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  • President felicitates Izunaso on birthday

    President felicitates Izunaso on birthday

    President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has congratulated Senator Osita Bonaventure Izunaso on his birthday.

    The President described him as a steadfast public servant whose commitment to national development and democratic growth has remained consistent over the years.

    In a birthday message yesterday in Abuja by his Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Mr. Bayo Onanuga, the President extolled the virtues of the Imo West senator for his enduring contributions to the All Progressives Congress (APC) and to Nigeria’s democratic evolution.

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    President Tinubu recalled Senator Izunaso’s strategic role as the party’s former National Organising Secretary and his active involvement in strengthening the APC’s electoral fortunes in 2015, 2019, and 2023.

    He also praised the legislator for his sustained support for the administration’s reforms and policies, particularly his efforts in rallying legislative backing for government programmes.

  • Araraume, Izunaso in meeting with APGA chair

    •Ubah picks Anambra senatorial form
    •Aspirants besiege party secretariat

    Imo State Governorship aspirant Ifeanyi Araraume and former National Organising Secretary of All Progressives Congress (APC), Osita Izunaso, yesterday held a two-hour meeting with the National Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Victor Oye.

    Araraume and Izunaso arrived at the party secretariat in Abuja about 1.30pm.

    The meeting ended about 3.30pm and the duo rushed out of the party secretariat.

    Izunaso, however, declined comments saying consultations are still on and that another meeting has been scheduled for tomorrow.

    He said: “I can’t talk now. After our final meeting, I will talk. I am going to have another meeting on Friday and we will talk after that.”

    Although Araraume didn’t address reporters after the meeting, it was, however, gathered that the former senator may pick the nomination form to contest for Imo governor tomorrow.

    Meanwhile, hundreds of aspirants have besieged the national headquarters of APGA in Abuja to pick nomination forms. .

    Ifeanyi Ubah, who was at the party secretariat yesterday to pick his senatorial form, said he will not step down for Mrs. Bianca Ojukwu who is also contesting for the Anambra South senatorial seat on the platform of APGA.

    He told reporters that he will secure the ticket and represent his district.

  • Araraume, Izunaso in meeting with APGA chair

    •Ubah picks Anambra senatorial form
    •Aspirants besiege party secretariat

    Imo State Governorship aspirant Ifeanyi Araraume and former National Organising Secretary of All Progressives Congress (APC), Osita Izunaso, yesterday held a two-hour meeting with the National Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Victor Oye.

    Araraume and Izunaso arrived at the party secretariat in Abuja about 1.30pm.

    The meeting ended about 3.30pm and the duo rushed out of the party secretariat.

    Izunaso, however, declined comments saying consultations are still on and that another meeting has been scheduled for tomorrow.

    He said: “I can’t talk now. After our final meeting, I will talk. I am going to have another meeting on Friday and we will talk after that.”

    Although Araraume didn’t address reporters after the meeting, it was, however, gathered that the former senator may pick the nomination form to contest for Imo governor tomorrow.

    Meanwhile, hundreds of aspirants have besieged the national headquarters of APGA in Abuja to pick nomination forms. .

    Ifeanyi Ubah, who was at the party secretariat yesterday to pick his senatorial form, said he will not step down for Mrs. Bianca Ojukwu who is also contesting for the Anambra South senatorial seat on the platform of APGA.

    He told reporters that he will secure the ticket and represent his district.

  • APC convention: Enugu endorses Enukwu, Izunaso, Moghalu for 2nd term

    Ahead of  the national convention of the  All Progressives Congress (APC), the Enugu State chapter of the party has endorsed the incumbent National Vice Chairman, South-East, Chief Emma Eneukwu, National Organizing Secretary, Senator Osita Izunaso and National Auditor, George Moghalu for re-election

    The endorsement was announced in a communique issued at the end of its meeting held  at the party’s secretariat yesterday.

    The state chairman of the party, Dr Ben Nwoye, who read the communique issued at the end of the meeting, which was also attended by the State Working Committee members of the party, said all the existing zoning arrangements of the party remains.

    The development is not unconnected to a press statement issued by a group in the state, which is sympathetic to a former Secretary to Enugu State Government, Chief Onyemuche Nnamani and touting him as Eneukwu’s replacement.

    But the party said such group should be dis-countenanced as they were merely in a task to destabilise the APC in Enugu State and eventually deny President Muhammadu Buhari votes in 2019.

    The communique reads in part: “Chief Hon. Emma Eneukwu having performed excellently well and being an indigene of Udi Local Government Area has the support of the entire Enugu State delegates to the APC national convention.

    “That we condemn in totality any attempt by anybody no matter how highly placed to destabilise the agreed zoning arrangement in the state, previously established by leaders of the party in 2014, as it relates to party positions.

    “That we commend the national convention committee of the APC in all of its efforts in planning a hitch-free national convention.

    “Enugu State APC cannot be cowed by anybody, no matter any previous position you may have held, or the position the person may occupy. We must learn that new leaders must emerge.  We can’t continue to lead this country with our past glory.

    “Every day,  new leaders emerge, the world is calling for new leaders. Very recently, President Muhammadu Buhari signed the Not Too Young to Run Bill into law, this shows progressive leadership.

    “Those who have been either past governor, past senator or past this or that must allow new leaders to emerge. They  must allow those who are leading well to lead. We cannot be cowed by those who joined us from the PDP.

    “If the PDP was a great party, where they had served as either senator or SSG, they should have remained in the PDP. We built the APC, we established the APC in Enugu State. So, we cannot be pushed around.

    “People believe that politics is about their village, that politics is about those who bear the same surname with them.

    “Today, Enugu State APC has taken a stand, we cannot have a state chairman from Nkanu West and Vice Chairman, from Nkanu West.  It can’t help us in election. People here are not in APC because Buhari won, they have been here even when APC was yet to be accepted, when people called us all sorts of names, including Boko Haram. Some of us were almost ostracized. We cannot, therefore, at this stage allow latter day converts push us aside.

    “For emphasis, Emma Enuekwu, George Moghalu, and  Osita Izunaso are our choice.  We are 100 percent behind our leaders,” it further stated.

  • Okorocha fires back at Ararume, Izunaso, says no one can cage me

    Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State yesterday lashed out at the National Organizing Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Osita Izunazo, Senator Hope Uzodinma and Senator Ifeanyi Araraume,for saying they had caged him politically and wanted him expelled from the party. Okorocha branded the stakeholders ingrates and an insolvent group. The governor ,in a statement through his Chief Press Secretary,Sam Onwuemeodo, said: “these stakeholders are deceiving themselves. They know they cannot fly.” He spoke on a day hundreds of APC women supporters stormed the Government House,Owerri, accusing Izunazo and Araraume of engineering the disruption of APC congresses in the state.

    Onwuemeodo,in the statement, said said the Imo APC stakeholders were emboldened by the party’s national chairman,Chief John Odigie- Oyegun and Izunaso because of his “innocent and patriotic stand on tenure elongation.” He added: “all those in the insolvent group called coalition are all beneficiaries of Okorocha’s political successes in Imo. “If they have the capacity why are they dodging going to the field for the congresses? They preferred making away with the sensitive materials for the congresses and going into hotels to write results. “Mind you, Governor Okorocha has never played politics with the elite in the state. And that is part of their anger. The governor’s greatest political base and asset is the grassroot, that is still intact for him. These stakeholders are deceiving themselves.

    They know they cannot fly. “Okorocha is the biggest asset of APC in the South East and in Imo in particular. Even today, the only person the party needs to sustain Imo as APC state and make enroute into other states in the zone is Rochas Okorocha. Take it or leave it when the chips are down, the truth will become clearer. “A group led by a man who contested governorship election in 2007 and failed, and in 2011 and failed and also in 2015 and failed cannot cage a man who won the governorship election in 2011 without the elite and got reelected in 2015, also without the elite.’’ Protesters demand prosecution of Izunaso, Araraume The protesters who were drawn from the 305 wards in the state said Izunazo, Araraume and other members of the coalition should be made to account for the alleged disappearance of the election materials for the APC Ward Congress in the State. Their spokesperson, Lady Ugochi Nnana Okoro, APC woman leader in Owerri West Council, said: “Imo women will no longer tolerate hijacking of electoral materials and violence in the coming elections .