Tag: Peter Obi

2023: “Peter Obi will get substantial votes in South-East, but Tinubu will win” – Umahi

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Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi, has said the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, cannot defeat the All Progressives Congress (APC) flagbearer, Bola Tinubu, in the 2023 general election. Speaking yesterday, after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, the governor said although Obi will get substantial votes in the South-East, Tinubu will win the presidential election. According to him, the “acceptability” the former Anambra governor has received does not mean he has what it takes to defeat the structure of the ruling APC.…

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2023 Presidency: 38,000 doctors, healthcare workers back Peter Obi, promise 25m votes

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No fewer than 38,000 Nigerian doctors and other health workers have thrown their weight behind the presidential bid of the Labour Party’s flag-bearer, Peter Obi. Speaking during the presentation of working tools by three support groups to the Labour Party’s campaign council at the party’s headquarters in Abuja on Monday, the convener of the group, calling itself: ‘Docs and Medics for Peter Obi“, Dr. Uche Uzoukwu, promised to deliver 25 million votes for the former Anambra State governor. The medical workers also promised to mobilise 25 million votes for the…

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2023: “Peter Obi, a capitalist whose ideology conflicts with that of Tinubu” – Atiku’s campaign Spokesman, Bwala

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The newly-appointed spokesperson for the Atiku Abubakar presidential campaign, Dr. Daniel Bwala, has said that the presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi, is a capitalist, whose ideology conflicts with that of the APC presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Bwala, who stated this during an interview on LibertyTV/Radio political programme: “Democracy in Practice“, on Friday, said Peter Obi’s so-called agenda was part of the PDP agenda for the 2023 general elections. Bwala, a legal practitioner with over ten years of experience, alongside former Senator, Dino Melaye, were on August 4…

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“Rig out Obi in 2023 and face crisis much worse than #EndSARS” – Ohanaeze Chieftain warns

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Former Anambra State chairman of the pan-Igbo socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chris Eluemuno, has warned that rigging the 2023 general election would result in a crisis worse than the #EndSARS demonstration. Eluemuno, who stated this to newsmen at his country home in Nkwelle-Ezunaka, Oyi local government area, Anambra State, on Thursday, said that for the fact that there will not be room for rigging the election, in light of the new Electoral Act provision, Obi is favoured to carry the day, because according to him, “Nigerians know that among all…

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“Satan campaigning against sin”, Reno Omokri blasts Peter Obi’s ‘consumption to production’ economic plan

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A former presidential aide to Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri, has said the campaign mantra of moving Nigeria from a ‘consumption’ to ‘production’ economy by the 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party, (LP), Peter Obi, can be likened to Satan speaking against sin. Irked with his campaign against consumption, Omokri, in a series of tweets made on his personal Twitter account, argued that Obi was the ‘greatest contributor to consumption in Nigeria’, noting that importers are among those killing the Naira. Obi has always spoken about the need to change…

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2023: IPOB rejects Peter Obi, Igbo presidency

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The banned Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB), has described as “laughable” a statement credited to the National Secretary, ‘Miyetti-Allah Kautal Hore’ Fulani socio-cultural association, Saleh Alhassan, linking it to the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi’s ‘OBIdient’ movement. In an issued press statement by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, IPOB warned that nobody should drag or link it with the politics of Obi. The group rejected the Labour Party presidential candidate, or any president of Igbo extraction, saying Nigeria was irredeemable. It said Alhassan’s statement was an insult to…

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2023: ‘Peter Obi needs N50bn to defeat Tinubu’, Says Fayose

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The younger brother to former Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, Isaac, has said the Labour Party, (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi, needs N50 billion to win the 2023 election. In a video, Fayose said Tinubu has both the structure and the money to become Nigeria’s next president. According to him, Obi’s online popularity is not enough to ensure his victory in 2023, stressing that he needs N50 billion to defeat the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu in 2023. He noted that the Labour Party presidential candidate lacks…

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2023: “We are not ‘Obidient’ in Enugu” – Archbishop Chukwuma 

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Ahead of the 2023 general elections, a renowned Archbishop of the Anglican Church of Nigeria, Enugu Ecclesiastical Province, Most Revd. Dr. E.O Chukwuma, has lashed out at the candidates and supporters of the Labour Party in Nigeria, saying Enugu State people would never be part of their controversial “Obidients” mantra. According to report, Archbishop Chukwuma who said this on Thursday, at Eziokwe village, Ndiagu Akpugo, Nkanu-West local government area of Enugu State, during the burial ceremony of a former military administrator of Osun and Abia States, Col. Anthony Obi (rtd),…

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2023: “We’ll return Nigeria to Nigerians” – Peter Obi

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The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has promised to return power back to the citizens. The former Anambra State Governor spoke at the Labour Party and Coalition for Peter Obi leadership summit in Abuja yesterday. According to Obi, in 2023, Nigerians would no longer allow “drivers that don’t know where we are going” to lead the country, adding that nobody knows where the country is heading. The Summit had coalition groups working for the presidential bid of the former Anambra State governor in attendance. Obi said…

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“Deliver us from insecurity; we’ve no other country except Nigeria” – Peter Obi

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The Presidential flag-bearer of Labour Party (LP) Peter Obi, has cried out to God to deliver Nigeria from the escalating insecurity currently facing the country among other challenges. Obi made the spiritual call yesterday night, during his worship with other dignitaries at Dunamis International Gospel Centre, headquartered in Abuja, the federal capital, as the Senior Pastor, Dr. Paul Enenche, led the congregation to pray for peace and security of the country. Thousands of worshippers had thronged the church for its Mid-Year Praise and Worship Night, to seek the face of…

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