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  • ‘Issue Okorocha his Certificate of Return’

    The Presidential Support Committee (PSC) in the Southeast and the Southeast Professionals have cautioned the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) against creating constitutional crisis by refusing to issue a Certificate of Return to Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha.

    Okorocha was declared winner of the Imo West Senatorial election but INEC delisted him from the senators-elect list after the Returning Officer said he declared him winner under duress.

    A statement by Emeka Ugwu accused INEC of assuming the investigative role of the police and the court by finding the governor guilty without fair hearing.

    The statement reads: “We have observed the emerging political crisis and constitutional infraction emanating from the general elections. We intend to respond to the  illegality of the actions of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

    “INEC’s Returning Officer Innocent Ibeabuchi, on February 23, declared Rochas Okorocha winner of Imo West Senatorial District in the presence of security agencies and other party agents.

    “Under the Constitution and Electoral Act, INEC lacks the power to withhold Certificate of Return in an election duly declared in line with the laws of the land, or cancel an election that met the minimum requirements of the law.

    “It is unfortunate that INEC has arrogated to itself the investigative powers of the police, security agencies, and the judiciary, by illegally and unlawfully investigating the unfounded allegations of Prof. Innocent Ibeabuchi.

    “The provisions of Section 179 (2 and 3) are clear and unambiguous, and any declaration made in breach of that section is unconstitutional, illegal, fraudulent, and cannot stand.

    “We hereby call on National Chairman of INEC to remove the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Prof. Francis Ezeonu. We also call on security agencies to investigate the officials for their actions which could incite public unrest.

    “We also call on INEC to issue a Certificate of Return Rochas Okorocha as the senator-elect for Imo West. If INEC refuses to do the needful by end of today, the streets of the five states in the Southeast will be lawfully occupied.”

  • Okorocha’s allegation baseless- Uzodinma

    The Imo State governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the just concluded governorship election, Senator Hope Uzodinma has described as unfounded and malicious, the allegations that he worked for the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Emeka Ihedioha in the last election.

    The Imo Governor, Rochas Okorocha, had accused the APC candidate of playing the mole with the party’s ticket, which he claimed made it possible for the PDP candidate to manipulate the result of the election.

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    But Uzodinma, who emerged a distant fourth in the election, described Okorocha’s claim as a mere plot to tarnish his image after working against the APC.

    The Senator who spoke through his media aide, Mbadiwe Emelumba, noted that, “Okorocha is in the habit of lying to tarnish people’s image but he was the person that worked against the APC from the beginning”.

  • My position on Uzodinma vindicated – Okorocha

    Imo State governor, Rochas Okorocha, Thursday said that the outcome of the governorship election in the state has justified his position on Senator Hope Uzodinma, the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

    The Imo governor, stated that his earlier warning that the Uzodimma who came in a distant fourth in the election was a member of the People’s Democratic Party ( PDP), who was planted as mole to destroy the chances of the APC in the governorship election.

    According to Okorocha, the fact that Uzodinma was among the first set of people to rush to the home of the PDP candidate shortly after he was declared winner, confirmed the pact he has with the PDP.

    The APC National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole gave the party’s ticket to Uzodinma, a new entrant to the party, instead of the governor’s preferred candidate, Uche Nwosu, who won the governorship primary.

    A statement signed by the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Mr. Sam Onwuemeodo, read thus, “we have been vindicated over our repeated claim that Chief Hope Uzodinma has remained a member of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) both in spirit and in body and that, it was not only wrong but totally unacceptable for the National Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Adams Oshiomhole to have handed over the governorship ticket of the party in the State to him, no matter the deal.

    “We had maintained that Chief Uzodinma was just a mole in the APC. Today, the governorship election in the State and its outcome has obviously vindicated us. Aside the fact that Chief Uzodinma worked for the PDP in the Presidential/National Assembly elections and also in the governorship/House of Assembly elections, he was one of the first set of people to celebrate with the PDP Candidate, Chief Emeka Ihedioha the moment he was announced the winner of the election. The video of Chief Uzodinma’s celebration with Ihedioha has gone virile on the social media”.

    The statement continued that, “Chief Uzodinma succeeded through Adams Oshiomhole to ensure that the list he sent from Abuja which he gave to INEC, only his supporters were made agents of the Party and the Resident Electoral Commissioner in the State (REC) Prof. Francis Ezeonu insisted on the list, just to ensure the success of their conspiracy.

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    “Unfortunately, none of the Uzodinma/Oshiomhole’s approved agents was seen either at the ward level, or Local Government level or at the State level. They didn’t care about the election and its outcome. At the end of the day, the APC Candidate came fourth. And he has been celebrating with the PDP Candidate.

    “Their target as it has shown now is to totally destroy APC in the Southeast and in Imo in particular, thereby authenticating the claim in some quarters that it is all about 2023. One therefore wonders how Oshiomhole feels today, seeing the only APC State in the South-East that was there before he came as Chairman, been taken over by the PDP.

    “We had equally sustained the contention that Imo people would not vote for Uzodinma because they know him very well, but Oshiomhole refused to listen. He came fourth and never showed that he took part in the election. Posterity and history will Judge Oshiomhole and Uzodinma over the fate of APC in the South-East especially in Imo State”.

  • Okorocha missing as senators-elect receive certificates of return

    The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has made good it’s word by not recognizing the election of Rochas Okorocha into the Senate.

    Imo state governor’s name was missing among the Senate-elect who received their certificate of returns at the International Conference Centre Thursday.

    Okorocha was said to have won one of the senatorial seats in Imo state.

    Consequently, INEC placed an embargo on his victory at the poll.

    Details shortly…..

  • Uche Nwosu won Imo gov election, Okorocha insists

    Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha has declared his son-in-law and candidate of the Action Alliance (AA), Uche Nwosu won Saturday’s governorship election in the state.

    “I say so because going by the actual calculation, the person that won this election is Ugwumba Uche Nwosu.

    “Uche Nwosu won the election landslide, if you remove the manipulation results from Mbaise, Uche Nwosu won with over 50,000 votes, if you cannot declare him a winner because you have someone already, then they should go for a rerun because you cannot change the Constitution if the Federal Republic of Nigeria because you want to favour a candidate,” he insisted.

    He said Nwosu was rigged out of victory by the Governor-elect Emeka Ihedioha in connivance with Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) Professor Francis Ezeonu.

    He accused Ezeonu of working for PDP, saying he wrecked democracy with his complicity in alleged electoral manipulations.

    According to him: “The REC has shown he was brought to Imo after the 2015 election to return PDP to power in the state.

    “The REC had acted illegally by ignoring the provision of the Constitution that makes it mandatory for a candidate to have 25 percent in 2/3 of the Local Governments in the State by announcing the PDP candidate, Emeka Ihedioha who only met the requirement in 9 Local Governments instead of 18 LGAs which is 2/3 of 27 LGAs winner.”

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    Okorocha also wondered why the REC should accept the outrageous figures from the three Local Governments Areas of Aboh Mbaise, Ahiazu Mbaise and Ezinihitte where the PDP candidate got 64,219 votes from Aboh Mbaise alone.

    He stated the figures from the three LGAs constituted 50 percent of the total votes got by the PDP candidate in the State with 27 LGAs.

    “In the course of this manipulation, we all observed that the REC decided not to use the collation officers from Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO), which he disbanded for reasons he gave that they have met with politicians.

    “Again, he brought some people whom he introduced from the University of Agriculture Umudike.

    “They arrived just a night before the election date and we thought we have gotten the collation officers. Again, those ones were disbanded on the same reason that they have met with politicians, I wonder how this is possible having arrived the state after midnight on the election eve.

    “Now the REC went to his own University in Awka to bring in collation officers.

    “We believed him not knowing that he brought people he has been training for a hatched job for some weeks now in Anambra State to come and carry out this injustice in Imo State.

    “These men arrived with heavy security from Anambra and went straight to the various Local Governments.

    “We never knew that these were relatives of the PDP candidate and from the same Local Government. These are relatives of the PDP Candidate who were already briefed of what to do.

    “This explains the over voting witnessed in Mbaise. Out of the 270,000 votes that he scored, 50 percent of it or over 130,000 all came from just three local governments of Mbaise”, he stated.

    He added “As far as I am concerned and we still maintain that REC has wrecked democracy in Imo State. Unfortunately for them, they were not smart enough to know that section 179 requires you to have a spread at least in 2/3 of the local governments before you can be declared a winner.

    “They ended up with only 9 local governments instead of 18 required by law. The Returning Officer was advised by all the Senior Staff of INEC against declaring a winner without looking at the Constitution.

    “This man in a hurry decided to announce the result against the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,

    “This is wrong, in doing so, the Returning Officer didn’t even consider the results cancelled, total voters cancelled in the different Polling Booths, was enough to declare the election inconclusive as the difference between the PDP and AA would have called for a supplementary election. With the speed with which he announced the result tells you that the man is part of the game. This again is unacceptable to all of us,” he said.

  • Supreme Court upholds N1b judgment against Okorocha, others

    The Supreme Court on yesterday put an end to the over 10-year old dispute between the Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, three others and a firm – E. F. Network Nigeria Limited – over a contract debt of N1billion.

    A five-man panel of the Supreme Court, in a unanimous judgment yesterday, ordered the Imo State Governor and three others to pay the firm and its promoter, Gideon Egbuchulam the N1billion, which was the outstanding amount left unpaid in a contract awarded E. F. Network sometime in 2008 under the administration of Ikedi Ohakim.

    The court, in its lead judgment prepared by Justice Kayode Ariwoola, but read by Justice Amina Augie, held that the appeal, marked: SC/1001/2016 filed by Okorocha and three others, was unmeritorious.

    The apex court proceeded to dismiss the appeal and awarded N500,000 cost against the appellants, and in favour of the respondents – E. F. Network and Egbuchulam. Other appellants include the Attorney General of Imo State, Environmental Transformation Committee (Imo Entraco) and The Ministry of Environment, Imo State.

    Okorocha and others had appealed the July 4, 2016 judgment of the Court of Appeal, Owerri, which upheld the February 11, 2014 judgment by Justice Ijeoma Agugua of the Imo State High Court, in which it was established that the defendants (the Imo State Governor and others) were indebted to E. F. Network to the tune of N1b, having breached terms of the contract agreement between them.

    In the trial court’s judgment, Justice Agugua noted that the Ohakim administration in Imo State, which Okorocha succeeded, had contracted E. F. Network in the implementation of the state government’s Clean and Green Initiative, in pursuit of which the firm was awarded a contract to supply 10 million refuse bags and 40,000 plastic rolling containers at N42 per bag and N20 per plastic container.

    She observed that by the contract, the Imo State Governor and others, listed as appellants in the appeal, guaranteed payment through an irrevocable mandate of the payment of N35million monthly to the contractor.

    The judge noted that after the execution of the contract, the Imo State Government kept to the agreed schedule of payment for 12 months and subsequently stopped, leaving an outstanding balance estimated at N800m.

    The judge further observed that E.F. Network resorted to the court action in an effort to recovered what the Imo State Government and its agencies owed it and gave judgment in favour of E. F. Network and, in the February 11, 2014 judgment, ordered the defendants to, among others, pay the firm N1b, a judgment the Imo State Governor and others appeal up to the Supreme Court and lost yesterday.

  • Group gives Oshiomhole 48hrs to quash Okorocha’s suspension

    …wants Senate Presidency zoned to S/East

     

    A pro-Buhari group, the Presidential Support Committee (PSC), Southeast Zone, has handed a 48-hour ultimatum to the Adams Oshiomhole-led National Working Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to rescind the suspension of Imo State governor, Rochas Okorocha from the party.

    The Committee at a Press Conference jointly addressed by the Director Inter-Party Affairs South East, Robert Ngwu, National Legal Adviser, Ejikeme Ugwu, and Director Political Matters, Comrade Maxwel Okoye in Owerri, the Imo State capital, noted that suspending a key stakeholder of the party like Okorocha, “did not speak well of the NWC and the Oshiomhole”.

    The group consequently threatened to embark on legal and mass action if the NWC of the party did not comply with the ultimatum by quashing the suspension.

    The Committee also made a case for the zoning of the Senate Presidency to the Southeast in view of the enormous support and the votes garnered by President Muhammadu Buhari from the zone in the February 23 Presidential election.

    They further observed that “the suspension is an orchestrated agenda to deny the Igbo presidency in 2023, knowing that Okorocha is one of the major contenders”.

    According to the Committee, “Okorocha’s suspension came to us as a rude shock. There is no way a cabal can suspend a major financier of the party. We give the NWC and the National Chairman 48 hours to reverse the suspension without delay or else we will resort to legal and mass action against the leadership of the APC. The suspension is aimed at disorganising Igbo ahead of 2023. Oshiomhole cannot wake up and suspend a major financier of the party. We plead with Buhari not to allow some few individuals to rubbish his friends because we know that Okorocha is a good friend of the President.

    The PSC, while congratulating Buhari on his victory at the February 23 polls, expressed happiness with the outcome, saying that “the results reflected the wishes of Nigerians, especially the people at Southeast as the President garnered more votes from the region in 2019 than in 2015”.

    They said, “We are happy with the results of the Presidential and National Assembly election as APC now has two senators, Okorocha and Orji Uzor Kalu. We are also happy with the votes the president got from the South east. The president got 400, 000 more votes in 2019 than in 2015, while the Peoples Democratic Party lost about 100,000 votes. The presidential support committee worked tirelessly to ensure that the president got enough votes.

  • APC suspends Amosun, Okorocha, others for anti-party activities

    The All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday wielded the big stick, suspending two governors and a minister, and querying another governor for alleged anti-party activities. Rising from a meeting of its National Working Committee (NWC) presided over by the National Chairman, Comrade Adams Ohiomhole, the party announced the suspension of Imo State governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, and his Ogun State counterpart, Senator Ibikunle Amosun. It also issued a query to Ondo State governor, Rotimi Akeredolu.

    National Publicity Secretary of the party, Mallam Lanre Issa Onilu, said in a statement after the meeting that the Minister for Niger Delta Affairs, Usani Uguru Usani, and the Director General of the Voice of Nigeria (VON), Osita Okechukwu, had been suspended for anti-party activities. Although no reason was given for their suspension, both Okorocha and Amosun has been having running battles with the party since the party primaries when their preferred candidates failed to secure the party’s tickets as governorship candidates of Imo and Ogun states.

    While Okorocha is sponsoring his son in-law, Ogumba Uche Nwosu, as the governorship candidate for Action Alliance (AA) and has been campaigning for him vigorously, Amosun has been working for the candidate of the Allied Peoples Movement (APM), Adekunle Akinlade, and has vowed to continue to campaign for him. The Imo State chapter of the APC had already suspended Governor Okorocha and recommended his expulsion to the national body of the party. The two governors, who were absent at the recent caucus meeting of the party, won seats in the just concluded National Assembly election to represent the APC in the 9th Senate.

    Akeredolu has been accused by various interest groups within the APC in Ondo State of working for the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during the Presidential election, leading to Atiku winning the state controlled by APC. The governor has however denied the allegations. It was, however, not clear why Usani and Okechukwu were suspended, but the former’s suspension may not be unconnected with his legal battle to wrest the governorship ticket of the party in Cross River State from the candidate, Senator John Owa Enoh. While the lower court declared the Minister as the APC governorship candidate for next Saturday’s governorship election, the Court of Appeal in Calabar ordered a stay of execution of the judgment, pending the determination of the appeal.

    Onilu said in the statement that the National Working Committee has also decided to recommend the expulsion of the suspended individuals to the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the party which has the power to expel any member. He said the query issued to the Ondo State governor was impelled by his alleged “glaring anti-party activities, which greatly affected the fortunes of our candidates in the recently conducted presidential and National Assembly elections in the state. Onilu said: “Recall that the NWC had earlier written to the suspended governors on their anti-party activities, and several other steps were taken to ensure that they desisted from taking actions that were inimical to the interests of our party and candidates. Notably, these individuals have not shown any remorse and have actually stepped up their actions.

    “The party reviewed the serial anti-party activities of the concerned individuals before and during the last presidential and National Assembly elections in their respective states and resolved to enforce party discipline in line with our constitution. “The NWC noted how the suspended members have continued to campaign openly for other parties and candidates that are unknown to our great party, even while they have constituted themselves into opposition to APC candidates in their respective states. “Importantly, the NWC is closely monitoring the activities of our members across the country, and particularly, in the states these suspended members belong to.

    “We wish to reiterate that any member of our party who takes any action solely or in line with the directives of the suspended members to undermine our party’s candidates in the coming governorship and House of Assembly elections would face disciplinary actions. “Consequently, the NWC calls on our members to disregard directives and actions of the suspended individuals and work assiduously to ensure the election of ALL and ONLY APC candidates in the forthcoming governorship and state assembly elections.” Reacting to his suspension, the Director General of the Voice of Nigeria said the decision was yet to be communicated to him, describing it as an attempt by some people within the party to sideline their enemies in this season of contestation. He said: “One has not gotten a letter of suspension from my great party. If actually a press statement was issued, it may not be unconnected with those who want to sideline their enemies in this season of contestation. “Remember that Femi Adesina, spokesman for Mr President, had opened window for gruesome struggle.

    “Otherwise, one had taken time and resources to campaign vigorously for my great party and even set up the Zikist-BuharistMovement (ZBM), an offshoot of Buhari Support Organisation (BSO) of which I am a foundation member. “It is on record that with ZBM, we toured the nooks and crannies of Enugu and indeed the South East, canvassing for votes for our great party. “I am also instrumental to the most consistent advert placed in several media in the South East on behalf of our great party. “Accordingly, one should not be blamed for the triumph of Bigotry in Enugu State and South East in general.

    “Our comrade chairman should not blame me for hoisting some unpopular National Assembly candidates for the APC in our zone. “For I am at a loss how one contributed to the failure of his darling candidate, Mrs Juliet Ibekaku Nwagu in Egede, her home town, and Udi local government, her primary local council in the five that make up the senatorial district. “Suffice it to say that one will give detailed reply when I’m officially written.”

  • Melaye, Okorocha, Akpabio and Poll 2019

    DEPENDING on which part of the divide the hypothetical voter stands, there were many upsets in the last National Assembly poll held simultaneously with the presidential election on Saturday.

    Oyo State governor Abiola Ajimobi fell to defeat probably by dint of his political longevity and his controversial Ibadan politics. He lost the senatorial contest to represent Oyo South. Senate President Bukola Saraki got entangled in his own unending political rigmarole, his impatience wreaking havoc on his political obsessions and fantasies. He lost his Kwara Central senatorial seat by an embarrassingly wide margin. Former Akwa Ibom governor Godswill Akpabio also came to grief in his ultimately doomed quest to return to the Senate from his Akwa Ibom North-West constituency. The only politician the South-South has produced who can talk a waterfall virtually, it seemed, talked himself to political death. But Imo State governor Rochas Okorocha, by dint of his levity, won a gruesome and tentative victory to represent Imo West in the Senate, with the returning officer in that poll alleging that he announced the governor’s controversial victory under duress.
    However, far from the madding political crowd in the South, the pompous and witless Dino Melaye won his re-election to the Senate as his Kogi West constituency conflated the election with the state governor’s oppressive and unintelligent approach to governance and politics. It was hardly because of anything the senator did; his constituency simply established an inverse relationship between the comical senator’s victory and Governor Yahaya Bello’s grief. To them, the only way to torment Mr Bello was to ensure he secured no political victory of any kind despite deploying strong-arm tactics against his opponents, as indeed he did in the other two senatorial districts of the state during the same election. Kogi West was eager to be his undertaker, and they wanted to do it with considerable glee.
    Before the February 23 polls, most Nigerians were unlikely to understand the incestuous dalliance between Kogi West and the infamous Sen. Melaye. They saw him as pompous, egocentric, greedy, servile and theatrical. There was no iota of seriousness in him, they concluded, and they saw nothing of the nobility they associate with a lawmaker, especially their lawmaker. If any lawmaker was deserving of defeat, why, no one, in their estimation, fit the bill quite like Sen. Melaye. Contradistinctively, however, they only vaguely conceived of the Kogi governor as incompetent or oppressive. But he was at any rate distant in their summation of his person and office. What is more, they did not strangely see Mr Bello as a disgrace to the hallowed office of governor. It was, in essence, more urgent to them to dispense with the senator than to humiliate the governor, for Mr Bello had very expertly hidden his incompetence and lethargy far from the public view in a way Sen. Melaye could not disguise his triviality.
    But Kogi West was not taken in by the political laissez-faire that clouded the eyes and occluded the judgements of the rest of Nigeria. Having felt more acutely where the shoe pinched them, and having been shackled and emasculated by the governor’s misrule, Kogi West feared no worse fall than he who is down, even if that fall was inspired by a comical politician, and no worse indignity than to be represented by and associated with a clown, even if Sen. Melaye were to be described as the world’s most ardent comedian. When the time finally came to choose their senator last Saturday, it was not surprising that Kogi West voters were not indecisive at all. Were they wrong to establish a quid pro quo between Sen Melaye and Mr Bello? As a matter of fact, that connection was already unnaturally made when fate brought the clown and the inept together under the same metaphysical auspices, and bonded them in the same time and space.
    At this point, or at least by last Saturday, Kogi West emerged, through the Sen. Melaye crucible, as the most discriminating and scrupulous of the three senatorial districts in Kogi State. Of the seven local government areas in the district, six reposed their grudging confidence in the cantankerous senator, showing to the world how adept they were at drawing the line between exemplary public conduct and the tangled issues that bind the bitter governor to the defiant senator. Of course they have never found his buffoonery to be entertaining, considering that as their representative he was exposing them to global ridicule, but their animosity towards Mr Bello was of such severity that they were perfectly willing to renounce their respect and admiration for the senator’s opponent, Smart Adeyemi, himself a former senator. Sen. Adeyemi is a far better person and politician than Sen. Melaye, and his tenure in the Senate was devoid of the scandal and controversies that have dogged the politics of the re-elected senator. But his mere association with Mr Bello was such a burden that Kogi West found it therapeutic to vote against him.
    Sen. Melaye is a far worse politician than Sen Adeyemi. While the latter twice genuinely won his seat in the Senate, this is the first time Sen. Melaye would be winning both the primary that made him a standard-bearer and the main election itself. He had previously muscled himself into taking the primaries and the tickets, whether for the House of Representatives seat (2007-2011), where he enjoyed brawling with his colleagues, or the Senate seat where he played the zany to the outgoing Senate President, Dr Saraki. It is an irony that it had to take a hostile political environment and the sledgehammer of both the state government and the law enforcement agencies to enable Sen. Melaye claim his first genuine electoral victory.
    Those Nigerians ashamed to contemplate Sen. Melaye’s re-election must console themselves that at least he is not their representative in the Senate. They are left aghast that such an unfit character bestrides the legislature, but his harmless skits and parodies demean the reputation of his constituents in inverse relationship to the wreckage Mr Bello’s quietly turbulent misrule imposes on the indigenes of the state.
    Given the chance a second time, and a third, and a fourth, Kogi West would vote Sen. Melaye into the Senate over and over again under a similar political environment, except Mr Bello can find the chutzpah to back him against Sen. Adeyemi. For now, the governor will be spared that act of self-immolation. And the country, especially the Melaye haters, will also be left to chew the cud on the travesty of crowning a clown and letting him loose on the legislature.

  • Updated: APC NWC suspends Amosun, Okorocha

    ….Okechukwu, Usani, Akeredolu to be queried

    It was the day of long knives as the National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) suspended governors Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun and Rochas Okorocha of Imo .

    The suspension of the governors was confirmed to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday by a top party official, even as the NWC was still in session.

    Also suspended were Osita Okechukwu, the director-general of the Voice of Nigeria and Pastor Usani Usani, Minister of Niger Delta affairs.

    An APC source said the NWC also decided to query Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo, where the party lost two senatorial seats and the presidential election to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party in the 23 February election.

    All the sanctioned party members were indicted for anti-party activities in the run-up to the February 23 Presidential and National Assembly elections, NAN learnt.

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    NWC, which is currently in a meeting, also recommended the expulsion of Okorocha and Amosun from the party.

    The duo won senate seats in the National Assembly election in their states as members of the APC.

    However, both governors are supporting governorship and assembly candidates against the APC.

    In Ogun, Amosun is backing AbdulKadir Akinlade as governorship candidate of the Allied Peoples Movement(APM) against the APC candidate, Prince Dapo Abiodun.

    In Imo, Okorocha is supporting his son-in-law, Uche Nwosu as candidate of the Action Alliance, against Senator Hope Uzodinma, the APC candidate. (NAN)