After yet another failed reconciliation attempt between the feuding PDP camps of Governor Nyesom Wike and presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar, the Governor of Rivers State has reportedly met with the APC presidential candidate, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in London, United Kingdom. The move has strengthened talks of a possible alliance between an aggrieved Wike and Bola Tinubu that would all but affirm the defeat of the PDP at the polls in 2023, particularly after the predicted loss of the southeast region where Atiku would have otherwise shored up the numbers had Peter Obi not thrown his hat in the ring.…
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Appearing on the popular political evening television programme hosted by journalist Seun Okinbaloye, he delivered in his typical passionate style a scathing submission that all but reduced the PDP’s chances of posting a stiff competition in the 2023 presidential election, let alone winning, to less than zero. “If there is anybody to be competing with APC,” he began, “it is actually the Labour Party and not the PDP. Even PDP as a political party are acutely aware that they are not winning this election.” You would be forgiven for thinking that the above was said by Festus Keyamo, the Minister…
Media campaigner and aide to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri has accused the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi, of rank hypocrisy and ‘the single greatest contributor’ to the unrestrained consumption his campaign has repeatedly criticized and vowed to move Nigeria from. Omokri made the accusation on Twitter last weekend with a thread in which he berated Peter Obi as just a trader lacking the experience and range of skills required for the presidency. He accused him of being a major importer of foreign-produced goods despite his criticism of Nigeria’s ‘taste for foreign items’ and political…
All is not well in the Labour Party, the supposed ‘third force’ in the 2023 presidential election, following the widening of cracks over control of donation funds between the two warring camps of the presidential candidate Mr Peter Obi and Prof. Pat Utomi. Well-placed sources have told Podium Reporters of an escalating conflict over access to the party’s financial accounts, after previous allegations of misappropriation of funds, undisclosed diversions, and the emergence of a deliberate ‘cash-out’ ploy in which party officials, including those who followed Obi into the party, perceive the moment as an opportunity to fatten their bank accounts.…
Supporters of Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, made good their repeated threats of violence to dissenters with the assault of Pastor Ugochukwu Chika, one of the Christian clerics whose attendance at the official unveiling of Senator Kassim Shettima as the running mate of the APC candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, generated controversy following debunked allegations that they were hired impersonators. He was mobbed at the Dei Dei building materials market in Abuja this weekend, with his attackers distributing video recordings of the assault to gloat about their “thorough beating of an emi-lokan Bishop who is not…
The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has announced plans to shut down the operations of AIT, Silverbird TV, Raypower FM, and Rhythm FM amongst others within the next 24 hours over failure to renew their broadcast licenses. The DG of the Commission, Mallam Balarabe Shehu, announced the decision today, with a directive to its state offices to collaborate with security agencies to enforce the shutdown of the affected stations.
Suggestions that the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, will claim a clean sweep in the eastern region of the country at the polls next year suffered came under fresh doubt following the assertive declaration of Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State that his state will overwhelmingly vote the All Progressives Congress. Governor Umahi made the declaration in a recent engagement in his state where, in an address to key stakeholders, he emphasized the irrelevance of the Labour Party in the state and the party’s lack of contribution to its development. He said: “Our party in Ebonyi…
Nigeria’s federal tax collection agency, the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), has clarified its role to the House of Reps Committee investigating the payments of subsidy on petroleum products by the Federal Government, explaining that the probe and associated questions fall outside its remit given that they border on how the government spends revenue, not collection which the agency is responsible for. FIRS Executive Chairman, Muhammad Nami, made the clarification in Abuja on Thursday during an investigative hearing of the committee. Represented by the Coordinating Director of Compliance Support Group, Dr. Dick Irri, he said that the statutory functions of…
An emerging report from Bloomberg has declared the Ghanaian currency, the Cedi, as the worst performing currency in the world. Bloomberg reveals that a recent decline has compounded the woes of the constantly depreciating currency, having depreciated by GHC2 in the last week. The report comes after Bloomberg tracked 150 countries’ currencies. The study placed Ghana Cedi even behind Sri Lanka’s currency, effectively qualifying the Cedi as the worst currency in the world. “The Cedi fell 1.6% on Tuesday, August 16, extending this year’s slump to 35% and making it the world’s worst performer among 150 currencies tracked, after bankrupt…
The candidate of the Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi, has been caught in another lie controversy after a fact-check revealed as false claims by his ‘Obidients’ group that he secured clemency for Nigerians on death row in Singapore. The claim, circulated on social media by accounts dedicated to the propagation of Obi, said Mr. Peter Obi, even without presidential powers, had intervened to facilitate the release of 500 Nigerians sentenced to death in the Asian country. It gained immediate virality, similar to other claims amplifying said achievements of the Labour Party candidate, many of which have been exposed as false…