WRITE OFF DR GOODLUCK JONATHAN AT YOUR OWN PERIL
................................tribal,religious sentiments may decide Aso Rock occupant now
...................................Jonathan certifies constitutional requirements of 25 percent nationwide even places he lost but Buhari while leading on popular votes did not do well in the Eastern Block
...................................paedia Express Multimedia still cannot confirm Rivers State situation.
................................six state result may be canceled due to irregularities
................................re-run likely now,big Igbo poltician,Chief Chekwas Okorie becomes beautiful bride to be courted
.................................nail biting finish to one of the greatest electoral battles of all time
BY ABDULMUMINI ADEKU.
Like a cat with nine lives,President Goodluck Jonathan will not go down without a fight
Checks by the News Office Desk of Paedia Express Multimedia on the situation room of the Independent National Electoral Commission[I.N.E.C]suggests that the results of six of the states previously believed to have been won by General Muhammadu Buhari will be canceled due to electoral irregularities.
An impeccable Source told Paedia Express Multimedia that states like Kogi,Gombe,Kano,Kaduna,Katsina and Jigawa will now have to bite the dust as the conduct of the elections in those state does not conform with the minimum standard required and set by the electoral umpire.
The Source explained that Since Dr Goodluck Jonathan certifies the constitutional provision of garnering 25 percent of votes more than his hottest challenger, General Muhammadu Buhari who seems to be leading on popular votes nationwide.
His words:’Jonathan has been calm and smiling because he is very confident of winning the polls,if the run-off takes place Buhari may lose as the Igbos will prefer to form a coalition with him”
Paedia Express Multimedia had published an exclusive editorial page report titled:Who is Chekwas Okorie as Nigerians battled hard to know a man who could be the deciding factor in the polls.
A Prince of Alayi, Chekwas, as he is fondly called, was born on the 19th of March, 1953, at Amaeke Alayi in Bende Local Government Area of Abia State, Nigeria. He is the eldest surviving son of the late HRH Eze Edward Okorie Emerih, the Igboji of Alayi who reigned from 1960-1978.
Chekwas attended St. Michael’s Primary School, Umuahia and St. Joseph’s Catholic School, Alayi. For his secondary education, he attended Annunciation Secondary School Isuikwuato in 1967 and graduated in 1973 due to the three-year disruption of education during the Nigeria-Biafra War. In 1974 Chekwas proceeded to the prestigious University of Nigeria Nsuka, Enugu Campus, where he studied Management. His Bachelor of Science degree with Honours was earned in 1978.
As a student activist, Chekwas had an early tutelage in human rights and civil rights as a member of the Igbo Forum, starting in 1976. The organization later metamorphosed into what is now known as Ohanaeze Ndigbo. Chekwas had a brief teaching experience as a Lecturer at the Federal Polytechnic, Bida, Niger State in the course of his National Youth Service. He also had a stint as an Assistant Manager with the Nigerian Reinsurance Corporation in 1979 and worked for about four years with the West African Water Drilling and Allied Co. Ltd., where he rose from Commercial Manager to General Manager in 1982. In 1982, Chekwas floated Chel Water Nigeria Ltd. which has given birth to other subsidiary companies. As an employer of fellow citizens in his own companies, Chekwas Okorie had the latitude to launch back into his natural calling of promoting human rights. He did this through the many organizations that he either founded and/or served in leading positions, namely: Nzuko Abia na Imo, ¬President General; Igboezue Cultural Association – Founder and National Leader; Member of the Elders Council and Ime Obi of Ohanaeze Ndigbo; Member, Governing Council of Abia State University 1992 – ¬1996; Member, Board of Trustees Centre for Igbo Studies, Abia State University 1997 – 2000. He holds a doctorate degree (Ph.D.) in Humanities and Leadership from the University of America, Murrieta, California, U.S.A. Chief Chekwas Okorie has been recognized and honoured with several awards from several communities, organizations, religious bodies, institutions and associations, too numerous to be listed here. However, he cherishes his traditional title of Oje-Ozi Ndigbo (Messenger of Igbo People) because he considers the title to be a sufficiently humble title and a true reflection of his natural calling to stand up for Ndigbo and other similarly oppressed Nigerians. In politics Oje-Ozi Ndigbo has been a prominent and vocal member of all the political parties and associations he has belonged to, viz.: Secretary, National Finance Committee, United Nigeria Congress Party (UNCP); Chief Returning Officer, First ever National Convention of the UNCP; Founder and Secretary General, Peoples Democratic Congress (PDC) 1996 and 1998; Member, National Caucus of All Peoples Party (APP), which later became the ANPP and now part of the APC; Member, Peoples Democratic Party National Initiative, Candidate for the Office of National Secretary PDP – November 1999 National convention. In 2002, Chief Chekwas Okorie founded the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA). This singular achievement placed the Oje-Ozi Ndigbo as the first Igbo person to become the Founder and National Chairman of a registered national political party in Nigeria. He led APGA to a phenomenal feat in the much manipulated 2003 general election. APGA became one of the three biggest parties in Nigeria out of 30 at the time. The party was widely reckoned with as the foremost opposition party in Nigeria. Such was the Oje-Ozi’s vibrant, robust and consequential interventions in the polity that the Nigerian Union of Journalists, Abuja Chapter conferred on him on 7th May 2004, the award of CREDIBLE LEADER OF OPPOSITION in an impressive ceremony at Chelsea Hotel, Abuja. On the 12th of July, 2007, the Conference of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP) in a historic ceremony at the Sheraton Hotel, Lagos enrolled Chief Chekwas Okorie in Nigeria’s Democracy Hall of Fame. On 29th June, 2014 he was awarded the title of IDE NDIGBO (Pillar of Igbo People) by Ndigboamaka South-East Ndigbo Lagos (comprising 58 Major Market Associations and Igbo Professional Groups in Lagos). On the 12th of December, 2014 at a special reception organized in honour of Chief Chekwas Okorie, he was given the coveted title of Olu Ndigbo (Voice of the Igbo People) by Enyi I of Aba, Abia State in recognition of his unrelenting and sustained efforts for the defense of the rights of Ndigbo in Niger
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