Tag: Peter Obi

2023: Keyamo rejects poll projecting Obi as leading candidate

Aminu Imam

..Says it’s deliberately skewed Spokesperson of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign council, Festus Keyamo, has rejected the outcome of the pre-election opinion poll commissioned by Anap Foundation, a non-profit organisation. The poll result, which was released on Wednesday, projected Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) as the leading presidential candidate ahead of the 2023 elections. The result of the poll, conducted in December, showed that 23 percent of respondents expressed their interest to vote for Obi if the election was held at the time, while Bola Tinubu…

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2023: Jubilation mood as Southern Kaduna stakeholders endorse Peter Obi

Aminu Imam

Stakeholders of the Labour Party, LP, in Southern Kaduna have endorsed the party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, and the LP governorship candidate in the State, Jonathan Asake. The stakeholders and party supporters declared their support at a sensitisation rally and meeting, which was held in Kafanchan, the headquarters of Jema’a local government area of Kaduna State at the weekend. The Labour Party supporters, who vowed to give them block votes in the 2023 general elections, described Obi as the best candidate for the presidential seat. According to them, he has the…

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Peter Obi 2023: “Nobody can threaten me over my preferred candidate” – Obasanjo

Aminu Imam

Amid claims that he is backing Peter Obi, the Labour Party (LP) flag bearer, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, has said nobody can threaten him over his choice of a presidential candidate. Obasanjo, who disclosed this at the Ohanaeze Ndigbo National Secretariat in Enugu State, said he had shed blood and gone to prison, hence nobody could threaten him about his choice of a presidential candidate. The former president had visited the Secretariat in the company of Afenifere’s leader, Pa Ayo Adebanjo and Obi. They visited the Secretariat to pay condolences…

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2023: “I’ve cleared all ‘roadblocks’ for Peter Obi in the North” – Datti Ahmed

Aminu Imam

The vice-presidential Candidate of the Labour Party (LP) Datti Baba-Ahmed, says his principal, Peter Obi, is now well accepted among the people of Northern Nigeria, as he has demolished all roadblocks in the region for him. According to permutations by some political analysts, while Obi is popular among the youths in the Southern part of the country, he is relatively unknown in the Northern part. The analysts have therefore predicted that Obi’s lack of popularity and acceptance among voters in the North could be the biggest headache for him in…

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Labour Party, Peter Obi releases campaign manifesto for 2023

Aminu Imam

The Labour Party (LP) has released its manifesto tagged: “It’s POssible”, which will be formally unveiled to Nigerians, yesterday. According to the Head of Media of the Presidential Campaign Council of the party, Diran Onifade, the candidate, Peter Obi, was part of those who produced the manifesto, unlike other parties where the candidates have no idea of the contents of such document. In the 62-page manifesto, the Peter Obi campaign anchored it on seven thematic areas. These are security, production, institutional reforms, the industrial revolution, infrastructural development, human capital development, and robust…

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2023: Northern Christian politicians deny endorsing Peter Obi

Aminu Imam

…Distances self from Babachir Some prominent Northern politicians have distanced themselves from a group, led by a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Babachir Lawal, which endorsed the Labour Party presidential candidate for the 2023 general elections, Peter Obi. The group, purporting to comprise some Northern Christian politicians, coordinated by one Lawal, had reportedly endorsed Obi as its preferred candidate for the 2023 poll. In an issued statement released in Abuja, Lawal was reported to have said that the group settled for Peter Obi, after a painstaking…

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“Nigeria’s cost of governance, criminality, corruption has reached unacceptable level” – Peter Obi

Aminu Imam

The presidential candidate of Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has stressed that the cost of governance in Nigeria, criminality and corruption within government space has reached an unacceptable level. He said there was need to take drastic measures to reduce the trends. Obi stated this in Gboko, Benue State, while speaking to newsmen after he addressed the NKST Synod in Mkar, Gboko local government area of Benue State. According to him, “There is no government that has eliminated everything but ours is at unacceptable level. We must reduce it to…

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2023: “I will support you” – Wike assures Peter Obi

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Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has asked Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers, to support his bid for the presidency. Obi said this yesterday, during the inauguration of the Nkpolu Oroworukwo flyover in Port Harcourt, the Rivers capital. The LP candidate said he will ensure better opportunities for Rivers state if he’s elected president. He commended Wike for his performance in Rivers, adding that Port Harcourt has the potential to be the “export city” of Nigeria and advised Wike to remain consistent in his principles, and said…

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2023: “We’ve dragged Soludo to our deities over Obi” – Ohanaeze

Aminu Imam

The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has lashed out at Anambra State governor, Charles Soludo, over his statement on the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, (LP), Peter Obi. Recall that Soludo, in a lengthy letter on Monday, lashed out at Obi, stating that he knows that he can’t and won’t win the presidency. He maintained that Obi was not ready for the presidential race, declaring he was merely catching a cruise. However, the organisation, in an issued statement signed by its Secretary-General, Okechukwu Isiguzoro, yesterday, said it had…

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“Peter Obi cannot win 2023 Presidency” – Soludo

Aminu Imam

Anambra State Governor, Chukwuma Soludo has declared that Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, will not win the 2023 poll. Soludo stated this yesterday, in an article titled: ‘History beckons and I will not be silent (Part 1)’. He said: “Let’s be clear; Peter Obi knows that he can’t and won’t win. He knows the game he is playing, and we know too, and he knows that we know. “The game he is playing is the main reason he didn’t return to APGA. The brutal truth (and some will say, God…

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