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Wednesday, 25 January 2023 05:30

Peter Obi escapes unhurt as hoodlums attack car ‘with heavy stones’ after Katsina rally

Presidential campaign council of the Labour Party (LP) says Peter Obi, its candidate, was attacked in Katsina state. In a statement by Diran Onifade, its head of media, the campaign council said Obi’s car was attacked by hoodlums when he was on his way to the airport after a rally in the state. “Our candidate had met with women in a townhall and then held a hugely successful rally at the Muhammad Dikko Stadium,” the statement reads. “However, on his way to the airport, hoodlums attacked the car our candidate was riding in with heavy stones from his driver’s side,…

Saturday, 21 January 2023 05:34

Igbo leaders call for release of Nnamdi Kanu, disclaim secession

Council of Elders of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Worldwide, has said it is planning to organise a peace summit to discuss ways of addressing insecurity in the country and the Southeast especially. The council said this in a communiqué issued by its Chairperson, Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, on Friday in Abuja at the end of its meeting. The council called on the Federal Government to release Nnamdi Kanu, the detained leader of the proscribed IPOB unconditionally. “The council took a decision on the need to have a peace summit. It goes with the desire that Nnamdi Kanu should be released. “We want to dialogue…

Thursday, 19 January 2023 05:58

Peter Obi: The 'antidote to big man-ism' who could be Nigeria's next president - UK’s Sky News

He was relatively unknown until a few months ago, and yet Peter Obi has been propelled to frontrunner status in Nigeria's upcoming election. Young, by Nigerian political standards, at 61, and with a reputation for probity in a country rife with corruption, he is the man to watch. His supporters say that if he wins the presidency in February, it will show Nigeria's democracy is in good shape in the world's first big election of 2023. Sky News had rare access to the Labour Party candidate during a brief visit to London. He is, he said, the change agent in…

Wednesday, 18 January 2023 06:08

Young voters will determine outcomes of 2023 elections - INEC

Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has foreclosed the possibility of insecurity in parts of the country forcing it into cancelling or postponing the February 25 and March 11 elections. Its chairman, Mahmood Yakubu stated this, yesterday, at a lecture at Chatham House in London assuring that the commission was fully prepared to also handle a run-off if it happens during the polls. Speaking on the topic ‘Nigeria’s 2023 Elections: Preparations and Priorities for Electoral Integrity and Inclusion’ the INEC boss declared that the 2023 elections is for young people. He said 21,000 ineligible voters were found in 15 states even…

Monday, 16 January 2023 05:43

Concerns over 2023 elections as IGP, 3 DIGs, 16 AIGs, 290 other senior police officers are due for retirement in Q1

Six weeks to the general election, there is anxiety over the expected retirement of the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Alkali Usman Daba, three Deputy Inspectors General of Police (DIGs), many Assistant Inspectors General of Police (AIGs), Commissioners of Police (CPs) and 290 other policemen in the first quarter of this year. IGP Baba would turn 60 in March, having been born in 1963 and therefore due for retirement. Also, three DIGs and many AIGs are due for retirement between this month and March ending. Others due for retirement by March are 10 Commissioners of Police (CPs), five Deputy Commissioners…

Monday, 16 January 2023 05:41

LP protests as Anambra govt dismantles Peter Obi billboards

Anambra State Signage and Advertisement Agency has dismantled campaign billboard of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi. Obi’s big billboard located at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Temporary Site Flyover was pulled down on Saturday alongside that of the party’s candidate for the Anambra Central Senatorial District, Victor Umeh. In August 2022, Anambra State Government had directed presidential candidates to pay N10m, senatorial candidates to pay N7m, House of Representatives candidates to pay N5m and state House of Assembly candidates to pay N1m as campaign fees before mounting any billboard or pasting posters. Speaking on the development on…

Monday, 16 January 2023 05:32

A look at Atiku’s campaign model - Hassan Gimba

Perhaps in the future, politicians, political analysts, strategists, scientists and consultants may want to look at one or two things here that make Atiku Abubakar’s campaign what it is, especially its tenacity, perseverance, astuteness and personal ties. Between 1993 and this year, that’s thirty years, Abubakar, former vice president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, would have contested the presidential election eight times. Twice – in 2007 and 2019 – he was a candidate on the platform of two different parties, and thrice – in 1993, 2011 and 2015 – he was stopped at the primaries level. He won twice…

Friday, 13 January 2023 05:34

INEC extends deadline for PVC collection

Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has extended the deadline for the collection of permanent voter cards (PVC) till January 29. The commission announced this in a statement on Thursday signed by Festus Okoye, its national commissioner and chairman, information and voter education. INEC had fixed December 12 to January 22 for the collection of PVCs in all the 774 LGAs. It also said it would devolve PVC collection to the 8,809 registration areas/wards from January 6 to January 15, 2023, after which the exercise will revert to the LGA offices until January 22 when the process will end. According to…

Thursday, 12 January 2023 06:01

INEC has cleaned up the Voters Register. Here’s the voting distribution by gender, occupation, states

Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said there are a total of 93,469,008 eligible voters in its voters register after the final cleanup that includes the removal of double registration and underage voters. This figure, the commission said, was arrived at after the review of 54,264 objections raised by Nigerians following the initial display of the voter register on its website in November 2022. INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, disclosed these at a meeting with members of political parties at the commission’s headquarters in Abuja on Wednesday. Yakubu also reiterated that the 2023 elections would hold as planned as it does not…

Wednesday, 11 January 2023 05:52

2023 elections: Reports say threats of violence real, confirm INEC’s fears

A report prepared by SBM Intelligence has revealed that there are early signs that the forthcoming general elections will be characterised by violence. The report came at a time when Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, assured stakeholders that the elections will hold as planned. It would be recalled that Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Mahmood Yakubu, on Monday raised the alarm that the elections risked cancellation or postponement if there was no improvement in the security challenges being witnessed across the country. Yakubu, represented by Chairman of the Board of Electoral Institute, Abdullahi Zuru, at the…

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Tuesday, 10 January 2023 05:59

2023: Insecurity could cause election postponement, cancellation - INEC

Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has warned that this year’s general election faces serious threat of cancellation if insecurity is not properly tackled. INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, represented by the Chairman Board of Electoral Institute (BEI), Abdullahi Zuru, gave the warning at the Validation of Election Security Training Resources in Abuja on Monday. “We all appreciate the fact that Election Security is vital to democratic consolidation through provision of enabling environment for the conduct of free, fair, credible and inclusive elections and thus strengthening the electoral process. “Consequently, in preparations for the 2023 General elections, the commission is not leaving…

Tuesday, 10 January 2023 05:57

43 percent of those to vote in 2023 elections will be first-time voters - Report

43 percent of Nigerians eligible to vote in the 2023 general elections would be first-time voters. This was disclosed in a report by socioeconomic research firm, SBM Intelligence, on Monday titled ‘2023 Elections: Voter Turnout Will Rise’. The report also noted that 24% of respondents encountered violence while trying to get their Personal Voter Cards (PVCs), even as only 30% were able to get their PVCs the first time they tried First-time voters: The report stated that 6,588 respondents were surveyed mid-way into INEC’s PVC collection timetable. The survey aimed to find out how Nigerians who completed the Continuous Voter…

Tuesday, 03 January 2023 05:41

Yet another survey tips Peter Obi to win presidential election by a wide margin

A fresh survey conducted by Market Trends International (MTI) on all presidential candidates in the 2023 election has placed Labour Party (LP) candidate, Peter Obi, ahead of Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Bola Tinubu of All Progressives Congress (APC), Rabiu Kwankwaso of New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), Omoyele Sowore of African Action Congress, among others. MTI, a market research organisation, has been operating in Nigeria and other African countries for over 30 years. The agency is also skilled in both qualitative and quantitative studies. Executive Director, MTI, Victor Ozinegbe Ebhomenye, said 44 per cent of the respondents…

Tuesday, 03 January 2023 05:39

OBJ’s letter: ‘Morally squalid Obasanjo attacks Buhari out of frustration’ - Presidency

PRESS RELEASE Thanks for seeking our reaction. Former President Obasanjo is so well known to all that no one needs to describe who he is. But, four things we will like to say: One is that he will not stop attacking President Muhammadu Buhari because the former President won’t stop being jealous of anyone who beats him to a new record in the nation’s development process. Buhari is ahead of Obasanjo in all fields of national development and to do that is cardinal sin to Obasanjo whose hallucinations tell him that he is the best ever to lead Nigeria and…

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