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The immediate-past governor of Abia State, Okezie Ikpeazu and the state party chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Elder Amah Abraham, have chastised PDP decampees as hungry, cannot endure hunger and suffering cosmic consequences.

Addressing Abia South faithful in his Obingwa country home on Saturday, when the state PDP Working Committee paid him a visit, they said the party has learnt its lessons and will not fail again.

Ikpeazu said, โ€œWe did to ourselves what is happening to us. If we want to correct it, we can. When I was hosting the Reconciliation Committee, I told them that their mandate by my own interpretation is not to reconcile aggrieved party people alone. Something is holding everybody, including me. This is because, anybody who has not reconciled himself, cannot reconcile another person.

He advised the reconciliation committee that if they approach anyone and the person refuses, the committee should find a youth to replace the person as a stakeholder.

The loss by PDP in Abia South, he said, is not his making, and assured them that he will fund the election and denied some desertersโ€™ claim that their annoyances were that they ticked and turned around to ask people not to vote for them.

Earlier, Abraham said God has been faithful to the party and had granted them a special grace to be in Government for 24 years.

He described Ikpeazu as a product for national service and should forget contesting any other electionโ€, and urged those bickering to come and contest as it is not Ikpeazu that is withholding them, adding that the party is going to conduct one of the freest primaries in the history of democracy in Africa. It is in your place to tell us who to represent you.

Meanwhile, The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party Abia State, Abraham Amah has explained why the party lost the 2023 general elections in the state.

Amah identified fielding wrong candidates and embezzlement of election funds by party members as major reasons for PDP defeat.

He spoke at Abia North stakeholders and reconciliation meeting held at Abam, Arochukwu Local Government Area of the state.
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Amaechi blames Tinubu for poor state of economy

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The former governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi, has questioned the whereabouts of the savings from the fuel subsidy removal and naira floating policies under President Bola Ahmed Tinubuโ€™s administration.

Amaechi, who was a former Minister of Transportation under ex-President Muhammadu Buhariโ€™s government, made this known during an interview with Channels Television on Thursday.

According to him, the Nigerian economy is dying under Tinubu.

Amaechi noted that the purchasing power of Nigerians has been watered down by the Tinubu government.

โ€œYou are making savings from the fuel subsidy and floating the naira; where is the money?

โ€œYou get N16,000, for instance; in Buhariโ€™s government, that will get you ten times as much, for instance, letโ€™s assume, today, you get 120,000. You can only get four tyres. Which do you prefer?โ€ he said.

Amaechi is part of the opposition coalition alongside former Vice President Atiku Abubakar that moved to the African Democratic Congress on Wednesday.

Recall that in 2023, Tinubuโ€™s administration announced the removal of fuel subsidy and the floating of the naira. Prices of goods and services in Nigeria skyrocketed because of the policies.

Meanwhile, Tinubuโ€™s government has stressed that the cooling of inflation, which stood at 22.97 per cent in May, and the relative stability of the naira at the foreign exchange market (N1,525.83 per dollar as of Thursday) are indications that the countryโ€™s economy is on the right track.

In January 2023, before Buhari exited the seat of power, Nigeriaโ€™s headline inflation stood at 21.82 per cent, and the naira exchange rate to the dollar was around N745.

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Rivers: I wonโ€™t disclose details of peace deal with Fubara โ€“ Wike

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Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, says he will not reveal details of the recent truce brokered between him and suspended Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara.

The minister however declared that peace has returned to Rivers State.

Wike made this declaration on Thursday during a media chat at his residence in Abuja. He said rather than disclose details of the peace deal, he would instead allow people to speculate.

โ€œI will allow you to speculate, itโ€™s not my business. All I know is that peace has come. If you are not satisfied with that, there is nothing we can do. What is important is that peace has returned, whatever thing anybody says is not my business,โ€ he said.

Ekwutosblog recalls that President Bola Tinubu, last month, hosted a conciliatory meeting between Wike, Fubara and the suspended members of the Rivers State House of Assembly, signaling a return to peace in the state.

The President suspended Fubara, his deputy, Ngozi Odu, and members of the Rivers Assembly in March 2025, after a heated and long-drawn political impasse in the oil-producing state.

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โ€˜This boy ran for president, didnโ€™t get one voteโ€™ โ€“ Wike slams Dele Momodu

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Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, has described Dele Momodu as a โ€˜boyโ€™, saying he does not even know his name.

Wike spoke on Thursday during a media chat with some select media houses.

Wike said that he does not remember the name of Dele Momodu, one of the most popular journalists in the country.

Wikeโ€™s comment about Momodu may not be unconnected to the journalistโ€™s criticism of his political antics.

Momodu, the publisher of Ovation International Magazine, recently claimed that Wike cannot defect to the All Progressives Congress, APC, because he will lose his authority.

In what appears as a response to the claim, Wike said, โ€œThere is this boy, they say he is a journalist. Whatโ€™s his name? He is big.โ€

When a journalist said โ€œDele Momoduโ€.

Wike added, โ€œOkay, I donโ€™t remember all these names. He was never my friend. He ran for president, but he didnโ€™t get one vote.โ€

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