Ofumba Ji FC have defeated 11 Students FC by two goals to one to win the 2021 Awgbu December Football League Competition.

In a fierce and entertaining match played at the St. Micheal's field, Awgbu on the 1st of January 2022, Ofumba Ji FC who wasn't among the favorite to win the competition defeated the title favorite 11 Students FC despite playing half of the match with 10 men.

11 Students had opened the scoring in the first half through Ebuka Okoye also known as little Messi. Ofumba Ji equalised shortly through D General. Just before the half time whistle, Ofumba Ji Fc had a man sent off for a second bookable offense.

Ofumba Ji FC managed to weather all the attacking threats from 11 Students and deep into the stoppage time mounted a counter attack that resulted to a goal by their captain Ifeanyi Okoyeocha, sending their fans haywire.

Speaking after the match, Okechukwu Obi the Coach of Ofumba Ji FC dedicated his victory to God and his Sponsor:

" I am dedicating this victory to God almighty who made it possible, then to the owner of the club, Williams Egolu who gave me the opportunity and also to my coaching team, players and fans for their commitments"

Speaking also, Dubem Obi the owner of 11 Student stated that:

" In the game of football, you either win or lose. We played brilliantly but were unlucky. We have taken our lessons and next year we will go a step better and lift the trophy."

The chairman of the 2021 Awgbu December Football League Organisation Committee Obi Chukwuemeka populary known as Obi Trice Emeka, appreciated his sponsors; Alexander Obiekwe of AU Zanders who sponsored the first position with N700,000, Mr. Sunday Ezeani Okanumee of Maurice Capital who sponsored the second position with N500,000 and Prince Nnamma Ezeayom of EJC solar who sponsored the third position with N300,000. Not also forgetting other sponsors such as Jonas Ifinta, Nnabuike Onuzuluike and Engr. Agodi Egwuonwu.

" I am deeply grateful to all my sponsors, the Orumba North referee association and the various clubs that participated in the competition. We will definitely improve on our performance next year and offer a much more entertaining tournament"

Earlier, Ozoebube Chukwu FC defeated Awgbu United, Lagos FC by three goals to nil to win the third position.

The Awgbu December Football League Competition began on December 25th 2021 with an opening match at the St. Mary's field Awgbu. A total of 7 teams participated in the tournament.

Players in the annual Awgbu December Football League have honoured miss Chioma Mbionwu a student of Medical Rehabilitation, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Okofia campus, Nnewi who was shot dead by unknown gunmen on October 3rd 2021 during an attack at Nnewi

A minute silence was observed for her during the opening match of the annual Awgbu December League Football competition which held on St. Mary Field, Awgbu on the 25th of December 2021 in a match between Ofumba Ji Fc and Equity FC.

Similarly, on the 28th of December in another match held at St. Micheal's field, Awgbu, between Equity Fc and Awgbu United, the players of Equity FC were spotted putting on a Jersey with the picture of Chioma Mbionwu imprinted on it to immortalise her.

Speaking to the press shortly after the match, Obi Nwafor who is the owner of Equity FC stated that

" When Chioma was alive she was passionate about football and was present to watch many of the matches played during the Awgbu December Football League. The whole community is saddened by her death. Her love for football was enormous and she played it with much passion alongside dream of going professional one day . This is why we decided to honor her"

Awgbu is a town in Orumba North LGA of Anambra State. The late Chioma Mbionwu is an indigene of Awgbu town.

May the soul of Chioma Mbionwu continue to rest in peace.

Chidi Odinkalu and the burden of evidence

Obi Trice Emeka

Professor Chidi Odinkalu is a lawyer, with more than 30 years experience at the Bar, hence he understands more than most of us that conjectures are not facts and he who conjures must prove. Yet, by some happenstance the good old Professor decided to theatrically enter the Anambra political arena, abandoning the lessons he learnt concerning evidence while in Law school and instead chose to become a fictional writer - creating characters and scenes as he deems fit, basically for the sole purpose of revving the emotions of the non discerning.

In deed, since Chidi Odinkalu left his job at the Nigerian Human Rights Commission as its Director General, he appears to be desperately in search of relevance - one which his lacklustre could not could not guarantee him, especially as he woefully failed to stand up to protect the rights of Nigerians during his stint.
Not even victims of the ignoble Ezu River massacre from his home state of Anambra could get a measure of justice under his watch.

But like many former but underperforming government officials seeking fresh 'anointing' it was quite easy for Odinkalu to jump into the exuberance of the social media, making twitter a base from where he churns out falsehood and exaggerating information laced with obfuscating facts at will, in a determined search for redemption.

A simple google search of the name Chidi Odinkalu and fake news readily provides a researcher with plenty of evidence to draw inferences from.

It is, therefore, with this understanding of his social media manipulations in mind that I read his recent article "Ken Nnamani: The Man Who Sold His Conscience."
Lo and behold, Odinkalu did not disappoint.

In tune with his new found pass time, the otherwise erudite Professor went about conjuring his own imagination and baseless innuendos, and went ahead to put them in cold hard print. All with a singular goal in mind: Take down Senator Andy Uba who apparently is the target of the article deceitfully passed off as targeted at Ken Nnamani, if his working title is anything to go by.

Reading through the entire stuff, it would be very easy to come to the befuddling conclusion that the Odinkalu article was a hatchet job, simplicita!

But quite unlike our Professor, I love to follow the evidence and not rely on giddy assumptions. Yet, in trying not to stray off course, my curiosity remained fired regarding why a supposed intellectual would centre his piece on the whimsical premise of 'guilty by association'.

Furthermore, in choosing to publish the work in Authority Newspaper, owned by Senator Ifeanyi Ubah, himself a gubernatorial candidate in the forthcoming Anambra governorship election, speaks volumes about it's intention and purpose.

Could it have been that our dear Professor was afflicted by selective amnesia, to the point that he conveniently forgot who and what the character Ifeanyi Ubah represents - or was it simply a case of the voice of Esau and the hands of Jacob?

For starters, Sen. Uba worked as Special Assistant to President Olusegun Obasanjo on Special Duties, and not as Domestic Aide as Odinkalu derisively and falsely claimed in his article.

In fact, as many other authors, who were first hand witnesses to the botched third term attempt under the President Olusegun Obasanjo administration had recounted, Senator Uba was never made out as the force behind any such attempt.

Odinkalu, never a member of the National Assembly must have invented this seemingly 'great' evidence from his deep well of imaginative writing.

Another point of note is, how a supposed Professor of Law would transfer the burden of President Olusegun Obasanjo's obsessions with a third term to a mere Special Assistant. In deed, this must be the ninth wonder of the world and a curious case of seeking to turn logic on its head, all in an attempt to give a man a bad name in other to frighten him off the public arena.

To say, for instance, that Prof. Maurice Iwu's appointment as head of the country's electoral body was a gift by President Obasanjo to Senator Uba for his assistance in the hugely disputed third term bid is another proof that Professors can be knowingly mischievous and those who know Odinkalu need to offer him help and save him from further hallucinations.

Without a doubt, the 2007 general elections was the worst of its kind since our country's return to democratic rule in 1999 - a fact readily attested to by no less a personality than the late President Musa Yar'Adua.

But Odinkalu in his usual manner of obfuscating facts has centred the problems associated with the 2007 general elections on Anambra, in a blind fury to get at Andy Uba.

As someone who headed the Nigerian Human Rights Commission, Odinkalu ought to have been abreast of the Human Rights Watch report of the election across the federation.

Even late President Yar'Adua's open admittance in full public glare that the election that brought him into office was flawed was too insignificant for Odinkalu to acknowledge. For as far as he is concerned, Andy Uba and no one else must be maligned and made to carry the can for what was obviously a national problem.

Although Odinkalu has since gone ahead to make friends with many of those who won in the same elections of 2007 and has stridently defended them ever since, he shamelessly elects to adorn the toga of a hypocrite who must single out an Andy Uba for constant vilification.

As for his dabbling into the issue of the All Progressives Congress, APC primaries, need I remind this meddlesome interloper of a Professor, that they are basically the internal affairs of political parties, and they do have legally approved channels of resolving disputes which arise therefrom.

In deed, the Nigerian constitution recognises party primaries as solely internal party affairs.

True, the Anambra APC Primary wasn't perfect, just like that of both the People's Democratic Party, PDP and the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, yet Odinkalu finds it quite comforting to dwell only on the outcome of the APC exercise.
Talk of sour grapes.

The elderly wisdom of Ken Nnamani has ensured that the APC family in Anambra is still one big family, as his fatherly disposition helped ensure that the party's internal mechanism for resolving grievances was fully deployed, leading to only but two of the 17 aspirants leaving the APC to try their electoral luck elsewhere.

Odinkalu is quite aware that the issues relating to the APC primary are presently in court, yet he decides to prejudice the courts by stating that the APC held no primary election.

It's also instructive to mention that at no time did INEC state that the APC held no primary. INEC never reached such conclusions, for if it did, the APC would not have been listed as participant for the November 6, 2021 gubernatorial contest.

Senator Uba's Campaign continues to permeate the grassroots, as those who gave him no chance are beginning to eat their words, and have rather joined hands with him to rescue Anambra from emotional extortionists whose track records are embedded in blackmail. Those, who remain obstinate for one pecuniary reason or the other have continued to go haywire as they employ all manners of tactics, including hiring all manner of hack writers to defuse his rising acceptance among voters.

One note of caution, however: Ndi Anambra know this weather beaten song, but this time, they are sworn not to dance to the hackneyed footsteps of writers of bad verses.

After weeks of running a shadowy campaign anchored on propaganda and character assassination, the outgoing All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA administration in Anambra state may have finally woken up to reality: that the All Progressives Congress, APC candidate, Senator Andy Uba, is indeed its nemesis.

Reacting to a Press Statement signed by Mr. C. Don Adinuba and entitled "Soludo Campaign Mocks Andy Uba, APC Candidate," Hon. Victor Afam Ogene, director, Media and Publicity of the Senator Andy Uba Governorship Campaign Organisation, SAUGCO wondered why two weeks to the November 6, 2021 governorship election, the Soludo Team is still embittered by the emergence of Uba as APC candidate.

"Besides the fact that primaries are internal affairs of political parties, one still wonders why they have continued to cast their eyes and focus on the APC primaries concluded almost four months ago, in June, 2021.

"We see this as an act that portrays them as meddlesome Interlopers. Moreso, when neither Soludo, nor Adinuba sought nomination under the APC.

"In a classic recast of the Biblical injunction where such people were urged to first remove the logs in their own eyes, before worrying about the speck in others, we pitifully request Soludo and APGA to first deal with the prearranged outcome of its own primaries, whereupon elected members of both the House of Representatives and the State House of Assembly were brazenly pronounced as disqualified, in favour of a man who had never won even a Councillorship contest.

"Equally worrisome is the proclivity of the Soludo Team to always seek to dance on the graves of worthy indigenes of Anambra, and other residents, who lost their lives consequent upon the inability of Governor Willy Obiano to secure the state.

"Seeking to denounce the decision of Senator Andy Uba to call off the APC's planned flag off on October 2, 2021 in honour of those killed days before that date, aptly shows the APGA candidate's desperation for power. We do not really blame Soludo, for having never held any elective office in his life, his desperation to be governor of Anambra state has so blindfolded him to the extent of going out for campaigns a day after Dr. Cyril Akunyili was gunned down on the streets of Anambra. Ironically, Soludo's wife is niece to the late Professor Dora Akunyili and has never bothered to commiserate with the family, either in private or publicly.

"Contrary to Soludo's obsession with making a song and dance out of "big rallies" and "flag offs," may we educate him that the times do not demand such. Besides security concerns, such recourse is tantamount to preaching to the choir, as such events attract only party members. Real politicking is meeting the people in their different local government areas, villages and households - a last minute strategy which Senator Uba and his team commenced this week, with campaigns in Onitsha North and South and Anambra East and West LGAs.

"On the failed attempt to drag the name of Distinguished Senator Andy Uba into events that happened in Anambra at the time he was dutifully serving in the Presidency, we state, unequivocally, that no Panel of Inquiry set up in the aftermath of the crisis indicted him, or had his name mentioned under any guise.

"In deed, since Professor Soludo's current godfather is still Governor of Anambra state, and custodian of all official documents relating to the state, we challenge him to produce any shred of evidence, or document linking Senator Uba to the issues raised - or permanently shut up and stop the further maligning of his person.

"In deed, we advise Prof. Soludo to first deal with the issue of N2 Billion which he dubiously collected from individuals and corporate organisations under the guise of building a memorial hospital in honour of his mother. Today, 13 years after, there is neither a hospital building standing anywhere in fulfillment of that pledge, nor has the eminent Professor of Economics lived up to the demands of his calling, by rendering a proper account of the donated sums of money, or an apology."

We wish to further remark that it is the very height of hypocrisy, when Governor Obiano and his protege, Soludo go on campaigns with an assortment of security personnel, he assumes the title of chief security officer of Anambra state. But when he fails to provide security cover for other candidates, he passes the buck to President Muhammadu Buhari.

"In the fullness of time, both Governor Obiano and Soludo would realise that their boasts about being in control of the forces of coercion is after all, a transient privilege," the statement added.

Nigeria's Ambassador to Burundi, Amb. Elijah Onyeagba arrives Burundi to resume his post as Nigeria's Ambassador to the East African country

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