The founder and Chairman of the Leadership Group, publishers of the Leadership Newspaper and the National Economy, Sam Nda-Isaiah, has finally been led to rest at the Military Cemetery in Gudu District, Abuja.
The newspaper publisher died earlier on the 11th of December after a brief illness.
The Archbishop of the Supernatural Love Ministry, Dr Calvin Antoza, presided over the burial ceremony and was assisted by Bishop Edwin Musa and Bishop Habu Dawaki of the same church alongside Rev. Prof. George Moses.
A former Minister of Agriculture, Chief Audu Ogbeh along with a representative of the Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Burutai, attended the burial ceremony.
Others were family members, friends, business associates, enterpreneurs and staff of the Leadership Group.
The deseased was born in 1962 and died on the 11th of December after a brief illness in Abuja.
Ahead of 2023 Imo Guber, Prince Charles Amadi, Charlvon has called Imo on people
particularly the people of Owerri Zone
to remain supportive of Uzodinma led administration to enable him complete his
constitutionally provide 8 years tenure as Imo State Governor.
This is even as he assured that with persistent
support for Uzodinma, the people of Owerri zone are certain of succeeding the
governor after 8 years hence the Governor would be left with no
option than to support an Owerri person in the 2027 Guber elections.
The oil magnet who disclosed this to the press in
his Owerri Residence over the weekend further used the medium to call on the
Imo people to ignore those discrediting him on the pages of the newspaper
stressing that the said people are not members of the APC hence their discredit
on his personality and integrity.
Prince Charles Amadi (Chalvon), is a successful
business mogul cum renowned philanthropist and one of the highest financier
of All ProgressiveCongress, APC in Imo State .
Prince Amadii in this interview with journalists who
visited his palatial Home in Owerri over the weekend called on Owerri Zone
people to speak with one voice and support Gov Hope Uzodinma’s administration
to succeed because it would be in the interest of the zone to support the
governor so that when he finishes his constitutional tenure in 2027- the zone
will have a chance of taking over from him. Because of the support we shall
give him –
Excerpt:
Question
1: May we meet you Sir?
Answer: My name is Prince
Charles Amadi. I’m a stakeholder in
Imo State, a stalwart of APC in Imo
State and one of the leaders of Mbaike
Forum.
Question
2 :
How do you react to the allegation that you said that Uzodimma would hand over
to an Mbaike person of Owerri Zone extraction to succeed him in 2027?
Answer:
We have never said that I’m the only person in Mbaike. There are lots of
people who support Governor Hope Uzodimma. I only encouraged those people
supporting his Excellency to come out and preach his good work.
Question
3:
There was a rumor that you always support an Orlu man to continue to succeed an
Orlu man to govern Imo State, leaving you as an enemy of Mbaike and Owerri
Zone?
Answer:
Those people attacking me are envious of my track records. And I want to
repeat, we have nine local government areas in Owerri Zone. And six of the
LGAs traditionally have worked together way back. In Owerri Zone, we have
Mbaise Zone, Owerri Federal Constituency
(which includes Ngor-Okpala), Mbaike: Mbaitoli/Ikeduru Zone. I’m a realist. I
do not pretend. I say the position of things as at today, means that in
the PDP, the ticket will go to Emeka
Ihedioha, an Mbaise man. And traditionally, they don’t spread things. They
like to keep goodies of government among themselves – and we are saying that it
would be in the interest the other six LGAs of Owerri Zone to support Hope
Uzodimma so that when he finishes his constitutional tenure in 2027- the other
six LGAs will have a chance of taking over from him. Because of the support we
shall give him- Hope Uzodimma because he is doing great in governance of Imo
state.
Question
4:
You are u respected stakeholder in Imo State, your assessment of Uzodimma led
shared prosperity administration
Answer:
Uzodimma is doing greatly. His government is a walking progress. Look at the
infrastructure he is putting in Imo. Look at the amount of roads he has done
within short period in governance. Yes, I have been in politics for 21 years –
I have not been in governorship position, in the Senate, House of Representatives, House
of Assembly or other elected positions. And I don’t want to. But I play
good politics to the advantage and good of all- for the development and
economic advancement of Imo State. Because I believe in good governance and in
Imo State.
Question
5:
Is that why your detractors are envious of you?
Answer:
My detractors- about forty of them- are not members of APC. Most of them are in
Mbaike Forum ( Union) we formed including Prince
Marcon Nlemigbo, APC Imo State
Caretaker Committee Chairman, various leaders of APC, PDP, APGA among others
are in Mbaike Forum. Chief EmmanuelIwuanyanwu, Ahaejiagamba, is our Grand
Patron. These men- we cannot discuss anything in Mbaike without them. *The
detractors just want to be heard. However, the reception, being given to us is
even beyond our imagination. We parade industrialists, technocrats – people of timbres and calibres – who have been
wonderful and we shall not disappoint them. These detractors, no doubt, are
being sponsored by people who cannot organize anything successfully. Some of
them do not even have First Degrees. They have never seen the walls of the
university. One of them is a fair businessman and a fair politician. The only
option to them is to attack my person. We know him- how many people was he able
to register in his tiny town- yet he comes out and makes noise. How many people
was he able to bring to vote for APC in his tiny town*.
Question
6:
How is APC faring in Imo?
Answer:
Our party, APC, is united in Imo under Governor Hope Uzodimma. It is just a
mere quarrel which happens in other parties- but that of PDP is even worse.
Question
7:
Apex Leadership crises is causing
division in Imo APC and may negatively affect 2023 election, don’t you think
so, and remember what happened to Okigwe Senatorial Bye election.
Answer: No. No. First of all, we
did not lose election in Okigwe
SenatorialZone. The lost of the
election at Obowo LGA does not have
to do with Apex Leadership crisis. Court will maintain our mandate for us. Apex
Leadership is a motivator in a particular area, it is not given, you earn it.
For example, in Owerri Zone, we have Prince
Lemmy Akakem, who is doing well and you have to earn people’s trust before
they can you leader. We have become a rallying point and mostly people who have
just come into the party or people who have been in the party- when they saw
that Ihedioha had been declared winner- they went and started eating with
Ihedioha- and came back as Supreme Court
declared Hope Uzodinma winner.
But persons like Prince Lemmy Akakem stood his
ground and in Ikeduru, we have leaders who galvanize the party- we know
ourselves and there are a lot of people who in the morning they will shout
Hope! Hope! But in the night they plot to stop him in 2023. But I assure you
that APC is very united and most of these people making noise – come 2023 will
not be with us, they are only friends on a rainy days.
Question
8:
The issue of President- General allegedly imposed by IMC Chairmen in Imo
communities is destabilising APC. How do you react to it.
Answer:
Constitution of APC provides for interim President- General. There is nothing
new in that. You cannot say imposition when the situation is interim- the
government has the right to nominate anybody to manage the community affairs in
the time being.
Question
9:
what is Your take on insecurity in Imo and other South Eastern States.
Answer: I will not say much of what Governor
Uzodimma had said about what causes insecurity in the state and who are behind
it. It is the handiwork of political detractors. His Excellency, Hope Uzodimma,
is on top of the situation to safeguard Imo State. Notably, South East will
come together soon to discuss how to secure the Zone.
Question
9 :
You so much love Uzodinma, is it because of his leadership acumen and dexterity?
Answer: Yes His good governance Hence, we are working very hard in support of Hope Uzodimma. We are asking all our brothers and sisters to join us genuinely to support the work of the governor. Our brothers attacking me (Prince Charls Amadi) and Prince Lemmy Akakem, should please, support us to support the pragmatic governor for the good and prosperity of Imo State and its citizenry.
Again, Governor of Imo State Senator Hope Uzodinma has accused those he termed greedy political
leaders of master minding the attacks on Imo
correctionalCentre and the
State CID.
This is even as he exonerated the Fulani
Herdsmen of being responsible for the attacks as insinuated in various
quarters.
Uzodinma who disclosed this in Government House over the weekend while receiving the leadership of
the Northern Community in Imo Also
assured them of the government’s protection.
Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo State has assured the
Northern community residing in the state of government’s protection always,
saying that they are part and parcel of Imo State.
“This is where you live. This is where you do
your business. You are stakeholders in
Imo State. Sit in your house and defend yourself and protect your house. Nobody
will drive you away,” Governor Uzodimma told the leadership of the Northern
community who held a meeting with him at the Government House Owerri at the
weekend.
The leadership of the Northern community said they
had come to pay a solidarity visit
to Governor Uzodimma and to solicit his continued support to them in the face
of recent pockets of insecurity affecting them.
Governor Uzodimma who told the northerners that they
are taxpayers in Imo State admonished them
not to be “tenants in your house,” adding, “Once you are here
doing your business you are from Imo State.”
The governor told them that “every protection
or support I can give to the Igbo man from Imo State I will also give to a
northerner who is in Imo State.”
Governor Uzodimma reminded them again that they
voted for him overwhelmingly and that government has a programme for them that
will help them live well and conduct their businesses properly.
He told them that government has taken note of the
development in their habitation and assured them that it will not happen again.
“This government has no time for nonsense.
Don’t go for self help. Government will help you. No arrangement by any person
or group will be stronger than that of government. All we need from you is
information. Pray for the souls of those who lost their lives,” the
Governor informed the group.
Governor Uzodimma who thanked the leaders of the
northern community for their maturity and understanding of the events happening
in Imo State of late noted that the development has nothing to do with
herdsmen, but the “conspiracy of
some blood thirsty and greedy political leaders from the state working to
ensure that state of emergency is declared in Imo State.”
“They want to create impression that the people
are fighting the northerners. But unfortunately their plans did not work and
will not work. Blood means nothing to them and that is the difference between
them and us,” Governor Uzodimma explained.
The governor said because the political leaders in
question know that the northern community in Imo State is supporting him they
decided to go after them. He said: “those who are after you are after me
and God will not allow them to succeed.”
Governor Uzodimma therefore promised to enhance the
security in all the places they reside in Imo State.
Earlier, leader of the delegation, Alhaji Adamu
Baba Sule told the Governor that they came to give both moral support and
pledge their solidarity.
He said regardless of the recent development,
“Imo State remains the most peaceful and most accommodating to the Northerners
in the South East.”
He regretted that “bad political leaders in Imo
State conspire with others elsewhere to cause problem for the people,” and
pleaded with Governor Uzodimma to beef up security at their places of
abode.
They also reminded the government that most of those being mowed down by bandits as herdsmen are Imo indigenes who practise Islam as their religion.
In the next month, the royal
family will enter a period of mourning while a ceremonial funeral is arranged
and a burial.
In a break with tradition,
there may not be a lying in state for the Duke of Edinburgh.
During a royal lying in state,
the coffin is draped in a royal flag, usually a personal standard, and rests on
a catafalque – a decorated platform, covered in purple cloth, flanked by
military guard around the clock.
Due to the coronavirus
pandemic, a lying in state has become unthinkable, not that this would have
displeased the duke.