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  • APC lawmaker promises better representation as her campaign begins

    The member representing Umunneochi/Isiukwuato Federal Constituency of Abia State, Nkeriuka Onyejiocha, has formally kick-started her campaign for re-election into the National Assembly in next year’s general elections.

    Onyejiocha, who recently defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC), promised her constituents of better representation, if re-elected.

    The lawmaker listed the achievements she recorded in the last eight years to include construction and reconstruction of over 50 primary and secondary schools, sponsoring of over 238 constituents through her scholarship scheme, the Aviation College at Isuochi, building of a community library with books and furniture, designing of erosion control drainage/environmental impact assessment for Abia State University, Afikpo-Uturu road and Isiukwuato-Uturu road.

    She said: “In the face of the new economic challenge we face, we need a representative with original ideas to take on these new challenges so that we can build on and deepen the successes of the current administration led by our dear President Muhammadu Buhari.

    “There is only one course of action: we must be courageous and determined; we must build on and extend the successes of the current Federal Government administration to achieve the aspiration of Isiukwuato/Umunneochi people.

    “I stand before you today on the giant shoulders of the successes of my representation as the member representing Isiukwuato/Umunneochi Federal Constituency in the last 11 years. By the special grace of God, I have been able to give effective representation to Isiukwuato/Umunneochi Federal Constituency and achieved what was said to be impossible.

  • 2019: APC lawmaker sponsors unity concert

    All Progressives Congress (APC) party leaders, aspirants and members, as well as other members of the public were hosted to a unity concert and birthday thanksgiving ceremony yesterday by the Majority Leader of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. SOB Agunbiade. Participants at the event, which include all L.G.A and ward party executives from the three Council areas in the constituency and all leading party chieftains, poured encomiums on Agunbiade for extending the olive branch to his co-contestants after the primary election.

    Gifts and other welfare items were also distributed to party members and other beneficiaries at the grand event. Food items, cash and other relieving assistances were given to constituents across board. Agunbiade appreciated the rare opportunity given him by his constituents and party leaders to seek the mandate of the voters for a record 4th term on the platform of the ruling party, saying the wonderful people of Ikorodu are his ‘destiny helpers.

    “You are one of my destiny helpers through whom the grace of God visited me in the last House of Assembly primary election and bestowed on me once again, the ticket of our great party, the All Progressive Congress (APC) thereby making me it’s flag – bearer for the February 2019 general elections. Now that we are close to the general elections in February 2019, I want to enjoin you to please leave no stone unturned in this struggle to achieve total victory for all the candidates of our party (APC) in the general election. It is in the light of the foregoing that I will like to appeal to you and through you to other sons and daughters of Ikorodu, to look beyond the frictions of the primary elections.

    “Ikorodu is bigger than all of us and we can’t get it wrong if we do it right. To all that voted in the primary, whether for or against me, I commend you for coming out to vote. We are one and shall remain together in progress and in grace. Let us all go out as loyal party members and work for President Muhammadu Buhari for President, Prof. Yemi Osibajo for Vice President, Jide  Sanwoolu for Governor, Bayo Osinowo (Pepper) for Senate, Jimi Benson for Reps and myself, SOB Agunbiade for House of Assembly,” he appealed..

  • Peterside condemns suspension of APC lawmaker

    Peterside condemns suspension of APC lawmaker

    Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Dakuku Peterside, has condemned the suspension of a member of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Azubike Nwanjoku (Ikwerre).

    He said the lawmakers must be called to order, adding that the Ikuinyi-Owaji Ibani-led Assembly lacked the powers to suspend Nwanjoku, who is also the President-General of Ikwerre Youth Movement (IYM) International.

    Peterside, in a statement yesterday by his media team, said if the PDP lawmakers were properly informed, they would have known that they lacked the authority to suspend their colleague.

    He referred the lawmakers to a recent suit filed by Senator Ali Ndume, challenging his suspension by the Senate leadership, stressing that Justice Babatunde Quadri ordered Ndume’s reinstatement.

    The DG accused the PDP lawmakers of being used by an external influence, maintaining that the latest action would only heat up the polity.

    The statement reads: “The leadership of the Rivers State House of Assembly must be called to order. They want to embark on a journey which can cause unnecessary tension in the state. It is trite in law that even an accused must be given the opportunity to defend himself.

    “By becoming a law unto itself, the Rivers Assembly leadership is unwittingly bringing home ant-infested wood, and it must be ready to dance when the music is played. The PDP members in the House can quickly correct themselves and salvage whatever pride left in them.

    “From the way the House operates, one can effortlessly affirm that the once-honourable House has self relegated its core essence to petty local political rivalry, and has become a laughing stock, a cadre of lawmakers who ought not to be taken seriously.

    “The attempt by a certain individual to become an emperor will only last but for a moment. The unfolding drama in House is being orchestrated by the emperor and at the fullness of time, his end will become history.”

    Nwanjoku was on Monday suspended for alleged misconduct, following a vote by 15 Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) lawmakers, while the two APC lawmakers in attendance voted against the decision.

     

  • Tension in Warri over plot to impeach APC lawmaker

    There was tension in Ogbe-Ijoh, headquarters of Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta State yesterday, following a plot by the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) dominated House of Assembly to impeach an All Progressive Congress (APC) lawmaker and former Deputy Majority Leader, Hon Thomas Emami.

    Emami, representing Akpakpa Ward 6, caused uproar in the house when he dumped the ruling PDP.

    It was gathered that trouble started when the leadership of the house moved to impeach him even though the clerk of House had read his resignation letter as well his defection notice on the floor of the house.

    The embattled Emami, younger sibling of Chief Ayirimi Emami, leader of the PDP in the area, who had earlier defected to the APC, told The Nation in a telephone chat that the move was a cheeky plot to embarrass him.

    He said: “My elder brother and well-known leader had earlier defected from the PDP to the APC and I cannot remain in the same party. It was based on this and the cogent reason he gave for his defection that I and other followers resolved to move to the APC with him.

    “After my resignation from the PDP, I subsequently informed that House of my decision to step down as the Deputy Majority Leader, because my party, the APC, is in the minority in the House.

    “It was very surprising to me this (Monday) morning when they came with TV crew and media men in an obvious propaganda to impeach me. My question is: how can you impeach someone who has already resigned? The interesting thing also is that they read my letter of resignation before moving to impeach me.”