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Finally, the Supreme Court has put an end to the long-standing leadership dispute in the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) by confirming Barrister Sly Ezeokenwa as the authentic National Chairman of the party, reports ITREALMS.

A five-member panel of the apex court in a judgement read by Justice Stephen Adah, held that Edozie Njoku was wrongly laying claim to APGA chairmanship.

APGA urges FG to remove Boko Haram from Ekwulobia

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The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) has asked the Federal Government of Nigeria to urgently remove the 47 Boko Haram inmates recently relocated to Ekwulobia Minimum Prison in Anambra, reports ITRealms.

The Chairman of the party, Dr. Victor Ike Oye, ITRealms gathered in condemning the relocation, urged the Federal Government to emulate what United States of America did when it was faced with similar precarious circumstance that it built Guantanamo Bay detention facility located in a small island near Cuba, where terror suspects and convicts are detained.

He said that unlike the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, access into the Ekwulobia Prison is as easy as gaining access in and out of the National Stadium in Lagos.

 “They did not consider the sensibilities of the people and the far-reaching consequences of the movement or was it a case of deliberate design to continue to spite the Igbo who have suffered many years of marginalization and ill treatment?” he asked.

In a press statement released by the spokesman of the party, Ifeanacho Oguejiofor, ITRealms learnt, the APGA Chairman enjoined the FG to be prompt in relocating the terrorist suspects in order not to seem to be sabotaging the good works of the Anambra State Government and its effort in creating an air of security and tranquility that had already pervaded the entire state before the relocation of the prisoners.

“The good people of Anambra State and its government do not need this distraction,” he said.

The APGA National Chairman, ITRealms  further gathered,  urged the government to start the construction of modern prisons across the nation and also embark on the provision of jobs for millions of unemployed youth to curtail or curb crimes since accessories to terrorism and other crimes are majorly the youth whose future had been mortgaged by years of misadministration and malfeasance by successive leaderships.

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Election fraud: APGA wants colluding INEC officials arrested

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The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) has called on the law enforcement agents in Nigeria to arrest officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) who colluded with some unscrupulous politicians to rig the national assembly elections a fortnight ago across the country, reports ITRealms.

Mr. Okwukwe Ibiam, the national publicity secretary, APGA, told ITRealms that those INEC officials who aligned with dishonest politicians to commit electoral fraud during the presidential and national assembly on March 28, 2015 in Anambra, Abia, Enugu, Nassarawa, Imo and parts of Ebonyi States. 

These officials, Ibiam said in a press statement made available to ITRealms, are a cankerworm to society and must be uprooted if Nigerian democracy is to flourish, describing it as a shame that people entrusted to guard and preserve the society's confidence at the polls willingly sabotaged same.

“Talk about tampering and stealing what was kept in your trust. Is this Long-Neck or INEC?” he wondered. 

APGA insisted that it’s shameful for INEC officials, who willingly colluded with Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) officials at the Local Government headquarters across Nigeria, to re-write the official election results from the polling booths which favored other participating political parties in the elections held Saturday 28/3/15.

“They - INEC officials, should be arrested for treason, knowingly and intentionally inciting the Nigerian voter and public to unrest,” he said.

APGA, he said, therefore call on the INEC Chairman, Professor Attahiru Jega to remove them, “Now and hand them over to law enforcement agents for proper prosecution.”

Ibiam stressed that those failing INEC officials have sabotaged the public trust.

“There is nothing solemn about their oaths to their jobs or the Nigerian public. They may not continue.  We, at the APGA will appeal that they not be entertained in our politics,” he said.

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Don't issue certificate of return to Andy Ubah, he stole my mandate, Ndukwe cautions INEC

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The former Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and Senatorial candidate of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) for the Anambra South in Saturday’s election, Dr. Ernest Ndukwe, has advised the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), not to recognize or issue certificate of return to the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr Andy Ubah, reports ITRealms.

Ndukwe who was speaking to newsmen at Oraifite in Ekwusigo local government area of Anambra State, said that from the results recorded on Form EC8A1 in all the polling units within the Senatorial zone he contested, evidently showed that he won strikingly, advising Mr. Andy Uba who has been parading himself as winner to surrender.

“The people of Anambra South senatorial zone voted massively for me in all the seven local government areas, but it is so disheartening that some people decided that the wish of the people should be thwarted,” he lamented.

Ndukwe said that it’s a known fact that the result of every election comes from the polling unit, decrying that the card reader could not work optimally coupled with the resumption of voting late.

“Unfortunately, because the card readers did not work, voting started late end stretched into the night. And because there was no light, there was no collation at the ward level and everything had to be taken to the local government collation center,

He alleged that it was at this point the security agents joined some members of PDP in manipulating the election in addition to intimidating the INEC ad hoc staff.

“Form EC8A is there to prove it because you cannot get a different thing in the field and then announce a different thing as   the result. It is not done. I think in the course of time, my people will have the leader they voted for.

“No proper collation was done anywhere in Anambra South Senatorial zone. There was wide spread of falsification of results and inducement. Corpers were influenced and even when the Returning Officer refused to announce the doctored results, the PDP stalwarts had to force another INEC officer to announce the falsified results,” he claimed.

Ndukwe also said his mandate must be return to him, while he commended voters in the zone for the support given to him.

“I, therefore, call on INEC not to allow this charade to stand by not issuing certificate of return to PDP because there were irregularities of the highest order,” Ndukwe insisted..

 

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APGA denies purported defection of members to PDP

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The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) has denied the purported defection of its members to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Anambra State, reports ITRealms.

The Anambra State Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism, Chief Tony Onyima, made this rebuttal in a press statement available to ITRealms, advising APGA especially in Anambra State to ignore such purported decamping.

According to him, the alleged defection was entirely stage managed event in Agulu by another political party.

“This is far from the truth. The said APGA members are members of another political party dressed in APGA clothes. This is clearly another sign of desperation by one of the candidates for the Anambra Central senatorial seat to deceive Ndi Anambra,” he said.

Onyima pointed out that APGA remains strong and united and will not engage in any such deceits.

“As the grassroots party wholly accepted by Ndi Igbo, we urge our supporters to be vigilant this period and not be deceived by such scams,” he said.

Further, Onyima reminded members to vote for all APGA candidates in the forthcoming general elections, and for Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan for President.

 

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Ndukwe wins APGA primaries, gears up for Senate

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A senatorial hopeful and chairman of OpenMedia Group, Dr. Ernest Ndukwe has scaled through the primaries of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) held at the weekend in Anambra State, ITRealms reports.

Dr. Ndukwe emerged the candidate of APGA for the Anambra South Senatorial seat and is expected to battle for the seat with other candidates of various political parties including Hon. Chuma Nzeribe, reportedly defeated Senator Andy Ubah, the incumbent.

Hon. Nzeribe was a two-term member of the National Assembly at the lower house, the House of Representative and former Security Adviser to Anambra State before now.

 Meanwhile the APGA chairman, Chief Victor Umeh also clinched his ticket for the senate and would be on battle with Mrs. Uche Ekwunife of PDP for the Anambra Central Senatorial seat.

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