Nigerian presidential candidates; Bola Tinubu, Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi are among dignitaries invited to grace an event to pay tributes to the late MKO Abiola on June 12. Anthony Kila, chairman of the event’s organising committee, announced this in a statement on Friday. On June 12, 1993, Abiola...
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has set a June 17th, 2022 deadline for presidential candidates to name their running mates. It also set a July 15th deadline for state elections. INEC Chairman Prof. Mahmood Yakubu said this in a statement on the commission’s social media pages. “Similarly, the...
The crisis rocking Labour party appears to be festering as a faction of the party led by Mr Calistus Okafor has held its National Convention to elect Ambassador Jude Ezenwafor as its presidential flagbearer. “What we are doing here today is to elect a man who is worthy to...
Former National Chairman of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Senator Victor Umeh has dumped the party for the Labour Party. On Friday, he clinched the party’s ticket for the Anambra Central senatorial seat for the 2023 general elections after participating in Labour’s primary election. Umeh will battle Senator Uche...
The presidential candidate of the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP), Rabiu Kwankwaso, has said the former governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, could have been his running. Kwankwaso, a former governor of Kano State, spoke on Monday following speculations that the-now presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) was...
Former Anambra State Governor, Peter Obi, has emerged as the presidential candidate of the Labour Party ahead of the forthcoming general elections. His emergence as the party’s flagbearer follows his victory at the presidential primary of the Labour Party. The party conducted the primary for its presidential ticket on...
Presidential aspirant, Peter Obi has congratulated former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, on his emergence as the flagbearer for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the forthcoming presidential election. Obi who was Atiku’s running mate in the 2019 election, took to Twitter on Sunday to share a warm message of...
Former Anambra State Governor, Peter Obi has formally joined the Labour Party days after announcing his exit from the Peoples Democratic Party. He is expected to contest the presidential primary on the platform of his new party. “I thank all Nigerians, especially our youths who have joined me in...
Chief Bartho Igwedibia, Chairman Accord Party, Anambra, says the resignation of Mr Peter Obi from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has became a blessing in disguise for smaller parties in the state. Igwedibia, who made the assertion while briefing journalists at the state secretariat of the party on Thursday...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Former Anambra State Governor, Mr. Peter Obi has dumped the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). Mr. Obi announced his resignation in a letter dated Friday, 20th May, 2022, and addressed to the National Chairman of the party. In the letter, Mr. Obi gave reasons for...
Ex-Gov. Peter Obi of Anambra and presidential aspirant of PDP has advised Lagos State delegates to the party’s presidential primaries to remember their children while voting during the party’s primaries. Obi, who made the appeal when he met with Lagos PDP national delegates in Ikeja on Wednesday, told them...
Ahead of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential primary election, Prophet Godfrey Gbujie, on Wednesday predicted that former Anambra Governor, Mr Peter Obi, will emerge presidential candidate of the party. Gbujie, Ministerial Leader of World Zionist Union in the South-East, made the revelation in a media conference on Wednesday...
A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential aspirant, Mr Peter Obi, has appealed to the party’s delegates to vote wisely during the upcoming national convention. Obi, a former governor of Anambra, urged them to be guided by their conscience and vote in the interest of the country’s future and that...
Mr Peter Obi, a People’s Democratic Party (PDP) presidential aspirant, on Friday pledged to transform Nigeria from a consumer nation to a productive nation, if elected president in 2023. He made pledge while addressing Kebbi State PDP Executive Committee and delegates at the party secretariat in Birnin Kebbi, the...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Professor Stephen Ochang, a lecturer at Cross River State University of Technology and leader of Peter Obi Candidacy Movement has urged Nigerians and PDP delegates to ensure that he emerge the candidate of the party. Addressing journalists at the Ernest Etime Bassey Press Centre...
Former Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi has revealed one of the major problems of Nigeria, saying that the country is interested in borrowing to consume instead of investing. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential aspirant said he has visited about thirty-one countries in the world studying the problems...
Former Gov. Peter Obi, a presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says he has the capacity to fix the political and socioeconomic challenges of Nigeria. Obi made the declaration at a meeting with the PDP stakeholders in Oyo State, on Tuesday at the party...
Former Anambra State Governor, Peter Obi, has emerged winner of an online poll conducted ahead of the February 25, 2023 Presidential election. In a report released by Nextier, a multi-competency advisory firm, and Data-Tier, a data analytics and digital communications firm, the former Governor defeated other political juggernauts who...
Ex-Anambra State Governor and Presidential aspirant, Peter Obi has promised to turn the country around in four years if elected into office in 2023. Mr Obi stated this in Awka, Anambra State capital during the Anambra Central Senatorial District stakeholders’ briefing/town hall meeting organised by Senator Uche Ekwunife to...
Nigerians should stop looking for consensus candidate and look for “problem solvers’’ as presidential materials for 2023. Mr Peter Obi, Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) presidential aspirant made the declaration at Abakaliki on Tuesday, while addressing newsmen during his consultation with PDP faithful in Ebonyi. “Nigerians want a person who...