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Ihedioha’s Vindictiveness, My Late Mother’s Murder And My Eternal Problem With Ihedioha. By: Ambrose Nwaogwugwu, April 23, 2024.

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Ambrose Nwaogwugwu

 

I think this is the right time for me to tell my own side of the story as Ambrose Nwaogwugwu, the former Director General of Imo PDP New Media and whom some of you ignorantly refer to the boy whom Ihedioha made.

For over three (3) years now, I deliberately refused to tell my own side of the stories as I left many of the commentators to keep guessing.

Like I have always told close people around me that I will tell my own part of the story in my unpublished book which is yet to be published but I will I leave that to tell this stories in this piece while more elaborate details would be provided in the said unpublished book.

I feel very emotional right now as I type down this piece because of today’s events where Ihedioha himself has abandoned the same PDP like I did and all the venons of this world was unleashed on me.

Some time in February 2021, I dumped the PDP and joined the ruling party APC and that was the beginning of my problems.

Before I did, my then honorable member representing my state Constituency of Aboh Mbaise at Imo State House of Assembly Hon. Eddy Edward Obinna was the very first set of people who dumped the PDP in 2020 as the #PeoplesGovernor Hope Uzodimma was sworn in on January 14, 2020.

We dumped the PDP just like Ihedioha just did because the party could no longer protect our interests.

I told people close to me that I was never going to attack the PDP or Ihedioha for anything but what did I get in return?

Ihedioha thru his media hirelings unleashed a worst media campaigns never seen before against our reputation and persons.

Ihedioha sowed hate against me and had a well funded malicious indoctrination of our people of Mbaise and sold a dummy to our people that our political decisions were made against the entire Mbaise nation.

Few hours after I released my first post on Ihedioha today, the first person to call me was Hon. Eddy Obinna and as we dissected the recent political happenings regarding Ihedioha dumping of the PDP, we were both moved to tears as we recalled that this was exactly what we did that our brother sold a dummy to our people where they called for our heads.

Since after that call was the determination to put up this article to at least tell my own part of the story.

I had no personal problem with Ihedioha whatsoever but only because I dumped the PDP, he raised malicious campaigns against me rallying up the Mbaise sentiments that my personal political decision was against the Mbaise nation.

Ihedioha and his people made it to look like we commited a sacrilege against our people.

They made it look like we commited an unpardonable sin against the Mbaise nation just because we left the PDP to seek for better political opportunities elsewhere.

The hate campaigns was roundly funded as the only thing remaining was for the entire Mbaise Nation to come out and banish us for life only because we dumped PDP.

For many years, Ihedioha indoctrinated our people to see anything outside the PDP as a taboo.

They made it look like any one who is not of the PDP persuasion is seen as an outcast thereby denying our people the privileges of dividends of the ruling party.

For 8 uninterrupted years of Governor Rochas Okorocha, Ihedioha had Mbaise nation on locked down with the PDP against the ruling party as at then and for the whole 8 years, Mbaise nation suffered untold deprivation and that was why some of us said no, we have suffered for too long playing opposition with nothing to show for it, now is the time we must play politics of the centre and reunite with the ruling party but we were marked out by Ihedioha and his goons for hate and diabolic destruction.

I have received uncountable tags and mentions from different people on the social media proposing that I deserve apologies from Ihedioha and his goons if at the end of the day, they could dump PDP this way.

For over three years, I have been fighting a war of attrition against the lies sold to our people by Ihedioha.

And I have become emotionally down because I can no longer hold back my tears reading all these letters of resignation flying everywhere.

So if Ihedioha of all people could dump PDP like this, why were we persecuted by Ihedioha by sowing seeds of discords with our people?

For more than three years, Ihedioha’s hate campaigns against me before my brothers and sisters in Mbaise have deprived me of so many things, including some marital relationships because I have been out casted by Ihedioha’s hate campaigns against me before our people.

Those hate campaigns was spread consciously everywhere, among every facet of our Mbaise nationhood that pitched people who ordinarily I have done nothing against picking quarrells against me thus marking me out to be ostracised and done worst things against including the hate campaigns that extended to my family which caused the death of my mother. (I will provide full details of this in my book; and by then, the litigation would have been concluded by the court).

Ihedioha’s hate campaigns against me set me up for destruction and caused to be seen as public enemy of my own people only because I dumped the PDP.

Then tell me why I should be happy with such a man?

Some people are even insinuating that he may be coming to APC to join us and I have commented elsewhere that nothing will ever make me to be in the same political position with Ihedioha; should Ihedioha join APC today, I will promptly resign my membership of the party and go where I will oppose him.

This is beyond politics for me.

Ihedioha took the games of politics to a diabolical dimension and sort of occutism that those who were not of the same party with him were considered actual enemies, and not just that it would be his own personal enemies but he sold the hatred on a community scale and commercial level where he caused the entire community to hate you and see you as their enemy whilst it was only Ihedioha’s personal battles.

Ihedioha’s political life wire deserves extinction, as we pray that may such a malady ever befall Mbaise again.

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Some people will never forgive Tinubu for floating Naira, subsidy removal – Sunday Dare

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Sunday Dare, Special Adviser on Media and Publicity Communication to President Bola Tinubu, has claimed that there are people that will never forget President Tinubu for floating the Naira and removing fuel subsidy.

Speaking on Saturday during an interview on the Mic On podcast, Dare was asked what part of the bear Tinubu has poked.

He replied: “Look at the reforms that are ongoing. Take the oil sector. Some of these things are off the radar.

“You know how many people benefit from the subsidy value chain? Nigerians from all parts of the country.

“I don’t want to characterize them as oil mafia. But we know there are people who tried to stop the oil subsidy removal.

“Let’s take the floating of the Naira. Billionaires were created within months under the previous government. The arbitrage was massive.

“Tinubu had the choice to let it go. To let the party go on. In any case, everyone would have benefited from it. But he put a stop to it.

“In that chain, there are people today who will never forgive Tinubu for floating the naira and removing the subsidy from forex.”

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Nigerian govt plunging doctors into poverty – NMA alleges as strike enters day 11

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Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, has accused the federal government of attempt to plunge members into abject poverty and slavery by subjecting them to work over 72 hours without commensurate pay.

The NMA Chairman, Akwa Ibom State chapter, Dr Aniekan Peter who made the claims at a press conference in Uyo, regretted that Nigeria pays the least salary to doctors in the world, noting that Nigerian doctors now run to Ghana, Togo, Liberia even Cameroon to practice where they are taken care of.

He said, “Nigeria pays one of the worst, if not the worst salary to doctors and that’s why you see Nigerian doctors running to Ghana, Togo, Liberia, Cameroon for survival. Is it not a shame that in Nigeria doctors are resigning to work in Ghana, Togo, Benin, Republic? Not even USA, UK?

“So gradually the federal government has pushed doctors into absolute poverty. We have been trying to engage the government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria led by our president, Bola Tinubu, through our National officers’ Committee NOC, unfortunately, a lot of the things have always been promissory.”

Peter who lamented the rate of brain drain in the health sector said out of 85,000 registered medical practitioners in Nigeria, only 55,000 is left and called on the federal government to employ more medical personnel, improve their welfare package and equip health facilities to address the issue.

He also expressed concern that despite the Federal Government’s inability to cater for the welfare needs of its doctors, President Tinubu has decided to send Nigerian Doctors to St Lucia and the government is to pay them N3 million while doctors back home are taking home a paltry N300,000 only.

He stressed, “as Nigerian doctors we are saying that what is good for the goose is good for the gander.”

Reading a communique endorsed by the chapter sectary Dr Edesiri Ighorodje at the end of an emergency extraordinary general meeting in Uyo; Peter hinted at the 21-day ultimatum already issued by the National Officer Committee of the association in response to circular from the National Salaries and Wages Commission.

He said the association in the state had rejected the circular on the review of allowances for Medical and Dental Officers and had made some modifications in addition to the 19-point demands presented by the NOC to the Federal Government.

He listed the demands to include: ”Improvement of the living minimum wage with at least 300%pay rise for all medical and dental practitioners, universal applicability of all salary adjustments and allowances for medical and dental practitioners in state MDAs, private sector and the universities and immediate withdrawal of the circular on review of allowances for medical dental officers in the Federal Public Service dated 27 June 2025.

Other demands according to the chairman include: “Immediate correction of consequential adjustments in line with the agreements of 2001,2009, and 2014 CBAs, immediate correction of the relativity agreement between CONMESS and CONHESS and immediate settlement of all outstanding areas of 25-35%CONMESS,clinical duty and accruement allowances owed to medical and dental practitioners”

Peter expressed fear that if their demands are not met the health sector will continue to suffer as many health officers are ready to leave Nigeria for greener pastures.

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‘No one can chase us out of Plateau, it’s our state too’ – Fulani youth leader vows

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A Fulani youth leader in Plateau State, Hamisu Garba, has insisted that any attempt by natives to forcefully intimidate and chase them out of the state will not work as they are also citizens of the state.

Hamisu, who spoke to Ekwutosblog in an exclusive interview, said he and most Fulani people were born and raised in Plateau State and they do not know any other place apart from the state and as such, are from Plateau going by the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria which makes it clear that one can claim state of origin where he was born.

Hamisu wondered why some certain people were vehemently bent and concentrating efforts in seeing that Fulani people are exterminated and sent packing from Plateau, noting that such attempts will be resisted.

 

“I, like many other Fulani people, are also part of Plateau State and efforts, or should I say attempts to intimidate, frustrate and chase us out of Plateau will not work,” Hamisu said.

“I was born in Plateau State, I have my indigene form duly signed by both my district head and local government chairman which makes me a bona fide citizen of Plateau State.

“My parents were born in Plateau State and all my siblings were born and raised in Plateau State.

“All my life, I have lived in Plateau, I went to primary, secondary and university in Plateau State.

“The longest I have been out of Plateau was when I went for my youth service in Enugu State. So tell me, why would anyone say I am not from the state?

“So if anyone says we should leave Plateau, where do they want us to go? Is it a crime that we are Fulanis? Why are some people always profiling us as criminals and trouble makers?

“Yes, I agree that there are criminal elements among our people and just like our Governor, Barr. Caleb Manasseh Mutfwang said sometime ago, there are also criminals in other tribes.

“There are Mwaghavul criminals; there are Berom criminals; there are Tarok criminals; there are Ngas criminals; there are Irigwe criminals; there are Mupun criminals and there are Fulani criminals.

“But everyone is only concentrating on the Fulani, putting all efforts at demonizing and profiling all of us as criminals. I agree that some herders do go out of their way to cause problems but that does not mean all of them do that.

“I can tell you that most of the so-called bandits who attack some communities in the state are not only Fulani people.

“From our investigations, we have found out that there are even the natives among them who are recruited and paid.

“It will interest you to know that some natives are paid as little as N20,000 to provide information on their communities.

“So are those ones Fulani people as well? We have been living in peace for years. I grew up in our village rearing our cattle, playing with our neighbours, visiting them during Christmas and Easter, and they also visited us during Sallah and we ate together, played football together and some of our older uncles and aunties were married to the natives.

“We all lived in peace but I don’t know where and when the battle line was drawn and all of a sudden, the Fulani people became an endangered species that must be exterminated and chased out of Plateau State.

“But I dare say such will not work. No one, and I repeat, no one can chase us out of Plateau State.

“We as youth leaders have been engaging our people and educating them to live peacefully with others. We have been advocating for peaceful coexistence and we expect other tribes to do the same thing instead of putting all their efforts at demonizing us and putting all criminal acts in the state at our doorstep.

“Like I said earlier, not all Fulani people are criminals and bandits.

“We also have criminals in other tribes as well and everyone knows this. We just want to be left alone,” Hamisu stated.

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