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  • Enugu commissioner, Edeoga resigns over alleged governorship ticket

    Enugu commissioner, Edeoga resigns over alleged governorship ticket

    The Enugu State Commissioner for Environment and Mineral Resources, Mr Chijioke Edeoga, has resigned his position over alleged governorship ticket.

     

    He was reported to have picked the governorship form of the Peoples Democratic Party to contest the governorship position in the state in the 2023 general election.

     

    Edeogs resigned from the state’s executive council last Friday.

     

    He made his resignation known in his farewell remarks to the staff of the ministry on Wednesday.

     

    The commissioner, who is believed to be the most favoured candidate of the power brokers and even the governor, is the only appointee that had resigned to contest for the top office in the state.

     

    Addressing the staff of the ministry, Edeoga said his voluntary resignation was to enable him to pursue his political aspiration and also to align himself with the provisions of the newly amended Electoral Act, 2022.

     

    “Regarding the 2023 elections, the justice of the matter is on our side. The voices of the majority of the people are properly aligned. Victory by God’s grace is assured,” he stated.

     

    The commissioner expressed gratitude to God for the period he superintended over the affairs of the ministry from 2019 to the date of his resignation.

     

    Efeoga also thanked the management and staff of the ministry for their support and cooperation while he worked with them.

     

    He further thanked Governor Ugwuanyi, for finding him worthy to serve under his administration as commissioner from 2015 till Wednesday, March 30, 2022.

     

    The permanent secretary at the ministry, Mrs Chinwe Amadi, expressed her profound gratitude to God for bringing Edeoga to the ministry.

     

    She described Edeoga as “a man of peace, loving and caring leader who understands the feelings of those under him; and can make people around him laugh even when they are not in the best of mood.”

  • David Lyon wins Bayelsa APC governorship ticket

    David Lyon wins Bayelsa APC governorship ticket

    …As Lokpobiri rejects results

    Oil magnate and businessman David Lyon has won the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship primaries in Bayelsa State.

    The results, announced by Senator Emmanuel Ocheja, the Collation officer, showed that Lyon polled 42,138 votes to defeat five aspirants.

    Mrs. Desiye Nsirim came second with 1,533 votes, while Ebitimi Amgbare was third with 633 votes.

    Senator Heineken Lokpobiri scored 571 votes to come fourth while Prof. Ongoebi Etebu and Preye Aganaba got 564 and 354 votes.

    Ocheja said he was standing in for the Returning officer and Yobe State Governor, Ibrahim Gaidam, who was absent.

    He said six aspirants contested the election conducted through direct primaries, and ratified by the National Executive Committee (NEC).

    Meanwhile, a former Minister of State for Agriculture Lokpobiri has rejected the result. The senator said he would get details of what transpired, insisting he and his team never participated in any primaries.

    Lokpobiri said there was no way he would be defeated by Lyon, adding that many members supported him.

    He wondered why the primary was held in a hotel, saying members gathered at the secretariat in Yenagoa waiting for the committee members to arrive.

    The aspirant queried why a result was purportedly declared by someone other than the Returning officer, who chaired the committee.

    He hoped the national leadership would look into the development and ensure a credible process to throw up a popular candidate for APC.

  • I am not in APC, no plans to contest its governorship ticket – Soludo clears air

    Former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, has dismissed reports that he is contesting the forthcoming Anambra governorship election on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

    Soludo noted that he was not a member of the APC and could not be contesting for its party’s governorship ticket.

    TheNewsGuru.com recalls that the state chairman of the party, Mr. Emeka Ibe, yesterday claimed that Soludo was among the contenders for the party’s nomination for the Anambra governorship election.

    “We just discovered that Prof Soludo has not registered as a member of our party in his ward. And you know the journey begins from the ward,” he was quoted as saying.

    “He is a big friend of us and a big friend to the APC Federal Government, but he must first register at his ward level before any other thing.

    “For Mrs Uche Ekwunife, we just discovered that she might not want to run for this year’s governorship in the state.

    “For these reasons we have decided to drop their names from the list of the governorship aspirants in the forthcoming election in the state on the platform of our party”, he added.

    But Soludo, who expressed surprise at the APC’s claim, said he had received several calls, texts and emails seeking clarification on the matter since appearance of the said publications.

    “I also sought and obtained the phone number of the said state chairman and spoke to him in order to ascertain the veracity of the story,” he said in a statement yesterday.

    “I wish to clarify that I am not a member of the APC and could therefore not be contesting for its party nomination”, he declared.

    TheNewsGuru.com recalls that Soludo was governor of the CBN from 29 May 2004 – 29 May 2009.