Imo Trumpeta newspaper

By: Amaechi Kingsley As political candidates continue to emerge ahead 2019 general elections with actors and gladiators getting ready for the showdown, the ANRP Governorship candidate, Prof Alphonsus Njoku Ekwerike has proven to standout among the pool of governorship candidates jostling for the number one position, owing to his global recognition in the field of science and invention technology. At an...

  By Nwaokolie Thelma/Orji Sampson Ahiazu PDP was agog on Saturday as winners of the PDP primaries for Ahiazu state constituency, Mr. Samuel Nkem Otuibe (a.k.a Molar, the Good Samaritan) and Chief Emeka Chinedu, the party candidate for Ahiazu/Ezinihitte federal constituency paid them a thank you visit at the LGA party secretariat in Afor Oru over the weekend. Trumpeta gathered from Chuma...

Stakeholders and party members of the All Progressive Congress, APC are filled with anxiety as the national secretariat of the party keeps secret names of those on the final list of the party as candidates for 2019 election. The Imo State chapter of APC has been enmeshed in deep crisis following the outcome of the primaries in the state where...

Atiku Abubakar, former Vice-President and presidential candidate of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, in the 2019 election may have already gotten the support of influential southern groups, Afenifere, Ohanaeze N’digbo and the Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF. The groups announced that they would support the candidate that has been most vocal about restructuring of the country, which happens to be...

By Thelma Nwaokolie Anyone who may have spotted former Governor of Imo State, Chief Ikedi Ohakim, on Monday may have seen him in tears as he recounts alleged misdeeds of his successor in office, Owelle Rochas Okorocha as pay back. Ohakim had in a post made public in facebook lamented how Okorocha allegedly maltreated him after he handed over to him...

The latest crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Imo State chapter has attracted the attention of Elders in Owerri Zone, who have decided to wade into the issue concerning two of their sons, Rt Hon Emeka Ihedioha and Senator Samuel (Sam Daddy) Anyanwu over the Imo Governorship Seat. It would be recalled that on October1, 2018, PDP conducted its...

  The people of Ideato North have taken turns to shower encomiums on the leadership of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA. The commendations are coming on the heels of the party's decision to restore the mandate which was overwhelmingly given to the youthful entrepreneur, Hon. Obiora Umeh, by the delegates to stand as the party's flag bearer for the...

  By Stevenie Micheal Strong indications emerged on Monday that one of the APGA Governorship aspirants in Imo State, Mr Okey Eze is dumping the party for another platform to actualize his ambition to occupy Government House, Owerri in 2019. Okey Eze, one of the aspirants who were edged out in the contest for APGA Guber ticket, reportedly has started negotiating with...

  The peaceful movement in Owerri, Imo State capital was yesterday slightly disrupted by demonstrating staff of the Imo State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, ISOPADEC, who not only blocked entrance into the complex but also went on street protest. Trumpeta learnt that the grouse of the workers for taking to the streets and chanting offensive songs against the State Government,...