Once again the courts in Nigeria rose to the occasion - they reversed a sitting governor. Today, Comrade Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole, the erstwhile President of Nigeria Labor Congress is the new governor of Edo State. He was affirmed the duly elected governor of Edo State 19 months after the April 14, 2007 gubernatorial elections by the court of appeals sitting in Benin, Edo State. He contested the April 14, 2007 
governorship election on the ticket of the Action Congress (AC).
The five-man court of appeal panel headed by the President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Umaru Abdullahi, unanimously upheld the decision of the election petition tribunal which had ruled on March 20, 2008 that the Action Congress (AC) and Oshiomhole won the polls in which the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had announced victory for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate, Professor Oserheimen Osunbor whom Adams Oshiomhole will be taking ov
er from.
governorship election on the ticket of the Action Congress (AC).The five-man court of appeal panel headed by the President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Umaru Abdullahi, unanimously upheld the decision of the election petition tribunal which had ruled on March 20, 2008 that the Action Congress (AC) and Oshiomhole won the polls in which the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had announced victory for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate, Professor Oserheimen Osunbor whom Adams Oshiomhole will be taking ov
er from. Against our tradition at Icheokudotcom, we congratulate Comrade Adams Oshimole on his victory at the court of appeals and wish him a successful term of office. Icheokudotcom does not believe that elections take place in Nigeria and this is the core of our apathy to "election" results!
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Christy 'Apena' Essien-Igbokwe , the wife of Jegede Shokoya of the New Masquerade and Nigeria's lady of songs is dead; she was 51years old. Although her family claimed that "brief Illness" killed her like so many Nigerians; Icheoku retorts that it was most likely AKwa Ibom voodoo and remote control that was used to arrest her. It is on record that she had fallen out with the governor of her native Akwa Ibiom State and have been having a relentless war for political turf with the governor? So who knows whether she was sacrificed to Ekpe cult or even Alusi-Okija as an offal; afterall African science is still very much alive and portent. May her soul rest in peace.
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