said.

    He alleged that some of those who attended the convention were not members of AA.

    Ogbuji insisted the convention was null and void.

    On whether the aggrieved members explored internal mechanism of the party to resolve the matter before approaching court, he said they did not because Omo-Aje would not listen to advice.

    He said their prayer was that the court should declare that their tenure had not ended and set aside the convention.

    Besides, Ogbuji said before a person is qualified to be national chairman of AA, he or she must possess a minimum of SSCE certificate.

    “We are now approaching the court that if such a person has the basic requirement, he should present it to the court.

    “That is what makes him to be the national chairman,” he said.

    When asked if the plaintiffs assumed Omo-Aje did not have SSCE qualification, he said: “We are not saying that. We are saying that the court should ask him to produce it.

    “Let us know if he has it or not. For now, we have not seen it. Let him present it to the court.”

    When asked further why the question of SSCE certificate was coming at this time since Omo-Aje had been presiding as AA chairman, Ogbuji said: “The answer is that my brother, you cannot continue this way; that is how it supposed to be.

    “Because what we are trying to do is to try to defend the constitution of the party which is the primary thing.

    “We are trying to put things in order on how it should be because the constitution of the party is supreme.”

    According to him, we are not witch hunting anybody but what we are trying to do is that the constitution of the party should be followed and obeyed and all the executives of the party should be allowed to carry out their functions without bias.

    He listed some of the members who filed the case to include Esther Esevohare, national women leader; Deborah Banjo, national treasurer; Pastor Samuel Oboro, financial secretary; Dr Mike Madu, national youth leader; Chief Chinedu Ukadike, an ex-officio of south east; Sunday John-Bull, the ex-officio of south south, and  Alhaji Isa Haladu.

    NAN reports that in the suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/1447/2023, the eight plaintiffs sued AA, Omo-Aje, Amb. Suleiman Abdulrasheed, Miller Orgwu, Prince Ademola Adekanbi, Prince Awolola Awofala, Alhaji Sanni Darma, Solomon Okhanigbuan, Hon Joshua Adewole as 1st to 9th defendants respectively.

    Others include Alhaji Wasiu Adeyemo, Mrs Joke Adebayo, Jummai Umar, Ahmadu Gambo and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as 10th to 14th defendants respectively.

    Responding, the AA National Chairman, Omo-Aje, disagreed with Ogbuji, insisting that the party held its elective national convention on Oct. 7 in compliance with the party’s constitutions and guidelines for the election.

    Omo-Aje, who said that INEC officers monitored the convention, said the list of the new set of the national officers were forwarded to the commission.

    According to him, all the due notices were given to appropriate authorities and members.

    He said the convention was initially scheduled for Aug. 17 and INEC was duly notified but many members did not buy the forms to represent federal character spread and the convention had to be postponed.

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    He said on Aug. 27, a NEC meeting of the party was held and all the plaintiffs, except John-Bull and Haladu, were present and they made contributions and were part of the decisions taken.

    Omo-Aje, who said that there was no selective convention contrary to insinuations, said new executives were elected and nobody was excluded from participating.

    He clarified that the new executive would not perform the function of their office “until the tenure of the present executive expires and there is proper handing-over and swearing-in.”

    Omo-Aje, who dispelled the rumour about his non-possession of SSCE certificate, said such allegation was laughable.

    He said he completed his secondary school education at Olumayin High School, Mayin, in Surulere Local Government Area of Oyo State with student exam number: 4313304/147 and that any interested person could go to the school to verify.(NAN)

  • Action Alliance gets nod to inspect election materials

    The Elections Petitions Tribunal in Imo State has granted the Action Alliance (AA) leave to inspect materials used for the March 9 governorship election.

    The panel granted the petitioners leave to also inspect copy, photocopy and obtain Certified True Copies of all the electoral materials related to or in connection with the conduct of the Imo State governorship election held on March 9, including but not limited to ballot papers (used and unused); the voters’ register; forms EC8A, EC8B, EC8C, EC8D, EC8E, EC 17A, EC 25A, EC 25B, EC 40A, EC 40G, EC 40H; all the incident forms filed by voters in all the polling units; the list of Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) collected and used in the election; all the card readers; data of accredited voters as captured by the smart card readers; record of ballot paper allocation to all the polling units; list of all presiding officers for all the units.

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    Also to be inspected by the petitioners include INEC’s manual and guidelines; the list of the polling agents submitted to INEC by all the political parties and every other electoral material used in the conduct of the election for the purpose of instituting, maintaining and prosecuting the petition and for the purpose of presenting same at the trial.

  • Court strikes out suit restraining INEC from issuing certificate of return to Ihedioha

    A Federal High Court sitting in Owerri on Friday struck out a suit restraining the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from issuing certificate of return to Imo governor elect Emeka Ihedioha.

    The court also ruled that post- election matters belonged to the election tribunals.

    Candidate of the Action Alliance (AA) in the March 9 governorship election, Mr Uche Nwosu had gone to court to get an order restraining the court from issuing a certificate of return to People’s Democratic Party (PDP)’s Emeka Ihedioha.

    READ ALSO: ‘INEC should withhold Ihedioha’s Certificate of Return’

    Nwosu had argued that Ihedioha did not meet the required 25 per cent of the votes in 18 out of the 27 LGs in Imo.

    Striking the matter out, Justice Tijjani Ringim held that post election matters are to be handled by the election tribunal.

    Ringim said that “the quest for justice must be in line with the constitution. Post- election matters belong to election tribunal “.

    INEC had on March 11 declared Ihedioha winner of the election.

    Ihedioha had polled a total 273,404 votes to defeat Nwosu who came second with 190,364 votes.

    NAN

  • PDP to INEC: declare Imo North senatorial result

    The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has charged the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu to direct the immediate announcement of the already collated results of the February 23, 2019 Imo North Senatorial election, as well as March 9 rerun poll, in which the PDP candidate, Hon. Ndubueze Patrick, is said to be in clear lead.

    The party cautions that the continuous delay in announcing the final result, after returns have been established at the polling units, wards and local government levels is already heightening tension in the state.

    A statement Friday by the spokesman for the PDP, Kola Ologbondiyan, said its public knowledge that the results have been moved to INEC headquarters in Abuja following the alleged harassment of INEC officials in Imo state by agents of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Action Alliance (AA).

    The statement said, “From the collated results in the February 23 elections, the PDP won in all the local governments in Imo North before polls in two local governments; Isiala Mbano and Ehime Mbano were cancelled and scheduled for rerun.

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    “Already, from the results declared, the PDP led in Okigwe, Onuimo, Obowo and Ihite/Uboma Local Government Areas with 21, 254, ahead of APC and AA, which scored 12,756 and 12,236 respectively.

    “At the March 9 rerun elections, when the AA and the APC realized that the PDP was winning, they resorted to mutilation and alteration of results, particularly with the collaboration of collation officers in Ehime Mbano, before the intervention of the state Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), who called for proper scrutiny of documents following protests by the people.

    “The PDP believes that the INEC had completed its investigation on the documents and results of the rerun election, which established our victory in that election.

    “The party therefore urges Prof. Yakubu to douse the tension in Imo state by directing the declaration of the final results and return our candidate, Ndubueze Patrick, who has been legitimately elected by the people of Imo North to represent them at the Senate”.

  • AA candidate Nwosu votes, upbeat on victory

    The governorship candidate of the Action Alliance (AA) in Imo state, Uche Nwosu, has expreased satisfaction over the conduct of the governorship and House of Assemly election.
    Nwosu who cast his vote, alongside his wife at his Eziama Obire Polling Unit 004, at exactly 9.48am, said he is certain he will defeat other candidates in the keenly contested election.
    The AA candidate also expressed satisfaction over the security situation,  adding that though the state was politically charged, the security Agencies were on top of the situation.
    According to him, he was expecting large turnout number of voters unlike in the last election.
    Nwosu said ‘I am satisfied with the voting process.you can see I voted with my wife. So far the Card Readers are working well. I will win, Action Action will form the next government in Imo”.

  • Poll shit: our support for Buhari intact- Nwosu

    …appeals for calm

     

    The governorship candidate of the Action Alliance (AA), Uche Nwosu, on Tuesday, reassured that the party will deliver President Muhammadu Buhari in the rescheduled Presidential election.

    Nwosu, who briefed journalists in Owerri, noted that the postponement of the Presidential and National Assembly election has not dampened his zeal and that of his supporters, adding that they will come and enmasse to cast their votes for the President.

    According to him, even though the postponement came at a great cost to Nigerians, it would have been more costly if at the end of the day the election was discovered to have been compromised.

    In his words, “we are prepared to deliver President Muhammadu Buhari on February 23, there is no going back on that. We are still committed to our promise to deliver one million votes to President Muhammadu Buhari and not even the shock and disappointment of the postponement can alter our resolve”.

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    He continued that, “on the day that the election was scheduled to hold, we had already mobilized massively and we were sure of victory for the President before the election was postponed but we are back to the trenches and we are seriously mobilizing our members across the state ahead the February 23 Presidential and National Assembly elections”.

    Nwosu, however, enjoined members of the party, as well as all his supporters across party lines to remain calm and rise above the pains and disappointment of the election postponement and focus on the job at hand, “we should not despair, we should remain resolute in our support for President Muhammadu Buhari and make that we come out and vote on the new date”.