Some Elders under the aegis of the Conference of Nigerian Elders for Peace and Good Governance (CNEPGG), have vowed to hold the Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, responsible if anything happens to the Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi.
Recall that Keyamo claimed that Obi was planning to stage an assassination attempt, to curry sympathy ahead of the 2023 election.
Condemning Keyamo’s claim, the elders said Keyamo’s claim might be exactly what is being plotted against Obi.
In a statement jointly signed by its National Coordinator, Prof Dele Banjo and Mallam Hamza Shinkafi, National Secretary, the concerned elders tasked relevant security agencies to invite Keyamo for interrogation urgently.
The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has fired back the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, who labelled him unfit to contest in the 2023 presidential election.
Tinubu in his response also berated Obi for saying his (Tinubu) supporters are backing him for his money, stressing that he is hale and hearty.
This was contained in a statement issued on Tuesday by the Director, Media and Publicity of the APC Presidential Campaign Council, Bayo Onanuga.
The statement read in part: “Since he is not Asiwaju’s doctor and is not privy to his medical record, Obi has again disgracefully elevated what has for long been a beer parlor gossip and social media lie being propagated by his IPOB supporters.
Earlier today, the State leadership of the Labour party fortified the party’s structures in Gwer East and Gwer West Local Governments with the infusion of new members and the restructuring of the party exco in both Local Governments.
The decampees include Gwer West Local Government APC Secretary Hon. Abwar Shimawua, PDP Chairman Ikyaghev Council Ward Gwer West Hon. Gum Terkula, Hon. Asange Ishor and Hon. Jacob Njuda, both from Gwer East amongst several others.
Receiving them at the State Secretariat of the party in Makurdi, Comr. Ibrahim Idoko Otene represented by the State Publicity Secretary Comr. Kengkeng Ati welcomed the new members and urged them to work hard for the development of the party and its success in all the elections.
As the 2023 election gathers momentum, the factional chairman and gubernatorial flagbearer of the Labour Party in Lagos State, Ifagbemi Awamaridi, has said that attempts by some individuals in the opposition party to take over his positions as the “bonafide chairman and governorship candidate of the party” can lead to the nullification of the presidential candidacy of Peter Obi.
It was gathered that Awamaridi maintained that he was neither sacked nor replaced through any constitutional process.
Labour Party Vice Presidential candidate, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahed, has said that the party’s presidential flag bearer, Peter Obi, has what it takes to return Nigeria to the right path of development.
Baba-Ahmed disclosed this in Kano during a visit to the state to commiserate with the victims of Beirut Road GSM and Kantin Kwari textile markets over the building collapse and flooding incidents, respectively, at both markets.
He said, “Nigeria has never had it so well in terms of choice of candidate available to voters with the emergence of Obi, a former governor of Anambra State, as a Presidential candidate.
Social media commentator, Deji Adeyanju has said it is better for the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, to emerge president in 2023 than his Labour Party’s counterpart, Peter Obi.
Adeyanju said Tinubu, whom he described as a destroyer is better than Obi and his supporters who he labelled as tyrants.
He wrote, “May Obidents never happen to Nigeria in Jesus mighty name. Amen! They have threatened fellow citizens with death threats and offered nothing but insults in the name of politics . They will never ever go anywhere close to Aso Rock. It is better for Tinubu the destroyer to be in Aso Rock than these tyrants.”
Sociopolitical commentator, Deji Adeyanju has claimed that the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, may also buy votes like his counterparts in the All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
According to Adeyanju, the ideology of Obi not giving ‘shi shi’ is gradually eroding.
He tweeted, “Obi may buy votes or pay agents/canvassers last last like APC and PDP. Their ideology of not giving Shi Shi is gradually moving. Are the people no longer structure, why do you need to build one?”
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has declared that he has no preferred candidate among those contesting the 2023 presidential election.
Obasanjo, who stated this in Minna on Sunday when he paid former Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar a visit, said he only had a national agenda not a preferred candidate.
“I don’t have a special candidate, I have a national agenda.”
A woman believed to be in her 90s, on Sunday, joined the mega rally organised by supporters of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr Peter Obi, in the commercial city of Onitsha in Anambra State, shutting down most streets in the city.
IDOMA VOICE reports that the nonagenarian was spotted with her walking stick while joyfully displaying a poster with the image of Peter Obi and Yusuf Datti, with a bold inscription, THE PEOPLE’S CHOICE.
Supporters of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr Peter Obi, on Sunday dared the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, by staging a mega rally in the commercial city of Onitsha in Anambra State.
The rally shut down most streets in the city.
Recall that IPOB had kicked against the presidential ambition of Obi, saying they are not in support.
However, young men and women garbed in white polo shirts with Obi’s picture and inscription of his party started gathering at Zik Avenue at around 11:30am, from where they moved to other parts of the town.
Supporters of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Mr. Peter Obi, weekend paralyzed commercial and business activities in Makurdi the Benue state capital with a One-Million-Man- March tagged ‘Obitrek, We Are the Structure’.
The self march was attended by people from all walks of life including women, youths and the elderly in attendance.
The march which commenced from the popular IBB Square saw the participants driving and walking through major streets in the town bearing placards and singing solidarity songs in support of the presidential candidate and his vice.
Supporters of Peter Obi, on Saturday paralyzed commercial activities in the Garden City of Port Harcourt in a two million man march in support of the Labour Party’s presidential candidate.
The demonstrators, who are mostly youths held the oil rich city to a standstill for hours as they march from street to street singing solidarity songs in support of Obi.
Mr. Peter Obi seems to be romancing the Church, considering the anticipated support he believes will come from the Christian body in Nigeria.
However, the Nigerian Church and fathers we know will never instruct anyone as to who they should vote for.
This is just the singular reason President, Goodluck Jonathan, lost his seat to Mr. Muhammadu Buhari, even though the former was an incumbent President.
All Christain Fathers agreed to present Goodluck Jonathan as the consensus candidate for both the CAN, PFN and individual churches.
A news platform, I News, had claimed that an American billionaire, Larry Ellison has donated about $1m to Peter Obi to support his 2023 presidential campaign.
The report,started on Facebook and has spread to Twitter and other social media platforms,
The report reads: “American billionaire Larry Ellison donates 1m$ to “Peter Obi” Presidential campaign, offers to build “Plane Manufacturing Company” in Nigeria if Peter Obi wins.”
Former President Goodluck Jonathan’s aide, Reno Omokri has described the All Progressives Congress (APC) flag bearer, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as a more unique contender above the Labour Party (LP) flag bearer, Peter Obi in the run-up to the 2023 presidential election.
Omokri, while outlining Tinubu’s achievements in series of tweets, explained Obi lacks the characteristics necessary to lead the country compared to the former governor of Lagos State.
He described how both presidential candidates led their respective States, stating Obi invested Anambra resources at a loss but Tinubu invested Lagos resources to make huge profit for the state.
Crisis has hit the Labour Party, LP, Imo State chapter on Thursday over the constitution and inauguration of the OBI/DATTI campaign council by Prof. Pat Utomi.
The party described the development as a joke taken too far.
The party, while declaring that nobody has been appointed to the Presidential Campaign Council in Imo State, said the exercise can best be described as null and void.
The ruling All Progressives Party and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, have been warned not to take Peter Obi’s supporters for granted.
Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, who gave the warning, said followers of the Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate known as “Obidients” are dangerous and could upset the two major parties.
In an essay titled ‘Who are these Obidients’, Fani-Kayode said he’s interested in knowing what they represent and stand for.
Former minister of aviation and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has admitted that supporters of Peter Obi, Labour Party’s presidential candidate are everywhere.
Fani Kayode in an article titled, Who are this obidients, said anyone taking Obi’s supporters for granted is doing that at his or her own peril.
“They are worthy of my attention only because their rise and relevance in the political configuration of our nation, just in a matter of weeks, is meteoric and phenomenal.
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, has identified “important” areas Nigeria must tackle “aggressively” for a greater economy.
According to Obi, investment in intangible assets such as education and power are critical for an economic renaissance.
The former Anambra State governor stated this on Monday at the 2022 Annual General Meeting of the Nigerian Bar Association at the Eko Hotels, Lagos.
Obi said, “What we need to do is the two most intangible assets: security; and law and order.
The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has kicked presidential ambition of the Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi.
The group said they are no in support of Igbo presidency nor a Nigerian President of Southeast extraction.
Emma Powerful, the spokesman of the separatist group, said Nigeria was irredeemable.
The South-East elders and key political actors have intensified consultation with prominent religious and traditional rulers to concretise their plan for Igbo presidency in 2023.
Among those they being reached out to are the Sultan of Sokoto and President-General of Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar.
Emerging third force, the Labour Party, is set to bolster its ranks in Nasarawa State as 27,000 registered members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have pledged their allegiances to the party.
The party said plans have been set in motion to receive the defectors into its fold in the first week of September, 2022, The Punch reported.
Disclosing this on Saturday, August 20, 2022, was the state Chairman of the party, Alexander Emmanuel, who oversaw the inauguration of a new Labour Party office donated to the party by youth and women groups in Agyaragu community, Obi Local Government Area of the state.
Emmanuel noted that the new 27,000 defectors from the APC and PDP will add to the party’s one million supporters drawn from 56 support groups across the 13 LGAs of the state.
Ayo Adebanjo, leader of the Yoruba socio-culture group, Afenifere, has said the Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi is better than Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
According to Adebanjo, Obi is better than Tinubu and Atiku in terms of “politics of principles.”
He explained that in the area of principles of fairness and justice, the Labour Party’s presidential candidate is better than Tinubu and Atiku.
Adebanjo said, “I am talking of politics of principle. I know that Peter has not got the dollar of Tinubu nor has he got the dollar of Atiku.
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 general election, Peter Obi, on Friday paid the Anambra State Governor, Chukwuma Soludo, a courtesy visit at the Governor’s Lodge, Amawbia.
Soludo and Obi met behind closed doors after which Obi lauded Soludo for the “great job he is doing in Anambra State.”
This is contained in a statement posted to the Facebook Page of Soludo TV on Friday.
Valentine Ozigbo, the candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2021 Anambra governorship election, has dumped the party.
Ozigbo has now declared his support for Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party.
In an appearance on the evening programme ‘The Arise Interview’ programme anchored by Charles Aniagolu on Thursday, August 18, 2022, Mr Ozigbo revealed that his decision to resign from the PDP was based on the need to ensure that at this precarious time in Nigeria’s history a competent and visionary leader was elected to lead Nigeria into the future.
It was a massive turn out on Wednesday in Kano as Labour Party holds its first Town Hall Meeting in the state.
The venue of the meeting was filled to capacity.
One of the attendants said, “Northwest will support their son to emerge VP, as for Kwankwaso, he can’t succeed a fellow northern Muslim from the same zone and his people already know it’s not good for stability of the country.”
The Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi on Wednesday visited singer, Femi Kuti.
Obi during the visit assured the singer that his ‘Obidient movement’ will base its campaign on issues rather than personality attacks.
This is coming few days after Femi raised the alarm that Obi’s supporters were threatening to burn down his house,
The former Anambra governor gave the assurance when he visited the musician, according to a video clip online. Others present during the meeting include Charles Oputa, known better as Charly Boy, among others.
“I saw what my own brother, Femi, tweeted and I said no! that is not what the future and the society we want to build.
Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has revealed the reason he met the Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi, Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, among others.
He spoke on Tuesday while addressing journalists after returning from Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
IDOMA VOICE reports that Obi had met with Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State, Governor of Abia State, Okezie Ikpeazu; former Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Adoke.
Others at the meeting include former Governor of Ondo State, Olusegun Mimiko; former Governor of Cross River State, Donald Duke; and former Governor of Gombe State, Ibrahim Dankwanbo, among others.
Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo State, on Tuesday, has revealed why he doesn’t talk about the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi.
According to Uzodinma, although Obi is his Igbo brother, his business is to market the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in the South East.
Uzodinma stated this during an interview with Channels TV’s Politics Today.
He noted that there are many loyal members of the APC in the South East who are ‘obedient’ to the party.
Some traditional rulers and religious leaders in Anambra State have declared their support for the presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
According to them, the noise over the Muslim-Muslim ticket bt Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu and his running mate Kashim Shetima is baseless.
According to them, there is no issue with a Muslim-Muslim and or Christian-Christian so long as the individuals are capable.
For the traditional rulers and clerics, all of who preferred not to be named, the three leading contenders are all capable.
Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu, has described his meeting with Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi as a search for better Nigeria.
IDOMA VOICE reports that Obi had a secret meeting with some PDP top-shots in Port Harcourt in attendance.
The meeting is the second time Obi would meet with Wike after dumping the PDP and declaring his presidential ambition.
Others in attendance include, former Governor of Cross River State, Donald Duke; former Governor of Gombe State, Ibrahim Dankwanbo; Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom; Governor of Abia State, Okezie Ikpeazu; Mohammed Adoke and several others.
In a tweet after the meeting, Ikpeazu wrote, “The search for better Nigeria requires that we all unite to share ideas & work together regardless of political differences. It’s our country’s peace & prosperity that matter to the majority of Nigerians & every leader must think along that line and engage to realize that.
The Archbishop of Enugu Ecclesiastical Province, Anglican Communion, Most Rev. Emmanuel Chukwuma, on Monday, has declared his support for the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi.
The cleric said Obi has become a national project that deserves the support of every Nigerian.
He said that the popularity and acceptability was so high that the opponents and enemies alike would not be able to pull him down no matter the campaign of calumny.
Chukwuma who was reacting to reports in the media quoting him as saying that Enugu state was not ‘Obidient’, said he is not and has never been against Obi’s presidential ambition but rather has supported it more than those persecuting him.
Activist Aisha Yesufu has slammed Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State over his tweet mocking Peter Obi’s proposed rally in the state.
Nigerian singer, Charles Chukwuemeka Oputa, popularly known as Charly Boy, has lambasted the Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, over his recent tweet mocking supporters of the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi.
The Kaduna governor had in a tweet made fun of the proposed Two Million March rally in Kaduna Peter Obi and his running mate, Yusuf Ahmed-Baba.
Singer Frank Edwards has faulted those saying that Peter Obi’s supporters are only social media.
Many people believe that the presidential candidate of the Labour Party has no structure and does not stand a chance in the 2023 election.
Many of them are of the opinion that Obi’s followers are only online.
Responding, Edwards said, “Why do some say some people’s support is only on social media as if it’s ghosts that own the social media accounts.”
Former presidential aspirant, Adamu Garba has asked Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of Labour Party to prove to northerners that he’s not a supporter of the INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF BIAFRA, IPOB.
Garba said the only way northerners will believe Obi is for him to visit Arewa House and openly declare IPOB as a terrorists group.
He tweeted, “To disprove Miyetti Allah, Peter Obi should go to, organize a media conference & categorically call IPOB as terrorist that they are, like all senior political leaders from the North called Boko Haram & Bandits as terrorist.
“Alas, he may not do that. Don’t blame them.”
Governor Nasir El-Rufai has dismissed the possibility of a proposed rally for the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, gaining any traction in Kaduna State.
Early Monday, El- Rufai quoted a tweet, calling for a two million man march in Kaduna for Obi, and said, “In Kaduna? Not Kaduna Twitter? –
“I hope you get Two Hundred persons on the streets, including those ‘imports’ that can’t open their shops on Mondays, and came on overnight bus last night!!
“I jus’ dey laff, wallahi tallahi!! – #KadunaResident.”
Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi has revealed that he’s ready to carry everybody along in his government if elected president of Nigeria in 2023.
Obi made the statement at the weekend when he featured in an interview on News Central TV.
According to him, Nigeria is highly divided because there has not been any dialogue to bring them together.
“The simple thing for Nigerians to ask themselves is, we have been in this business for 24 years, are we on the right road? If you have been in a situation for 24 years, people have been promising and not delivering,” he said.
Former presidential aspirant and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Adamu Garba, has described supporters of Peter Obi of Labour Party as idiots.
He said Peter Obi’s supporters will labour in vain because he will fail to become president in 2023.
He tweeted on Sunday, “Don’t be deceived by the so-called Obedients, they are either Obidiots or ObideEnd, but one thing about them is clear, they shall always go and Labour in vain.”
The presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi, has been accused of raising terrorists ahead of the 2023 election.
Deji Adeyanju of Concered Nigeria made the claimed in a tweet on Sunday.
According to him, Obi supporters, also known as Obidients, have been threatening to kill anybody with dissenting voice against their ‘new messiah’
Activist and lawyer, Deji Adeyanju has alleged that supporters of the presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi, are threatening to kill him.
Adeyanju, who has been a staunch critic of Peter Obi, has said the Labour Party’s candidate will come a distant third in the 2023 presidential election.
He alleged that Obi is training terrorists in the name of running for president.
Supporters of Peter Obi, the presidential candidate Labour Party, LP, on Saturday took over the streets of Calabar in a massive rally.
The rally, which was attended by thousands of youths, literally paralyzed vehicular movements in the Paradise City.
The demonstrators were seen displaying placards with inscriptions asking Nigerians to support Peter Obi to emerge victorious in 2023.
IDOMA VOICE reports that supporters of the Labour Party candidate had last week staged a one million-man march in Nasarawa.
The event had many young people in attendance, who clamoured for Peter Obi as the next president of Nigeria.
Supporters of the presidential candidate of Labour Party staged a rally in some parts of the FCT Abuja on Saturday.
The rally, which was witnessed by IDOMA VOICE, kicked off at the Sada Cruz junction, Jikwoyi, with many youths in attendance.
Dino Melaye, the spokesperson of Atiku Abubakar Presidential Campaign Council, has said it is not yet the time for Peter Obi of the Labour Party to become the president of Nigeria.
Speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Friday, Melaye said Peter Obi lacked what it takes to lead Nigeria as a president.
Melaye maintained that Atiku had engaged in interactions with Nigerians and he is confident of winning.
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, was at the ongoing convention of the Redeemed Christian Church of God.
IDOMA VOICE reports that the 2022 convention is currently ongoing at the Redemption Camp, along the Lagos Ibadan expressway, Ogun State.
The congregants could not hide their excitement as they screamed the moment it was announced that the LP presidential candidate was in the Redemption Camp for the first time.
This is coming a few weeks after Obi received a rousing welcome at the Glory Dome of the Dunamis Church during the Mid Year Worship in Abuja.
Socio-political commentator and lawyer, Deji Adeyanju has described Peter Obi, Labour Party’s presidential candidate, as a criminal.
Adeyanju said Obi stole billions of naira from Anambra state while he was the governor and put it in his family business.
He also described Atiku Abubakar, PDP presidential candidate as a smart looter who milked the country dry as vice president between 1999-2007.
The former PDP media director also accused Bola Tinubu, APC presidential candidate of using his company to collect revenue for Lagos State.
Femi Kuti, son of afrobeat legend, Fela Kuti, has described supporters of Labour Party presidential candidate for 2023, Peter Obi, also known as “Obidients,” as zombies.
Zombie was the title of a studio album released in 1976 by his late father, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, when he derided Nigerian soldiers as a bunch of robotic and senseless individuals.
“You know what obedience means? Stand up, sit down, sit there — zombie,” Mr Kuti said during a performance at the Shrine Thursday night in Lagos, wondering why Mr Obi’s popularity has grown rapidly in recent months.
“How can you be Obidient in this chaos? I am not Obidient. Tell me, at 60, why am I Obidient? You said I should be Obidient, sit down, be peaceful,” he said. “Are you all okay in this country?”
Manchester City midfielder Rodri has attributed his 2024 Ballon d'Or win to his consistency on…
As the 2026 FIFA World Cup nears, millions of football fans around the world are…
Ecuadorian international Marco Angulo has tragically passed away at the age of 22, just over…
Norway and Arsenal captain Martin Odegaard has emphasized the importance of "listening to his body"…
Federal government pensioners staged a protest in Abuja, blocking access to the Federal Ministry of…
Governor Monday Okpebholo of Edo State has announced the formation of a Committee to investigate…
