Amid scandal that she diverted funds obtained from donors and that her husband misappropriated public funds whilst serving at the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Aisha Yesufu has announced a visit to Peter Obi in a move believed to rally the supporters of the candidate to her defence. The self-proclaimed activist has struggled under the spotlight shone by critics on her conduct in the last elections and the public service records of her spouse, Mr Aliyu Osigwe Yesufu, whose tenure as the General Manager of Finances at the NHIS ended controversially. Aisha faces accusations of receiving and diverting donations made…
Author: Albus Dauda
Tony Nwoye, an Anambra Senator elected on the platform of the Labour Party, has confessed that Obi’s broad support in the eastern region where he got an overwhelming share of the votes cast in the last presidential election was due to his ethnicity, not competence or any objective assessment of the candidates’ pool. He made the confession in a television appearance on an evening political program hosted by Seun Okinbaloye of Channels Television. The Senator said the east, the home region of the Igbos, had no regret voting for “our brother” even while insisting that the eventual winner, whose victory…
A supporter of Peter Obi identified as ‘Chidi Harry’ and who reportedly resides in Milan, Italy, has issued a chilling threat to Justice Haruna Tsammani, one of the Supreme Court judges handling the Labour Party’s candidate’s challenge of the outcome of the 2023 election at the presidential election petition tribunal. In a tweet containing a photo of the justice and two infants reported to be his children, Chidi Harry with the Twitter handle ‘@SantaChidi’ threatened a “loud implosion” if the judge refuses to decide in favour of Peter Obi as the Tribunal prepares its verdict. “Hello Justice Tsammani! I know…
Obiageli Ezekwesili, the former Minister who loudly protested a planned demolition exercise in Lagos, has ignored an announcement by the Abia State government of its readiness to demolish over 160 buildings in the state to enable the expansion of major access roads, including the main entry road leading into Umuahia from the Enugu- Port Harcourt expressway. Alex Otti, the governor of Abia State, said the demolition was necessary to complete the road upgrades. His announcement has sparked anxiety in the state as residents dread being rendered homeless given the state’s long history of demolition without compensation and Otti’s poor start…
Nigeria’s fake news problem, particularly around the 2023 general elections, is expected to worsen in the coming days as Obi’s Twitter campaigners, the primary source of online disinformation and bullying, are plotting to dial up their spread of inciting content to rack up impressions and other metrics. This is in light of Twitter’s extension of its deal to share revenue with influential users of the platform to Nigeria. Under the deal already active in Western countries such as America, Twitter (now X) allows generators of viral content to partake in the sharing of advert revenue generated from the engagement they…
Aisha Yesufu, a self-styled activist and prominent supporter of Peter Obi, has struggled to explain her family’s lavish lifestyle in a drawn-out squabble with critics on Twitter who rehashed her spouse’s alleged corruption at the National Health Insurance Scheme. Aliu Yesufu, the activist’s husband, left his role as the General Manager of the National Health Insurance Scheme under controversial circumstances, with multiple allegations of funds diversion and misappropriation. At the same time, his family, including his activist wife, maintained a wealthy lifestyle characterized by regular foreign trips for holidays and shopping, expensive schools where fees are charged in American dollars…
Aisha Yesufu, a key supporter of Labour Party’s Peter Obi and controversial social media figure, has been fantasizing about a coup in Nigeria. Since the ouster of the democratically-elected government in neighbouring Niger Republic, she has issued a couple of tweets disparaging calls warning against a yearning for a similar occurrence in Nigeria, while expressing tacit support for the violent overthrow of the country’s constitutional government. “They are not against coup, they just fear that they may be next,” she tweeted in one of such tweets, drawing condemnation from lovers of peace and democracy. Many have attributed her wild turn…
The Deputy Governor of Edo State, Philip Shaibu, has sought the intervention of the Federal High Court in Abuja to prevent his impeachment purportedly being plotted by his principal and governor of the state, Godwin Obaseki. Shaibu’s suit has exposed the cracks in his relationship with Obaseki after both of them left the APC for PDP in 2020 to contest re-election following Obaseki’s disqualification by the APC over questionable academic credentials. Although both of them owe their political prominence and emergence as the most senior government officials in the state to former governor Adams Oshiomhole; the 2020 governorship contest saw…
Ahmadu Fintiri, the Governor of Adamawa State who owes his re-election to the political interventions of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, has announced the appointment of at least 35 persons to serve as Special Assistants on Social Media and Content Creation. They were appointed alongside about 12 other Senior Special Assistants and Special Advisers, taking the number of aides announced today, Aug 3, to a total of 47. The news has raised concerns about the financial health of the state, with critics questioning the wisdom of the governor to run such an expansive government at the time the country is…
Lawrence Igbinoghene Okoro, a prominent supporter of Peter Obi and member of the Labour Party, has been exposed for staging a donation scam involving the invention of a fake soldier friend who purportedly had a baby in absentia and was struggling to meet his financial obligations. Mr Okoro published on Twitter images of a conversation he purportedly had with his friend in which he lamented his situation as a member of the armed forces and the inability to witness the birth of his latest child as he was drafted to the northern region of the country for service. The fictitious…