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Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has accused the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, of inciting violence following the outcome of the Presidential election. The allegation was made during the minister's official engagements with international media organisations in Washington DC, USA. Mohammed criticised Obi for seeking legal recourse while at the same time urging people to take to the street. He further accused Obi and his running mate, Datti Baba-Ahmed, of threatening Nigerians by suggesting that the election of Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) would spell the end of democracy in Nigeria, which…
Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has responded to allegation by the Federal Government of Nigeria of inciting insurrection with a tweet on his verified twitter handle: “In the past few days, I have observed various campaigns of calumny directed at my person, with the latest being allegations attributed to the information Minister, Lai Mohammed from Washington DC. “It is most unfortunate that these consistent efforts to portray me quite contrary to what I am, and my core values, is coming from such high quarters. Minister Lai accusing me of stoking insurrection is totally malicious and fictitious. “I have never…
National Human Rights Commission, an agency of the Federal Government of Nigeria, has released a report detailing incidents of voter suppression and other human rights violations during the 2023 general election. The report identifies Lagos, Rivers, Imo, Ebonyi, and Bayelsa as states where the commission documented cases of voter suppression. The report also notes 22 incidents of hate speech during the elections. The project, organised in collaboration with the United Nations Human Rights Resident in Nigeria, Ford Foundation, and the Legal Defence and Assistance Project, was initiated to tackle voter apathy. According to the Executive Secretary of NHRC, Tony Ojukwu,…
Olisa Agbakoba, a former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, has called on the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal to conclude the petitions regarding the February 25 presidential election before the inauguration of a new president on May 29. Although the Independent National Electoral Commission declared All Progressives Congress candidate Bola Tinubu the winner, the candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party and Labour Party, Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi respectively, who came in second and third, rejected the outcome and filed petitions to challenge it. In a statement released to the media on Monday, Agbakoba urged the tribunal to adopt procedures…
Clashes between supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Port Harcourt, Rivers State resulted in multiple injuries. Among the injured was the APC governorship candidate, Tonye Cole, who sustained a neck injury. Earlier, PDP members had protested outside the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) office demanding a joint inspection of election materials. On Monday, APC supporters, led by Cole and state chairman Emeka Beke, also gathered at the INEC office to demand the release of certified true copies of documents used in the March 18th governorship election. When PDP protesters spotted Cole, they…
During a sermon yesterday at the Living Faith Church headquarters in Ogun State, the presiding Bishop, David Oyedepo denied claims that he campaigned for the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, before the February 25, elections. This comes after an online newspaper, Peoples Gazette, released an audio recording where former Anambra State Governor Peter Obi solicited Oyedepo's support to secure votes from Christians in the Southwest for the 2023 presidential election. In the recording, Obi urged Oyedepo to use his influence to encourage Christians to vote for him. However, in response to these claims, Oyedepo stated that he had never…
Sunday, 02 April 2023 12:11

Obi speaks on leaked audio with Oyedepo

The Labour Party (LP) campaign council has accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) of attempting to discredit Peter Obi, the LP's presidential candidate. The council responded to a leaked audio clip that purportedly features Obi and David Oyedepo, the founder of Winners Chapel. In the audio clip, a voice that sounds similar to Obi's can be heard asking the cleric to persuade Christians in the southwest and Kwara to vote for him in the presidential election, describing the contest as a "religious war." In a statement issued on Sunday, the LP campaign's head, Diran Onifade, and chief spokesperson, Yunusa Tanko,…
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has selected a team of legal experts to defend the results of Nigeria's February 25 presidential election. Nine Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs) have been appointed for the task, with former Nigerian Bar Association President Abubakar Mahmoud leading the team. Other members of the team include Stephen Adehi, Oluwakemi Pinheiro, Miannaya Essien, and Abdullahi Aliyu. In addition, four SANs from INEC’s legal department, Garba Hassan, Musa Attah, and Patricia Obi, have also been selected. The commission has allocated over N3 billion for the defense of the results of both the presidential and national assembly elections…
Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has challenged the Department of State Services (DSS) to disclose identities of those planning to instal an interim government. On Wednesday, the secret police, in a statement by its spokesman, Peter Afunaya, said it had confirmed a plot by some key players to install an interim government and stop the president-elect, Bola Tinubu from being inaugurated on May 29. The DSS said the plot includes embarking on violent protests nationwide to engineer the declaration of a state of emergency as well as securing frivolous court injunctions to stall the inauguration. But Atiku,…
Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has stressed that every attempt by his traducers to ascribe religious or ethnic colouration to the ‘Obidient’ movement would not see the light of the day. Obi, in series of tweets on his verified Twitter handle, yesterday, said there was no going back on the movement’s goal of repositioning Nigeria. He wrote: “In the life of every nation, there is a turning point. For Nigeria, that time is now; a time to save Nigeria, save our democracy, and give the Nigerian youths hope. “The OBIdient Movement has been the arrowhead in the…
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