ANAMBRA 2013: PDP aspirants price delegates at N20,000
AT least three persons sustained injuries at the collation center in Awka on Tuesday after the rerun of the ward congresses ordered by the PDP as supporters of some governorship aspirants fought over the list of delegates that emerged from the field. Meanwhile, it emerged that some aspirants were already pricing the delegates at the starting price of N20,000 per delegate.
Anambra PDP guber aspirant kicks against state consensus candidate
Mr Sylvester Okonkwo, a PDP aspirant for the governorship race in Anambra, said in Abuja on Saturday that he would not support the emergence of a consensus candidate by the party for the general election.
Igbo deportee from Lagos dies, five others in critical health condition
Residents of Onitsha, Anambra State, were greeted with the sight of 67 persons later discovered to have been deported from Lagos, Wednesday, July 24.
Group tasks INEC on free, fair polls in Anambra
Ahead of the November 16 governorship poll in Anambra State, a group, Odimma Anambra Development Association, yesterday called on the Independent Electoral Commission, INEC, to be transparent and unbiased in the conduct of the election.
70,000 Anambra indigenes get free medical treatment
AWKA—THE Association of Anambra in the United States of America, ASA–USA, medical mission has provided medical treatment to over 70,000 patients in 70 communities in the state since the programme was introduced seven years ago.
ANAMBRA 2014: One office, multiple contenders
In the run up to the November 16, 2013 governorship election in Anambra State, virtually all the political parties and aspirants seem yet to find their rhythm. The election holds barely 90 days away to elect Gov Peter Obi’s successor. Analysts blame the scenario on the delay by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in releasing the guidelines and timetable for the election.
Anambra 2013: The battle of three senators
They are three senators with a common streak of having been pushed out of office by the courts. Now Senators Chris Ngige, Emma Anosike and Andy Uba are in the frontline in the battle to succeed the outgoing governor of Anambra State.
Ten years after Anambra Liberation Day
THE clock had just struck 8:47 am on the 10th day of July 2003 when a detachment of heavily armed mobile police men stormed the government house Awka, disarmed security operatives and made their way to the office of the then governor of Anambra State. The police men who were led by late Raphael Igeh the then Assistant Inspector General of Police (ALG) in charge of zone 9 Umuahia, Abia State confiscated the two phones of the then governor and whisked him away. Stories had it that the governor had resigned after being sworn in on may 29th 2003, thanking members of his executive for their assistance.
