The former LG boss said this on Tuesday while reacting to his removal on Monday by Governor Okezie Ikpeazu.
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The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the new LG boss was the council’s Deputy Chairman before her elevation.
This was revealed by the Rivers State helmsman on Tuesday on his verified Twitter page, accompanied by photographs.
Inaugurating the Committee at the Government House, Umuahia, Governor Ikpeazu directed the Committee to take over all ungoverned spaces in Umunneochi and set up systems that will lead to the apprehension of all elements who have become a nuisance to the people of the Council.
The meeting, on Thursday in Abubakar’s Abuja home, was at the instance of the former Vice President of Nigeria.
Ikpeazu, the lone aspirant, emerged unopposed as the party’s candidate at the Enyimba International Stadium, Aba.
This comes against the protest by students of the State’s University and residents of Uturu community in Abia state Thursday, over the incessant cases of kidnapping and unfortunate death of innocent citizens around the ABSU-Uturu-Okigwe axis and Umunneochi-Ihube area occasioned by the criminal activities of mindless terrorists.
In a release signed Wednesday by the Chief of Staff to the State’s Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu, Chief Okey Ahiwe, the South Eastern State observed that such act was being perpetrated by metal scrap dealers (akpakara) with the help of cart pushers, asserting such conduct was economic sabotage.
The pensioners, operating under the aegis of Concerned Abia Pensioners, took their protest round the major streets of Umuahia and ended up at the Government House.
Ogbonna, who also doubles as ex-Deputy Chief of Staff to the Abia Deputy Governor, had during a recent interactions with select journalists at his residence in Umuahia, which recorded video of the event surfaced in social media handles, claimed he recommended and introduced Ikpeazu to the godfathers that made him a governor in 2015.
This is contained in a communiqué issued by the PDP after a meeting between Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu and the State Working Committee (SWC) of the party Wednesday at the International Conference Centre, Umuahia.
Appolos who hails from Isiko village in Obingwa Local Government Area of the South eastern State restated that he was asking for his people’s support because he is “eminently qualified to be the steward of their trust and mandate in the Legislative Assembly”.
The crash involved a loaded trailer, ramming into the place, leading to the killing of several people.
The signing of the Bill makes Abia the first state in Nigeria to set up a diaspora agency for its citizens.
This was disclosed by the Governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Onyebuchi Ememanka, in a statement in Aba.
Matawalle on Tuesday defected to the Peoples Democratic Party alongside other elected officials of the state.
Describing the ugly incident as devastating and evil, Kalu commended Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia state and Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo state for their collective efforts in a bid to rescue the victims from the criminals.
Ikpeazu said this on Saturday when officials of the East Gate Inland Container Terminal Limited, a Federal Government Concessionaire for the project, visited him at the Government House, Umuahia.
This was contained in a statement signed by the Chief of Staff to the Governor, Chief Anthony Agbazuere, on Tuesday in Umuahia
The senator and the Abia State Government both spoke on Tuesday.