March 5, 2010
Dear Compatriots: Today, the Supreme Court delivered a ruling in favor of our presidential candidate Dr. Arthur Agwuncha Nwankwo, in a suit challenging the Appeals Court refusal to hear our case challenging the constitutionality of the 2007 presidential elections. Dr. Nwankwo and our Party, the Peoples Mandat Party (PMP) went to the court of Appeal to annul the election of President Umaru Yar'Adua and Vice President Goodluck Jonathan, based on the electoral inconsistencies and irregularities that brought them to power.
We accept this ruling of the Supreme Court for the Appeal Courts mother of all legal-politico fight. As a party of veteran political street fighters, we are cognizant of but not bothered by the predictable multifaceted political calculations and intrigues our adversaries will bring to the arena. We will win!. We want to reassure everyone particularly our disenfranchised citizens that Dr. Arthur Nwakwo and the PMP are ready to lead this fight to dismantle the corrupt enterprise of the ruling PDP and facilitate the enthronement of a peoples responsive democratic government. We will not be slowed down, distracted, or intimidated. We will remain vigilant, vocal, determined and focused. Make no mistakes about it, this is an unusual opportunity to reclaim our space, restructure our polity and emancipate our people. We will need you, so please strap up and be ready for the most incredible political fight of our time. To agree with me is to know Dr. Arthur Nwankwo. For those who know him, he needs no introduction but for others, here is Dr. Arthur Nwankwo.
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Chief (Dr) Arthur Nwankwo is of Igbo heritage born on August 19, 1942, in Ajali, Anambra State, located in the South Eastern part of Nigeria. He is from a family of 11 children. He is married with two children. He grew from humble beginnings to become one of Nigeria's foremost Authors, publishers, historians and political commentators. Most importantly he is in touch with the grassroots for whom he has tirelessly fought, hence his traditional title "Ike-ogu" (tireless fighter). He has fought from various platforms. He is Chancellor of the Eastern Mandate Union, a progressive South East based Human and Environmental Rights organization, he was the National Vice Chairman of the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO), he was one of three plaintiffs that successfully prosecuted Gen. Abdusalami Abubakar in the US court for human rights violations, and is co-founder and presidential candidate of the Peoples Mandate Party.
Dr Nwankwo had his primary and secondary education in Nigeria, before coming to the US for his graduate and post-graduate education. He holds a bachelor degree in history and political Science from Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, Virginia, Master of Arts from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, and D. Lit (honoris causa) from Shaw University in Raleigh North Carolina. Dr Nwankwo also has a Howard University connection- he attended summer schools at Howard between 1963 and 1967.
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Dr Nwankwo is a Publisher, award winning Author, and Chairman Fourth Dimension Publishing Company, the largest publishing company in sub-Saharan Africa with over 1500 titles. He is a successful businessman whose strong principles and ideology have kept him from being stained or tainted by successive unscrupulous military regimes in Nigeria. Dr Nwankwo has authored over 23 books and numerous articles. Notably he Co-authored "The making of a nation Biafra"- a ground breaking work on the origin and dynamics of the Nigeria/Biafra civil war in 1969, published by Sea Hurst and Co. London, and Praeger Co. NY in USA; he was editor of the Biafra News Letter, in the Biafra ministry of information, author "Nigeria the challenge of Biafra" published by Res Collings Ltd. London ((1972), and has sold over 3 million copies to date, with over 10 reprints; author "Power Dynamics of Nigerian Politics: People, Power and Politics" (1988); "African Dictators...The Logic of Tyranny and Lessons from History" (1990); "Nigeria: The Political Transition and the Future of Democracy" (1993); "The African Possibility in the Global Power Struggle" (1995); and "Nigerians as Outsiders: Military Dictatorship and Nigeria's Destiny" (1996).
He has also written two political fiction thrillers titled "Shadows over Breaking Waves" (1993) and Sand Dunes and Wind Blows (1994). In 1988 he received the University of Ife's prestigious Book Fair, Best Author Award. He was convicted of sedition during 2nd Republic (1982) and sentenced to 12 months imprisonment with hard labor and 50 Naira fine, for his book "How Jim Nwobodo Rules Anambra State", This conviction was later quashed by an appeal court acquitting and discharging him of all charges, and following a supreme court investigation, resulted in sacking Justice Emmanuel Araka, Francis O. Nwokedi and the court registrar, who participated in the lower court ruling. This case is now a Locus Classicus in Nigeria's legal; and judicial system and resulted in Sedition being expunged from Nigeria's Criminal Law.
As a politician Dr Nwankwo unsuccessfully ran for the Governorship in 1983. . During the Babangida transition program, his group the Liberal Convention was not registered so he opted not to join any of the military created parties- Social Democratic Party (SDP) and National Republican Convention (NRC).. He was a Leading member of the unregistered Peoples Progressive Party (PPP) an alliance comprising the Eastern Mandate Union/Afenifere/ Movement of National Reformation and all the progressive forces in the South and Middle Belt. Dr Nwankwo then became the National Vice Chairman of National Democratic Coalition (NADECO), and one of the NADECO delegates to the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (C-MAG), in London, in 1997. Following his CMAG testimony he was guest at the White House, U.S. Government and numerous U.S. based International Agencies. When prominent African-American leaders wrote to President Bill Clinton to support the pro-democracy movement in Nigeria and apply more pressure on Nigeria's dictator, Dr Nwankwo was the only non African-American among the 23 honored to sign the letter. As a result of his tenacious opposition to the military dictatorship he was arrested on June 3, 1998 and was released two weeks later after the death of the military dictator Sani Abacha.
This impending legal battle is compatible with Dr. Nwankwo’s DNA and he will not be the first to blink. Let’s do it. God Bless!
Signed:
Sincerely
Prof. Edward Oparaoji
National Chairman, Peoples Mandate Party (PMP)
House 8, First Avenue
City Layout, New Heaven
Enugu, Nigeria
Email: [email protected]
Saturday March 6, 2010
For Immediate Release
We accept this ruling of the Supreme Court for the Appeal Courts mother of all legal-politico fight. As a party of veteran political street fighters, we are cognizant of but not bothered by the predictable multifaceted political calculations and intrigues our adversaries will bring to the arena. We will win!. We want to reassure everyone particularly our disenfranchised citizens that Dr. Arthur Nwakwo and the PMP are ready to lead this fight to dismantle the corrupt enterprise of the ruling PDP and facilitate the enthronement of a peoples responsive democratic government. We will not be slowed down, distracted, or intimidated. We will remain vigilant, vocal, determined and focused. Make no mistakes about it, this is an unusual opportunity to reclaim our space, restructure our polity and emancipate our people. We will need you, so please strap up and be ready for the most incredible political fight of our time. To agree with me is to know Dr. Arthur Nwankwo. For those who know him, he needs no introduction but for others, here is Dr. Arthur Nwankwo.
.
Chief (Dr) Arthur Nwankwo is of Igbo heritage born on August 19, 1942, in Ajali, Anambra State, located in the South Eastern part of Nigeria. He is from a family of 11 children. He is married with two children. He grew from humble beginnings to become one of Nigeria's foremost Authors, publishers, historians and political commentators. Most importantly he is in touch with the grassroots for whom he has tirelessly fought, hence his traditional title "Ike-ogu" (tireless fighter). He has fought from various platforms. He is Chancellor of the Eastern Mandate Union, a progressive South East based Human and Environmental Rights organization, he was the National Vice Chairman of the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO), he was one of three plaintiffs that successfully prosecuted Gen. Abdusalami Abubakar in the US court for human rights violations, and is co-founder and presidential candidate of the Peoples Mandate Party.
Dr Nwankwo had his primary and secondary education in Nigeria, before coming to the US for his graduate and post-graduate education. He holds a bachelor degree in history and political Science from Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, Virginia, Master of Arts from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, and D. Lit (honoris causa) from Shaw University in Raleigh North Carolina. Dr Nwankwo also has a Howard University connection- he attended summer schools at Howard between 1963 and 1967.
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Dr Nwankwo is a Publisher, award winning Author, and Chairman Fourth Dimension Publishing Company, the largest publishing company in sub-Saharan Africa with over 1500 titles. He is a successful businessman whose strong principles and ideology have kept him from being stained or tainted by successive unscrupulous military regimes in Nigeria. Dr Nwankwo has authored over 23 books and numerous articles. Notably he Co-authored "The making of a nation Biafra"- a ground breaking work on the origin and dynamics of the Nigeria/Biafra civil war in 1969, published by Sea Hurst and Co. London, and Praeger Co. NY in USA; he was editor of the Biafra News Letter, in the Biafra ministry of information, author "Nigeria the challenge of Biafra" published by Res Collings Ltd. London ((1972), and has sold over 3 million copies to date, with over 10 reprints; author "Power Dynamics of Nigerian Politics: People, Power and Politics" (1988); "African Dictators...The Logic of Tyranny and Lessons from History" (1990); "Nigeria: The Political Transition and the Future of Democracy" (1993); "The African Possibility in the Global Power Struggle" (1995); and "Nigerians as Outsiders: Military Dictatorship and Nigeria's Destiny" (1996).
He has also written two political fiction thrillers titled "Shadows over Breaking Waves" (1993) and Sand Dunes and Wind Blows (1994). In 1988 he received the University of Ife's prestigious Book Fair, Best Author Award. He was convicted of sedition during 2nd Republic (1982) and sentenced to 12 months imprisonment with hard labor and 50 Naira fine, for his book "How Jim Nwobodo Rules Anambra State", This conviction was later quashed by an appeal court acquitting and discharging him of all charges, and following a supreme court investigation, resulted in sacking Justice Emmanuel Araka, Francis O. Nwokedi and the court registrar, who participated in the lower court ruling. This case is now a Locus Classicus in Nigeria's legal; and judicial system and resulted in Sedition being expunged from Nigeria's Criminal Law.
As a politician Dr Nwankwo unsuccessfully ran for the Governorship in 1983. . During the Babangida transition program, his group the Liberal Convention was not registered so he opted not to join any of the military created parties- Social Democratic Party (SDP) and National Republican Convention (NRC).. He was a Leading member of the unregistered Peoples Progressive Party (PPP) an alliance comprising the Eastern Mandate Union/Afenifere/ Movement of National Reformation and all the progressive forces in the South and Middle Belt. Dr Nwankwo then became the National Vice Chairman of National Democratic Coalition (NADECO), and one of the NADECO delegates to the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (C-MAG), in London, in 1997. Following his CMAG testimony he was guest at the White House, U.S. Government and numerous U.S. based International Agencies. When prominent African-American leaders wrote to President Bill Clinton to support the pro-democracy movement in Nigeria and apply more pressure on Nigeria's dictator, Dr Nwankwo was the only non African-American among the 23 honored to sign the letter. As a result of his tenacious opposition to the military dictatorship he was arrested on June 3, 1998 and was released two weeks later after the death of the military dictator Sani Abacha.
This impending legal battle is compatible with Dr. Nwankwo’s DNA and he will not be the first to blink. Let’s do it. God Bless!
Signed:
Sincerely
Prof. Edward Oparaoji
National Chairman, Peoples Mandate Party (PMP)
House 8, First Avenue
City Layout, New Heaven
Enugu, Nigeria
Email: [email protected]
Saturday March 6, 2010
For Immediate Release
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