Tag: Labour Party

Governorship Poll: Peter Obi tells ‘Obidients’ who to vote as governors

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Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has admonished his supporters to look out for someone whose dispositions and personality align with what the party stands for when they go to the polls on Saturday for the governorship elections. On Saturday, residents of over 20 States will troop out to elect new governors and state assembly lawmakers. Addressing his supporters dubbed ‘Obidients’ on Thursday, Obi implored his teeming supporters not to vote blindly. He asked them to vote for candidates with proven “character, competence, capacity and compassion”. The…

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March Election:  “It must not be LP” – Peter Obi instructs ‘Obidients’

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Peter Obi has told his ‘Obidient’ movement to vote for governorship candidates with character, competence, capacity, and compassion in the March 18, 2023, gubernatorial elections across Nigeria. Obi said this during an interview on a television programme yesterday, while explaining why the party did not produce governorship candidates in most of the States in the forthcoming governorship election in Nigeria. The LP presidential candidate said it does not matter if such candidates are members of the Labour Party, (LP) or not, insisting that the ‘Obidient’ movement would support good candidates…

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‘LP acting like students that want to see exam questions beforehand’ – INEC

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Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), has disclosed that they don’t like the fact that the Labour Party have persistent desire to be present while they’re configuring their BVAS machines for the Governorship elections that are forthcoming. It was added that Labour Party are acting like students that want to see exam questions before the exam takes place. The INEC’s Chief Press Secretary, Rotimi Oyekanmi, who made this disclosure., disclosed that the Independent National Electoral Commission would not allow the Labour Party participate in reconfiguring their machines because such act is…

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Labour Party threatens to occupy INEC offices nationwide

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The Labour Party, (LP), has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of frustrating its petition against the outcome of the 2023 presidential election. At a press conference in Lagos, Spokesman of the Presidential Campaign Council of the party, Dr. Yunusa Tanko, accused INEC of disobeying the order of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal which directed it to grant the Party and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, access to the certified true copies of materials used in the conduct of the poll. The Spokesman said the order of the presidential…

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Tinubu’s victory won’t be annulled, go to court, Presidency tells PDP, LP

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The Presidency, on Thursday, said those who were calling for the cancellation of the 2023 presidential election wanted to recreate June 12, 1993 presidential election annulled by former Head of State, General Ibrahim Babangida (rtd). The PDP’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar and the LP’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi were calling for the cancellation of the poll and sought to stop INEC from announcing the results of the poll won by Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. Presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, in an issued statement, while reviewing President Muhammadu Buhari’s trip to Doha, Qatar,…

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Nasarawa 2023: Labour Party governorship candidate in steps down, backs PDP

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The governorship candidate of the Labour Party, (LP), in Nasarawa State, Joseph Ewuga, has stepped down and declared support for the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, David Ombugadu, ahead of Saturday’s governorship poll. Ewuga, who spoke in the Akwanga local government area on Wednesday, said he stepped down to boost the chances of the PDP candidate. He expressed confidence in the leadership qualities of Ombugadu to take Nasarawa State to greater heights. A former Minister of Information and Director-General of the State PDP Campaign Council, Labaran Maku, said his…

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Presidential Election: Court declines Obi’s request to stop INEC from reconfiguring

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The Court of Appeal has refused to grant the prayer of Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), seeking to stop the reconfiguration of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, (BVAS). The appellate court refused to restrain the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from reconfiguring the BVAS ahead of the governorship and state assembly elections. In the ruling delivered yesterday, a three-member panel of the court of appeal led by Joseph Ikyegh, held that restraining the electoral commission would impede INEC from conducting the March 11 elections. In an…

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Kaduna Gov. Election: Stakeholders declare for PDP’s Ashiru, says there’s crack in Labour Party

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Barely 74 hours after the gubernatorial candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in Kaduna State, Hon. Jonathan Asake announced that he was not stepping down for anybody in the race, stakeholders of the LP in the State have said that people should vote for the Peoples Democratic candidate, (PDP) gubernatorial candidate, Isa Ashiru Kudan on Saturday in order to have a respite in the State. According to an issued statement issued at the end of an emergency meeting  signed by Ibrahim Aliyu Maigari – Kaduna North Senatorial district Khamal Mohammed…

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Nigeria Decides: Labour Party asks INEC to cancel the entire results, prepare for a new election

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The Labour Party (LP) has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), to suspend the collation and announcement of last Saturday’s presidential election results or outright cancellation of the entire exercise due to the violence that marred Saturday’s exercise and the inability of the election management body to upload the results. The Party, in an issued statement on Sunday, by the National of Secretary, Umar Farouk Ibrahim, said while the party made inroads with high votes in most parts of Northern Nigeria, LP members were deliberately prevented from voting,…

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“Politicians condemning CBN cashless policy should be jailed” – Labour Party

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The Presidential Campaign Council of the Labour Party (LP) has criticised the flagbearer of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, for opposing the redesign of the naira by the Central Bank of Nigeria, (CBN). Recall that Tinubu and his campaign council had said the scarcity of naira notes due to the implementation of the policy and the scarcity of fuel endanger the general elections. But, a special adviser to Peter Obi on Public Affairs, Katch Ononuju, said the policy has nothing to do with politics. Ononuju, who spoke on…

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