Pic : Former governor Peter Obi in India to visit Prof. Dora Akunyili

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Find a statement posted on Professor Dora Akunyili's Facebook page below
Immediate past Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi, is presently in India on a visit to see former Minister of Information and Communications, Prof. Dora Akunyili, who is receiving treatment in the country. Mr. Obi left for India yesterday in company of his media aide, Mr. Valentine Obienyem. The two men confirmed in a message from India that Prof. Akunyili is responding to treatment and that her situation is nothing near the scary picture being painted by rumour mongers.

Okorocha punches Governor Obi's aide over seat

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Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State on Saturday punched a protocol officer who refused to allow him sit on a chair reserved for the Anambra State Governor, Mr. Peter Obi, at the 80th birthday celebration of former vice president, Chief Alex Ekwueme, in Enugu.

The incident occurred 20 minutes before most of the invited guests arrived.

SUNDAY PUNCH learnt that the seater was reserved for the host Governor, Mr. Sullivan Chime and Obi. The Deputy Governor, Mr. Sunday Onyebuchi, represented Chime who is still out of the country.

The protocol officer, Mr. Ifeanyi Onukuba, who works with Obi, was shocked at Okorocha's action and before he could recover from it, a police officer attached to the Bomb Disposal Unit in Anambra State, Mr. Felix Alumona, pushed Okorocha when he was

Lagos Deportation: On The Side Of Common Sense

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In the days that has ensued since the ‘deportation’ of 14 Anambrarians, the debate has snowballed into a convoluted tribal argy-bargy, presenting an opportunity for ethnic jingoist and bigots to jump on the band wagon. It was incongruous for some to even think that Igbo businesses and people were being unfairly targeted in what could be the threshold of a pogrom.

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‘Who is set to become Anambra governor 2013?

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Anambra governor 2013?

Today, a sizable portion of the 1.87 million voters in Anambra State is expected to participate in the election of a governor for the 22-year-old state. Some of the candidates of the many political events, who emerges as governor, would take promise of office on March 17, 2014.

The last time the folks of Anambra voted was on Feb 6, 2010, over fifty percent of the voting populace could not discover their names in the voters'register. At the conclusion of the day, just about 300,000 people voted, a little significantly less than 20 per cent of the voting population.

But today, all of the members in the election have qualified that the voters'enroll is in good shape following a few reviews by the Independent National Electoral Commission.

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Obi supervises demolition of kidnap suspect’s properties

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Anambra State Governor, Peter Obi, on Wednesday led the demolitionof two bungalows allegedly owned by a kidnap suspect, Mr. Emeka Ezekwe, in Umuihepune, Umuatu Village of Ihiala Local Government Area in the state.
A statement by Obi’s media aide, Valentine Obienyem, said the governor Peter Obi carried out the demolition exercise as part of the war against kidnapping and other crimes in the state.

The demolition followed the arrest of Ezekude and the recovery of arms and ammunition buried in the ground in plastic containers in the premises.

Obi demolishes another suspected kidnappers’ den

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Anambra State Governor, Peter Obi, on Wednesday led the demolition of two bungalows allegedly owned by a kidnap suspect, Mr. Emeka Ezekwe, in Umuihepune, Umuatu Village of Ihiala Local Government Area in the state.
A statement by Obi’s media aide, Valentine Obienyem, said the governor Peter Obi carried out the demolition exercise as part of the war against kidnapping and other crimes in the state.
He had recently led the demolition of some houses belonging to another suspected kidnap gang leader, Olisa Ifedike aka Ofeakwu.

The demolition followed

Igbos Deportation From Lagos: APC Tells Gov Obi to Apologise to Nigerians.

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we only deported 14 Igbos to Anambra state. - APC.

there was no basis for Obi to apologise to anyone. APGA.

The Newly registered All Progressives Congress (APC), yesterday accused Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State, of threatening the country’s unity and whipping up tribal sentiment by sensationalising the recent ‘deportation’ of some indigenes of the state from Lagos.

The party in a statement by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, called on Obi to apologise to Nigerians, noting that only 14 Anambra indigenes were deported and not 72, as widely claimed.

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The Lagos Deportation And The Law By Femi Falana

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By Femi Falana

Deportation of dissidents :  In 1885 the British colonial regime deported King Jaja of Opobo to a remote island in West Indies where he died in 1889. His offence was that he had challenged the imperialist control of the coastal trade. In 1941 Comrade Michael Imoudu, President of the Nigerian Union of Railwaymen was deported from Lagos  and banished to his hometown, Auchi in the Benin Province as he was considered "a potential threat to public safety" .

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Graphic Photos: Gov. Peter Obi Political Thugs Kill 30 Worshippers At Holy Ghost

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There is a breaking news that over 30 persons allegedly died early hours today [November 2, 2013] at the Holy Ghost Adoration Ground after All Progressive Grand Alliance [APGA] started campaigning at the prayer house.
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It Was Wrong for Fashola to Apologize to Igbo - FFK ( What Do you Think?)

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Former minister for aviation, Chief Femi Fani Kayode, has lashed out at the Lagos State governor, Raji Fashola, over his recent apology to Ndi'Igbo on the deportation issue which sparked off a major controversy over citizenship and rights of a Nigerian citizen within Nigeria.

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Obi bags Best Governor Award, empowers 5,000 youths

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Anambra State governor, Mr Peter Obi, yesterday bagged the best performing governor on the eradication of polio in the southeast from Bill Gates and Melinda Foundation at a massively attended ceremony at the Women’s Development Centre in Awka.

Speaking while presenting the award to Gov Obi which went with a cash prize of N120 million, the minister of state for health, Dr Mohammed Pate said the award was not by chance as Gov Obi had distinguished himself in the health sector which he observed had resulted in the provision of ambulances to hospitals,
accreditation of schools of midwifery and the wonderful partnership with the Church and described the Anambra example as a total package, noting that the state had remained polio-free in the past five years.

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President not responsible for police college decay –Obi •Governor says no clue yet on floating corps

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Anambra State Governor, Peter Obi, on Friday said President Goodluck Jonathan was not responsible for the decay in the Police College, Ikeja, Lagos as exposed by a private television station recently.

He, however, said the administration was working hard to solve the problem and others facing security agencies in the country.Obi spoke with State House correspondents at the end of a meeting of the Police Fund Committee chaired by Vice-President Namadi Sambo.

He said Jonathan was committed to changing the fortunes of all security agencies in the country, especially the police.

My Husband was set up: Wife Of Hotel Owner In Custody For Human Head Saga

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Without even waiting for investigation of the controversial matter to begin, her husband's hotel was on Friday demolished on the orders of the state governor, Peter Obi.

She insisted that her husband, Bonaventure Mokwe, is being set up...

Mr Bonaventure was arrested along with 10 other people in connection with the recovery of the two human heads in his hotel.

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El Rufai released by SSS, says Gov Peter Obi qualifies as a fool. Calls him a Clown. Hehe

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 The Ex-FCT minister tweeted he has regained his freedom 23hrs after men of the SSS detained him at a resort in Awka, Anambra State. And when someone tweeted he was happy to be leaving the state safely, El -Rufai got angry at the Anambra state governor, Peter Obi.

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Prof. Dora Akunyili's Body arrives Nigeria

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The body late professor. Dora Akunyili was this night received by members of her family as well as the former Governor of Anambra state, Mr Peter Obi at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International airport, Abuja . Her body, accompained by her husband Dr Chike Akunyili and younger brother Dr. Anayo Edemobi , was flown into Nigeria in a personal jet and sent to a mortuary in Nigerian capital in an Ambulance.  Speaking with newsmen, Peter Obi Plans burial for the late academician will begin sharply.

Anambra State Governor, Obi Presents 1.5 Billion Naira Cheque To Schools

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Anambra State Governor, Mr. Peter Obi, has presented a cheque of 1.5 billion naira to 150 public and private schools for infrastructural upgrade, under the State Education Programme Implementation Investment Project, SEPIP.
The presentation was made at the official launch of SEPIP, a World Bank project, which held at the Women Development Center in Awka.

Mimiko, Ladoja, Obi may defect to PDP

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Ondo State Governor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko; his Anambra counterpart, Mr. Peter Obi; and a former Governor of Oyo State, Alhaji Rashidti Ladoja, may soon defect to the ruling Peoples Democratic Party.

Competent sources at the national headquarters of the party said on Friday that the party had concluded arrangements to have these men in its fold.

Mimiko was a member of the PDP before he defected to the Labour Party in 2006 to contest the governorship election in his state.

He had wanted to contest the election under the umbrella of the PDP but then President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo insisted that Dr. Olusegun Agagu would run for a second term.

Ex-Anambra Governor Peter Obi defects from APGA to PDP

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Former Governor of Anambra state and chieftain of All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) this evening defected to the ruling People's Democratic Party, PDP. He made his decision known after a meeting with members of the South East zone of the PDP at his residence in Onitsha, Anambra state.

Speaking through his media aide this evening, Mr Obi who said his defection was to enable him become a competitor and not a spectator in national affairs. The former governor had maintained for a while now that he will not seek any further elective position.

Ojukwu’s Spirit Resurrects In Awka As APGA Holds Remembrance Rally

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Though in crisis, the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) at the weekend sent out a signal that it might not have died after all as believed by many, when most of its members forgot their differences and gathered at the Dr. Alex Ekwueme Square for a rally in remembrance of the one year burial of the leader, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu.

The remembrance rally, which was also attended by the Nigerian Ambassador to Spain and widow of the late Ikemba Nnewi, Bianca Ojukwu, also witnessed the declaration of former Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) House of Representatives candidate for Anaocha, Njikoka and Dunukofia Federal Constituency, Chief Dozie Nwankwo, for APGA.

Dr. Willie Obiano sworn-in as Anambra state Governor

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Dr. Willie Obiano who won the gubernatorial election in Anambra state in November 2013 was this afternoon sworn in as Governor at the state at the Alex Ekweume Square in Akwa.

The inaugural session was witnessed by the outgoing Governor, Peter Obi, important dignitaries such as Senator Ben Obi, Special Adviser to the President on Inter-party Affairs, who said that Obi will soon join the Federal Executive Council, Governor Theodore Orji of Abia State, National Chairman of APGA, Chief Victor Umeh, Senator Maggery Okadigbo, former Chief of Army Staff, Lt.Gen Azubuike Ihejirika, Ambassador Bianca Ojukwu among other dignitaries as well as the People of Anambra state.
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