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The event tagged: “Independent Nigerian Parliamentary Excellence Awards 2021” took place at the Sheraton Hotel in Abuja.
Speaking during the event, the Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief of Independent Newspaper Limited, Steve Omanufeme, said the award was to celebrate lawmakers who had excelled in their chosen intervention projects and had sponsored various bills aimed at touching and changing lives.
Responding to the awards, Rep. Idem dedicated the double award to God for giving him wisdom and direction to represent his people and to his constituents in Ukanafun and Oruk Anam for their continuous support and believe in him. He commended the organisation for coming up with the award to recognize him and promised to do more in discharging his duties.
He said “I am totally humbled by this great honour from a reputable organization like Daily Independent Newspaper. Whatever I do in the National Assembly is not for public recognition or applause, I am more motivated to give the best kind of representation to my people and my country in terms of empowerment, life touching projects, bills and motions. This recognition will only spur me to do more,” Rep. Idem added.
The Federal Lawmaker who promised in 2019 to train and empower 5,000 constituents with seed capital and tools to start a life of their own, has sponsored 16 bills, 15 motions and has embarked on 34 life touching projects within Ukanafun/Oruk Anam Federal Constituency in the last three years with the latest being the sponsorship of the rehabilitation of the defunct Nigeria Institute for Oil Palm Research, NIFOR substation in Oruk Anam local government area to boost the economy, create jobs and wealth in line with Governor Udom Emmanuel’s agricultural revolution.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) finally concluded the collation of results from Anambra State governorship election in the early hours of this morning as former Central Bank governor and candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, was announced winner of the poll that began on Saturday, November 6,2021.
INEC had declared the election inconclusive on Sunday after no votes were cast in Ihiala Local Government Area where over 148,000 voters were said to have registered, hence the need supplementary election which was held Yesterday, November 9, 2021.
After taking a comfortable lead in Saturday’s election, winning 18 of 20 councils declared, Soludo led the poll with 103,946 votes while the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Valentine Ozigbo, had 51,322 votes.
Presenting the final poll result at 1:52a.m. at the State Collation Centre, Awka, INEC Returning Officer and Vice Chancellor of the University of Calabar, Prof Florence Obi, declared Soludo winner of the election after winning Ihiala to take his tally to 19 councils out of 21, while the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Youths Progressives Party (YPP) both have one local government area each. APC failed to win any council in the election.
Despite reports of unknown gunmen, suspected to be members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), engaging security operatives in a shootout for about three hours at the border town of Orsumoghu, a town barely two kilometres from Orsu Council of Imo state, a large turnout of voters was reported across all polling units in Ihiala.