Perpetual contender for the presidency, Atiku Abubakar of the PDP turned to a familiar political ploy on Tuesday during a meeting with South-East Zonal Stakeholders of his party in Enugu. He professed his undying love for the region and dangled the Igbo Presidency carrot with an unlikely promise to serve as a ‘stepping stone’ for the region to produce the country’s next president if he is supported to serve an eight-year term. It was a declaration that drew criticism from critics who labeled it a desperate exploitation of a regional yearning from a man who has himself recorded a pronounced…
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Former Deputy of the House of Representatives, Emeka Ihedioha, has slammed supporters of Peter Obi in the South East region of the country as saboteurs governed by emotions whose support for the Labour Party candidate hurts the region’s chances of producing the country’s president. He said this while addressing a gathering of the region’s chieftains at an event where Atiku Abubakar of the PDP made an outreach to the region by floating the kite of an Igbo presidency, a coy the PDP has used since 1999 to command the region’s loyalty to little results. According to Ihedioha, the reality of…
Days after dumping the PDP presidential campaign and accusing its chairman of a 1BN bribery fraud, Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has again met with the presidential candidate of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in London, UK. The meeting followed Wike’s high-stake interview in which he affirmed his dissociation with the presidential bid of PDP’s Atiku Abubakar over the candidate’s refusal to back an inclusive reorganization of the party’s hierarchy, including through the removal of its chairman Sen. Iyorchia Ayu who, similar to Atiku, is from the northern region of the country. Wike’s rejection of the PDP is…
Supporters of the controversial flagbearer of the Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi, are demanding the sack of the party’s social media handler after inadvertently exposing its recent Abuja rally as poorly attended, busting the falsehood of ‘thousands of marchers’ in previously spread doctored images by the violent-prone ‘Obidients’. Hours after the Obidients tried to call attention to the rally with claims that it pulled thousands of voters from neighboring states to the Federal Capital Territory, the official Twitter page of the Labour Party released a set of images that betrayed the lie, showing only a handful of supporters gathered, some…
The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, possesses a valid US visa and is free to enter the country until November 2023 when his visa, issued in 2021, is due a renewal, an investigation has revealed. The revelation, confirmed in a response by Tunde Rahman, media advisor to the candidate, debunks an earlier claim by a fringe blog in which the candidate was alleged to have been denied a visa application request to enter the United States. Mr. Rahman described the story as ‘original fake news deserving no response’. He said: “Oga, it’s an original…
Atiku Abubakar of the PDP looks set for another sound defeat in his fifth presidential bid as the influential governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, and his powerful group of backers resolved to abandon the former Vice President’s ambition. The almost fatal political blow came this morning after a Port Harcourt meeting held by Wike’s faction of the PDP. Atiku and the Rivers Governor had been locked in a power struggle over the conduct of the primary election that produced the former as the party’s flagbearer. Wike alleged unfair and illegal collusion before demanding the resignation of National Chairman Sen.…
Despite previous boasts of academic and intellectual supremacy, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party Peter Obi filed a lowly, secondary school level General Certificate Examination (GCE) with INEC as his highest educational qualification, drawing a sharp contrast with the more prominent candidates of the APC and PDP who presented a University Bachelors’ degree and Masters degree respectively. This was revealed in a Tuesday publication made by INEC listing all the qualified presidential candidates in the 2023 contest alongside details of their credentials, including educational qualifications. With his GCE, Obi turned out the least qualified amongst the top three, failing…
Days after sparking controversy with a claim that the Yoruba ethnic group maintains a slavish relationship with APC candidate Bola Tinubu, and is supporting him out of envy over feared Igbo resurgence, Peter Obi has trained the fire of his attack on Nigeria’s northerners, accusing them in a CNN interview of lacking evidence of human progress. Responding to a question posed by the journalist, the Labour Party candidate offered a blanket dismissal of northerners as a people who live in inhospitable conditions, “have no good roads and security.” The response has triggered a backlash, with many northerners questioning Obi’s intent…
Party faithful and other Nigerians are expressing greater doubts over the health status of the presidential candidate of the PDP, Atiku Abubakar, after a hurried Europe trip this week untimely halted his attempt to mend the cracks that have erupted in the party, largely over accusations that he nurses an “all-northern” agenda. Atiku who has been left distraught by the damaging protests and threats of desertion by the southern extraction of the party after his stage-managed leadership shuffle of the PDP still left it with a National Chairman, campaign DG, and flag bearer from the northern region of the country,…
After weeks of false starts and last-minute postponements, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, finally featured on CNN yesterday to discuss his unlikely run in an interview with Zain Asher. But his appearance, wildly promoted by his sectional and violence-prone supporters, delivered little than promised, with more Nigerians expressing disappointment over his uninsightful responses to questions around challenges that persist in the country. According to them, the interview, similar to others before it, failed to inspire confidence or provide a clear picture of the candidate’s agenda, including practical solutions to some of the problems he elaborately described,…