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Thursday, 22 December 2022 05:46

Obi, again, leads Tinubu, Atiku in new presidential pre-election opinion poll

A presidential pre-election opinion poll commissioned by Anap Foundation, a non-profit organisation, has placed Peter Obi of the Labour Party as the leading candidate. The poll results, released on Wednesday, projected that Obi is ahead among four leading candidates for the 2023 presidential election. The three other candidates are Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP). The result of the poll, which was conducted in December, showed that 23 percent of respondents proposed to vote for Obi if the election was…

Wednesday, 21 December 2022 05:45

Doyin Okupe resigns from Peter Obi’s campaign

A day after his conviction for money laundering, Doyin Okupe, Tuesday announced his withdrawal from the campaign of Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party. Until his conviction and eventual resignation, Okupe, 70, was the Director-General of the Labour Party Presidential Campaign Organisation. He announced his resignation on Tuesday evening using his well-known Twitter handle. “It’s time to step aside. But I am with PO and the Obidients and the Presidential Campaigns till God gives us victory in Jesus Name (sic),” tweeted Okupe, reiterating his support for Mr Obi (“PO”) and supporters (“Obidients”). In a letter attached to…

Tuesday, 20 December 2022 06:05

Atiku just might win next year’s presidential election - Financial Times

No one in Nigerian history has run for president more times than Atiku Abubakar. The top prize has eluded him on each occasion. In February, the former vice-president will make his sixth attempt as Nigerians choose a replacement for outgoing president Muhammadu Buhari. This time, political aides and analysts say, the complicated electoral maths of Africa’s largest economy may count in his favour. “It is a life-long ambition and as long as I’m alive and strong and healthy, I will continue pursuing it,” Abubakar told the Financial Times at his suite in one of Lagos’s most luxurious hotels after a…

Thursday, 15 December 2022 05:59

Northern Elders reveal why politicians are buying millions of voters cards in the North

Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has said millions of northerners who have obtained their Permanent Voters’ Cards (PVCs) are selling them to politicians for less than N2,000. A statement yesterday by the Director Publicity and Advocacy of NEF, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, said the electorate and especially women, were being deceived to sell their PVCs for less than N2,000, an action he described as a ploy to disenfranchise some Nigerians in the North. Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had said politicians were buying PVCs from registered voters to harvest their Voter Identification Numbers (VIN) ahead of the elections NEF said irrespective of which…

Tuesday, 13 December 2022 05:53

Who; me, Senate? Never! - El- Rufai

Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has explained why he would never contest election to the Senate to become a lawmaker like some of his colleagues in the country. He said he does not have the patience to function in that capacity, adding that a lawmaker requires hard work, unlike the executive where decisions could be taken with the right to hire and fire. El-Rufai spoke at the Distinguished Parliamentarians Lecture 2022 organised by the National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies (NILDS) in Abuja on Monday. He was the Chairman of the event. “The legislature is one I know…

Tuesday, 13 December 2022 05:51

Southwest group calls for parley with presidential candidates

PRESS RELEASE South West Development Stakeholders Forum, comprising civil society organisations, professionals, and religious leaders met on Thursday, 8th December 2022. The Forum called for a parley with presidential candidates of major political parties as soon as possible, in Ibadan, Oyo State. The Southwest is the industrial and commercial engine room of Nigeria. All indexes clearly show that the Nigerian economy is driven by economic activities in the Southwest of Nigeria. Given its growing population of more than 50 million residents, its historical trajectory as the commercial nerve centre of Nigeria, its strategic political importance, and huge potential in driving…

Saturday, 10 December 2022 05:57

Emefiele using CBN’s cashless policy to punish politicians in retaliation for failed political moves - Adamawa gov

Governor of Adamawa State, Ahmadu Fintiri, has accused Central Bank Governor, Godwin Emefiele, of targeting the political class with the cash withdrawal limit policy unveiled by the apex bank on Tuesday. Controversies have continued to trail the planned policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria to limit daily cash withdrawal for individuals to N20,000 daily and N100,000 and N500,000 per week for individuals and corporate bodies respectively. But Governor Fintiri, who was reacting to the new CBN policy during a campaign engagement in Kala’a, Hong Local Government Area, said it was evident that the policy by Emefiele was targeted at…

Wednesday, 07 December 2022 04:15

2023: ‘We’ll not allow anyone to use money and thugs to intimidate the people’ - Buhari

Federal government will not allow intimidation to gain votes in next February's presidential election, President Muhammadu Buhari said on Tuesday. Nigerians will head to the polls on Feb. 25 to select a successor to Buhari, who cannot run because the constitution does not permit him to serve more than two consecutive terms. Bola Tinubu from Buhari's ruling All Progressives Congress party, main opposition People's Democratic Party's Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi from the smaller Labour Party are the main contenders. Past elections have been marred by deadly violence and intimidation, ballot snatching, vote buying and allegations of rigging, which have…

Tuesday, 06 December 2022 05:40

Tinubu asks El-Rufai, others to answer questions posed to him at Chatham House

The electioneering of the Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, took an intriguing twist on Monday at the Chatham House in London as he delegated some members of the party to respond to questions posed to him. Tinubu was in Chatham House to speak to Nigerians in the Diaspora on why he should be elected in 2023. After his presentation which was livestreamed on Arise TV, some members of the audience asked him some questions bordering on insecurity, oil theft, education and economy and how he planned to address crises in those areas if he became…

Saturday, 03 December 2022 05:56

INEC announces dates, locations for collection of PVCs

Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has fixed dates for prospective voters to collect their permanent voter cards (PVC). In a statement on Friday, Festus Okoye, INEC’s national commissioner and chairman, information and voter education committee, said the commission met on Thursday and deliberated on a number of issues, including the dates for PVC collection. Okoye said the commission has fixed December 12, 2022 to January 22, 2023 as the dates for the collection of PVCs in all the 774 LGAs. He added that all valid registrants can collect their PVCs from 9am to 3pm daily — including Saturdays and Sundays.…

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Thursday, 01 December 2022 06:09

Saudi palace coup: Inside details of how Crown Prince MBS rose to power

The Saudi prince was detained all night. As daylight broke, he staggered out of the king’s palace in Mecca. His personal bodyguards, who tailed him everywhere, were missing. The prince was led to a waiting car. He was free to leave – but he would soon discover that freedom was not very different from detention. As his car pulled out of the palace gates, Prince Mohammed bin Nayef fired off a series of panicked text messages. “Be very careful! Don’t come back!” he wrote to his most trusted adviser, who had quietly slipped out of the kingdom just weeks earlier.…

Tuesday, 29 November 2022 06:03

Osun Assembly pushes back against Adeleke, says new gov can’t change state’s name

Osun state house of assembly says the state will continue to be referred to as ‘state of Osun’ as against ‘Osun state’. The development was announced on Monday in a statement by Kunle Akande, the house committee chairman on media and publicity. In his inauguration speech on Sunday, Ademola Adeleke, the Osun governor, ordered an immediate reversal to ‘Osun state’ instead of ‘state of Osun’, which was adopted during the Rauf Aregbesola administration. Speaking on the development, the Osun assembly said the adoption of ‘state of Osun’ is “a matter of law”. “The usage of the state anthem, crest and…

Tuesday, 29 November 2022 06:02

Senate president Lawan remains out of 2023 Yobe senatorial contest as Appeal Court affirms Machina

The Court of Appeal in Abuja has affirmed the nomination of Bashir Sheriff Machina as the authentic candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for Yobe North Senatorial District. A three-member panel led by Monica Dagban-Mensah on Monday upheld the judgment of the Federal High Court in Damaturu, which had earlier upheld Machina’s nomination. The appellate court observed that the APC argued its case and that of Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, in its brief, but failed to make him a co-appellant, instead of being the 2nd respondent. Lawan, who lost the APC presidential primary to a former Lagos governor, Bola…

Tuesday, 29 November 2022 06:01

Appeal Court reinstates Adebutu, others as Ogun PDP candidates for 2023 elections

The Court of Appeal in Ibadan, Oyo State has reinstated Oladipupo Adebutu as the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ogun State. The court also reinstated the three senatorial candidates, nine House of Representatives and 26 House of Assembly candidates, who all emerged from the party’s primaries. It would be recalled that O. O. Oguntoyinbo of the Federal High Court Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, had on September 27, declared the primaries that produced Adebutu and other PDP candidates invalid. The court ordered the party to conduct fresh primaries within 14 days. Adebutu and the PDP, however,…

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