In my previous piece, I have maintained that Cee-Cee Soludo’s entrance into participation in politics has redefined political campaigns. I equally said that the Isuofia man’s ambition has revitalized and awakened the original republican nature of Ndigbo wherein a genuine cause, “community owns a project”. Perfect example could be seen in far away Imo State where Ndigbo contributed to build “Sam Mbakwe Cargo Airport, Owerri”
In demand for Soludo to succeed the incumbent governor, Chief (Dr.) Willie .M. Obiano; peasant farmers, students, women, artisans, traders, motorcyclists and every other groups are mobilizing funds to support this divine and clarion call.
The clamour for a Renowned Economist has remained consistent, today, in Awka, Soludo Support Group (SSG), one of the over 30 support groups demanding he succeeds Akpokuedike Aguleri inorder to consolidate on the exisiting APGA government’s legacy and developmental projects, and to continue leading Anambra State on global stage, has presented him with a whooping sum of Ten Million naira (#10,000,000).
The group led by its Convener/National Coordinator; Hon. Chinedu Nwoye Glamour while presenting the cheque, thanked Professor Chukwuma Soludo for accepting the consensus call of Ndi-Anambra to contest the forthcoming gubernatorial election slated for November 6.
The National Convener while thanking petty traders and peasant farmers who are majorly women, artisans and drivers for their contributions, maintained that the sum is for the Global Financial Expert to purchase the party’s nomination and and expression of interest form for the party’s primary slated to hold next month, June 23. He maintained that the group -SSG and all others will see the project through in unionism.
The ecstatic Cee-Cee Soludo who couldn’t control his emotions, immensely appreciated and thanked the group on their efforts in making their choice for consolidation and continuity.
According to Cee-Cee Soludo, “I am ready to Run and Win because my aspiration cut across all the political parties.”
Ndi-Anambra, let’s go make our “Governor” come November 6.
There are some similarities between the beautiful round leather game of football and the tough intriguing terrain of party politics. You need talent to play in both fields. You need training to hone such talents. Both demand energy, discipline, concentration and vision to succeed. Every other thing is humour and melodrama, just like the current tepid disposition of the opposition.
Team Soludo United is full of agile people with natural talents, ability, focus and discipline. As we approach the next governorship election, the team is playing with very high intensity, never witnessed in such a contest in the history of the state. They keep scouting and signing the best legs, each passing day.
Though the team coach, Cee Cee Soludo is an admirer of Jose Mourinho, his team is playing with so much intensity like the teams coached by Pep Guardiola. Why not? Soludo is acclaimed to bring about changes with so much intensity. Recall that in just 18 months, he ignited and implemented a revolution that changed the banking sector for good. You can’t effect such a homogeneous change in such a short time without intensity.
Intensity demands positional play, energy, focus and vision. Even when you lose the ball, you have to quickly fall back and recover it and keep working at the same level of energy with which you started, even after the goals have started rolling in.
Day in day out, the team is enriched with world class political ball jugglers with proven track records. From Chief Victor Umeh to Hon. Chinedu Obidigwe to Hon. Emeka Aforka and to Hon Emmanuel Nwafor, among others, the team has become very formidable, sending cold shivers down the spines of the opposition.
On May 16, in Awka, the Anambra State capital, Team Soludo got another big boost, when Chief Jude Emeka Agumadu (Baby Awka) with versatile Hon. Nnamdi Okafor among others, made their debuts for the team. They have huge fans, who turned up in very large numbers to witness, cheer and support them in their debuts. In short, it was goals galore for Cee Cee Soludo and Team Soludo United FC. Residents of Udoka Estate can attest to the day’s great event.
Unfortunately, while Soludo and team are training and working hard, the opposition appears to be hoping for the hand of God. They want to win by miracles, by propaganda and subterfuges. Poor fellows!
The development challenges facing the state demands a leader who can get things done with intensity. Soludo has a record of doing so with the banking consolidation, setting up of African Finance Corporation (AFC), NEEDS, revamping of Mints, redirecting the Bureau of Statistics to mention just a few.
Therefore, the intensities we see every day, preparatory to the primaries are not surprising. They are vintage Soludo, a gentleman man who is in a hurry and does things that affect society positively, with awe striking intensity.
If this inadvertently rattles the opposition, they can either shape up or ship out. Whatever, Anambra will be better off with this gentleman in a hurry to make things better, and who gets thing done with great intensity.
The Inspector-General of Police, Ag. IGP Usman Alkali Baba, psc (+), NPM, fdc has flagged-off a new special operational action plan code-named “OPERATION RP” for the stabilization of security order in the South-East Geopolitical Zone of the country. The IGP launched the special operation, today, 18th May, 2021 at the Michael Okpara Square, Enugu as part of efforts targeted at returning the South-Eastern region to its historical pride of place where its people are known to be peaceful, tolerant, innovative, industrious and entrepreneurial.
The IGP noted that the special operation has become necessary to engender all-inclusive security actions to roll-back the murderous attacks, violence, proliferation of weapons and other threats to law and order occasioned by the separatist agenda being heightened by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and its armed wing, the Eastern Security Network (ESN) in the South-East region. The IGP observed that activities of the group in the region have assumed an armed dimension in which important political and community leaders as well as personnel and assets of the Nigeria Police, Military and other security agencies, critical national infrastructure are being constantly targeted in clearly well-coordinated, premeditated manners. This is in addition to deepening inter-ethnic prejudice and intolerance, unjustifiable inter-ethnic violence and counter-violence, loss of lives and massive destruction of properties.
The IGP, while appreciating the individual and collective efforts of all the South-East Governors and other critical stakeholders in the region towards supporting the Police in restoring security and strengthening national unity, assured the nation, that in the coming days the special operation will be extended to other parts of the South-East region to confront criminal elements, take the battle to their doorsteps and re-order our cherished national values in the region. The IGP further noted that the “Operation RP” will be replicated in other parts of the country, to address peculiar crimes including banditry, kidnapping, armed robbery, cultism, amongst others.
The ‘Operation’ will be carried out by operatives of the Force in collaboration with the Armed Forces, the intelligence community and other sister security agencies. The personnel deployed have been charged to be civil with the law-abiding citizens, but firm and ruthless with criminal elements operating under any guise whatsoever who may attempt to test the collective will of the people.
In his remarks, the host Governor, the Executive Governor of Enugu State, His Excellency, Rt. Hon. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, commended the IGP for initiating the special operation. He described the operation as timely, and believes it will help in rejigging and re-tooling the security architecture of the South-East. Other dignitaries at the event are; the Deputy Governors of Abia, Ebonyi and Imo States, traditional rulers, religious leaders, amongst others.
Meanwhile, the IGP thanked the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces for approving the special operation and providing the support needed to fully achieve the objects of the special operation. He solicits the full support of the civil populace, particularly, traditional rulers, religious leaders, youth associations, market bodies, cultural associations and professionals etc, expressing his belief that with the support of all strategic stakeholders, the operation will in due course, change the current security narratives in the South-Eastern region for good.
CP FRANK MBA
FORCE PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER
FORCE HEADQUARTER
ABUJA
Dimm Uche Okwukwu, Deputy President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, has written an open letter to the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike.
In the letter addressed to the governor, Okwukwu asked Wike to kindly reconsider the 7pm-6am lockdown recently declared in the state.
Wike had during a statewide broadcast on 10th May 2021 said that the criminals responsible for the killings were from Obigbo.
He had said, “We have reviewed the way and manner the recent attacks were executed and discovered that the perpetrators, who disguised themselves as security officers, moved in unhindered from Oyigbo to launch the attack.”
And the Ohanaeze Ndigbo chieftain, in the letter, wondered how the Governor could come up with such conclusions even without a proper investigation, adding that Wike should not see the Igbo as his enemies.
Okwukwu’s open letter reads in full:
Your Excellency, writing you is a difficult task considering that at the micro level I am Ikwerre; but at the macro level I am Igbo. You are also Ikwerre and the theater of this violence is Ikwerreland. Isiokpo, Omagwa, Choba and Elimgbu are all in Ikwerreland. I am from Elele in the Ikwerre Local Government Area, LGA; the very first LGA where our brave law enforcement agents were killed. Their murders are completely unacceptable, condemnable and barbaric.
I commiserate with the bereaved families while praying for the peaceful repose of the souls of the departed. My solidarity is with the government and people of Rivers in their struggle against terror. The perpetrators must be arrested and made to face justice. The Civil Defence, police, Department of State Service, DSS, and other law agencies must be empowered to carry out detailed investigations with the view of arresting and prosecuting the culprits.
For record purposes, it is unacceptable that our amiable Governor Wike, the first governor to receive in 2017 the newly elected National Executive Committee, NEC, of Ohanaeze, asserted in his 10th May 2021 broadcast that the criminals responsible for the killings were from Obigbo. Your Excellency had said, “We have reviewed the way and manner the recent attacks were executed and discovered that the perpetrators, who disguised themselves as security officers, moved in unhindered from Oyigbo to launch the attack.”
Geo-strategically speaking, I am not questioning the wisdom of the governor as he is the Chief Security Officer, CSO, of the state with access to intelligence reports. What I question is the rationale, the reason, behind his assertion.
From Obigbo to Isiokpo is about an hour’s drive. From Obigbo to Abua is about two hours’ drive. How could assailants in the dead of the night drive from Obigbo to Isiokpo, given all the security checkpoints in between, and kill security officers before escaping undetected? How could assailants drive from Obigbo to Abua, kill soldiers and escape without being apprehended? How many checkpoints exist between the two points? That is what I question. Let it not be that Your Excellency has resorted to profiling and labelling.
I am not saying it is not possible that the killers came from Obigbo. In the circumstances, however, it is difficult to convince the ordinary man in the street. Profiling and labelling were the order of the day during the EndSARS protest when Obigbo was completely locked down; a lockdown that claimed the lives of children, women and the elderly from sheer hunger, dislocation and frustration. So this profiling, labelling and pre-judicial condemnation must be rejected by all well-meaning Igbos, Nigerians and men of good conscience because they have a background. The background is that Your Excellency has been provoked by some elements in Obigbo in the past.
As an Igbo leader, I do not agree with Your Excellency’s profiling and labelling. A more detailed investigation into these killings should be carried out before anyone can safely point a finger at where the killers emanated. The security agencies must be allowed to do their job in unravelling the mysteries behind these attacks. Assuming, without conceding, that the hoodlums were from Obigbo, were they still responsible for the havocs in Akwa Ibom, Ebonyi, Anambra and Imo? The answer is no. So there is more than meets the eyes.
I am curious that these killings occurred in the wake of the establishment of the Eastern Security Network, ESN, by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, and Ebubeagu by the five governors of the South East. It is my contention that the Igbo society is kindred and community based. You cannot establish a security outfit without involving the town unions, chiefs, youth leaders, community and women leaderships.
The only security arrangement that can work is the one that is bottom to top and not top to bottom. The British reaped frustration when they tried putting up political structures from top to bottom. That led to the Aba Women’s Riots of 1929. The British never understood the Igbo society. Our political structure is kinship structure where people gather to take decisions affecting their community.
So the ESN is a fundamental mistake bearing in mind that IPOB never consulted the socio-anthropological structures before establishing it. The south East governors, who should have known better with all their special advisers and commissioners versed in Igbo history and culture, also made the same mistake. That explains why both the ESN and Ebubeagu are not working.
What we are seeing in Igboland is an implosion. It is this implosion that made the IPOB leadership believe that the extra-judicial murder of one of its commanders was authorized by the South East governors. This led to retaliations. Instead of security, the establishment of ESN and Ebubeagu has led to greater insecurity. Who is the enemy now that we fight ourselves?
Igboland is commerce-trade-dominated in what I call “Akpata erie,” or survival-on-daily-basis. In Rivers we have a 7pm-6am curfew. That is unacceptable because a lot of people depend on the “Mama-put” they sell in the evening between 6pm-10pm. Also, those who lost their jobs use their private cars to do “Kabu-kabu” in the evening. Right now this support economy does not exist because of the curfew; and with it hardship.
Mr Governor, I fear violence because its first victim is the oppressed. Revolution is a double-edged sword. The revolutionary and those he leads into rebellion may perish if their struggle is not properly managed. The alleged oppressor will escape the inferno only to reappear after the conflagration to create a new order from the ruins of the old. So we must be careful.
The alleged Fulani herdsmen responsible for all the killings are today being excused. We are now fighting ourselves. The governors are under threats. Policemen are under threats. Politicians are under threats. Students are being kidnapped. Is that how we are going to win the presidency in 2023? That is my genuine fear.
Governor Wike, I have three prayers worth your esteemed attention: One, Ndigbo in Port Harcourt are not fighting you. From Eleme, Onne, Choba, etc, Igbos rush home at dusk in obedience to your curfew. If they are confrontational the majority of them would openly defy you. But they are obeying you not minding the hardship your curfew inflicts on them.
My message to both Igbos and non-Igbos, therefore, is for them to continue to support their own governor in these trying moments. None must undermine the mandate Rivers people gave him to modernize their state. Anyone with useful information on these attacks should talk to the Rivers Police Command.
Two, I appeal to His Excellency, Governor Wike, to kindly reconsider the lockdown. Any curfew from 7pm-6am is no longer curfew but a lockdown of eleven hours. This is bad for socio-economic activities of a people who for the better part of 2020 were under global lockdown.
And three, Your Excellency should stop making inflammatory statements capable of dividing us and tensing Rivers the more. It is unacceptable for His Excellency to say, for example, that those who carried out an attack are from the Ikwerre LGA even before a formal investigation is done. Allow the security agencies to investigate and arrest possible suspects. Their findings will then be handed over to you as the CSO. The Ministry of Justice to charge and prosecute those indicted is under you. But Your Excellency cannot be the investigator and prosecutor in your own case.
In conclusion, sir, I put it on record that Governor Wike is one of few governors to appoint a non-indigene as full commissioner. That is the whole truth. Your Excellency appointed Emeka Onowu, a non-indigene, as commissioner. This lofty record of yours must never be tarnished in this eleventh hour. For instance, if one does good for three years only to start doing bad in the last four months of his office, people may forget the good things he did and judge him by the bad ones. Your Excellency should maximize what you are doing very well while minimizing any apparent mistake like this 7pm-6am curfew.
None on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, can dispute that Governor Wike is a possible presidential, or Vice Presidential, candidate. If so, Your Excellency will need the block votes of the South East and South South to get an edge over your opponents in the PDP primary. Your predecessor, His Excellency Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, is another strong presidential candidate on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC.
We wish both of you luck. We also wish other contenders luck. But if we do not get it right, we will only end up reducing ourselves to a laughing stock. You cannot antagonize a people and still expect them to give you their votes in an election. Thank you, sir.
Uche Mefor, the estranged Deputy-Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) on Sunday described followers of Nigerian separatist leader, Nnamdi Kanu as “gullible, brainwashed extremists”.
BVI Channel 1 online reports that Mefor’s relationship with Kanu has hit the rocks. This is because Mefor disagreed with the Umuahia, Abia State-born pro-Biafra political activist on the modus operandi of the outlawed organization.
Kanu commands a humongous following in Nigeria’s South-East, and his followers are so crazy about him.
They leap to the defence of Kanu anytime Mefor criticises the IPOB leader.
The more Kanu hides and commissions people to speak on his behalf in order to cover his tracks, the more they open his back,” Mefor wrote on his known Facebook page.
“Isn’t it ridiculously hypocritical that when Kanu blackmails and lies, his gullible, brainwashed extremists hails him as promoting the struggle but when his lies are challenged, then to them it means going against the struggle.
“The question is: is Kanu Biafra? You guys are abysmally irredeemable and to be frank, delusional.”
Valentine Ozigbo, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) frontrunner ahead of the November 2021 Anambra gubernatorial election, on Friday, May 13, 2021, met with the leaders, kingmakers, and stakeholders of the PDP from Anambra South Senatorial Zone to share his plans to revolutionise development in the State.
The event, which held at Super Royal Hotel, Amichi in Nnewi South Local Government Area of the State, had in attendance the opinion leaders of the PDP and leaders of political families.
This event is riding off the successful meetings Ozigbo held with the same class of critical stakeholders and top political bigwigs in Anambra Central and Anambra North senatorial zones on Tuesday.
While addressing the large gathering of party faithful, Ozigbo lamented on poor management of the State’s resources and high level.of debts that has been accumulated by the incumbent administration and insisted that the people of Anambra deserved far better governance.
According to the respected business leader, Anambra needs to free itself from the shackles of insecurity, moribund infrastructure, dilapidated health facilities, outdated educational system, and untapped economic potential, which the current government has overseen.
Ozigbo, who is the immediate past President and Group GEO of Transcorp Plc, asserted that it was time for Ndi Anambra to take responsibility for their current predicament, do away with old methods and usher in a new era that leverages current global trends.
“Throughout my professional career, I have been privileged to have run numerous businesses and have had a first-hand experience of the effect of poor leadership,” Ozigbo said.
“When I made up my mind to run for office, I knew that mere words would not develop Anambra State. I understand the place of strategy and planning, which pushed me to create the Ka Anambra Chawapu Manifesto, a well-articulated and detailed masterpiece for our overall development.
“The integrated development strategy will focus on identifying what is obtainable in our different zones, consolidating them, and expanding their operations to fully tap into the potentials in every sector of the economy,” he said.
Ozigbo revealed the three-pronged approach he would adopt in actualising his grand vision to transform Anambra State into the pride of Nigeria.
“My administration will exploit three approaches to get Anambra working again. First, we will approach development by focusing on sectors. Second, our 5-cluster development plan takes care of the geographical and unique economic advantages of the various zones. Third, is our community partnership approach,” the multiple award-winning corporate titan explained.
“For the sector approach, we will focus on several sectors and improve on quality and output. We will bring in competent hands to ensure a total revamp of our education, infrastructure, security, roads, and health sectors.
“Security will be at the forefront of our priorities because there can be no progress in a hostile or unsafe environment. We will deepen community involvement in security, intelligence gathering, and peace-building.
“State police is not only essential; it is now the irreducible minimum if we want to return peace and safety to our land.
“Health plays a vital role in the general productivity of any society. Our healthcare system is moribund and requires a radical approach to improving the standard of our public hospitals and our healthcare service centres, making them accessible to the people.
“We aim to reverse the medical tourism trend. Instead of travelling abroad for healthcare, we will have people travelling to Anambra for medical treatment. Thus, we will marry quality with affordability at a level never-before-seen in Nigeria.
“The world is knowledge-driven, and Anambra should not be stuck in the past. Therefore, we must improve our school curriculum’s relevance to produce graduates equipped to profer solutions to 21st Century problems. We will also pay attention to the affordability of education, so geniuses are not handicapped by lack of funds,” Ozigbo told the audience.
Ozigbo also expanded on his plan to leverage the power of the community to deliver rapid infrastructural development in the state.
“Provision of roads and other basic infrastructures achieved using a unique method which taps into the power of community and the competitive and entrepreneurial spirit of Ndi Anambra,” Ozigbo said.
“Recently, I was invited by the good people of Ojoto in Idemili South to commission five roads that private citizens constructed. At the colourful event, I promised that I would reward proactive communities by matching their contribution to development if I am elected governor.
“When we institutionalise this culture, Anambra will become a place where communities compete to achieve development because they see it as a partnership with the government.”
“Our masterstroke is the cluster strategy that will see Anambra experience specialised development in different clusters based on their unique geographic demography,” Ozigbo continued.
“There is no reason why Anambra cannot be home to Africa’s biggest technology hub, and we have mapped Old Aguata Cluster as the home of our Silicon Valley. We will develop the Nnewi and Ihiala Clusters to become Africa’s biggest industrial hub.
“The business potentials of Onitsha and Idemili Clusters will be exploited. We will make it fashionable to do business in Anambra. Not just for Ndi Anambra but all Nigerians and foreign companies.
“Omambala, Ogbaru and Awka North will be an agricultural hotbed where, through government support and leveraging the power of technology, our farmers will move from production to processing of agricultural produce. Anambra’s capital, Awka, will be moulded into the befitting capital we deserve, and we will explore the tourism potential of the state through the ‘Visit Anambra’ campaign.
“I took time to prepare the Ka Anambra Chawapu manifesto, alongside my wonderful team. I promise you that every developmental project contained on my manifesto is achievable if we take the right steps towards achieving them”, the prominent philanthropist concluded.
The event was graced by several prominent dignitaries, including Chief Emma Ebene, the Vice-Chairman of the PDP for Anambra South Senatorial Zone;; Mrs Justina Nwafor, the woman leader of the PDP in Anambra State; and Chairmen of the party in all seven local government areas in the zone.
Also present were top members of the Valentine Ozigbo Campaign Organization, including Rt. Hon Eucharia Azodo, a former Speaker of the Anambra State House of Assembly and a two-time member of the Federal House of Representatives; Dame Love Ebeh, a former PDP woman leader in the State; Chief Tony Offiah, a prominent PDP stalwart; Chief Ikechukwu Akaeze, a former Chairman of the party in Dunukofia local government area; and Lady Juliet Anaeme, a popular grassroots politician.
Others are Dr Willy Emenari, a former Chairman of the PDP in Njikoka Local Government Area; Chief Damian Nwafor; Chief Bartholomew Obagha; Hon Peter Umeonwuka, and other members of the Valentine Ozigbo Campaign Organisation.
Amid raging calls for secession, South-West governors are expected to attend a meeting at the Lagos House, Marina, on Sunday, May 23, 2021.
The meeting, it was learnt, is being convened by a former interim Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Chief Bisi Akande.
Those expected to attend the meeting are: Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila; APC stalwart, Bola
Tinubu; Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State; his Ogun State counterpart, Dapo Abiodun; Governor Gboyega Oyetola of Osun State and Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu.
Others invited to the meeting include: Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi, who is also the Chairman of the Nigerian Governors.
Forum; the Chairman, Police Service Commission, Musiliu Smith; a former Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Alani Akinrinade; and former APC South-West Vice Chairman, Pius Akinyelure.
The invite read in part, “Notice of Meeting: A lot has happened in our country since the last time we met, I hereby formally invite you for a meeting on the state of the nation as follows: Date: Sunday, May 23, 2021. Time: 2pm. Venue: Lagos House, Marina. Lagos. Subject: Review of State of Nation.
“Attendees: Chief Bisi Akande, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Chief Segun Osoba, Gen. Alani Akinrinade (retd.), Speaker, House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, Otunba Niyi Adebayo, Chief Pius Akinyelure, Governor Rotimi Akeredolu, Kayode Fayemi,
Although the agenda of the meeting was not stated, our correspondent was informed that the meeting was convened to address rising calls for secession in the light of the activities of personalities like Sunday Igboho and others.
The South-West has also been championing the demand for fiscal federalism.
The zone which is a major contender for the Presidency in 2023, has witnessed a recent rise in right wing nationalism which has led to the expulsion of Fulani from some communities.
On Saturday, agitators under the aegis of Omo Oduduwa United stormed the streets in Osogbo, the capital of Osun State, to demand secession from Nigeria.
One of the leaders of Yoruba nation agitators, Igboho, threatened that there would be no election in the South-West come 2023.
The attack on Enugu headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission by yet to be identified gunmen has led to the burning of 8 operational vehicles of the commission and 6 other vehicles parked in the premises were vandalised
This is coming barely four days after the Commission’s local government office at Udenu was attacked and most of the offices, equipments and files destroyed.
The attack which has been confirmed by both the police and the commission happened around 9:00pm on Sunday, 16th May, 2021.
According to INEC’s National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye Esq., the “unidentified persons overpowered the security personnel on duty and tried to set the entire building ablaze.
“The attackers set the foyer ablaze, vandalised some offices in the main building and
caused extensive damage to some of the Commission’s movable assets within the
premises.
“Six (6) utilility pick up vehicles (Toyota Hilux) were burnt down while two (2) more were smashed and damaged.”
INEC also warned that, “the spate of attacks on the Commission’s facilities portends danger to national electoral activities.”
Addressing pressmen, the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) for Enugu State, Cheif Emeka Ononamadu, said the plan of the attackers was to completely burn down the entire building having gained access into the premises but the swift response of the security agents and men of Enugu State Fire Service thwarted that.
Ononamadu told news men that after the attack on their office at Udenu, they made arrangements for security but with the incident that happened last night, it’s clear that their arrangement wasn’t sufficient because the hoodlums overpowered their men on duty.
He also thanked the men of Enugu State Fire Service for their timely response which helped in no small way to bring the fire under control and avoid the complete burning down of the building.
The Commission is holding an emergency meeting with the Resident Electoral
Commissioners (RECs) on Wednesday 19th May 2021 under the auspices of the Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on
Election Security (ICCES).
However, the Enugu State Police spokesman, ASP Daniel Ndukwe said the Commissioner, CP Mohammed Ndatsu Aliyu “has ordered emplacement of adequate security within the precincts of the office and the launch of a full-scale investigation to unravel the mystery behind the act as well as fish out the assailants.”
