As Nigerians reflect on the polity, barely 24 days to the takeoff of campaigns for the 2023 general elections, Osita Okechukwu, Director-General of Voice of Nigeria (VON) says Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has boxed itself into irretrievable tight corner. Okechukwu, also a chieftain of the APC, said this when...
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Former Governor of Kaduna State, Ahmed Makarfi, has urged the presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi, and the presidential candidate of New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Rabiu Kwankwaso, to return to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Alh. Makarfi, who made call the during Channels TV’s Sunrise Daily, Said...
Nigerians in the U.S. are to host the Labour Party flag-bearer for the 2023 Nigeria presidential election, Peter Obi, in five U.S. states. Obi announced his engagement with Nigerians in the U.S in a video posted on social media, which according to him, will start from Wednesday Aug. 31...
Supporters of Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi, marched through Onitsha, Anambra on Sunday to register their support. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the supporters began the march, tagged “Obidients Mega Rally’’ after church services. They started from the Godwin Achebe Stadium Fegge, and proceeded...
Supporters of the Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, on Saturday held a rally in Rivers and Benue State. In Port Harcourt, Obi supporters trooped out in their numbers for what they tagged a ‘two-million-man march’ to rally support for their candidate. The ‘Obi-dients’, as they are called, defied...
In 2020, during the “EndSARS” protests, at the urging of my first daughter, I wrote the article titled “EndSARS: The Next Step”: https://saharareporters.com/2020/10/20/endsars-next-step-leonard-karshima-shilgba At that time, I expressed some reservations about the endurance of the youths, who drove the protests, and was dubious of the intellectual richness and clarity...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Nollywood actor, Kenneth Okonkwo has joined the Labour Party (LP) following his defection from the All Progressives Congress (APC) over the party’s Muslim-muslim presidential ticket. Kenneth Okonkwo disclosed this on his social media handle on Wednesday. He however called on Nigerians to support the...
The Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Presidential Campaign Council says that Sen. Bola Tinubu, the APC 2023 presidential candidate, is not concerned about cash and carry or container economy, but for something more enduring for Nigerians Mr Dele Alake, the council’s Director of Strategic and Communication said this while speaking...
Labour Party Presidential Candidate, Peter Obi, has outlined “important” areas Nigeria must tackle “aggressively” for a greater economy. According to the former governor of Anambra State, investment in intangible assets such as education and power are critical for economic renaissance. “What we need to do is the two most...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Labour Party Chairman of Cross River State, Ambassador Ogar Osim has cautioned supporters and members of the party in the state never to incite the public or spread hate speech in efforts to market their presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi. Amb. Osim asserted that their...
By BARBARA KALU, Awka – The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has rejected Mr. Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party ahead of the 2023 general elections. IPOB spokesman, Mr. Emmanuel Powerful, who made their stance known in a statement issued in Wednesday, said the separatist’s group...
a. From Obituary to Omatseuary Nothing in his entire being could have convinced him that the backlash would be so ferocious. Like his employer Ahmed Bola Tinubu and his Mu-Mu ticket misadventure, no babalawo would have dissuaded Sam Omatseye, renowned columnist and brilliant journalist, from penning and publishing that...
There is nothing like an idea which time has come, so goes a wise saying. From the unravelling scenario in Nigeria’s political landscape, it appears as if it has come time for the nation to achieve the long sought after paradigm shift in its political affairs.It is a truism...
Dino Melaye, the spokesman of the Atiku Campaign Organisation, has dismissed the social media frenzy generated by Peter Obi, saying the Labour Party presidential candidate does not stand a chance of winning next year’s poll. Senator Melaye who spoke as a guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Friday, maintained that...
Labour Party’s Presidential Candidate, Mr Peter Obi, said on Thursday in Abuja that the party would transform Nigeria’s economy from that of consumption to production. Obi made the declaration at the Labour Party and the Coalition for Peter Obi Leadership Summit. The summit had “Youths, Governance and a New...
Presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 elections, Peter Obi, on Thursday said Nigeria must end petrol subsidy. “Going forward, we must look for ways to move Nigeria beyond oil,” Mr Obi said in a series of tweets. “We must end this criminality called ‘oil subsidy’.” He...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Ghanaian President, Nana Akufo-Addo, has debunked a Facebook post claiming that he advised Bola Tinubu, presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), to give Labour Party flag bearer, Peter Obi a chance ahead of the 2023 election. The Facebook post making the rounds...
An obituary is for the dead, not for the living. So, no matter how one looks at Sam Omatseye’s ‘Obi-tuary’ on Peter Obi and the movement Obi’s entry into the 2023 presidential race has become, it is all about a death wish. It rhymes with nothing else. Yes, death...
Former Governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole who has been tipped to play a prominent role in the Bola Ahmed Tinubu-Kashim Shettima presidential campaign says religion should not have any role in politics. “I think the issues before us and which we have to spend time discussing is what...
Similar to the Famous novelist, poet and critic, Chinua Achebe (1930 – 2013) who in his widely circulated book, ‘The trouble with Nigeria’, among other things stated as follows: “The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership. There is nothing wrong with the Nigerian land...