Tag: Peter Obi

2023 Presidency: Peter Obi launches website for donations, campaign

Aminu Imam

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has unveiled the official campaign website for the Obi-Datti Campaign organisation ahead of the forthcoming 2023 general elections. Obi announced this yesterday, via his official Twitter account, urging ‘OBIdients’ to use the website to support, donate in cash and kind to the campaign. He encouraged his supporters to visit the official campaign website for the Obi-Datti Campaign organisation. The former Anambra State governor wrote: “I invite every member of the OBIdient family, and every supporter of our march to a…

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2023: “It’s in our best interest to work against Peter Obi” – APGA

Aminu Imam

The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) has said it has no plans to work for the presidential aspiration of the Labour Party candidate, Peter Obi, for the 2023 general elections. The national coordinator, APGA Media Warriors Forum, Chinedu Obigwe, who said this at a press conference in Awka, Anambra State, yesterday, insisted that it was in the best interest of the party to work against Obi in favour of APGA candidates. According to Obigwe, APGA faithful have remained committed to working in favour of all its candidates in the elections. …

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Obasanjo, AbdulSalami, Tinubu, Atiku, Obi, for Lar’s biography book launch

Aminu Imam

All is now set for the 2022 Public Presentation of the official Biography and launching of the Solomon Lar Leadership Institute today, Thursday, in Abuja. According to the chairman, Planning Committee of the event, and former Director-General of the National Orientation Agency (NOA), Dr. Mike Omeri, eminent Nigerians across the political spectre, including former leaders – Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida (rtd), Gen. AbdulSalami Abubakar (rtd), and notable presidential candidates: Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Peter Obi and chieftains of the political parties, business and family associates, have…

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“Peter Obi will be disgraced in 2023” – Mbaka tells ‘Obidients’

Aminu Imam

Fiery Catholic priest and Spiritual Director of Adoration Ministry Enugu, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka, have given reasons why Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, can never win the presidency in 2023. The cleric, who was speaking during one of his programmes in Enugu, described the former Anambra Governor as a stingy man, insisting that he would never become president. Mbaka, who had in an earlier viral video apologised to Obi over scathing remarks he made about him during the 2019 elections, said he did that under duress because of his…

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2023: Disquiet in Afenifere over Adebanjo’s support for Peter Obi

Aminu Imam

The crack in the pan-Yoruba group, Afenifere, last week became a gulf, following the declared support of its leader, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, for the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi. For the past few months, the organisation has been divided over two presidential candidates, with Peter Obi, of Igbo extraction, and Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu, of the All Progressives Congress, (APC). The division arises from the fact that some members such as Chief Olu Falae have rejected such support on the basis that instead, a Yoruba in the…

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2023 Campaign: “Nigeria needs independence from corruption, poverty” – Peter Obi at rally

Aminu Imam

…Flexes muzzle in Lagos with huge crowd at rallies The Presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi pulled a huge crowd in Lagos on Saturday in rallies held in four areas of the State. The rallies were held in Lekki, Surulere, Ikeja and FESTAC. There were large crowds in the various areas the rallies were held. In Surulere, a huge crowd was seen drumming support for the presidential aspiration of Obi. According to Obi, despite the challenges affecting the country, there is hope for a better future. “As a nation…

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2023: ‘No rally is allowed at Lagos Lekki Tollgate’ – Lagos Police warn Peter Obi, supporters

Aminu Imam

The Lagos State Police Command has warned the Labour Party’s Presidential candidate, Peter Obi and his supporters not to hold any rally at the Lekki Tollgate today, Saturday. Obi’s supporters had planned to hold a rally for their candidate at the Lekki Tollgate on Independence Day, but a Federal High Court in Lagos had stopped them from doing so. The court ordered the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) and the Lagos Commissioner of Police to ensure that the order is enforced. However, a statement issued by the Command’s spokesman, Benjamin Hundeyin,…

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2023: “We’ll shock el-Rufa’i with massive outing this weekend” – ‘Obidients’

Aminu Imam

Supporters of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, under the aegis of ‘Youth in Diaspora Coalition’, on Wednesday promised to shock Kaduna State governor, Nasir el-Rufa’i, by way of organising a “Peter Obi-massive-march” in Kaduna this Saturday. Recall that el-Rufa’i had via his social media handle a few weeks ago doubted the possibility of the labour party flag-bearer to get up to even 200 people to declare their support for him in the State. Addressing newsmen on the sideline of the distribution of branded aprons and…

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Rally: Court orders Obi’s supporters not to converge at Lekki toll gate

Aminu Imam

A Federal High Court in Lagos, yesterday, ordered the Labour Party (LP) and its supporters not to converge at the Lekki Toll Gate in furtherance of its planned #Obidatti23 Rally, scheduled for Oct. 1. The presiding judge, Justice Daniel Osiagor, made the order following an application brought by 10 persons seeking, among others things, to restrain the party its presidential candidate, Peter Obi; Obi’s running mate, Yusuf Baba-Ahmed, and their loyalists from holding the rally. The plaintiffs include Adedotun Ajulo, Salamatu Lewi, Hakeem Ijaduola, Ogunbona Akinpelu and Owolabi Oluwasegun. The…

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Amidst $5bn revenue loss in 2 months, Peter Obi accuses govt. agencies of massive crude oil theft

Aminu Imam

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, (LP), Peter Obi, says people in the Government are responsible for the massive oil theft that has blocked Nigeria from benefiting from the boom in oil prices and deprived its economy of the much-needed petrodollars. Obi, who stated this during the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) private-sector economic forum yesterday, said, “People in the Government are the ones stealing oil. Nobody here can steal oil. He added that: “There’s no way under my watch that we will not find a solution…

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