Tag: AAC
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Rivers AAC governorship candidate, Awara alleges threat to life
The governorship candidate of African Action Congress (AAC) in Rivers State, Biokpomabo Awara, has raised the alarm on plots to assassinate him. Awara, an indigene of coastal Kula-Kalabari in Akuku-Toru Local Government Area of Rivers state, told our correspondent on phone he was robbed of his well-deserved victory during the March 9 election by officials…
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Wike offered me N3 billion, says AAC gov candidate
The African Action Congress (AAC) governorship candidate in Rivers State, Engr. Biokpomabo Awara, has addressed claims by his erstwhile deputy candidate that the Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi and the All Progressives Congress (APC), forced them to sign post dated resignation letters. Aware while expressing disappointment over Yeeh’s resignation and defection to the Peoples…
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Rivers: Wike ‘bribed’ AAC deputy governorship candidate N200m to withdraw from race – APC
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State has alleged that the deputy governorship candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) in the state, Akpo Yeeh, was bribed with N200 million by Governor Nyesom Wike to defect from the AAC. Recall that Yeeh stunned the public on Monday when he resigned his membership of the…
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Rivers guber: AAC deputy governorship candidate defects to PDP, gives reasons
The drama in the Rivers State governorship election took a different twist on Monday when the deputy governorship candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Gakpo Bomba Yeeh dumped his party for the ruling party in the state, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Announcing his withdrawal from the yet-to-be concluded governorship election, Yeeh said he decided…
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Rivers Election: Court declines AAC petition against INEC to stop result compilation
The Federal High Court, Abuja on Wednesday declined to give an order stopping the collation of results of the Governorship and House of Assembly elections conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), in Rivers on March 9. Justice Inyang Ekwo, in his ruling in an application filed by the plaintiffs, Mr Biokpomabo Awara and…
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Sowore’s AAC faults Delta election results, congratulates Okowa
The governorship candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) in Delta State, Frank Ufuoma Esanubi has faulted outcome of the election in which Governor Ifeanyi Okowa was reelected as governor. Esanubi, in a statement, described the election as marred by monetisation of franchise, militarisation, allocation of ballots; and voters’ apathy in many parts of the…
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Saturday’s poll: Abe tells supporters not to vote AAC in Rivers
The Senator representing Rivers South-East Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Magnus Ngei Abe has dissociated himself from the adoption of the candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) by the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi. Abe said the APC under the Peter Odike led leadership is neither in alliance with the AAC nor any…
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AAC guber candidate mourns death of campaign DG, 2 others
Governorship candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) in Delta state, Frank Ufuoma Esanubi has expressed grief over the sudden demise of his campaign Director General, Omamode Ernest Ojegba. TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports Omamode and four other members of the AAC in Delta were involved in a tragic ghastly motor accident while returning from a political…
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Omamode: Sowore mourns death of campaign DG
The African Action Congress (AAC) has expressed sadness over the death of Omamode Ernest Ojegba, Campaign Organization Director General of Frank Ufuoma Esanubi, AAC governorship candidate in Delta state. TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports Omamode died when returning from a political meeting in Kwale after the vehicle conveying him plunged into Agbarho river along East-West road in…
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Breaking: Campaign DG to AAC governorship candidate in Delta dead
Omamode Ernest Ojegba, Campaign Organization Director General of Frank Ufuoma Esanubi, African Action Congress (AAC) governorship candidate in Delta state, is dead. TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports Omamode was returning from a political meeting in Kwale when the vehicle conveying him plunged into Agbarho river along East-West road in Ughelli North Local Government Area of the state.…