Peter Obi, the presidential candidate for the Labour Party, has described the type of leader Nigeria needs right now. As part of his ongoing visit to Nigerians overseas, the politician spoke. According to Obi, Nigeria needs a disruptive thinker at this moment. He said aside from the constitutional rights of voting, the people’s sacred role…
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has commented on the cracks within the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), saying nothing has happened yet but “something will happen” soon. The governor is at loggerheads with the leadership of the party after he lost out in the party’s presidential primary and also in the race to be its Vice Presidential…
The Minister of State for Labour and Employment and spokesperson for the presidential campaign organisation of the All Progressives Congress, Festus Keyamo (SAN), has advised pastors and other clerics to avoid throwing their weight behind some candidates. Keyamo advised pastors to “face their core mandates” to learn lessons from 2015 elections. He stated this during…
GIOTV reports that the Independent National Electoral Commission has warned political parties and candidates against the use of masqueraders, public facilities and religious centres for campaigns. This is coming one month to the commencement of campaigns for the presidential and National Assembly elections. The commission advised political parties to align strictly with the provisions of…
Social media influencer Deji Adeyanju has criticized Peter Obi’s supporters. He slammed supporters of Obi, the Labour Party’s presidential candidate, saying they were going crazy. Adeyanju claimed that Obi supporters have suddenly gone insane in a post on his verified Facebook page. According to him, Obi supporters, popularly known as the Obidients, are trying to…
Peter Obi has the full support of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, the leading Igbo socio-cultural group. The group said that Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s nominee for president, is no longer a “Igbo project.” The National Publicity Secretary of the organisation, Chief Alex Ogbonnia, said the Igbo had “exported him to the rest of Nigeria”, and…
The Independent National Electoral Commission has assured that election results will be uploaded online from different polling units in the 2023 presidential election. INEC gave the assurance on Friday. It also warned that it would punish political parties found to be violating electoral timelines as well as provisions of the new Electoral Act 2022 (as…
PETER Obi is hardly a political outsider, but the bespectacled former governor says he is looking to harness Nigerians’ anger with the status quo to power his third-party presidential bid. Obi, 61, has generated substantial buzz among younger voters in Africa’s most populous democracy, where the average age is 18, but the president – and…
The vice-presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Kashim Shettima, reacted to criticism of his outfit when he attended the Nigeria Bar Association conference in Lagos. The former Borno State governor has been trending on all social media platforms as Nigerians berated him over his dressing. Some influencers, including the music legend, Charly Boy;…
Dele Momodu, publisher of Ovation magazine and a former candidate for president in the Peoples Democratic Party, has spoken about Senator Remi Tinubu. During the funeral of APC chieftain Kemi Nelson on Friday in Lagos, Dele described his interaction with Senator Remi Tinubu, the wife of Bola Tinubu, the party’s presidential flagbearer. He claimed that…