Labour Party (LP) chieftain, Doyin Okupe insists presidential candidate, Peter Obi, will win the 2023 election. The politician made an analysis on Tuesday in response to ThisDay Election Centre Projections. Okupe said the projections were “false, bogus and do not represent the actual situation on ground across the nation”. The former presidential aide declared that they were “essentially aimed at misinforming the public”. Okupe said the calculations ignored many important electoral parameters that have operated in Nigeria’s polity for over six decades. “Without any doubt, PO will score 25% in no less than 24/25 states including Taraba, Adamawa and Gombe,…
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In an attempt to ensure that the best candidate emerged at the 2023 governorship election, an Akwa Ibom State organisation, under the aegis of Akwa Ibom State Council of Elders, has summoned a meeting with all the governorship candidates of different political parties in the state. The meeting which will be held on Wednesday, January 4, 2023, at the Ibom E-Library was meant to hear from all the candidates what they have in stock for the people. In a statement signed by the Protem Secretary of the Council, Chief Moses Essien and made available to newsmen in Uyo on Monday…
President Muhammadu Buhari has applauded Governor Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi State for his service and dedication. Buhari made the remark while felicitating with Atiku on his 61st birthday. The president described the governor as a capable leader. Buhari said the Chairman of the Progressive Governors Forum always carries out his duties with incomparable hard work, dedication, and creativity. In a congratulatory message by his spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu, Buhari said: “May you have the strength and health to achieve all your goals.” Also, Buhari felicitated with Governor Oluseyi Makinde of Oyo State on the occasion of his 55th birthday anniversary.…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Zamfara has received defectors from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and New Nigerians Peoples Party (NNPP). They were received on Monday by the former Governor and Chairman, APC governorship campaign council in the state, Abdul’aziz Yari. Yari’s spokesperson Dahiru Mafara gave the names of the decampees in a statement on Monday. They are Ibrahim Shinkafi, NNPP Senatorial candidate, Zamfara North Senatorial District; House of Representatives candidate, Shinkafi and Zurmi Constituency, Suleiman Garba. State Treasurer, Suleiman Galadi; Kaura-Namoda and Zurmi Local Governments NNPP Chairmen also defected. Others include the Coordinator of a Foundation for PDP…
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has issued a global “wake-up call” on the International Day of Epidemic Preparedness, which is observed annually on December 27. “The world must come together. Covid-19 was a wake-up call,” Guterres said in his message for the international day, Xinhua news agency reported. “The costs have been catastrophic,” he said, noting that since the pandemic struck, millions of lives have been lost, and hundreds of millions fallen ill; economies have been shattered, health systems stretched, and trillions of dollars lost. Moreover, progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals has been “thrown off track,” the top UN official…
Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, on Friday pledged to end incessant lecturers strikes and the resultant closure of the nation’s universities if elected. Speaking in Yenagoa, during the party’s campaign in Bayelsa, Obi also promised to clean all the environmental pollution in the state, as well as other Niger Delta states. “We will ensure there is no strike again in our universities, four years will be four years, five years will be five years, and I and Datti will secure Nigeria. “We will make sure there is rule of law in Nigeria, police will not harass anyone…
The People’s Redemption Party (PRP), says none of its elected executive members has defected to any political party in Katsina State. The leadership of the party disclosed this while briefing newsmen on Friday in Katsina, saying it was just propaganda by the All Progressive Congress (APC). The state Chairman of the PRP, Alhaji Hassan Hamisu, said the party received with shock, the news of one Dr. Ahmad Alhassan, who claimed to be the state Chairman of the party but decamped to APC. Dr Alhassan, who was referred to as the state Chairman of the PRP during the recent APC rally,…
The Rivers State Government said the office was sealed off for producing noisy political activities in a residential area. Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has ordered the sealing of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar’s campaign office in the state. The Rivers State Atiku/Okowa campaign office, located at the GRA axis in Port Harcourt, was sealed on Friday, December 23, 2022, based on Executive Orders 21 and 22. Explaining why it took the action, the state government said the office was producing noisy political activities in residential areas without approval from the right authorities. Recall that Wike…
The Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has vowed that he and his running mate, Datti Baba-Ahmed, will ensure that the principle of rule of law is entrenched in Nigeria if elected in the 2023 general elections. The former Anambra State Governor made the vow while addressing the crowd at the Labour Party presidential campaign rally in Bayelsa State on Friday, December 23, 2022. Obi promised that harassment of Nigerians by police officers and other security agencies will become a thing of the past if given the chance to lead the country. He also emphasised the need for government to…
The general election in pakistan will be conducted after August 2023, Economic Affairs Minister Ayaz Sadiq announced, according to Geo News citing The News International. While speaking with the mediapersons, Sadiq on Sunday said, “First we will go to local government elections in April 2023 and then general elections will be held after August 15.” The announcement was made by the minister at a ceremony held in connection with Quaid-e-Azam’s birthday and Christmas on Sunday, reported Geo News. Talking about the dissolution of assemblies in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sadiq said that if Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan’s wanted…
The Court of Appeal, Abuja, has reserved judgment in an appeal filed by the sacked Akwa Ibom governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Akanimo Udofia, against the judgement of a lower court. The three-member panel, headed by Justice Elfreda Williams-Dawodu, made this known after counsel to the appellant, Damian Dodo, SAN, and Sen. Ita Enang’s lawyer, Mba Ukweni, SAN, adopted their briefs and presented their arguments for and against the appeal. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that a Federal High Court (FHC) sitting in Uyo had, on Nov. 14, nullified the nomination of Mr Udofia as…
A youth association in Kebbi State, popularly known as Matasan Gotar Aliero Youth Development Association, has expressed its support for the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in the 2023 presidential election. The association’s chairman, Abubakar Bala, disclosed this during a press briefing in Gusau, the Zamfara State capital, saying that it would assiduously work towards the success of the Tinubu/Shettima presidential ticket of the APC in the forthcoming general elections of 2023. According to Bala, who led 10 other executive members of the association on a solidarity visit to a member of the presidential campaign…
A former federal lawmaker and the Director of contact and mobilization for the Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Campaign council for the North West, Hon. Aminu Sani Jaji has declared that the party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, inherited insecurity. Jaji said that anybody insinuating that insurgency started under President Muhammadu Buhari’s tenure was not fair to the ruling APC, noting that the party deserved reelection by Nigerians because it has tried in the area of securing the country. The Director, who was a 2019 governorship aspirant on the platform of APC, disclosed this to newsmen in Gusau, the State capital during a…
Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has urged Nigerians to vote for the Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi, in 2023. Ortom said Obi is the best person that can help deliver Nigeria from its challenges, He spoke while commending Obi for visiting camps of the Internally Displaced People, IDPs, in the State on Christmas day. Speaking in Makurdi, the governor prayed that God would bless Obi’s presidential ambition. According to Ortom: “Several presidential candidates have come here, and none of them have chosen to visit those IDPs camps and look at their plight to see how they are…
South Korea says it fired warning shots after North Korean drones violated the South’s airspace. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said several unmanned North Korean drones crossed the inter-Korean border and were detected in the South’s territory on Monday. It’s the first time for North Korean drones to enter South Korean airspace since 2017. Monday’s incident came three days after South Korea said North Korea test-launched two short-range ballistic missiles in its latest weapons tests.
The All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, says President Muhammadu Buhari’s place in history has been assured for integrity, transparency and transformative leadership. Tinubu stated this when he joined family, friends and associates of Buhari to celebrate his 80th birthday, on Friday night in Abuja. He said the president would be remembered like Charles de Gaulle of France, Winston Churchill of Britain and Franklin Roosevelt of America when he leaves office. Tinubu said Buhari had carefully influenced Nigeria’s history with a unique leadership style that is selfless, sacrificial, and responsive to the needs of the people. “You…
Chief Israel Nwosu, former executive chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Umuahia North Local Government Area of Abia State, has led about 600 members and supporters of the party across the electoral wards in Umuahia East Constituency to Labour Party ahead of the general elections in 2023. Also defecting to the Labour Party, alongside Nwosu, is the past publicity secretary of Umuahia North chapter of the party and former Special Adviser to Governor Okezie Ikpeazu on Security Matters, Mr Ugochukwu Okezie. While adducing the rationale behind their latest movement to the Labour Party during the declaration event which…
The Governor of Ebonyi State, David Umahi has few months to the 2023 general election banned street campaigns by political parties. He also threatened to seal off party secretaries and offices of defaulters. Umahi also banned pasting of posters on critical infrastructure, including electric poles, concrete medians, roads, flyover bridges and other critical infrastructure of the State by all the Political Parties in the State. The governor, who made this known in a statement signed and issued to newsmen in Abakaliki by the Commissioner of Information and State Orientation, Mr Uchenna Orji, threatened to clampdown on political parties, including his…
The Ebonyi State Government has fined the All Progressives Congress, APC, the sum of five million naira for contravening the provisions of the state’s Executive Order 3 of 2022. Executive Order 3 prohibits political parties from using public places such as parks, markets and schools, among others, for political activities without obtaining due clearance from the state government. Recall that Governor David Umahi had in November signed an order prohibiting parties from using critical infrastructures for pasting posters without obtaining state clearance and using public facilities for a campaign. The state, in a statement issued on Sunday by the Commissioner…
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that former army chief (retired) Qamar Javed Bajwa had “made a deal” with Pakistan People’s Party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari and Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah. Speaking to journalists in Lahore, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan said that during the past year, he found out that General (retired) Bajwa “does not want accountability.” He claimed that former chief of army staff (COAS) General Bajwa probably believed that PTI’s popularity would witness a decline, however, “that did not happen.” In his remarks, Imran Khan said that the PTI-led government would have…