…Says crisis in APGA, PDP is added advantage
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A leading pressure group, APC Patriots, Anambra has charged aspirants of the All Progressives Congress to close ranks in order for the party to win the November 6, 2021 gubernatorial election.
Speaking against the backdrop of intense crisis currently rocking the ruling All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA and the People’s Democratic Party, PDD, the APC Patriots said that the discordant tunes emerging from both parties leaves the state open for APC to take.
In a statement by its spokesman,Honourable Afam Ogene,the group said contended further that,”Given the procedural imperfections that attended APGA’s screening process, leading to the unfazed disqualification of otherwise qualified aspirants, and the musical chairs trailing the party’s national chairmanship, APGA’s participation in this year’s Anambra governorship election remains a matter of conjecture.
“In fact, the decision of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC to decline the party’s list of delegates is a major development which we have since taken judicial notice of,” the group said.
“For the PDP, the multiplicity of court injunctions and rulings emerging from the camps of disparate godfathers, and unending disputations over which delegates’ list to work with, has cast the party in legal entanglement that can only be resolved way after the November 6 election.
“We, therefore, commend our party’s aspirants for engaging in electioneering devoid of calumny and underhand tactics, and urge them to sustain such exemplary conduct.”
The APC Patriots, Anambra which steering committee consists of the party’s deputy governorship candidate in the 2017 gubernatorial election in Anambra state, Dozie Ikedife, as Coordinator, and parades three former House of Representatives members, Honourables Emeke Nwogbo, Chizor Obidigwe and Afam Ogene; former National Assembly aspirants in 2019, Mike Mbanefo, Ike Chidolue and Chidi Ogbaji; the party’s zonal youth leader, Olisaemeka Onyeka, and Barrister Chuks Chinwuba, a renowned political strategist, has been in the forefront of ensuring victory for the APC in this year’s Anambra gubernatorial election.
Part of it’s strategies included the April 27, 2021 Interactive Session which it convoked at the Transcorp Hilton, Abuja. The event was attended by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, all the aspirants, ministers, and leading political figures from the South east, including former Senate President, Ken Nnamani.
At that epochal event, the aspirants had pledged to go about seeking the party’s ticket in an atmosphere of camaraderie – a pledge, which the APC Patriots noted they have sustained till date.
[6/23, 1:57 PM] Abatan: MRA Unveils New Website with Improved Security, Diversity Features
Media Rights Agenda (MRA) ,a media advocacy group,announced Wednesday unveiling of a new platform with enhanced security features, while also addressing accessibility issues for disadvantaged groups to ensure diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).
Announcing the unveiling of the website in a statement issued in Lagos, Mr. Idowu Adewale, MRA’s Communication Officer, said the platform “offers a faster, easy to navigate, user-friendly experience as well as search engine optimization, which also enhances the visibility, and therefore, accessibility of the website to Internet users in search of information online that is relevant to our work.”
Developed with support from the International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX), the website (https://mediarightsagenda.org) includes the latest plug-ins, internet security protocols and standards as well as more aesthetic features to make it more attractive to visitors.
Mr. Adewale said: “After several months of hard work, we are pleased to be able to replace the temporary platform that we have had to rely in the past few months with a new website that enables us to achieve our goals of fostering improved communication, providing meaningful and informative resource materials to our web visitors, and giving them better access to who we are, what we do, as well as showcasing our various information products.”
He explained that the new website now includes DEI features informed by the need to ensure full accessibility of the website to disadvantaged groups and individuals, including persons with speech, sight or hearing challenges, consistent with MRA’s status as an equal opportunities organization committed to promoting and defending freedom of expression, media freedom and access to information, both online and offline, irrespective of disability, gender, colour, ethnicity or orientation.
Mr. Adewale noted that the development of the website was guided by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and stressed that all its contents, plugins and codes are compliant with W3C standards which makes the website accessible to everybody, including people with disabilities.
He pledged that MRA would continue to use the platform, with its interactive features, to track and report on freedom of expression, media development, media freedom, access to information, digital rights and internet freedom issues in line with its mandate.
