Tag: Peter Obi

FG levels treason allegation against Peter Obi over comment on Tinubu

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…”It’s malicious” – Obi The Federal Government has accused the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, (LP), in the 2023 election, Peter Obi, of treason, saying he is inciting people to violence over the outcome of the presidential poll. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, disclosed this in Washington DC, USA, during his official engagements with some international media organisations on the just-concluded 2023 polls. Mohammed said Obi and his running mate, Datti Baba-Ahmed, claimed that Nigeria’s democracy will come to an end if Bola Tinubu, the President-elect,…

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Leaked Phone Call: “Obi’s dream of becoming President has died naturally” – Keyamo

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Spokesman for All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council, Festus Keyamo, has mocked the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, saying his ambition to become Nigeria’s president has just hit the rock. A leaked phone call between the former Anambra State Governor and Bishop David Oyedepo, of the Living Faith Church, has elicited barrage of criticism from Nigerians, who slammed Obi for playing dangerous politics of religion in the country. Keyamo, who reacted to Obi’s leaked phone call with Oyedepo in a statement on Sunday, chided Christian leaders in the…

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Incitement: Keyamo petitions DSS, demands Peter Obi’s arrest

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A  spokesperson for the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council, Festus Keyamo, has petitioned the Department of State Services, (DSS) asking the secret police to arrest the candidate of the Labour Party, (LP), Peter Obi, in the just-concluded presidential election. Keyamo, currently Minister of State for Labour and Employment, asked DSS to arrest and prosecute Obi and his running mate, Datti-Ahmed over alleged “incitement and treasonable felony.” In the petition addressed to the Director General, Department of State Services, (DSS), and dated March 23, the minister opined that in…

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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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2023: ‘Peter Obi is Nigeria’s most dangerous, divisive politician’ – Tinubu’s campaign council

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The All Progressives Congress, (APC’s Presidential Campaign Council, (APC-PCC) has described Labour Party, (LP)’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi as Nigeria’s most dangerous and divisive politician. Special adviser on Media and Communication, APC-PCC, Dele Alake, at a news conference in Abuja, said, “For Obi, he would go down as Nigeria’s most dangerous and divisive politician. He elevated his well-known clannish mentality to a most unfortunate height by openly anchoring his campaign on religion and ethnicity”. According to him, “Obi presented himself as a poster boy for and a champion of our…

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2023: Presidential Election Tribunal begins sitting

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…Grants Atiku, Obi’s requests to inspect poll materials Presidential Election Petition Tribunal sitting at the Court of Appeal, Abuja, has granted the request of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, and his Labour Party (LP) counterpart, Peter Obi, to inspect the election materials used during last Saturday’s presidential poll. Atiku and Obi had approached the Tribunal seeking permission for the inspection of election materials used during last Saturday’s poll. Shortly after the results of the election were announced, Atiku and Obi refused to concede defeat in the…

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2023 Election Results: Tinubu replies Obi, Atiku 

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…Assemblies legal team to battle LP, PDP in court President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has described as nonsensical the insinuation that time variation in uploading results caused changes in figures of last Saturday’s 2023 presidential election. He argued that the claim that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) did not use the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) was false. Tinubu further maintained that those who voted across Nigeria, including candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku and his Labour Party (LP) counterpart, Peter Obi, were accredited with BVAS. Speaking through…

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“Obi has no pathway to victory | Race is between Tinubu and Atiku” – Dele Alake

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Director of Strategic Communication of the all Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council, Dele Alake, says the Labour Party, (LP) does not have a pathway to victory in the coming election. Speaking at a press conference in Abuja yesterday, Alake said the race to the presidential villa is between Bola Tinubu, presidential candidate of the APC, and Atiku Abubakar, flagbearer of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP). He said opinion polls, such as ANAP/NOI and Nextier, are creating grounds for unrest, and have given the presidential candidate of the LP,  false…

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2023: “Attempts to deny Obi presidency if he wins will spell doom for Nigeria” – Ohanaeze

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The leadership of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide has appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari and the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), not to succumb to the antics of some political class who are reportedly plotting to subvert the choice of Nigerians during Saturday’s polls. The group further warned that on no account should nobody deny the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi his right if elected, noting that attempts to subvert the will of Nigerians would spell doom for the country. The Secretary-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, Okechukwu Isiguzoro, who stated…

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