From what I am seeing and have seen, the man is the biggest phenomenon in Nigeria since MKO Abiola (for those too young to understand who MKO was in the political space thirty years ago) What is happening around the country right now especially in the South of Nigeria with the Obi Hurricane is something unprecedented. I have looked at my political map again today and I have been poring at strategies, permutations and possibilities all day. Peter Obi, RIGHT NOW, will overwhelmingly win 14 states in Nigeria, if the…
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Democracy Day: Obi tasks leaders on good governance, preaches hope to Nigerians
By Omocho Kalu Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has tasked leaders at all levels in the country to see the Democracy Day as an opportunity to reflect and recommit themselves to their constitutional responsibility of providing good governance to the people. Obi made the remark in his Democracy Day message, just as he decried the rising insecurity, poverty and unemployment, calling on leaders to take urgent decisive action to stop total failure of our country. He noted with pains that even with her abundant human and material resources,…
Read More2023: Labour Party will win the presidency with 100m Nigerians as its structure—- Peter Obi
By Omocho Kalu Presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi, who is among the top three presidential contenders, said the elderly, our mothers, fathers, as well as the old ones dying of being owed gratuity/pension will be the structure to facilitate his victory. Obi, is confident in winning the presidential election with the over 100 million human structure on which the party stands. . The former Anambra State governor, via his Twitter handle today, Sunday, June 12, noted that his structure would be about human beings United on one purpose……
Read MoreBREAKING: APC primaries: Amaechi breaks silence after losing to Tinubu, reveals next action
By Mandy Park Former Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Amaechi, has spoken for the first time since his defeat at the Presidential primaries of the All Progressives Congress, APC. Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the national leader of the APC and former Lagos State Governor, Tinubu, scored 1,271 to defeat his closest challenger, Rotimi Amaechi, who polled 316 in the national convention. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, came third in the primaries, polling 235, Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, scored 152 votes, while Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello managed 47 delegates votes. Amaechi, in a…
Read MoreDeadlock over Governor Wike as Atiku searches for running mate
By Mandy Park The insistence of the supporters of Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike on his nomination is causing a stalemate in the search for the running mate for the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar. Atiku won the presidential primary of the PDP on May 29 and has since been consulting with the leaders of the party on his vice presidential pick. The party has until June 17 to submit its list of candidates for all elective offices in the 2023 general elections to the…
Read MoreAPC presidential primaries: You can now lick your wounds – Tinubu tells Ahmed Lawan
By Mandy Park The national leader and presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has told the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, that he can now lick his wounds. Tinubu said this in his victory speech after he was declared winner of the party’s presidential contest of the ruling party. He said he was a little bit agitated that the Senate President Lawan contested the position with him, but hailed the lawmaker for being cool-headed and doing his best service to the nation at the Senate. “I would have been…
Read MoreBREAKING: Ahmad Lawan: Crisis Hits APC As Northern Govs Insist Power Must Shift To South
By Mandy Park The announcement of Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, as the consensus presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has sparked a fresh crisis in the ruling party. This comes after northern governors elected on the APC platform have rejected his emergence as the party’s consensus for the February 25 presidential election. THE WHISTLER earlier reported that 11 serving and former governors of the party had kicked against President Muhammadu Buhari’s entreaty to be allowed to single-handedly decide who emerges as the party’s 2023 presidential candidate “After careful…
Read MoreOwo massacre despicable, callous, assault on humanity and desecration of the church of God – Anyim
By Omocho Kalu Former President of the Senate, Anyim Pius Anyim has condemned in strongest term the massacre of Christians by gunmen at the St Francis Catholic Church in Owo, Ondo State on Sunday, 5 June, describing it as despicable and callous. In a statement issued on Sunday in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Anyim said the killing of the worshippers during Sunday service was despicable, callous, as well as an assault on humanity and desecration of the Church of God.He wondered why the evil men could enter into…
Read MoreOndo Catholic Church attack, cowardly, inhuman says Peter Obi
By Omocho Kalu Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate and former Anambra State governor, Peter Obi, has outrightly condemned the attack on St Francis Catholic Church, Owo, Ondo State on Sunday, by gunmen, describing it as cowardly and inhuman. Obi who made the remark in reaction to the early morning attack on the church, condemned the unwarranted assault on innocent worshippers, adding that the action by the gunmen represented the worst form of bestiality against the society. “There is no part of Nigeria that deserves to be attacked. But choosing a…
Read MorePresidency 2023: P-Square’s Peter Tackles Dele Momodu Over Take On Peter Obi, LP
2023 Presidential candidate
By Mandy Park Peter Okoye, Nigerian musician of P-Square fame, has taken a swipe at Dele Momodu, Ovation Magazine publisher and presidential aspirant, over claims that Peter Obi, a presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), cannot win the 2023 presidency. Reacting to Momodu’s assertion, Okoye, in a series of tweets on Twitter, averred that Obi might not have money and structure but he has the youths and masses behind him, stressing that the 2023 election was beyond delegates as the masses would control the outcome of the election. Tweeted…
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