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Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi
As the politics of 2023 picks up in Enugu State, Chinenye Ugwu interrogates the contentious issue of zoning of the governorship seat
The Nazi propaganda machine, Joseph Goebbels, offered one of the most popular rubrics of propaganda: “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, the people will eventually come to believe it.”
Often referred to as the “illusory truth effect,” this is a cognitive bias and glitch in the human psyche, which tends to equate repetition with truth. Enugu politicians have tried to put this to full use. They saturate the media and social media with a fairy tale of how Enugu’s founding fathers agreed on governorship zoning in the politics ushering in the current democratic dispensation and threaten anybody that wants to truncate it. But the question is: how could anybody truncate what does not exist?
Senator Ayogu Eze, on Saturday, expressed optimism that an Igbo man will emerge Nigeria's next President. Eze, who was the All Progressives Congress, APC,
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Archbishop, Province of the Niger and Bishop of Awka Diocese, Most Revd. Alexander Ibezim, has condemned Lesbianism and gay marriages, insisting there was nothing lawful about them.
The Bishop said the Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion will continue to stand strongly against them, and would never change its stand.
Ibezim, who spoke at Church of Pentecost, Awka, on Saturday, during the solemnization of holy matrimony between Chioma Okoye and Frank Maduka, insisted that there was nothing right about Lesbianism and homosexuality.
He said, “Lesbianism and gay activities are satanic and run against the standard and law of nature. It is clear that God set up marriage institution for a man and woman and not for people of same sex to engage or conduct themselves as married couple.