All hail Caesar! emperor from otta. A man of road high standards.
Whoever heard of a so called governor needing the so called Presidents nod of approval before renovating highways located in their state.
By that reasoning If Aremu desires that Igbos choke for air and demands that we request permission before inhaling just to show his control, we must comply?
Yes it has come to this.
Apart from Orji Uzors support (provided with a suspicious caveat which offers him an out) other Eastern governors are saying nothing.
I guess they imagine it does not affect them. they are good boys, and its not right to rock the boat.
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quote:Spitting on the pot-hole filled, dusty, land-fill of a "Federal highway" could be considered a renovation of sorts.
Ukaobasi, Chukwu ga agozi gi. This is a very apt description of the federal road in the former Eastern BiafraNigeria especialyy in the Igbo speaking areas.
On Ngige, all the present gra gra could be geared towards trying to gather support in Igboland, a method that was made famous by Orji Uzor. I suspect that he will ultimately go to beg at 'night' like Orji. It could just be that it is just a part of the Atiku Vs Obj fight by proxy. If you remember it was the Obj faction of the PDP that tried to impeach him while it was the atiku faction that saved his bacon.
I could only afford a wry and subdued laughter after reading this comment above credited to Mbadinuju:
"I can call the President at any time and his aides will put me through. The chemistry between two of us has been healthy and I would use that to settle the political crisis in my state,"
How profoundly and accursedly daft!!!
As to the so-called reconciliation meeting between dishonorable bandits, I can only commend Ngige for reading the current tea leaves and steering sufficiently clear of the same dredge of scum together with whom he usurped from APGA the legitimate mandate of Anambra people in furtherance of Aremu and PDP's malevolent intent toward Igbos in general.
Ngige will absolve himself further only if he continues to repair our amenities and testifies in favor of APGA at the hearings, so that the peoples true mandate will finally be respected.
Fully aware that this is wishful thinking on my part, I hasten to conclude that any other measure short of my farfetched suggestion above, would only represent mere window dressing, of which Ngige should know by now he is most at a disadvantage to hope to be rescued or redeemed by. That is given the array of vile, treacherous, but temporarily all-powerful characters he sought to maneouver with, and around whom this deplorable saga is woven.
"I can call the President at any time and his aides will put me through. The chemistry between two of us has been healthy and I would use that to settle the political crisis in my state,"
_________ by Mbadinuju
Aremu has just defaecated into your mouth, the demeaning and humiliating taste of that faeces is still fresh, lurking around you in the person of Chris Ubah, Emeka offor, and the entire PDP party machinery.
He has just emmerged fresh from killing in cold blood one of your fellow politicians in the person of the now late Chuba Okadigbo,
He has just urinated on the face of your successor by using his tribesmen Tafa Balogun and Raphael Ige to enable a common lout in the person of Chris Ubah to execute a coup against the office of governor (forget the personage of Ngige, just think about who that office is supposed to embody)
Let us ignore personal outrage in the first place and ask:
WHERE IS YOUR HONOR? WHERE IS YOUR HONOR AS A MAN (no matter how depraved)TO BE MAKING SUCH A STATEMENT, WITHOUT THE SLIGHTEST HINT OF SHAME?
At what point does distaste, disgust, personal offense at defiled honor kick in?
At what point? Pleasssssssse tell me.
At what point? enh? (apologies to all for the disgustingly graphic characterizations, only strong metaphors can convey my frustrations at this point)
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Welcome to Biafranigeriaworld battlefield. You appear like a moderate, and all I can tell you is beware of the bad guys. Guys like Ukaobasi, Daud, Ednut, Biafra, Chiboy, Ojoto, Wacko, the bonehead Rufukuku, Nwa Aro, NwaBiafra and the other guy, Amadi O. This is no place for moderates as these guys do not know how to play by the rules. So, be very careful. Remember a stitch in time saves nine.
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You're right, it was my mistake. I love that baby face.
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I guess someone needs to tell Ngige to stop wasting Anambra money in court and that the court in Awka has no power over Obasanjo's boys and gals.
quote:Anambra: Court Orders Chris Uba's Arrest
14 others too From Charles Onyekamuo in Awka
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The political crisis in Anambra State took a new dimension yesterday, as an Awka Magistrate Court presided over by Mrs. V. O. Agu ordered the arrest of Chief Chris Uba, the estranged political godfather of Anambra State Governor, Dr. Chris Ngige and 14 others. They where accused of breaching civilised protocol on November 14, 2003 during which a convoy in which they were travelling chased the state Governor's convoy off the road at the Amawbia end of the old Enugu-Onitsha road in Awka.
The accused persons are to be produced in Mrs. Agu's Court on Wednesday, December 17, 2003.
The accused persons included Obinna Uzor(M), Ignatius Abana (M), Chuma Nzeribe (M), Harry Ohanezi (M), Okey Udeh (M), Eucharia Azodo (F), R. O. C. Okpalaoka (M), Emeka Okeke (M), Chris Orajekwe (M), Uche Emordi (M), Amanchukwu Ezike (M), and Ifeatu Obi-Okoye (M). Mrs. Ada Unobagha, the Anambra State Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) and E.E. Osunkwo Esq, counsel for the state had prayed the court under section (154)(a) and 155 CPL Cap. 37 laws of Anambra State for an order by way of warrant in charge No. MAW/286C/03 and for any other order or further orders as the court may deem fit to make under the circumstance.
In another suit, charge No: A/69c/03, the state charged the Vice Chairman, PDP, South East, Nze Fidelis Ozichukwu, Ignatius Abana, Chuma Nzeribe, Okey Udeh, Okechukwu Odunze, R. O. C. Okpalaoka, Ivy Obi-Okoye, Uche Ekwunife (F), Eucharia (F) and Raphael Ige (M), for their roles in the July 10 episode in the state, when the accused persons allegedly interferred with the duties and functions of the state governor and proceedings of the State House of Assembly. The accused persons are being charged at the Awka High Court on a seven count charge of conspiracy, interference with executive and legislative functions, deprivation of liberty and authorising false documents.
Briefing newsmen yesterday evening, in Awka, the state's Attorney General and Commis-sioner for Justice, Chief, U.N. Udechukwu (SAN) said he had a duty as the state's chief law officer to commence criminal prosecution against the 10 afore-written persons whom he stated were directly implicated in the attempt to interfere with the executive functions and duties of the Governor of Anambra State and with the legislative functions of the Anambra State House of Assembly. But he said Uba was not being charged along with others because of a pending appeal in court, describing his exclusion from the list of those charged as a deference to the judiciary; adding that the accused were nonetheless not being charged for abduction.
Wait ooh!
In another report on this issue, Wabara is calling a meeting of all Igbo leaders in Abuja.
quote:Court orders arrest of Uba, Ige, others From Chuks Collins, (Onitsha) and Azimazi Momoh Jimoh, (Abuja)
FIVE months after being indicted in an attempt to forcefully remove Anambra State Governor, Chris Ngige from office, 14 well-heeled members of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) were yesterday ordered arrested by a magistrate's court in the state.
Meanwhile, Senate President Adolphus Wabara has invited Igbo leaders to an emergency meeting tomorrow over the long-drawn crisis in the state.
The Anambra magistrate's order followed an application to that effect by the state government, which yesterday initiated a legal process for the trial of the suspected masterminds of the abortive coup attempt of July 10, 2003.
Principal among the accused persons are the governor's estranged backer, Chris Uba, retired Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Raphael Ige, who allegedly supervised the abduction of Ngige, and former Deputy Governor, Dr. Okey Udeh.
Mrs. V.O. Agu of the Awka Magisterial District gave the order prayed for by the state's Director of Public Prosecutions, Ada Unobagha.
The magistrate declared: "Having listened to the application of the DPP and considering the nature and circumstances of the case, I hereby order the arrest of all the 14 accused persons to be produced in court on 17/12/03."
Ige had on July 10 led a team of policemen to the governor's office and demobilised the governor's aides. He later drove Ngige into a hotel in the town allegedly on orders from above.
Simultaneously, the State House of Assembly debated and summarily approved a purported resignation letter from the governor. Udeh thereafter issued a statement assuming office as the new governor, citing constitutional protection.
Ige's resignation letter was later accepted by the Federal Government, while Uba and some of his supporters have continued to maintain a frosty relationship with the governor.
The state's Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Chief Nnoruka Udechukwu, went to court yesterday four months after a month's ultimatum to the police to arrest, investigate and charge all those directly linked to the crisis.
In one of the suits with number A/69C/2003, which is before an Awka High Court, Senator Godson Abana, Chuma Nzeribe, Udeh and Okechukwu Odunze were cited as defendants. They were alleged to have "on the July 10, 2003 at Awka, within the Awka Judicial Division acting jointly and in concert did advisedly do an unlawful act to wit, abducting the governor of Anambra State, an act calculated to interfere with the free exercise by the Governor of Anambra State, Dr. Chris Nwabueze Ngige, of the duties or authority of his office."
The act, according to the charge sheet, is punishable under section 495 (a) of the criminal Code cap. 36 vol. 2 of the Revised Laws of Anambra State 1991.
Others charged along included Chief Reuben Okpaloka (Anambra State People's Democratic Party (PDP) Secretary); Ifeatu Obi-Okoye, (State PDP chairman); Mrs.Uche Ekwunife, Mrs. Eucharia Azodo (former Speaker of State Assembly); Ige and Fidelis Ozichukwu (the zonal chairman, PDP, South East).
In the second matter filed before an Awka Magistrate Court under suit number MAW/286C/03 Uba, Obinna Uzor, Senator Godson Abana, Nzeribe, Harry Ohanezi, Udeh and Azodo were named as defendants. They were said to have "on Friday November 14, 2003 at Amawbia in the Awka Magistrate District, acting in concert did conspire amongst yourselves and with other persons now at large to commit an offence to wit, reckless and negligent acts contrary to Section 302 of the Criminal Code and thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 496(a) of the Criminal Code cap 36 vol. 2 Revised Laws of Anambra State, 1991".
Charged along with them are Okpaloka, Emeka Okeke, Raphael Okeke, Uche Emordi, Chris Orajekwe, Amancuhkwu Ezike and Ifeatu Obi-Okoye.
Briefing reporters yesterday, Udechukwu pointed out that Uba was excluded from the abduction attempt charge because of a pending matter in an Abuja High Court initiated after July 10 by Uba himself, before Justice Wilson Egbo-Egbo.
He referred to the crisis-marred congress of PDP in Enugu last weekend, and the reported regrets by the zonal chairman, Fidelis Ozichukwu that if he had arrested Ngige, he would have handed him over to President Olusegun Obasanjo.
A backlash of criticisms trailed the abortive effort by Uba and the other accused to remove Ngige. Most stakeholders at the state and national levels deplored Uba's move as a grave threat to democracy in the country.
Such Nigerians who took umbrage at the abduction expected the PDP to which Ngige and Uba belong to come out with a definite position and particularly condemn the suspected masterminds. But the PDP said that the crisis was a family affair that would be settled amicably.
This, coupled with the freedom with which Uba and his supporters continue to have fresh crises with Ngige, have made any observers to accuse the Presidency of having a hand in the attempt to remove Ngige.
Indeed, the abortive abduction was said to have received the approval of the top hierarchy of the police. However, the police have denied this.
Wabara invited Igbo leaders to a meeting on Saturday at his Apo official quarters in Abuja. In a letter by his Special adviser (Special Duties), Obinna Okwuaka, the Senate President fixed the meeting for tomorrow. The letter expressed regrets that the newspapers have been awash with reports of a degeneration in the state's political activities.
I guess it is important for our enemies to know what Igbo people are discussing.
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quote:Meanwhile, Senate President Adolphus Wabara has invited Igbo leaders to an emergency meeting tomorrow over the long-drawn crisis in the state.
IGBO LEADERS kee? Who the mf made them leaders of Ndigbo? Who the mf told this Nwagbara guy that a man who lost elections na his own village could go to Abuja thanks to onye iro ndigbo and call himself IGBO LEADER? What is this man smoking that is messing his head up to be calling a meeting of this magnitude and be default, inviting himself to probably officiate? I rest.
TGIF. AUDI YALL. GOD BLESS TEXAS THE LONESTAR STATE. GO GIT THEM LONGHORNS.
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quote:.....Who the mf made them leaders of Ndigbo? Who the mf told this Nwagbara guy that a man who lost elections na his own village could go to Abuja ............... What is this man smoking that is messing his head up to be calling a meeting ....... ........inviting himself to probably officiate? I rest.
This Wabara guy has finally pissed Ednut to the highest point of pistificity!
Yes. The man is going around as one of our numerous unappointed Igbo leaders, summoning meetings of others like him, to proffer impotent solutions to unappointedly solve problems previously incapable of manifestation in Igboland, artificially instigated, and currently incubating, of which creation and mismanagement, he is an integral part.
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It would appear Chris Aremu Ubah has won every concession he ever wanted without firing a single shot, just a hug. I was particularly amused by "That Chief Chris Uba will not interfere with the affairs of Anambra State Government". If Ngige is truly that gullible, not to recognize that A. Judas Wabara has just succeeded in inserting back all the backstabbing spies (Ubah's instruments or fingers) into that agreement, then I feel really sorry for Anambra and Igbo.
Notice the gathering of the who's who among Aremu serving efulefu.
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Now expect Aremu to emmerge and offer magnanimous declarations about political solutions and what people can achieve if only they get together and discuss "like family".
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Ngige has apparently decided to pay Chris Ubah based on the deal between Ngige and Ubah before the elections. Who are the winners and the losers. In my opinion, Asiegbu and his fellow hangers on are losers.
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Unconfirmed report from BiafraNigeria says Obasanjo has engineered another kidnapping of Anambra governor, Chris Ngige. The report says a court in Anambra declared that Ngige truly resigned during the first incident a few months ago. That paved the way for Police to "arrest" Ngige and remove him from office. Again, the report is unconfirmed.
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CONFUSION IN ANAMBRA: Ngige abducted again? •Court orders his removal By Osedebamen Isibor The plot thickens in the political crisis that has lingered in Anambra State since July last year and the Governor, Dr. Chris Ngige is feared to have been abducted again.
This alleged abduction this time is supposedly the result of a removal order on the governor given by an Enugu High Court last Friday.
Although police authorities said the judgement was being studied, and there was no question of any abduction of Governor Ngige, “he only went into hiding when the Commissioner of Police went to serve him the paper,” said police source.
However Ngige’s media and publicity assistant, Fred Chukwuelobe rebutted the police account saying that the governor’s securitymen have been ordered to be disarmed.
Chukwuelobe, in a telephone interview with NewAge last night said, “They have taken His Excellency again. Ask the police.”
But in a subsequent interveiw with the Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), Chris Olakpe, he said, “There was no such thing like abduction; the people are just being funny. If the governor has been abducted in any way, we should know.”
The court judgement which may have given rise to the fresh crisis in Anambra, according to police authorities is being studied, a statement issued by Olakpe disclosed yesterday.
Last Friday, the Enugu High Court in an unsigned, unstamped and uncertified ruling sent to NewAge through the PPRO, Olakpe, granted four of the six reliefs sought by a chieftain of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Hon. Nelson Achukwu, among which was an order directing the 1st respondent to remove the 3rd respondent from office in the same manner he put him in office on 10th July, 2003 after having resigned as governor of Anambra State and left therefrom.”
According to the police press release, the court order which was served on the IGP same day “is being studied against the background of rule of law and constitutionality.” It added that “while the court order remains in force, it will be seen in context of the provision of the constitution.”
However, Olakpe stated that the Anambra State police commissioner has been directed to brief Governor Ngige on the court order “and to set machinery in motion for an enduring rational position and peace in the state.”
Following the crisis that reportedly engulfed the South East congress of the PDP, Hon Achukwu dragged the Inspector General of Police (as 1st respondent), one Oduoko Mmiri, Chris Ngige and the Anambra State attorney geneal and commissioner of justice to court, praying the court for, among others: •a declaration that Ngige was not qualified to be at the South East zonal congress of the PDP having resigned from office vide his letter of July 9, 2003 and as provided for in Sections 180(1) and 306 (1), (2), (5) of the constitution;
•a declaration that Ngige ceased to be governor of the state when the speaker of the Anambra State House of Assembly received Ngige’s letter of resignation in compliance to S. 180 (1) C and 306 (1), (2) and (5) of the constitution;
•an order directing the IGP to remove the 3rd respondent from office in the same manner he put him in office on July 10, 2003.
In his judgement, Justice S.C. Nnaji established that his court had jurisdiction to entertain the case since the alleged offences, the PDP congress, held in Enugu.
Also, after a resort to relevant evidence before the court, Justice Nnaji declared that “the service upon respondents of all the processes has properly activated the jurisdiction of the court.”
Noting that all the respondents failed to appear in court and did not file any counter-affidavit, the judge said, “It is settled that unchallenged and uncontroverted affidavit evidence ought to be accepted as true.”
On the question as to whether Governor Ngige was a lawful delegate to the Enugu congress on December 6, 2003, the court held that as a governor, Ngige ought to qualify to be at the congress, adding: “From the totality of all the foregoing, the question which may be asked is this, did the 3rd respondent resign his office as the governor of Anambra State? Exhibit B and other uncontroverted evidence before the court showed that he actually did resign.”
On that note, the court held that Ngige was not qualified to be at the PDP congress. Having resigned July7, 2003, by December 6, 2003 “he was not qualified to attend as governor of Anambra.”
“From the foregoing, I am clearly satisfied that the applicant is entitled to relief (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) and (iv) sought in the application. And I so as much order the 1st respondent to remove the 3rd respondent from office in same manner he put him in office on 10th July, 2003 after having resigned as governor of Anambra State,” Justice Nnaji ordered.
In a press statement issued later last night, Chukwulobe said that “His Excellency, Governor Chris Ngige was not personally served with the court process neither has he been served with the ruling even though the authorities in Abuja have already collected the documents.”
Continuing he said, the statement government has already been intimated of a grand plan by Chief Chris Uba and his group, using the Inspector General of Police and officers of the Anambra State Police Command, to prevent Ngige from discharging his constitutional responsibilities as from today.
“Already, the Inspector General of Police has ordered all the governor’s security men to be disarmed,” he stated.
The police has however denied this allegation.
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Ngige is learning that he cannot hunt with the fox and run with the hare.
quote:Ngige missing after Court removal order
Governor, TV boss missing
IG studies ruling, seek 'rational' solution
Anambra radio, TV shut
From Chucks Collins, Onitsha
THE macabre drama which the politics and governance of Anambra State of Nigeria have become, took a more intriguing dimension at the weekend with an order by a court that the Governor, Chris Nwabueze Ngige be removed from office.
By yesterday, his security details were reportedly removed and the governor soon disappeared from sight. The police authorities however denied withdrawing governor's security officials.
The weekend's order by Justice Stanley Nnaji of Enugu Judicial Division came barely five months after an earlier order for the removal of Chris Ngige earned an Abuja High Court Judge Wilson Egbo-Egbo suspension.
By last night, Ngige's Special Assistant, Fred Chukwulobe, said the governor's whereabouts were unknown. He noted that all the governor's vehicles, including the security cars, SSS car, and even Ngige's private cars, were in the lodge, yet Ngige could not be seen. Some sources even expressed fears over Ngige's life last night.
Ngige had yesterday afternoon told an enlarged forum of Anambra Leaders of Thought that his security details had been removed and that the state-owned broadcasting station had been closed down by policemen. He also said that the whereabouts of the broadcasting station's managing director, Mr. Ikechukwu Abana, were unknown.
Interestingly, a statement by the Force Public Relations Officer, Chris Olakpe, said the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Tafa Balogun, had received Justice Nnaji's order and was studying it "against the background of law and constitutionality."
Olakpe, a deputy commissioner, said that the order "remains in force," adding, however, that it would be "seen in context of the provision of the constitution."
He added that Balogun, who is also a lawyer, had directed the Anambra State Police Commissioner to "brief Governor Chris Ngige" on the order. The Police Commissioner, Olakpe stated further, is to "get machinery in motion for an enduring rational position and peace in the state."
The new legal onslaught came from a suspended member of the state House of Assembly, Nelson Achukwu who had gone to court to seek some orders, one of which is that Ngige should vacate office.
Following a failed attempt to remove Ngige by abduction on July 10, 2003, a series of legal actions culminated in the July 22, 2003 removal order by Justice Egbo-Egbo, which he later denied and attributed to typographical errors.
The National Judicial Council on October 7 suspended the Abuja Judge.
Ngige yesterday said that both the Presidency and the Inspector-General of Police claimed ignorance of the latest court order. But before the governor concluded his speech, a telephone call was said to have got to him from the police boss. Ngige did not, however, disclose details of the discussion.
Security around the Governor's Lodge was further tightened yesterday, with callers, including journalists, commissioners and advisers being thoroughly frisked before being granted entry.
Ngige said what happened yesterday was a perfectly planned and executed coup de'tat with the withdrawal of his security details.
The gathering at the Governor's Lodge at Anambra was attended by virtually every notable person in the state
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