Strategic group of Urhobo nation, Oja R’Urhobo 2023 (Urhobo Y’ Oteri} comprising of Urhobo traditional leaders, the Urhobo Progress Union and a conglomeration of Urhobo associations and intelligentsia with the objective of ensuring that an Urhobo of Delta Central becomes the Governor of Delta State in 2023 has thrown their weight behind Urhobo Progress Union (UPU) choice of Delta State Gubernatorial Aspirant, Olorogun David Edevbie as Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) best governorship candidate in 2023 election. The group in a statement signed by Chief (Dr) Celilia Ibru, Olorogun (Dr) Peter Igho, Chief Francis Ifie and other thirty seven prominent leaders…
Author: Spade Nigeria
The Court of Appeal, Abuja Division has struck out the suit marked: FHC/UM/CS/26/2022 which Mr. Nduka Edede filed before the Umuahia court, on the merit that the provision is unconstitutional because it violates Section 42 (1)(a) of the Constitution. The provision had made it impossible for Government Appointees to contest any electoral position without resigning, an idea President Buhari criticized before signing the electoral act last February. Delivering judgment today, the three-member panel headed by Justice Hamma Barka held that the Federal High Court, Umuahia, had no jurisdiction to have entertained the case as the plaintiff, Nduka Edede, lacked…
…As Governor Inuwa Describes Former Lagos State Governor As Politician Par Excellence Preparatory to the All Progressives Congress, APC’s presidential primaries, the national leader of the party, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu has visited Gombe State to seek for support from delegates and stakeholders as a precursor to actualizing his nomination as the party’s flag bearer. At the palace of the Emir of Gombe, which was his first port of call, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, told the royal father that he was in his palace to seek for prayers and blessings of the exalted stool on his ambition to become the…
By Fred Edoreh Notice that when people are lying they give long explanations and that is how Fred Latimore Oghenesivbe continues to damage Rt Hon Oborevwori (I don’t know now if he is still Sheriff or now officially Francis) by reminding Deltans of the scandalous contradictions about his true identity and the authenticity of the certificates he claims. He wants Deltans to celebrate Oborevwori’s clearance by the PDP Appeals Committee to contest for the party’s ticket, but he doesn’t know that Deltans are not fooled by the long talk. It is also useless attempting to drag the name of Olorogun…
By Fred Edoreh For any patriotic Deltan, the deciding factor for who succeeds Dr Ifeanyi Okowa as Governor of Delta State should be about the comparative capacity of the aspirants to provide greater socio-infrastructural development and engineer a robust economy to better the lives of the people. On this there is no argument that Olorogun David Edevbie best fits the bill. This is because of his well known professional background, the knowledge he brings from the private sector, local and international, and the huge experience he has garnered working with the past three and present Governors of the state as…
The coverted efforts being made by the Loyalists of the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in the House of Representatives to Force the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Dr Godwin Emefeiele to immediately tender his resignation over his Presidential ambition to pave the way for the former Lagos State Governor has hit the rock. It was gathered that the loyalists being led by the Speaker, Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila had perfected the plan to pass a resolution at the emergency plenary session earlier summoned for Monday May 9 that CBN had…
By ABEL JOHNGOLD ORHERUATA Renowned human rights crusader and Nigeria’s Constitutional Lawyer, Prof. Itse Sagay has stated that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, has not breached any law for joining the country’s 2023 Presidential race. Sagay stated this in an interview he granted Mr. Abdullateef Aliyu, one of the reporters the Daily Trust Newspaper, published today, Saturday, May 7, 2022, on the legality of Emefiele’s qualification to run for the Nigeria’s President. On the call from Governor Rotimi Akeredolu, Governor of Ondo State, for Emefiele to resign as CBN Governor before joining the APC Presidential…
Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, the ‘Ekwueme gburugburu’ of the universe, is a man and a leader, who is surrounded by overflowing Grace and has continued to make us proud in the Movement for Stronger Delta, MSD, and indeed majority of Deltans, across the State. Every time he interacts with the public, the humility, honesty, transparency he radiates, and the candid passion, the painstaking yet comprehensive mastery of his responses, and the gentle, accommodating aura he exudes, will simply take your breath away. His recent Quarterly Media parley with Delta Journalists, was yet another flawless exhibition of leadership excellence and responsiveness, in…
Delta State PDP leading Governorship aspirant, Olorogun David Edevbie, has revealed that his idea of producing a Development Plan for Delta State is what inspired the Government of Lagos State to also put up a plan for which Lagos is now admired as Centre of Excellence. Pointing out that while Lagos has maintained their development plan through successive administrations to achieve enviable infrastructural, social and economic growth, he regretted that that of Delta State has been abandoned and assured that he will revive it when elected as Governor. “When I first came in as Commissioner of Finance, I asked Chief…
By Ovedhe Hezekiah. Residents of Ozoro, headquarters of Isoko North Local Government Council, at the early hours of Thursday, April 5th, 2022, protested against the none implementation of the White Paper Committee reports and resolutions on boundary adjustment in the disputed land between Ozoro and Oleh. The peaceful rally protest, which was led by the leadership of Ozoro Progress Union, the apex body in charge of the administrative duties of Ozoro Kingdom, Hon Chief Miller Akpoili, grinded commercial activities in the community for several hours. Speaking with newsmen, the President General of Ozoro Progress Union, Hon Chief Miller Akpoili, said the…