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ONITSHA — Indications emerged, yesterday, that four governorship aspirants in the All Progressives Congress, APC,  would step down for Senator Andy Uba before the primaries. Sen. Andy Uba This is coming barely four days to the APC governorship primaries fixed for Saturday, August 26. Some stakeholders of the party, who spoke to  Vanguard  from Abuja, confirmed the development, adding that there had been  sustained meeting of stakeholders and some national leaders of the party and some aspirants to that effect in Abuja. Before now, one of the aspirants, Chief Ralph Okeke, who represented Anambra East and West federal constituency had  announced his withdrawal from the race and collapsed his campaign structure into Uba campaign organisation. Reacting to the development, the state chairman of the party, Mr Emeka Ibe, said he was not aware of any aspirant stepping down for anybody, adding that there are respective committees set up for the exercise and th...

The Anambra State Lawyers in Defence of Democracy [ASLADD] have come down very heavily on Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and his IPOB for attempting to affix culpability on it for the crises that occured at Ekwulobia, Aguata Local Government Area where the Nigerian Police reportedly had a clash with the IPOB who were said to be awaiting the arrival of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu for a rally scheduled to hold in the town. Below is the press release by ASLADD as made available to odogwublog in Awka today: EKWULOBIA CRISES: IPOB IS CONFUSING APPLES WITH ORANGES The attention of the Anambra State Lawyers in Defence of Democracy [ASLADD] has been drawn to a statement released by Emma Powerful for the IPOB on the clash that was reported to have occurred between the Nigerian Police and some IPOB members at Ekwulobia, Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra State. In the said press release, the author labored strenuously to share the culpability of the crises between the DPO of Ekwulobia Police Station and “individu...

Two Igbo groups, the Igbo Peoples Congress, and the Igbo Aborigines, have warned the Nigerian Army and security agents to stop killing pro-Biafran agitators, who are not  armed or obstructing public peace. The warning came on the heels of recent shootings and killings of some pro-Biafran members in Ekwulobia, Anambra State. Meanwhile, Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, has condemned Wednesday’s clash between members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, and security operatives at Ekwulobia in Aguata Local Government Area, saying the alleged invasion of a peaceful and non-violence gathering of IPOB members was a primitive act. IPOB members on solidarity march for Trump According to Igbo Peoples Congress and the Igbo Aborigenes in a statement, “the killing of more than 150 pro-Biafran agitators by Nigerian security agents as reported by the Amnesty International is still fresh in our mind. “The Ezu River killings by SAR...