November 26, 2014 Press Statement PDP NWC Nullifies Disqualification Of Aspirants By Screening Appeals Committees Following enquiries by our members especially aspirants, the National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) wishes to announce that all aspirants who have been cleared by different Screening Committees for the purpose of our primary elections should disregard any purported disqualification by Screening Appeal Panels. For the avoidance of doubt, the Screening Appeal Panels are neither authorized by our electoral guidelines nor by the constitution of the PDP to disqualify aspirants already cleared by the Screening Committees. In this regard, the NWC declares…
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The Commissioner for Petroleum and immediate alternate Commissioner for Information and Strategy; Chief Don Ubani, has applauded the security agencies in Abia State for their timely intervention which has led to the rescue of the State correspondent of the Nation Newspaper; Mr. Ugochukwu Ugorji Eke, who was kidnapped at Aba during the week. In a press release issued in Umuahia, Chief Ubani, while sympathizing with Mr. Eke, assured that Abia State Government would, more than ever before; continue to guarantee the lives and property of Abians at any time and any cost. Chief Don Ubani used the opportunity to once…
The attention of the Wife of the Abia State Governor has been drawn to a false report circulating in social media to the effect that her Excellency, Mrs Odochi Orji, is running for a House of Representative seat under the platform of People’s Democratic Party. The purveyors of this falsehood also circulated a purported campaign poster, apparently manipulated with Photo Shop as evidence of her participation in the 2015 electoral process. We wish to state categorically that the Governor’s wife is not interested in any political office including a house of representative seat. At no time did she indicate any…
The National Boundary Commission has been charged to help maintain peaceful coexistence amongst neighbouring states in the country. Abia State Governor, Chief Theodore Orji, gave the charge when he received the Director General of the National Boundary Commission, Dr. MB Ahmad and his team at the Government house, Umuahia, during their advocacy visit. He said the commission is essential as it plays key role in bringing peace in the polity, noting that land remains a sensitive issue. He pledged that Abia will partner and give the commission every assistance as well as facilitate it in field work. The Governor disclosed…
ORJI UZOR KALU AND HIS MEDIA WAR AGAINST ABIA STATE Let the truth be told! INTRODUCTION This advertorial is a response to the serial media onslaught against the people of Abia State and it’s government by Chief Orji Uzor and his tabloids namely, the Sun and the Telegraph which he has also syndicated using pseudonyms in the social media and other media outlets. Ordinarily, the Abia State Government would not respond to desperados especially when such reports border on idiocy and outright mischief. However, our response has become imperative to correct the outright falsehood and tissues of nonsensical innuendos which…
The African Development Bank (AFDB) has entered into an integrated project partnership with Abia State Government to tackle rural roads, erosion menace and waste management in the two Abia cities of Umuahia and Aba . The Country Representative of the bank, Dr.Usmane Dore, stated this during the bank’s preliminary visit to the state to see things. He pledged the bank’s partnership to the state, pointing out that Abia State Governor, Chief Theodore Orji, was one of the first governor’s to reach out to the bank for assistance. According to him, the AFDB has a tradition of partnering with states adding…
Abia state governor Theodore Orji flanked from L-R Country Director, African Development Bank (ADB) Dr. Ousmane Dore, Minister ofFinance and Co-ordinating Minister of Economy Dr. Ngozi Okonji Iweala, Deputy Governor, Emeka Ananaba and Speaker Abia state House ofAssembly Rt. Hon. Udeh Okochukwu when the Minister led a Delegation ofAfrican Development Bank (ADB) Tags: Abia, Abia State Governor, Abia State Specialist Hospital Umuahia, African Development Bank (ADB), Ajunwa, Banks, Dr. Ngozi Okonji Iweala, Dr. Ousmane Dore, Governor T.A. Orji, Minister of Finance and Co-ordinating Minister of Economy, Nigeria, Nnaji Obed Asiegbu, Okojo iwela, T.A. Orji, THE GOOD GOVERNANCE TOUR Abia State…
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In a well attended meeting of Forum of Abia State Political Office Holders; 1999 – 2007, held at Umuahia today; Monday 8th September, 2014, the Forum after exhaustive deliberations on developments in Abia State in relation to the false publications serialised by the Sun Newspapers at the instance of Chief Orji Uzor Kalu and his cohorts came up with the following resolutions: The Forum hereby observes with dismay and strongly condemns the dubious attempt by the former governor of Abia State, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu to mislead unsuspecting Nigerians and the public by a revisionist scheme aimed at turning the…
Even when some hired armchair critics who never see anything good in the present government in Abia State, since Governor Theodore Orji parted ways with his predecessor, Orji Uzor Kalu, have continued to live in fools’ paradise, the fruit of labour of the state government in education sector has continued to manifest unabated and in abundance. The reality is proving Orji’s predecessor and his cohorts wrong and will continue to do so because light cannot be compared with darkness. Despite the shocking and abysmal performance in this years’ West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) result, Abia state, just like last year…