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3 November 2018 Adams Oshiomhole, the All Progressives Congress (APC) chairman, addressed the media yesterday following the submission of the party’s list of governorship candidates to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the 2019 (s)election.  That list didn’t include governor Rochas Okorocha’s son-in-law Uche Nwosu, chosen by the governor to succeed him.  The APC ticket went to Senator Hope …

2 November 2018 Imo State governor Rochas Okorocha, who completes his second term in office next year, had grand plans to be succeeded by his son-in-law, Uche Nwosu.  But it appears those plans have been derailed by some players in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Nwosu appears to have failed in securing the APC ticket for the governorship, with …

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11 October 2018 Uche Nwosu, the son-in-law of Imo State governor Rochas Okorocha, and aspiring to replace the governor in 2019, is said to have spent a night  being detained by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). This claim was made by a source close to Senator Hope Uzodinma, who is trying to snatch the All Progressives Congress (APC) …

30 September 2018 Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State has been accused of attempting, in cahoots with the state’s police commissioner, to kidnap Senator Hope Uzodinma yesterday as the state prepared for its All Progressives Congress (APC) primaries to select their candidate for governor in next year’s (s)election. Okorocha plans to install his son-in-law and current chief of staff, Uche …

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25 August 2018 Imo State governor Rochas Okorocha’s treachery in impoverishing his state through brazen looting has already been chronicled on numerous occasions by Naijiant.com.  But negotiating the roads of Owerri once the city experiences a spot of rain has become as treacherous as Okorocha’s misrule, where drivers are constantly taking their lives in their hands on flooded streets without …