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Vanguard CLASSIFIED Correction Of Name My correct name is Doctor Ayibanua, but it was wrongly spelt as Doctor Ayebanua in my International Passport with number: A02321344, dated December 03, 2010. These names refer to one and same person. All former documents remain valid. Nigeria Immigration Services and general public please take note.
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EDE - I , f o r m e r l y known and addressed as Miss Francisca Nkechinyere Helen Ede, now wish to be known and addressed as Mrs Aloh Francisca Nkechinyere Helen. All former documents remain valid. E.S.U.T, NYSC, G.T.Bank general public please take note.
OBI – I, formerly known and addressed as Miss Priscilla Nkechi Obi, now wish to be known and addressed as Mrs. Priscilla Nkechi Nwobi. All former documents remain valid. General public please take note.
IKPEME - I, formerly known and addressed as Miss Asa K. Ikpeme, now wish to be known and addressed as Mrs Asa Victor Nnang. All former documents remain valid. General public please take note.
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Correction of Name My correct name is Omenogo Emmanuel Enuma, but some of my documents bear Sunday Enuma, and Omenego Emmanuel Enuma. This is to confirm that Omenogo Emmanuel Enuma, Sunday Enuma and Omenego Emmanuel Enuma is one and same person. All former documents remain valid. General public please take note.
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ONUNZE - I, formerly known and addressed as Miss Onunze Calista, now wish to be known and addressed as Mrs. Okachi Calista. All former ddocuments remain valid. National Teachers Institute, Kaduna and general public please take note.
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ADEBISI - I, formerly known and addressed as Hassanat Ajoke Adebisi and Olakunle Adebisi, now wish to be known and addressed as Hassanat Ajoke Adebisi -Giwa and Bolaji Olakunle Adebisi-Giwa. All former documents remain valid. General public please take note.
ABAH - I, formerly known and addressed as Mr. Abah Isaac Abah, now wish to be known and addressed as Mr. Abah Isaac Patrick. All former documents remain valid. General public please take note.
ODIMEGWU - I, formerly known and addressed as Miss Odimegwu Adamma Yvonne, now wish to be known and addressed as Mrs. Elee Adamma Yvonne. All former documents remain valid. Federal University of Technology Owerri and general public please take note.
Regional integration my foot — Bode George •How we are dressing up our rascals in PDP •Says PDP BoT chair is not zoned ERSTWHILE Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Olabode Ibiyinka George has seen the best and worst of times in his political odyssey -from the pinnacle of political mastership to the loneliness of confinement. In all, Bode George as he is well known is unchanged in his passions, pursuits and politics as he recently demonstrated in this encounter with Vanguard in his Ikoyi, Lagos office. In the extensive interview he discusses, albeit with reluctance the wave of crises in the Lagos chapter of the PDP, the permutations on the chairmanship of the BoT of the PDP and dismisses with ignominy the plans for regional integration by the Southwest Governors of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN. Excerpts: BY DAPO AKINREFON
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OU have been accused of allegedly installing the state executive of the PDP in Lagos State. How true is this? You know some people talk a lot of trash, jobless people who have no commitment, who have no loyalty to this party. How could I single handedly install the whole executive of the party in Lagos state? Is it a personal party? How many of those members do I even know? Even the ones in my local government, do I know them? I have passed that level of idiocy, where you put yourself on Monday movies. I think they are confused because you see, in politics, like my grand mother and my grand father will say, politics is about people. So, if you think you are a leader, it means people are with you. If you say you are a leader when there are no followers, then who are you leading? There are 245 wards in Lagos State, what is my ambition? Am I contesting for something that I have to be campaigning there?
First among equals This leadership thing, when we started the fight, Chief Dapo Sarumi was the first among equals, but he left the party, and so naturally I was there. Way back in 1999, 1998, I became vice chairman of the party in year 2000. In fact, 1999 December. Where were these people? We were there trying to bring people in, woo them to come and join the party. Leadership is not something you just pluck from the tree; why say that Chief Bode George is a leader because he controls this and controls that; he is seen as first among the
rest and that’s all. If you examine those people, I don’t want to start mentioning their names, because you now make them important, a person who cannot be accepted of his own worth and then comes to the centre and says they are this and they are that. By the grace of God Almighty and the power of the people, I went on as the vice chairman for four years, served as deputy national chairman of the party in the south; then became deputy national chairman for the whole country. So we have been all over, I ran national conventions more than four times, became the Director-General of the campaign that brought Yar’Adua into office. I am talking about those people who have not even left their villages and are talking about installing someone. There is fairness in the party, I believe so much in them, justice and fairness are the key words, and once you have the
basics, that’s the foundation of building the party structure. I think they must be making me bigger than I am, but they are a bunch of laughing stock. The people who are committed to the party, are committed, those who are loyal to the party are loyal. But you have these jokers here, they don’t think about that, they want to be this, they want to be that; they want to be chairman. Why waste energy on unnecessary issues, when my major concern is on how to reclaim the Southwest from the ACN. But we gathered that the Vice chairman of the party in South West, Engineer Segun Oni, was in Lagos to settle disputes between you and... (Cuts in) What are we fighting about? Am I the chairman of the party? Because of the position I have held, I remain a member of the National Caucus, I remain a member of the Board of Trustees of the PDP for life, and I remain a member of the National Executive for life, as long as I remain in PDP. Because I am alive, I am a member of those bodies. So who is fighting who? What are we fighting for? We brought them to join the PDP, I accepted them; they came with their roughness, and we are trying to shape them into the real culture of the PDP. You know, some of these people are so formed in their own dirty ways, which is not acceptable in the party. The laws of the party are there. So Segun Oni didn’t come to say who is fighting who? Like I told you, the fight should be against the opposition. Segun Oni also came over to see what was on ground, and he was assertive that this kind of behaviour, which has been exhibited by these clowns, is not acceptable by the culture of the party, and this is what we’ve
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