Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the last election, continues to dodge the subject of IPOB even as the proscribed terror group intensifies its murderous campaign across the south-east in response to calls for an end to its illegal sit-at-home exercise. Since the beginning of the week, the group has stormed different markets in Ebonyi, Enugu and other states in the region where they attacked transport workers and traders for defying their order for them to remain indoors. The sit-at-home exercise is a violently-enforced trade and movement restriction imposed by IPOB to protest the arrest and…
Author: Albus Dauda
Dino Melaye, a former Senator and PDP operative, is struggling to keep the light of his governorship campaign on in Kogi State. Since he muscled his way to the ticket of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), he has failed to generate the level of interest and support his aspiration needs to succeed. This puts him firmly behind the incumbent party whose candidate, Usmam Ododo, continues to pile key endorsements and alliances, even though he battles a number of internal dissensions. Melaye’s problems are said to be tied to one critical factor: Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the party…
Senator Simon Davon Mwadkwon of Plateau State has emerged as the Minority Leader of the Senate, marking yet another defeat for the Atiku faction of the PDP which tried unsuccessfully to claim the position for ex-governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Tambuwal. Ahead of the announcements today, the PDP leadership loyal to Atiku had met at the party’s secretariat on Monday to declare its support for Aminu Tambuwal, having received the blessing of the party’s presidential candidate in the last election. But former Nyesom Wike, the former Rivers Governor who remains an influential figure in the party, took an opposite position…
Ifeanyi Ubah, the Senator representing Anambra South at the National Assembly, has drawn the battleline with the proscribed terrorist group, IPOB, over the latter’s violently-enforced sit-at-home exercises in the eastern region of the country. As a way to protest the arrest and incarceration of its disgraced leader, Nnamdi Kanu, members of IPOB routinely bar movement and trade on select days, typically Monday which is regarded as the most productive of the week, in states across the East. Although the illegal action was meant to call attention to the plight of their leader who continues to face legal problems over his…
Labour Party’s presidential candidate in the last election, Mr. Peter Obi, has refused to condemn the message of one of his chief supporters, Charles Oputa, better known as ‘Charly Boy’, urging Nigerian youths to stage civil unrest over the outcome of the 2023 election. Charly Boy, a 73-year-old entertainer, made the call last week via a widely criticised tweet. Citing events in France where violent protests over the Police killing of an immigrant teenager have resulted in large-scale destruction and national instability, Charly Boy encouraged ‘exceptional youths’ in Nigeria to do the same in protest of Obi’s failure to win…
Clips showing Kate Henshaw warmly greeting the Lagos Governor, Babajide Sanwoolu, at a recent event has earned her the ire of some Nigerians. Henshaw, an actor cum politician, was bitterly opposed to the APC in the last elections. In one of her online rants, she berated supporters of the party and Governor Sanwoolu, who won re-election for another term, as ‘slaves’. Her critics have slammed her for exhibiting the same ‘slavish’ traits after jostling to gain the governor’s attention and secure a handshake at a social event they both attended recently. In one of the clips that showed the encounter,…
Lawal Adamu Usman, the PDP senator representing Kaduna Central at the National Assembly, may have his tenure abruptly terminated by the court following an indicting testimony given by Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) and the National Examination Council (NECO) against him in a certificate forgery trial. Adamu was sued by the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Muhammad Sani Abdullahi who is challenging his declared victory on many fronts, including that he misled INEC in his filing with the electoral body where he claimed to possess academic certificates issued by the ABU and NECO. Muhammad Sani Abdullahi, certain that Adamu’s…
Ayo Sogunro may publicly deride religion, but last weekend he learned why the Christian faith considers greed as one of the seven deadly sins. Greed, an insatiable and unrestrained desire for things and pleasure, causes men to do strange things. Including inviting a married woman into the intimately personal space of a hotel room, minutes after landing in a country. Such was Sogunro’s craving and impatience. Perhaps the bespectacled lawyer, renowned for his sanctimonious long prose and public dance for donor grants, fashioned himself a sleek operator. The Marlon Brando of 2023 who could, undetected, usher in a woman bound…
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 General Elections, Peter Obi, has been accused of desperate opportunism and a plot to instigate chaos in the country for amplifying fake reports of a 114% increment in the salary of public officers. Obi issued a statement on Thursday morning expressing concern over an alleged approval to increase the remuneration of public officers, including elected officials. He said it was an unnecessary move given the current economic situation of the country. However, public service analysts, CSOs and other non-partisan organisations have criticised the statement as “baseless, hypocritical, self-serving and unstatesmanlike.”…
The Arise TV duo of Reuben Abati and Rufai Oseni, alongside other media outlets such as Sahara Reporters and Guardian newspaper, have been slammed by Nigerians for stoking confusion and anger by promoting a false report of an approved increment to the salary of public officers. The media actors, as if acting in coordination, all uncritically published a report that alleged the new administration had approved a 114% salary increment for public officers, including the President, Vice President and other elected officials. They credited the claim to a comment by a state official of the Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal…