Tag: Peter Obi

Election: ‘How Peter Obi rigged out Atiku in Anambra’ – Witness tells tribunal

Aminu Imam

A witness of Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP)’s presidential candidate in the February 25th presidential elections, Ndubuisi Nwobu has revealed how his candidate was rigged out by Labour Party’s Presidential candidate, Peter Obi in Anambra state. Nwobu told the presidential election tribunal yesterday, that “magic happened to the votes of the PDP candidate at different collation centres. In the results announced by the Independent Electoral Commission, (INEC), Peter Obi scored 584, 621 votes in Anambra; Atiku polled 9,036 votes in the state and Bola Tinubu of the All…

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‘NLC acting a script powered by Peter Obi’, Fani-Kayode alleges

Aminu Imam

Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has criticised the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC)’s planned strike, saying it is a reflection of double standards. Femi Fani-Kayode, who stated this in a signed statement on Twitter yesterday, said it is strange that NLC did not threaten to go on strike when Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Godwin Emefiele, introduced the new Naira notes and cashless policy. According to him, “The leadership of the NLC did not threaten to go on strike when the Central Bank of Nigeria, (CBN) Governor, Emefiele introduced…

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“We’ll look into your petitions passionately, objectively”, Tribunal tells Atiku, Obi

Aminu Imam

The Presidential Election Petition Court, (PEPC), yesterday, in Abuja, said it would passionately and objectively look into the petitions filed against the declaration of Bola Ahmed Tinubu, of the All Progressives Congress, (APC), as the winner of the February 25 Presidential election. Chairman of the court, Justice Haruna Simon Tsammani, gave the assurance at the inaugural sitting at the Court of Appeal in Abuja. He said that the court would do justice to all the parties when it comes up in the judgments on the petitions. He, however, appealed to…

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Labour Party raises alarm, as Apapa approaches court to thwart Obi’s petition

Aminu Imam

The Labour Party has said its suspended Deputy National Chairman, Lamidi Apapa, has approached all the Election Tribunals wherein the party has pending matters including that of the presidential candidate, Peter Obi, allegedly asking for withdrawal of cases. The Labour Party made this known in an issued statement yesterday, signed by the Acting National Publicity Secretary of the party, Obiora Ifoh. The statement reads: “Daily, the evil intention of the breakaway faction of the Labour Party, led by the suspended Deputy National Chairman, Lamidi Apapa, continues to manifest and just this…

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“Obi dislikes North; we’ll reject him 1,000 times” – Buhari’s aide

Aminu Imam

Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Digital Communication, Bashir Ahmad, has declared that the presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi, would never get the support of the Northern people. According to him, the former Anambra State Governor has never missed an opportunity to show his dislike for the North. Peter Obi had in a tweet, noted that beyond regaining his mandate, his commitment was to address poverty in Nigeria, starting from the North. However, Bashir, who tweeted in Hausa language, berated Obi, saying using the North as a…

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2023 Polls: Foreign media, Think Tanks admit being misinformed by ‘Obidients’ – FG

Aminu Imam

Some international media organisations and Think Tanks have admitted that they were misinformed on the chances of the Labour Party candidate, Peter Obi, in winning the 2023 Presidential polls. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, stated this in London, when he concluded his engagements and meetings with the media houses and Policy Institutes. The minister was in Washington and London to defend the legitimacy of the just-concluded general elections and correct the imbalance in the skewed narrative which had pervaded the air on the polls. Addressing newsmen at…

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London detention: “British Govt. hasn’t apologised to me” – Peter Obi

Aminu Imam

Presidential Candidate of Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has denied receiving any letter of apology from the British government over his detention by immigration officials at Heathrow Airport in London. According to reports, the UK officials had detained Obi for committing several alleged financial crimes only to find out that he was being impersonated. Yesterday, rumours started making the rounds that the British authorities have apologised. But in an issued statement yesterday, Head, Obi-Datti Media Campaign, Diran Onifade, said, “We have been receiving enquiries with regards to a so called…

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Inciteful Comments: “Arrest Peter Obi, Datti Ahmed” – Northern Elders tell security forces

Aminu Imam

The Coalition of Northern Elders has called for the arrest of Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate in the February 25 election, Peter Obi. The group, which rose in meeting on Tuesday, called on the Nigerian security operatives to be alive to their responsibility, maintained that nothing must stop the inauguration of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu as the next Nigerian President on May 29, 2023. Accusing Obi and his Vice, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed of making inciting statements capable of disrupting the country’s democracy maintained that their…

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‘Real reason Peter Obi was detained, grilled in London’ – Campaign office

Aminu Imam

Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi was on Good Friday detained and questioned at the Heathrow Airport, London by UK immigration services due to someone impersonating him. Head of the Obi-Datti media team, Diran Onifade, in an issued statement yesterday, said the LP Presidential candidate arrived the Heathrow Airport in London from Nigeria on Good Friday, and joined the queue for the necessary Airport protocols when he was accosted by immigration officials who handed him a detention note and told him to step aside. Onifade said Obi was questioned for…

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Religious War: “Distance yourself from Peter Obi”, Fani-Kayode tells Christian leaders

Aminu Imam

Director of New Media of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council, Femi Fani-Kayode, has called on Christian leaders to admonish their followers against religious extremism and other acts that are inimical to Christianity. Fani-Kayode made this known through a Twitter post yesterday, as he charged Nigerian Christian leaders not to be dragged into what he described as a ‘religious war’. The APC chieftain said he was among the people that condemned the killings of Christians in the country when the majority of those who could speak against them kept…

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