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*Kwankwaso in distant fourth *Sowore, Dumebi, 12 others score less than one per cent By: Mandy Park If the 2023 election is conducted today, Mr Peter Obi, Labour Party (LP), Presidential candidate will defeat Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Atiku Abubakar, that of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to emerge the next President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria after Muhammadu Buhari. That is the outcome of the result of the polls conducted by NOI, Nigeria’s most influential polling agency. NOI has maintained a…

By Mandy Park The forum of Northern Christians again reiterated its position on the same-faith ticket, insisting that APC will not be supported Recall that Bola Tinubu, a Muslim emerged as the presidential candidate of the APC while Kashim Shettima, a Muslim also was picked as his running mate According to Yakubu Dogara, they will soon meet with other presidential candidates and decide on who to support for the 2023 presidential election The problems facing the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) over its Muslim-Muslim ticket will not be going away…

…says spate of insecurity highly worrisome By Omocho Kalu Valentine Ozigbo, Anambra State governorship candidate in 2021, has condemned the deadly attack on the convoy of Senator Ifeanyi Ubah. Ubah is representing Anambra South at the Senate on the platform of Young People’s Party ( YPP). The attack by unknown assailants occurred on Sunday, September 11, 2022, in Enugwu-Ukwu in Njikoka LGA of Anambra State and left five of Senator Uba’s aides and security personnel dead and several others injured. In a statement issued from his campaign office in Awka,…

…election must be based on competence By Mandy Park Labour Party’s (LP) Presidential Candidate, Peter Obi, has said that the 2023 presidential election must not be based on, religious, ethnic and other unnecessary entitlement sentiments but purely on capacity that would deliver and change the fate of the country. He spoke at the party’s ongoing leadership forum in Abuja.Said Obi “Election next year must not be based on religion or ethnicity. It must not be based in connection. It must not be based on turn. It is nobody’s turn. Election…

By Mandy Park A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has given permission to the Department of State Services (DSS) to detain the former terrorists’ negotiator, Tukur Mamu, for 60 more days. Justice Nkeonye Maha granted the ex-parte motion moved by counsel for the DSS, Ahmed Magaji. Mamu who was arrested on September 6 on his way to Saudi Arabia for lesser Hajj was detained at Cairo International Airport before being he was flown back to the country. The DSS, in the motion marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/1617/2022 dated and filed September 12,…

…says Obi not on tour for fund-raising By Omocho Kalu The Obi-Datti Media Office, has flayed the allegations that the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, currently on tour in Europe and America, is on fund-raising exercise. The denial comes on the heels of demands by members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to sanction LP for allegedly violating the electoral laws that forbid external fundings for contestants. In a release, the Office explained that Obi’s tour is essentially to sensitise Nigerians in…

By Omocho Kalu The Director General of Obi-Datti Campaign organization, Dr. Doyin Okupe, has reacted to falsehood of a deal between the Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) standard bearer, Atiku Abubakar. Okupe, who made rebuttal in a statement, described the insinuations as fallacious lies on Obi. Okupe stressed that Obi has no reason to go into any pact with Atiku or any other candidate, given that he is over and above any of them in reckoning and acceptance by Nigerians at home…