The last two weeks have been crucial to the public’s understanding of both the crisis in the country and what is going on within the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its presidential candidate’s campaign council. First, the presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in Abeokuta, let fly with strong allegations as to how the scarcity of both the new naira notes and fuel were plots by certain powers that were to affect the elections. The presidential campaign team tried to explain it away but the truth was clear – Bola Tinubu, the one known as the lion of Bourdillon, was reaching…
Author: Albus Dauda
Supporters of Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, have expressed readiness to constitute an illegal armed vigilante unit ahead of the general elections, making what represents the clearest threat to the peaceful conduct of the democratic exercise which their candidate, having managed to excite the least-populated section of the country, is widely expected to lose. Speaking in a virtual meeting hosted by an account managed by Obi’s USA Support Group, leaders of the former Anambra governor’s problematic online campaign affirmed the supply of weapons to supporters on the ground and a secret plot to intimidate opponents and…
Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, has sparked a divisive row within Nigeria’s Christian community with an alleged two billion naira bribe he paid to a section of the community’s leadership to propagate his unlikely presidential ambition. This revelation, which affirms Obi’s inflammable plot to exploit religion in a bid to secure an advantage at the polls later this month, was contained in a petition authored by an Imo-based cleric who accused the leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Catholic Bishops, and the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) of pocketing the sum despite receiving same…
Soon the people of Nigeria will be stunned by something other than the naira note crisis. The grand design between Peter Obi and Atiku will be revealed. In fact, the naira crisis is, in part, a smoke screen to further obscure the cynical games being played behind the political curtain. While Atiku and Obi are in separate political parties now, we should not forget they were married as the PDP ticket 2019. For the 2023 election, they separated but were never formally and truly divorced. More to the point, Obi was never an important leader in his own right. He…
The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has said that the PDP governorship candidate in Lagos, Abdul-Azeez Olajide Adediran, otherwise known as Jandor, lacks the experience and competence to govern the state. Fashola, who governed Lagos between 2007 and 2015, gave the jibe at the launch of his 10,000 ‘Eko O Ni Baje’ footsoldiers to conduct grassroots mobilization for Tinubu/Shettima and Sanwoolu/Hamzat. According to him, Jandor, who has struggled to point at any meaningful public service experience, must first enrol in the Lagos Progressive Leadership School to ready and prepare himself for the important task of governing the commercially…
The Department of State Security Services has brought 12 new allegations against the controversial Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele. The secret intelligence agency, which previously accused the CBN chief of funding terrorism over ties with insurgent groups in the country, has submitted new evidence of other indicting charges to the president, prompting insinuations of possible sack and arrest. The evidence was contained in a security report the DSS Director General, Yusuf Bichi, handed over to President Buhari at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa earlier on Thursday. Emefiele had earlier visited the Presidential Villa on Thursday as part…
Peter Okoye of the singing duo P-Sqaure prompted criticism with his reckless denigration of Nigeria’s music legend, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, by describing his Afrika Shrine, a site that played host to his live entertainment shows, as ‘local’ and incomparable to his self-acclaimed lofty music achievements. The twin, who is a staunch supporter of Obi, the Labour Party presidential candidate, and who has targeted other artists, especially those from the Yoruba southwest region, over their non-support for his preferred candidate, conveyed the insult in a riposte to Seun Kuti, one of Fela’s sons. Seun Kuti had encouraged Nigerians in an Instagram…
For the umpteenth time, Peter Obi will win the elections – that is according to another one in an increasingly long list of election predictors who go by nothing but lazy simple random sampling techniques. The populace has recently been overwhelmed, despite their groaning under harsh CBN policy formulation, with certain polls coming thick and fast, all projecting that Peter Obi and his intangible labour party will win the election by all sorts of margins. In a word, these polls all project that the labour party will defeat the ruling party in several states because of the magic man, Peter…
Peter Obi’s fringe ‘third force’ party has been hollowed out in Zamfara State following the departure of its Deputy Governorship and other NASS candidates. The defectors left for the APC and attributed their exit to the Labour Party’s unpopularity in the state and the northern region. The list of defectors include Alhaji Sule Dansadau, the deputy governorship candidate; Yahaya Audi Mafara, Zamfara West senatorial candidate; Alhaji Sani Yusuf Danmasami, Zamfara Central senatorial candidate; and Engr. Adamu Yakubu, Zamfara North senatorial candidate. Their exit underscores the growing reality of Labour Party’s poor acceptance and lack of presence across the country, particularly…
Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, stirred anger with his public endorsement of the botched naira redesign policy of the CBN causing hardship with the resultant scarcity of the currency sparking protests in banking halls and parts of the country. Obi expressed support for the widely-criticized policy with a public statement urging Nigerians to accept the CBN’s rushed timeline for the implementation of the currency change even in the face of long queues for the new notes due to poor circulation. His statement drew backlash as Nigerians criticised him for alleged desperation to preserve ties with destructive…