The Protection of Peoples Mandate (CPPM), a civil society organization, has urged INEC to penalize the governorship candidate of the PDP in Lagos, Mr. Olajide Adediran, his deputy Ms. Funke Akindele, and House of Reps candidate, Mr. Bankole Wellington, over an alleged breach of campaign guidelines. The appeal was contained in a petition sent to the electoral body this week. CPPM accused the candidates of a blatant disregard of not only section 94 (1) of the Electoral Act which regulates the election campaigns, but also the publicly published INEC guidelines on the 2023 elections by staging public political campaigns before…
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Days after his supporters and some members of the secessionist and violent IPOB group threatened to burn the New Afrika Shrine, presidential candidate of the Labour Party Peter Obi paid a visit to Femi Kuti, son of legendary afrobeat singer Fela Anikulapo Kuti. Femi came under attack from ‘Obidients’ over his refusal to identify with the movement and expression of doubt about the true intentions of candidate Obi who, in his view, has been frolicking with the same ‘old politicians’ his movement purports to depose. He bemoaned a harassment campaign targeted at him by Obidients and described menacing threats of…
Nowhere is the bleak reality of persisting US inflation more apparent than Walmart’s earnings. The retail company with a chain of hypermarkets and discount stores across the country yesterday announced a surprise 8% second-quarter growth, defying internal and external projections that predicted revenue loss following the weakening purchasing power of its core customers. The situation hasn’t changed for many of the company’s primary customers who are still grappling with high costs – of gas, food, and housing – caused by a series of global events including the pandemic, the Russia-Ukraine conflict, and a devastating heat wave rippling across Europe and…
The civic tech non-profit organization, BudgIT, has defended its research report indicating that several states, prominently Abia, Edo, and Adamawa, all states with Governors elected on the PDP platform, owe their workers several months of unpaid salaries and other benefits. The report cast spotlight on what CSOs have long considered an overlooked problem: the ineptitude and poor management of sub-national governments in the country. Seeking to avoid public fury and abdicate responsibility, state governments in Nigeria have long learned to attribute internal challenges to the central government. BudgIT’s report, however, exposed their own poor management, especially of public finance and…
Nigeria’s frontline presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has joined other global leaders in congratulating William Ruto, the winner of the Kenya presidential election. Ruto was declared the winner after a counting process that took several days and will succeed his estranged principal, Uhuru Kenyatta, as the next President of the East African country with one of the largest economies on the continent. In a congratulatory speech released earlier today, Tinubu urged all Kenyans to “accept this result and shun violence.” This was as Ruto’s main opponent and serial challenger for the seat, Raila…
The former governor of Kano State, Senator Ibrahim Shekarau, who recently joined the New Nigeria People’s Party, NNPP, will announce his defection to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in a few hours. The imminent cross-carpeting allegedly comes after a “mouth-watering offer” was made to the Senator. Senator Shekarau, who represents Kano Central at the Senate, had officially defected from APC to NNPP in a letter read during plenary by the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, on June 29. He received an automatic senatorial ticket for his constituency from the NNPP upon joining the party, but was soon considered for the Vice…
The Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir el-Rufai has taken to Twitter to mock supporters of Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, who are planning a two-million-man march in his state. Obi’s supporters have attempted marches and other rallies across the thirty-six states of the country and the federal capital territory, prompting questions over possible violation of campaign timelines set by INEC. Announcing the details for the Kaduna march, however, the governor of the state wasted no time emphasizing the futility of their plan and the impossibility of their targeted turn-out, with a reference to the inability of the group,…
The chairman of the Lagos chapter of the Labour Party, Ifagbemi Awamaridi, says he has not withdrawn from contesting as the party’s gubernatorial candidate in the 2023 elections. This insistence comes after the announcement of Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, a former senatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), as the Labour Party’s candidate after a substitution primary that took place on Wednesday. Mr. Gbadebo had pulled 111 votes in victory, defeating Moshood Salvador, a former chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who got 102 votes. Validating the substitution primary, Bashiru Apapa, deputy national chairman of LP, had told journalists that…
The Labour Party presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, has been accused of raising terrorists under the guise of running for president by prominent activities, Deji Adeyanju. Mr. Adeyanju is the latest in a long list of activists and ordinary Nigerians who have expressed concern over the nature of Obi’s campaign and the conduct of his supporters infamous for various intimidation and bullying tactics. Tweeting on Sunday, Adeyanju said, “Peter Obi is raising terrorists in the name of running for president.” He further revealed, in what he deemed typical terrorist style, that everyone who has criticized Peter Obi has received death…
Peter Obi’s comment as Anambra Governor that “education is not meant for the poor” continues to rankle as the presidential candidate of the Labour party intensifies his appeal to young Nigerians ahead of the 2023 contest. Following a weekend declaration of his plan to purportedly “give Nigeria back to youths”, a comment that has drawn criticism as ‘dubious’ and a ploy to ‘hand Nigeria to IPOB’, the former Anambra Governor has faced fierce pushback from young Nigerians on social media, including Twitter, where several of his policies that negatively affected youths whilst in charge of Anambra have been highlighted. Chigozirim,…