Governor Hope Uzodinma has been declared as the winner of the state governorship election. According to the state Returning Officer for the election, Prof. Abayomi Fasina, who is also the Vice-Chancellor, Federal University, Oye-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Uzodimma got 540,308, votes while Samuel Anyanwu of the Peoples Democratic Party came a distant second with a total…
A chieftain of the APC in the South East Dozie Ikedife, has expressed confidence of Governor Uzodinma’s victory in Saturday’s governorship election. Ikedife, who is the South East Organizing Secretary, of the party, says Uzodimma’s victory on Saturday will be a landslide victory”. He said Uzodimma’s achievements in the State were numerous enough to guarantee…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to disqualify Governor Hope Uzodimma and his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), 24 hours before the Imo governorship election. This was as a result of the reported involvement of the APC and Governor Uzodimma in producing and circulating a fake video…
The President of the Trade Union Congress (TUC), Festus Osifo, has responded to comments by Imo state governor Hope Uzodinma that NLC President Joe Ajaero’s visit to Imo state was for political reasons Speaking on a television programme, said his colleague in the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero, was in Imo State on November…
Socio-Economic Rights And Accountability Project (SERAP) has issued a threat to sue President Bola Tinubu and Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodimma, for their involvement in an attack on the National President of the Nigerian Labour Congress, Joe Ajaero. “We are taking legal action against the Tinubu administration and Imo state governor Hope Uzodimma for the…
The Presidency has denied claims alleging that Imo State Governor Hope Uzodinma is preventing President Bola Tinubu from releasing the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu, Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, labeled the allegations as “fake news”, urging the public to disregard the misinformation. In a statement,…
Organised labour has vowed to take action against the Imo State governor of Governor Hope Uzodimma, following the brutalisation of NLC President, Joe Ajaero, in Owerri, the Imo State capital on Wednesday. This was as Uzodimma, while reacting to the Wednesday crisis on Thursday, accused the NLC President, who is an indigene of Imo State,…
The Supreme Court, on Tuesday, deferred till December 5, hearing of an appeal that is seeking to invalidate the years that Senator Hope Uzodinma spent in office as the Governor of Imo state. Though the appeal, which has stayed over three years in the docket of the apex court, was initially fixed for hearing on…
Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo state has called on members of the Imo State Council of Elders to join hands with him to ensure that the implementation of the Charter of Equity is realised. He assured that as Governor, he will deploy the machinery of Government to defend the document and its implementation. The Governor…
Imo State Governor, Senator Hope Uzodinma is said to have intensified moves to stop the Supreme Court from hearing an appeal on the 2019 Imo governorship election, which the apex court has already fixed for October 31, 2023, eleven days to the November 11 governorship poll. Uzodinma is seeking re-election on the platform of the…
