{"id":88818,"date":"2023-05-28T20:23:25","date_gmt":"2023-05-28T19:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/ogunewe-not-our-imo-governorship-candidate-action-alliance"},"modified":"2023-05-28T22:54:25","modified_gmt":"2023-05-28T21:54:25","slug":"ogunewe-not-our-imo-governorship-candidate-action-alliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/ogunewe-not-our-imo-governorship-candidate-action-alliance","title":{"rendered":"Ogunewe not our Imo governorship candidate \u2013 Action Alliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Action Alliance (AA) has declared that Major-General Lincoln Jack Ogunewe (retd) is not its candidate for the governorship elections in Imo State.<\/p>\n<p>Ogunewe was in the news last week after he was announced as the flagbearer of the platform, a report the leadership refuted.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Sunday, AA Chairman, Comrade Ifeanyi Okponwa Eze, said Ogunewe\u2019s emergence was not endorsed by the party, advising citizens to ignore the \u201crumour\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Eze recalled that on November 11, 2022, a Court of Appeal in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja, affirmed Hon. Adekunle Rufai Omo-Aje as the authentic National Chairman against one Kenneth Udeze.<\/p>\n<p>He said in line with stipulated guidelines, AA conducted its governorship primary in Imo on April 17, 2023, the last day set by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s worrisome and embarrassing that the said Kenneth Udeze, who was expelled from the party, has continued to parade himself as the National Chairman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has gone as far as trying to deceive members of the public by ridiculously presenting Gen. Lincoln Ogunewe (retd) as the governorship candidate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a clear disregard to the subsisting Court of Appeal judgement which affirmed Hon. Dr. Adekunle Rufai Omo-Aje as the authentic National Chairman.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eze said INEC\u2019s retention of Udeze as the AA National Chairman on its website is an indication that the umpire \u201chas decided to operate in contempt to the judgement\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The party warned that it would not hesitate to press contempt of court charges against both Kenneth Udeze and Prof. Mahmood Yakubu \u201cif they do not retrace their steps\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The statement reaffirmed Chief Ukadike Chinedu Humphrey as AA\u2019s standard bearer for the November 11 governorship poll and urged the people of Imo to \u201cdisregard impostors\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Action Alliance (AA) has declared that Major-General Lincoln Jack Ogunewe (retd) is not its candidate for the governorship elections in Imo State. Ogunewe was in the news last week after he was announced as the flagbearer of the platform, a report the leadership refuted. In a statement on Sunday, AA Chairman, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":88817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[4918,1570,2140,1018,254,10517],"class_list":["post-88818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-action-alliance","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-imo","tag-nigeria","tag-ogunewe"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ogunewe not our Imo governorship candidate \u2013 Action Alliance - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Action Alliance (AA) has declared that Major-General Lincoln Jack Ogunewe (retd) is not its candidate for the govern ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/ogunewe-not-our-imo-governorship-candidate-action-alliance\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ogunewe not our Imo governorship candidate \u2013 Action Alliance\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Action Alliance (AA) has declared that Major-General Lincoln Jack Ogunewe (retd) is not its candidate for the govern ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/ogunewe-not-our-imo-governorship-candidate-action-alliance\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-05-28T19:23:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-05-28T21:54:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/05\/sm_1685294581.834335.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/ogunewe-not-our-imo-governorship-candidate-action-alliance#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/ogunewe-not-our-imo-governorship-candidate-action-alliance\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Ogunewe not our Imo governorship candidate \u2013 Action Alliance\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-05-28T19:23:25+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-05-28T21:54:25+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/ogunewe-not-our-imo-governorship-candidate-action-alliance\"},\"wordCount\":307,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/ogunewe-not-our-imo-governorship-candidate-action-alliance#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/05\/sm_1685294581.834335.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Action Alliance\",\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Imo\",\"Nigeria\",\"Ogunewe\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/ogunewe-not-our-imo-governorship-candidate-action-alliance#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/ogunewe-not-our-imo-governorship-candidate-action-alliance\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/ogunewe-not-our-imo-governorship-candidate-action-alliance\",\"name\":\"Ogunewe not our Imo governorship candidate \u2013 Action Alliance - 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