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UDI LOCAL GOVERNMENT WARD PARTY CHAIRMEN PAY SOLIDARITY VISIT TO AKUABATA NJEZE (NNEDIULU) OVER HER SENATORIAL AMBITION

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4 years ago

May 18, 2022

Jeff Ejiofor and Chinedu Udeani Enugu

The PDP ward chairmen in Udi local government area paid a solidarity visit to Akuabata Njeze on Sunday, 15th May, 2022, to pledge their loyalty and support to her senatorial ambition.

In a meeting with them at her GRA residence, Njeze assured the party leaders of her readiness to provide quality representation to the people of Enugu West if given the opportunity to bear their banner at the senate. Nnediulu as she is fondly called told the ward party stalwarts that she is like ‘akidi’ that knows no boundaries, having empowered numerous sons and daughters of the zone in her days as a minister.

Addressing them further about her agenda for the people of Enugu West, Njeze prayed to be a tool in the hands of God to change the political narrative of Enugu West Zone by further uplifting the living condition of the people.

Reminding them about her people-oriented policies as a public servant which culminated in attracting many life touching projects in Enugu State, Ambassador Njeze stated that her conscience will never allow her to abandon her people on whose support she has attained political greatness. She further asserted that God has been so kind to her and that prompted her desire to seek a higher political opportunity to enable her give back to the people in appreciation of God’s mercies.

Like a grateful beneficiary, Njeze recounted how God used Gov Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi to sustain her political relevance in the present dispensation, and appealed that people should remember him in their daily prayers as leadership is one of the most difficult human endeavours. She in turn declared total support for Ugwuanyi’s administration, with a pronouncement of absolute loyalty to his cause even if it means to defend him with everything at her disposal, an indication that she does not forget people’s contributions in her life.

Going further in an emotion laden voice, Njeze assured her visitors that she will run an open door policy where everybody’s opinion will count, and affirmed that she is not like some politicians who usually shut their doors immediately after elections.

She equally condemned the activities of some selfish political leaders who covertly promote economic strangulation of their people with a view to exploiting their condition and ignorance. As a panacea, she vowed to change the narrative and pursue policies of self reliance in Enugu West Zone if she becomes the senator.

Responding, the leader of the delegation, Hon Ene Kevin from Nsude ward told her that all she did while in office as a minister were well known to them and many close observers. While pledging their total support for her, he narrated how Ndi Udi who were aware of her previous achievements, have been yearning for her services in an elective capacity.

One of them who expressed joy over Nnediulu’s current quest to go to the senate, told the gathering that she had never failed in her duties hence, the reason she remains the only woman in modern Nigeria that has served as a minister in three different ministries under one administration because of competence and capacity.

Also receiving the party delegates from Abor ward, her immediate constituency, Njeze thanked them for their faith and belief in her capacity to give them quality representation. She further assured them that they will never regret voting for her, as she will deploy her wide reach across Nigeria, and her international connection to attract political patronage and foreign direct investment to the zone. In their separate speeches, the leader of the delegation and the PDP chairman of Abor ward, Hon Louis Ogbuji and the youth leader, Hon Uche Okocha emphatically declared their unalloyed loyalty to her senatorial ambition.

They extolled her virtues and told her that their visit today (Sunday 15th May, 2022) was basically to express their gratitude to her for offering herself to serve her people at such a higher pedestal of national politics. They affirmed their conviction that Njeze remains the aspirant to beat in the forthcoming primaries having possessed all the requisite political maturity to handle the position.

In her closing remarks, Ambassador Njeze, also known as Nnediulu, made a passionate appeal and advised them to spread the news of her ambition in town, with a promise to live upto her responsibility if given the opportunity to prove herself.

The three times minister of the Federal Republic and a former ambassador of Nigeria to Switzerland, said she would liken her current quest to the popular Igbo adage that ‘agadi nwanyi ada aka nka n’egwu omalu agba’. She said from her wealth of experience, Enugu West will witness unprecedented transformation with her in the senate. After her remarks, overwhelming shouts of Nnediulu rented the air, signifying acceptability.

It ended in praise as Enugu State remains in the hands of God.

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Musawa Seeks Broader Significance for June 12

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7 hours ago

October 3, 2026

The Gleamer

Joel Ajayi

The Minister of Art, Culture, Tourism and the Creative Economy, Hannatu Musa Musawa, Esq., says June 12 must be remembered as a sacrifice that gave Nigerians democracy, beyond its status as a public holiday.

In a statement signed on Saturday by the Senior Assistant Media & Publicity to the Honourable Minister,Federal Ministry of Art, Culture, Tourism and the Creative Economy Dr Nneka Ikem Anibeze Ph.D in Abuja.

Musawa stated this at the national premiere of “MKO”, a film on Chief Moshood Abiola, held at the Wole Soyinka Centre for Culture and Creative Arts, Lagos, to mark Nigeria’s 66th Independence Anniversary.

She said 33 years after June 12, 1993, many young Nigerians know it only as a holiday, but the film turns it back into memory.

“For too many young Nigerians, June 12 is simply a public holiday. This film tells them that our democracy did not arrive by chance. It was fought for. It was defended. It was paid for. This documentary is in honour of the heroes of June 12, the men and women who gave their lives for the mandate of June 12, 1993 and for the democracy Nigeria enjoys today,” the Minister said.

Musawa hailed President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Chief Host, for his participation in the June 12 struggle and paying the price in exile, adding that Nigeria’s creative industry will keep telling the story of its democracy with courage.

“Through film and the creative economy, Nigeria will preserve its history. A nation that forgets its past loses its way to the future. Nigeria has a story and our story deserves to be told,” she said.

Earlier, the director of the investigative documentary, Ose Oyamendan, said the film was in honour and memory of heroes who fought for Nigeria’s democracy.

“There was Hope ’93 and now there is Renewed Hope. There was a man who sacrificed his life so we may have democracy and there is a man who almost lost his life fighting for democracy who is now helping build a lasting democracy.

“There was a great man called Bashorun MKO Abiola and there is now another great man called Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Democrats. Nationalists. Nation builders. Leaders of men and women. We must never forget our story. We must always honour and remember our heroes,” Oyamendan said.

Top government officials including President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the wife of the President Senator Oluremi Tinubu; Senate President Godswill Akpabio, Speaker of the House of Representatives Tajudeen Abbas, Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, Chief of Staff to the President Rt. Femi Gbajabiamila, state Governors, members of the National Assembly, Ministers and other distinguished dignitaries attended the premiere.

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