Ekiti: APC, PDP PRIMARIES CONTROVERSIES (1)

 Bola Bolawole

The All progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship party primaries have come and gone but the reverberations may not abate any time soon. Call them primaries of controversies and you will be right. None of the two leading political parties can lay claim to the bragging rights over the conduct and outcome of their primaries. And this is a shame! 

Ekiti: APC, PDP PRIMARIES OF CONTROVERSIES (2)

By Bolanle Bolawole

On June 1, 2018, there was pandemonium (“b’oolo, yaa’mi) at the All Progressives Congress (APC) rally in Ado-Ekiti as a chieftain of the party, Opeyemi Bamidele, was accidentally shot by a policeman at a rally organised by the APC; the rally was to welcome Dr. Kayode Fayemi, its governorship candidate in the July 14, 2018 Ekiti State governorship election, to the state after his resignation from the Federal Executive Council where he had been the Minister of Mines and Steel Development.

EKWEREMADU COMMENDS SENATE FOR REVERSING ITSELF ON ELECTRONIC TRANSMISSION

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief)

Former Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has commended the Senate for reversing itself on electronic transmission of results, saying it was a huge victory for the nation’s democracy.

EKWEREMADU CONGRATULATES NEW PDP CHAIRMAN, AYU, OTHER NATIONAL OFFICERS-ELECT

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief)

Former Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has congratulated the newly elected National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Iyorchia Ayu, and other 20 national officers-elect during the just-concluded National Convention of the party.

EKWEREMADU CONGRATULATES OBASEKI

• * Says Victory, A Huge Relief

By Suzan Okenwa (Senate Correspondent, NASS)

Former Deputy President of the Senate and a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Campaign Council for Edo State, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has congratulated the Governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki, on his victory in the state’s governorship election.

EKWEREMADU CONGRATULATES SOLUDO

• * Pledges To Work With Him If Elected Governor Enugu state In 2023

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief) @CeleOkaf11

Former Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has congratulated the newly inaugurated Governor of Anambra State, Prof. Charles Soludo, on his inauguration, saying his election was divine as he meets the job description at a challenging time for the South East region.

EKWEREMADU EXPLAINS WHY SENATE QUERIED N16B EROSION MANAGEMENT LOAN REPAYMENT

• * Says It's Premature, Untidy, As Appropriation Chairman Commends Committee

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief)

The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, said the Senate Committee on Environment identified and questioned the N16 billion proposed in the 2022 Appropriation Bill for the repayment of the Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Management Project, NEWMAP, as the loan was still covered by a 10-year moratorium expiring in 2023.

EKWEREMADU HAILS BUHARI APPROVAL OF NEW ELECTORAL ACT

* Says Nigeria Making Gradual Progress In Electoral Reform Measures

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief) @CeleOkaf11

Former Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has commended the signing into law of the Electoral Act Repeal and Re-enactment Bill, describing it as a quantum leap for the nation's democracy.

EKWEREMADU IN MONTENEGRO FOR INTERNATIONAL PARLIAMENTARY SESSION

• * Suggests How To Handle Spate Of Ethnic Agitations
• Advocates New System Of Govt, Single Chamber Legislature

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief)

Former Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, on Thursday, July 15, 2021, joined his colleagues for the session of the International Parliament for Tolerance and Peace, IPTP, holding in the Republic of Montenegro on Thursday and Friday, July 15 to 16, 2021.

EKWEREMADU MOURNS JOSEPH WAYAS, EX-SENATE PRESIDENT

• * Describes Him As A Veteran Of The Nigerian Parliament

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief)

Former Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has expressed sadness over the passing on of Nigeria’s former President of the Senate, Senator Joseph Wayas, describing him as a veteran of the Nigerian legislature and key player in Nigeria’s constitutional development.

EKWEREMADU MOURNS MANTU, SAYS NIGERIA LOST A LEGISLATIVE ICON

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief)

Former Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has expressed sadness and shock over the death of his predecessor, Senator Ibrahim Mantu, noting that Nigeria had lost a legislative icon.

EKWEREMADU OPTIMISTIC ABOUT ELECTRONIC TRANSMISSION OF RESULTS IN 2023

By Suzan Okenwa (Senate Correspondent, NASS)

Although media reports on Senator Ike Ekweremadu’s official assignment in Montenegro where he attended a pre-scheduled regular session of the International Parliament for Tolerance and Peace (IPTP) as Nigeria’s representative and also presented the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the National Assembly of Nigeria and the IPTP have clearly put paid to the false claims and insinuations that the Senator stayed away from the Senate plenary of Thursday, July 15 during which the upper chamber voted on the Electoral Act Repeal and Re-enactment Bill, the Office deems it imperative to further put the record straight and restate his faith that electronic transmission of results will still be part of the 2023 general election.

EKWEREMADU PREACHES LOVE, PEACE AT CHRISTMAS

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief)

Former Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has urged Nigerians to embrace the values of love, peace, unity, and sacrifice espoused by Christmas in order to move the nation forward.

EKWEREMADU TASKS CHURCHES ON POLITICAL PARTICIPATION, NATION BUILDING

By Suzan Okenwa (Senate Correspondent, NASS)

Former Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has dismissed the notion that churches and devout Christians are not supposed to show interest in politics, describing it as self-exclusion from good governance and nation-building.

EKWEREMADU TASKS IGBO DIASPORA ON SOUTH EAST STABILITY

* Says S/East NASS Caucus Exploring Political Solution Towards Nnamdi Kanu's Release

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief)

Former Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekwermadu, has enjoined the Igbo in diaspora to offer strong voices against violent agitations and also bring their influences to bear in the search for security and stability in Igbo land.

EKWEREMADU TASKS NATIONAL ASSEMBLY INSTITUTE ON A NEW CONSTITUTION

• * Highlights Successful And Unsuccessful Amendments

By Suzan Okenwa (Senate Correspondent, NASS)

Former Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has tasked the National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies, NILDS, on creating a pathway for the making of a new constitution.

EKWEREMADU WITHDRAWS FROM ENUGU GUBER RACE, BACKS PDP CANDIDATE, PETER MBA

• * Says It's Time To Unite

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief) @CelestineOkaf11

Former Deputy Senate President and a governorship aspirant in the 2023 gubernatorial race in Enugu state, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has formally withdrawn from the governorship contest.

EKWEREMADU'S BILL ON SECOND RIVER BASIN DEVT AUTHORITY IN SOUTH EAST SCALES SECOND READING IN SENATE

• * Proposed New River Basin To Boost Agric Extension In Igboland

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief)

A Bill to amend the provisions of the River Basins Authorities Act 2004 to create an additional River Basin Development Authority in the South East region scaled the Second Reading at Senate Plenary on Tuesday.

EKWEREMADU'S ORGAN DONOR A SERIAL LIAR, Says Mefor, a Forensic Psychologist

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief) @CelestineOkaf11

A forensic psychologist, Dr. Law Mefor, has described David Nwamini Ukpo, the man at the centre of the issues leading to the arrest and remand of former Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, and his wife, Dr. Beatrice Nwanneka Ekweremadu, as a 'serial liar', who should not be taken seriously.

EL-RUFAI AND THE SHORT TREK TO POSTERITY

By Hassan Gimba

The chickens, the saying goes, always come home to roost. But some people would prefer to be Shakespearean by quoting the insightful words uttered by Marc Antony in William Shakespeare’s play, Julius Caesar, “the evil that men do lives after them while the good is oft interred with their bones.”