Mr Peter Obi, Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party (LP), says the party will build an egalitarian, free and prosperous Nigeria if elected in 2023. Obi made the promise on Friday in Abakaliki, while speaking at an event organised in his honour by the Ebonyi chapter of the Civil Society Action Group (CSAG). Obi who was represented by Sen. Azu Agboti, his Presidential Campaign Coordinator in Ebonyi, urged the people not to lose hope in the Nigerian project saying, ‘there is light at the end of the tunnel.” He said the Labour Party’s campaign would be issue-based and anchored on…
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Mr Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) for the 2023 election said in Lafia on Saturday that he would tackle unemployment and insecurity if voted into power. He said he would tackle insecurity to pave way for economic growth and development. The presidential candidate also pledged to create jobs for youths to lift them off poverty and deprivation. “I assure you that if we come into power, we will address farmers and herders clashes and farmers will go back to their farms. We will tackle insecurity bedevilling the entire nation. “We will also support youths because today,…
With just 11 days left for the November 8 midterm polls in the US, former President Donald Trump has gone from bad to worse in approval ratings, while incumbent President Joe Biden shows only marginal improvement as voters are divided on important issues like inflation and abortion rights, while swing ballots hold the key in at least eight battleground states. In the upcoming election, all 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 35 of the 100 seats in the Senate will be contested. Thirty-nine state and territorial gubernatorial elections, as well as numerous other state and local elections, will…
All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, Kingsley Wali has accused the Rivers government of vote buying. On October 12, Governor Nyesom Wike appointed 28,000 Special Assistants on Political Units. The next day, his spokesman Kelvin Ebiri announced that the number of aides had been increased to 50,000. The appointees include 14,000 Special Advisers, 319 Ward Liaison Officers and 40 Local Government Area Liaison Officers. Reacting, Wali said vote buying has been codified and given legal backing in the name of appointment/employment. “The vote buying which INEC is opposed to, is being codified in Rivers State”, the Unity House Foundation (UHF) Convener…
The former aide to Ex-President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, Reno Omokri has claimed the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar did not use Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal’s immunity to travel to the United States of America. A few Nigerians on social media have alleged that in 2018 Atiku travelled to the US hiding under the former Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki’s immunity to escape arrest. Since his trip to the US, a post on social media claimed that the PDP candidate used Tambuwal’s immunity this time. Omokri in a post on his verified Facebook page, Saturday described…
The Labour Party (LP), has enjoined members of its Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) to evolve all possible ways to fund campaigns as the 2023 general elections draw nearer. Julius Abure, the National Chairman of the party, while inaugurating the LP Presidential Campaign Council on Friday in Abuja, noted that prosecuting the presidential election in Nigeria was not an easy project and advised members of the Council to work towards mobilizing funds for the success of the party. To enthrone good leadership in the country, Abure appealed to members of the party, members of the campaign and well-meaning Nigerians who are…
Prof Vitalis Ajumbe, an ex-Commissioner for Information and Tourism during the past administration of former Governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, has adduced the reason he dumped the All Progressives Congress (APC) and quit active partisan politics. Hinting at the rationale behind his decision which was contained in a letter addressed to the incumbent Imo Governor, Senator Hope Uzodinma and forwarded to the media on Friday, Professor Ajumbe who is a founding member of the governing APC in Nigeria, accused the leadership of the APC of poor reward by the national leadership of the APC. He alleged that the party…
Northern Ireland’s political deadlock deepened Friday when the UK government delayed calling an early election for the Belfast-based Assembly after a deadline to restore the mothballed administration expired. The limbo means more uncertainty and delays to government decision-making at a time when many people in Northern Ireland are struggling with soaring food and energy prices. A deadline for the Northern Ireland Assembly to elect a governing executive passed at midnight Thursday amid a dispute over post-Brexit trade rules. Under the rules of Northern Ireland’s power-sharing politics, a new election must be held within 12 weeks. Civil servants will keep essential…
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is seeking to build a buffer in public finances as he draws up an economic plan to plug Britain’s budget shortfall, which could entail tax rises and spending cuts totaling as much as £50 billion ($58 billion). Sunak and Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt want the extra headroom over and above the UK’s £35 billion fiscal hole so that the package has credibility with the markets, an official familiar with the matter said. Another said that could entail spending cuts and tax rises closer to £50 billion, a figure widely reported in the British…
A chieftain of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, Buba Galadima has said that there is no chance of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, winning the next presidential election. According to Galadima, the main opposition political party is not even on the ballot, insisting it is victory for Rabiu Kwankwaso all the way. He believes that Kwankwaso, who is the presidential candidate of the NNPP, will win all the States in the north. Galadima said that the South East and South South have been taken away from Atiku and PDP over his feud with Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State and…
A member of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, Buba Galadima, has accused some chieftains of the All Progressives Congress, APC, of pressurizing the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Mahmood Yakubu, to tamper with the Electoral Law, ahead of the 2023 elections. Galadima said APC chieftains are pressuring Yakubu to shun election results’ electronic upload. Speaking with Channels Television, Galadima said Yakubu was under pressure not to use the Bimodal Voter Registration System, BVAS, to transmit results in 2023. He said APC chieftains are pressurizing the INEC Chairman to write the National Assembly on the need to…
Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, who is also the Benue North-West Senatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has inaugurated his campaign team ahead of the 2023 general elections. The governor appointed Hon. Mike Mku as the Director of his Senatorial Campaign Team. The inauguration took place during the expanded caucus meeting of the Benue North-West PDP stakeholders held Friday, October 28th, 2022 at the new Banquet Hall of the Benue Peoples House, Makurdi. Those inaugurated as Coordinators of the Senatorial Campaign Team in the seven Local Government Areas of the Benue North-West senatorial district include: Pharmacist John Enger,…
The Federal Capital Territory Area Council Election Appeal Tribunal has set aside the judgments of the Elections Petition Tribunal which sacked the Chairman of Kuje Area Council, Abdullahi Suleiman Sabo of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Chairman of the Bwari Area Council John Gabaya also of the PDP from their positions. The Appeal Tribunal in a unanimous judgment read by the Chairman of the three-man panel, Justice Suleiman Belgore, allowed the appeals on their merit and held that the Trial Tribunal erred in its judgment when it failed to take into consideration, the totality of all evidence before…
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar has explained why he is visiting the United States. Atiku said the visit would afford him the opportunity of high-level engagements aimed at setting the pace for building an economically stronger and more secure Nigeria. Atiku is in the US alongside some of his campaign team members like former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, former Kogi West Senator, Dino Melaye, and others. However, Atiku said he would meet with the Nigerian and US business community while in the US. The PDP presidential candidate said he would outline his plans and vision for…
Special Adviser to the Benue State Governor on Media and Publicity, Mr Terver Akase says his principal, Governor Samuel Ortom places high value on the protection of the lives of the people above his political ambition. Akase stated this Friday in Makurdi when he was featured on Brothers 90.5 FM’s current affairs programme ‘Burning Issues’. The Special Adviser said Governor Ortom, since assumption of office, has carried the people of the state along in decision-making, stressing that despite daunting challenges, the Governor has remained focused and committed to taking the state to greater heights. He condemned the renewed unprovoked attacks…
The Kaduna state gubernatorial candidate of the Action Alliance (AA) in the 2023 elections, Mr Timothy Adamu, says Kaduna State needs a governor that understands the people and how to carry them along in the act of governance. He said the state’s leaders must institute a government of inclusiveness to ensure sustainable peace in the state. Adamu who spoke to the media in Kaduna on Friday said with sustainable peace and unity, the state has the potential to be a pacesetter in all spheres. He said, “Kaduna state needs a governor that understands the people and how to carry them…
One of the spokespersons for the Labour Party (LP) presidential campaign organisation, Mr Kenneth Okonkwo, has expressed optimism that the party’s candidate, Peter Obi, would emerge winner of the February poll. The veteran Nollywood actor stated this when he featured on a programme on Channels Television. According to him, the former Anambra Governor is ahead of other candidates battling for the top job. He said, “He has already won; check the analysis as I have always told you; take it by polls; there are three polls that have come out, ANAP, We-Together and Bloomberg; in the first one, he scored…
The United States is imposing financial penalties on an Iranian-based organization that raised money to target British-American author Salman Rushdie, who was violently attacked in August at a literary event. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned the 15 Khordad Foundation, which issued a multimillion-dollar bounty for the killing of Rushdie. He wrote The Satanic Verses, which some Muslims consider blasphemous. Rushdie’s agent says the author has lost sight in one eye and the use of a hand as he recovers from an attack by a man who rushed the stage at the event in western New York. The United…
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Cross River State has described yesterday’s presentation of the N330 Billion Budget of Quantum Infinitum by Governor Ben Ayade as madness and embarrassing. In an exclusive interview with the media Friday morning, the chairman of the party, Vena Ikem said: “It is madness to budget in a single year N330 Billion whereas the entire revenue accruals to the State from the federation account from 2015, June when he took over to July 2022 is N249 Billion. “This irresponsible pretension to budgeting is an embarrassment to the State and has gone on for seven years.”…
The Secretary General of the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, has admonished Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, to abandon his ambition to return to the senate for fifth term or risk outright rejection by the electorates in the 2023 general elections He was speaking against the backdrop of exchange of political brickbats by political leaders, critical stakeholders and socio-political groups over Abaribe’s decision to seek reelection in 2023 to represent Abia south senatorial district for fifth term in the red chamber of the National Assembly. DAILY POST recalls that Senator Abaribe, who was an Abia governorship hopeful, had…