By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Labour Party has debunked claims that supporters of Peter Obi attacked the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye. Mr Diran Onifade, the Head of Media, Obi-Datti Media Office said General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of...
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Razaq Abubakre, an Emeritus Professor and former federal Commissioner, says Labour Party Presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi could not have beaten President-elect Sen. Bola Tinubu at the last presidential election. Abubakre, also a former Vice Chancellor of Al-Hikmah University Ilorin spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The National Executive Council of the Labour Party, has sympathized with Nigerians for the poverty, unemployment, insecurity and all they have been facing saying it was as a result of “leadership incompetence” by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) This was part of the...
The Labour Party (LP), has tasked Nigerians to disregard the activities of the acclaimed Lamidi Apapa led faction of the party and its planned illegal National Executive Council (NEC) meeting in Bauchi. LP Acting National Publicity Secretary, Obiora Ifoh, said this at a news conference on Wednesday in Abuja...
Just this last weekend, I compared notes with my sources in the Obi and Atiku camps; both of them told me of their plans to stampede the tribunal judges through blackmail, to effect an annulment of the 2023 elections; the most credible elections I have seen in recent times....
Labour Party (LP) has called on all election petition tribunals to disregard letters by its suspended National Legal Adviser, Mr Samuel Akingbade, withdrawing all the party’s petitions. The party’s Acting National Publicity Secretary, Mr Obiora Ifoh, stated on Tuesday in Abuja that the presidential election petition tribunal in particular should dismiss the letter. He called on the...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Chimaroke Nnamani, the former Enugu State Governor, has called on Mr Peter Obi to withdraw his petition challenging the election of Sen. Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Election Tribunal. Nnamani, who stated this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja, said the Labour Party...
There is a Peter Obi witch-hunt that is ongoing. Undoubtedly, certain forces are after him. You can call it Obidients-phobia or Obi-phobia. Both are equal in the eyes of the attackers. These sustained attacks on Obi, Datti, his running mate, as well as the Labour Party and the Obidient...
The general elections of 2023 have come and gone, but the dust raised in many states and constituencies remains thick in the air. Every election in our country has its challenges, more so this year’s election which used new mechanisms which differ from the previous general elections. One such...
I have read a series of responses to Chimamanda’s odious epistle to her master, President Joe Biden, the President of the United States. Given her professional orientation, she has now tried to make fiction of the 2023 Nigerian election with a view to making some cool wads to support...
Sen. Bola Tinubu, the president-elect, has described the petition filed by Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) against his election victory as “a gross abuse of court processes.” Tinubu, in a reply to the petition through his team of lawyers led by Chief Wole Olanipekun, SAN, told...
Mr Chinedu Onyeizu, a chieftain of the Labour Party (LP) in Abia, says Nigeria needs to strengthen its democratic institutions to stay on course rather than resort to an Interim National Government. Onyeizu, who was the LP candidate for Abia South at the Feb.25 National Assembly election, said this...
The Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Office has revealed how the Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr Peter Obi was harassed by immigration officers at Heathrow Airport, United Kingdom. Spokesman for the Campaign Council, Diran Onifade, in a statement on Wednesday said the former Anambra State governor was detained...
Many foreign commentators were astonished by the outcome of the 2023 Nigerian Presidential election because of their wrong mindset prior to the polls, the Federal Government has said. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, stated this in London during his engagements with some international media organisations...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has asked the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) to dismiss a petition filed by Labour Party (LP) and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, saying the reliefs sought are not grantable. INEC, the 1st respondent, stated this in its reply filed on Monday night...
The Federal Government has challenged the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, to clarify his position on a leaked audio of the conversation he allegedly had with a prominent Nigerian cleric. The audio clip as released by an online newspaper was an alleged conversation between Obi and...
The All Progressives Congress (APC), on Monday, prayed the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) in Abuja to dismiss the petition filed by the Labour Party (LP) and its Presidential Candidate, Mr Peter Obi, against the emergence of Sen. Bola Tinubu as president-elect in the Feb. 25 election. The APC,...
The period between a general election and the swearing in of a successor administration ought to be filled with excited anticipation. It is usually a time of pleasant speculations on the new faces that will soon grace television screens and newspaper front pages. For the masses in a polity...
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) Mr Peter Obi on Thursday, donated N10 million to the Paul University in Awka, Anambra. Obi reiterated his stance that good education and healthcare were crucial to the development and prosperity of any nation. He stated this during his visit to...
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed has condemned the attack on him by pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, for stating Federal Government’s position on the 2023 elections. The minister responded to the organisation’s attack in an interview with newsmen on Thursday in Washington. Afenifere had berated the minister...