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Sunday, 02 April 2023 12:20

I didn’t campaign for Obi or any other candidate - Oyedepo

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,…

Sunday, 02 April 2023 12:08

INEC announces senior lawyers to tackle Atiku, Obi, others at Election Tribunals

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…

Friday, 31 March 2023 02:02

DSS’ alarm of Interim Govt plot fake; it’s ploy to arrest PDP, LP presidential candidates - Atiku

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,…

Friday, 31 March 2023 02:01

Attempts to characterize OBIdient movement in ethnic, religious terms will fail - Obi

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…

Friday, 31 March 2023 02:00

NBA calls for live broadcast of court proceedings in Atiku, Obi’s election petitions

Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has called for the live broadcasts of court hearings on election petitions across the country, particularly the presidential election cases. NBA made this call in a communique issued at the end of its National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting held in Birnin-Kebbi, Kebbi State, on 23 March. The communique jointly signed by the NBA president, Yakubu Maikyau, and its general secretary, Adesina Adegbite, was released on Thursday. It said, with the confidence of Nigerians in the judiciary at its lowest ebb, broadcasting the hearings of election petitions live would help to to regain lost public trust. “In…

Friday, 31 March 2023 01:59

After Ayu’s exit as National Chair, PDP reverses disciplinary actions against Ortom, Shema, Anyim, Others

PRESS RELEASE National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at its meeting on Thursday, March 30, 2023 extensively discussed recent developments in the Party. The NWC recognized the imperativeness of a total reconciliation among Party leaders and critical stakeholders for a more cohesive Party in the overall interest of our teeming members and Nigerians in general. Consequent upon the above, the NWC reverses the referral of the Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom to the National Disciplinary Committee. The NWC in the same vein reverses the suspension of the following underlisted members of our great Party: Ibrahim…

Thursday, 30 March 2023 07:37

Interim Govt: Labour Party pushes back against DSS, says Nigerians won’t be intimidatedI’m

Labour Party has said it was confident that Nigerians wouldn’t be intimidated into abandoning their legitimate, legal right to seek judicial redress to reclaim their mandate which was freely given to the LP Presidential Candidate, Peter Obi which was brazenly stolen.Chief Spokesperson of the Labour Party, Yunusa Tanko, said this in response to an alarm raised by the Department of State Services, in Abuja, yesterday. The DSS alleged that some politicians were plotting to derail democracy through demonstrations and “obtaining frivolous court injunctions” to stop the inauguration of the President-Elect, Ahmed Tinubu. Yunusa said, “We are certain that Nigerians who…

Thursday, 30 March 2023 07:36

APC, PDP to DSS: Arrest advocates of Interim Govt

Presidential campaign councils of the All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party have challenged the Department of State Services to get tough with plotters of the interim national government. The councils, in separate interviews with our correspondents on Wednesday in Abuja, said the push for the ING was unconstitutional, adding that the plotters should be arrested. They spoke against the backdrop of a statement issued by the security agency that some people were plotting the ING. DSS had earlier on Wednesday raised the alarm over a plot by some Nigerians to thwart the May 29 inauguration of the President-elect,…

Wednesday, 29 March 2023 03:35

Tinubu nominates Kebbi gov, Wale Edun into Presidential Transition Council

Bola Tinubu, president-elect, has nominated Atiku Bagudu, governor of Kebbi state, as one of his representatives on the presidential transition council (PCT). The president-elect also nominated Olawale Edun, a board member of the ministry of finance incorporated (MOFI). Addressing a press conference in Abuja on Tuesday, Boss Mustapha, secretary to the government of the federation (SGF) and chairman of the council, said the nominees of Tinubu have since joined the “transition process”. “The presidential transition council which was inaugurated on February 24 is made up of 24 members which include two persons from the president-elect’s team,” NAN quoted him as…

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Wednesday, 29 March 2023 03:34

PDP replaces National Chairman Ayu with deputy after court order

National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has replaced Iyioricha Ayu as National Chairman. At an emergency meeting on Tuesday, the NWC acknowledged the order of the Benue State High Court, which barred Ayu from parading himself as Chairman of the opposition of the party. Addressing a press conference at the party headquarters in Abuja on Tuesday, Debo Ologunagba, National Publicity Secretary of the party, said after a careful consideration of the Court Order and in line with Section 45 (2) of the Constitution of the PDP (as amended in 2017), the NWC resolved that the Deputy…

Wednesday, 29 March 2023 03:32

Afenifere sacks two national officers over unauthorised statement condemning Iwuanyanwu

Afenifere, the Yoruba socio-political organisation, has suspended two of its national officers for issuing an “unauthorised statement” against Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu. The affected officers are Jare Ajayi, the national publicity secretary, and Kole Omololu, national organising secretary. The organisation issued the directive in a communiqué released at the end of its monthly general meeting, on Tuesday. The communiqué was signed by Ayo Adebanjo, Afenifere leader, and Sola Ebiseni, secretary-general. BACKGROUND Last Saturday, Iwuanyanwu, chairman of the council of elders, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, said there is no fight between the Igbo and Yoruba people in the country. He added that those destroying Igbo…

Tuesday, 28 March 2023 04:07

Pro-Tinubu/Yakubu protest turns violent in Abuja over ‘fee settlement’

A pro-Bola Tinubu protest, yesterday, in Abuja, turned violent over breach of monetary settlement by organisers to hired protesters. Organised under the aegis of The Natives to counter calls for the cancellation of the presidential polls and, some participants of the protest prior to its commencement unleashed violence on fellow protesters, passersby and motorists for over one hour. An eyewitness said organisers had failed to meet their own term to protesters, thus sparking anger and counter-protests. “Before the protesters hit the road, few of them, armed with daggers, broken bottles, cudgels, sticks and other weapons went gaga, attacked fellow protesters,…

Tuesday, 28 March 2023 04:06

Court restrains Ayu from parading self as PDP national chair

A high court in Benue state has granted an interim order restraining Iyorchia Ayu from parading himself as the national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). W.I. Kpochi, the presiding judge, gave the order on Monday while ruling on a motion ex parte marked MHC/633/2023 filed by Conrad Terhide Utaan. “An order of interim injunction restraining the 1st defendant lyorchia Ayu from parading himself as the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) having lost membership of the party, pending the hearing and determination of Motion on Notice already filed,” the judge ruled. “The application is supported by…

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