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2023 ELECTION: Elder Erondu Expresses Disaffection with Late Arrival of INEC Officials | # NwokeukwuMascot

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Elder Erondu Uchenna Erondu The Candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, for Obingwa West State Constituency in the March 11th House of Assembly election, Elder Erondu Jnr. Erondu, has expressed disaffection with the conduct of the Presidential and National Elections currently going on. Addressing newsmen after casting his vote at Polling Unit 20, Ward 3, Umuaro in Obingwa LGA of Abia State, Elder Erondu, said he is not satisfied with the late arrival of Officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC, stating that the late arrival of materials is capable of disenfranchising a lot of people. He decried the inability of INEC to provide vehicles to convey their staff and materials to polling units, revealing that stakeholders in the area had to intervene by way of providing vehicles to convey the officials and materials to polling units. Elder Erondu Jnr. said INEC Officials contacted, informed that they had challenges with vehicles to convey materials and their staff,

Gov Ikpeazu Blows Hot Over Plans To Coronate Emir Of Aba

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Dr Okezie Victor Ikpeazu phd  Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu has warned those nursing the intention of coronating one Sarki Shehu Bello 11 as the Emir of Aba Emirate Council to desist from such or face the full weight of the law. The Governor said there is no recourse to Government in this rumoured coronation. Governor Ikpeazu in a release signed by the Secretary to the Government Government, Barr. Chris Ezem therefore directed the immediate cancellation of the proposed illegal coronation, insisting that there is nothing like Aba Emirate Council in the State. The release added, "Government further warns all residents in the state especially those resident in Aba to be law abiding. "Law enforcement agents have been directed  to swing into action and ensure that no such event capable of breaching the existing peace in the state takes place in Aba or any part of the State."