Labour Party (LP) has unveiled a 1,234,member Presidential Campaign Council in Abuja on Wednesday saying the party would secure at least 15 million votes at the 2023 presidential election. Unveiling the team, the Director-General of the Presidential Campaign Council, Dr Doyin Okupe said retired Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Mr...
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Mr Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour party, says he will be committed to high gender balance and broad inclusion of women and youths if elected. Obi, in a tweet on Tuesday, also congratulated former Finance Minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Mrs Amina Mohammed for bagging national honours....
Ahead of the 2023 general elections, Mr Peter Obi’s emergence as the presidential candidate of the Labour Party has been described as a rare chance for Nigeria. In an article published on Monday, The Economist recalled that some polls had tipped Obi as ahead of the candidates representing the...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Labour Party (LP) has described as fake a campaign rally timetable being circulated in the media. The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Arabambi Abayomi, who said this in a statement in Abuja, noted that the timetable was neither authorised by the LP leadership...
By SUCCESS SOLOMON, Jos – Chairman, political campaign council of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) in Plateau State, Comrade Yohana Badung has said the union would soon embark on unit to unit campaign for all Labour Party Presidential candidates, Peter Obi ahead of the 2023 election. Comrade Badung, who...
The President of Nigerian Community in Russia, Dr Maurice Okoli has urged supporters of Labour Party (LP) Presidential Candidate, Mr Peter Obi to have effective structure if they must succeed in 2023 general elections. Okoli stated this in a statement on Sunday, noting that the OBIdient Movement being backed...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja – The Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr Peter Obi has condoled with victims and communities affected by flood in Nigeria. Mr. Obi, whose condolence message was contained in tweet on Sunday, said that he received the reports with sadness. He said: “Earlier,...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari and 36 state governors to “publicly instruct the Nigeria police and state security outfits to respect, protect, and facilitate the rights of everyone to freedom of expression, assembly, association, and equal participation during...
The crowds of power wear amorphous but identical faces. It does not matter whether they are the Roman plebeians, renegade factions of the Athenian metropole, or the rough racist hounds that accompanied Donald Trump to defile the US Capitol on 6th January 2021. They are all roughly the same....
A group, Asiwaju Progressive Movement (APM), has urged the presidential candidates of major opposition parties to base their campaigns on issues with facts and should not engage in telling the electorate lies. Its Spokesperson, Joshua Owoyomi, made the plea in a statement, while reacting to the oppositions’ recent comments...
The presidential flagbearer of the Labour Party, Peter Obi and his running mate Senator Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed have released their official campaign website. This was made public on Friday morning via a tweet from Obi’s Twitter handle. “I invite every member of the OBIdient Family, and every supporter of...
The Presidency has dismissed accusations on social media by presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, that some of his supporters, known as “Obidients”, have been “silently arrested” are without foundation or fact. A source in the State House, who spoke under condition of anonymity, said both the...
Former Spiritual Director of Adoration Ministry, Enugu, (AMEN), Fr. Ejike Mbaka, has urged members of the church to remain calm and stop protesting but to pray for him. Mbaka made the call while leaving for the Monastery on Wednesday in obedience to the church order. The News Agency of...
Reverend Father Mbaka, the Spiritual Director of Adoration Ministry, Enugu, Nigeria (AMEN), has denied prophesying against the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi. Father Mbaka in a new video on the AMEN’s official page, stated that he never mentioned the former Anambra State governor’s name during...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – All is now set for the October 6th 2022 Public Presentation of the official Biography and Launching of the Solomon Lar Leadership Institute in Abuja. The Chairman, Planning Committee of the event who is the former Director General, DG of the National Orientation Agency,...
The three leading presidential candidates in the 25th February 2023 Nigerian presidential election, Peter Obi, Atiku Abubakar and Bola Tinubu, on Saturday, took their campaign ‘fight’ to Nigerians in the United States. The Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the support groups for Abubakar, Obi...
Some Nigerians from different parts of the United Kingdom (UK), gathered in London on Saturday to celebrate Nigeria’s 62nd Independence Anniversary. The celebration also saw the crowd march in support of Mr Peter Obi, the Labour Party Presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections. A statement issued by Ms...
The Labour Party (LP) popular social crusader, Mr Charles Oputa (Charly Boy) and other activists on Saturday, led a five million solidarity march for the LP Presidential Candidate, Mr Peter Obi and his running mate, Sen. Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that all supporters...
Labour Party Support Movement (LPSM) said on Saturday in Abuja that it would use its vast network to mobilise voters towards Peter Obi’s success in the 2023 presidential election. Inaugurating the group, Mr Chuks Ezurike, its Director- General, expressed the commitment of the group to bringing the Labour Party...
Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr Peter Obi, says the outcome of the 2023 general elections will be based on competence, capacity and character. Addressing newsmen in Ibadan on Thursday after a meeting with Gov. Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, Obi said the 2023 elections would not...