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  • Imo ANPP Chairman resigns

    Imo ANPP Chairman resigns

    •Accuses leadership of bias

    The Imo State Chairman of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) Dr. Vitalis Ajumbe, has resigned.

    He accused the national leadership of the party of bias and insensitivity to the plight of the state chapters.

    Ajumbe, who claimed to have single handedly funded the party since 2004 when he was elected chairman, noted that efforts to bring the national leadership to assist the Imo State chapter to clear its mounting debts were rebuffed.

    Announcing his formal resignation at the party secretariat in Owerri, the Imo State capital, the former ANPP chieftain said: “I love ANPP and when I joined it, I promised not to leave it for another political party because we enjoyed freedom of speech and internal democracy.

    “But the problem is the unpatriotic act of those who benefited from the party but refused to fund it.”

    He disclosed that as the chairman of the party, he personally bankrolled all the expenses of the nine cases of the party in court, which adversely affected his private businesses.

    Ajumbe, who kept silent on his next party affiliation, hinted that whatever party he joins would be one that will afford members at all level equal opportunity and privileges.

     

  • Ndidi Obioha launches initiative for aspiring couples

    Ndidi Obioha of Enthyst Event has launched a new initiative for would-be couples. Tagged ‘The 2013 Lucky Bride’, Enthyst will partner FinaTrust Microfinance Bank to sponsor weddings at affordable cost. Obioha disclosed this at a press briefing, which had Mr. Deji Popola, the MD of Fina Trust Microfinance Bank, among other staff of the bank in attendance.

    The exciting package, according to Obioha, was borne out of the desire to see young people get married. “There have been people who come for us to plan their wedding but would not come back because of funding. So, we thought, let’s make weddings a lot more affordable. Enthyst has emerged three times as the Event Planning Company of The Year. So, obviously when we come on board any event, we are coming with our expertise, professionalism and the fact that we are in all modesty one of the best in the industry.

    “We said to ourselves, let’s all bring in other vendors who have this same vision and mission like we do, provide an amazing wedding at very affordable cost; as in a wedding that you would come to and you probably assume roughly a three-hundred-man wedding. It is just the normal wedding that we plan. It would probably go for between N6 million and N9 million, depending on all the works that are being thrown in. But we are giving you the very same wedding at N3 million, everything inclusive.

    “And also, when you have parents determining everything to do with the wedding because they are funding it, what this does is that it also gives the groom a bit of confidence and power to determine what he wants at his wedding. Because where a groom has just started work and decides he really wants to marry but doesn’t have the funds yet, if he is from a family that is well-to-do, the moment the family wants to fund the wedding, it calls the shots. The groom and the bride are not happy a lot of time. So, these are things that informed the