The presidential candidate of the Labour party (LP), Peter Obi has said the 2023 elections should be about competence and capacity rather than connections or religion. The former Anambra governor said this on Monday at the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) conference in Lagos. He said the country is in a mess due to the effects of leadership failure over the years. “Out of 200 million Nigerians, 60 percent are supposed to be working. So it...

Bola Tinubu, presidential candidate of the party, will replicate the feats he recorded as Lagos governor at the federal level according to Kashim Shettima, the vice-presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), e said this on Monday at the general conference of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) in Lagos. He noted that the candidates would hit the ground running if elected into office in 2023. “Nigerians have the capability to see through the worn-out rhetoric...

National Conscience Party and National Consultative Front have adopted Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi as their presidential candidate in the coming general elections in 2023. This was made known by the NCF Secretary and National Chairman of the National Conscience Party, Tanko Yinusa in a statement. They said: “he is a progressive personality with all that is needed to help this country. Of course, people have been saying all sorts of things, but let’s...

The Labour party presidential flag bearer, Peter Obi, on Wednesday visited popular music star, Femi Kuti, at the Afrika Shrine in Lagos. There had been an unconfirmed report by a media platform last Friday that the musician described Obi’s supporters as ‘zombies’ during a performance at the Shrine on Thursday night. “You know what obedience means? Stand up, sit down, sit there — zombie,” Kuti was quoted as saying. “How can you be Obidient in...

The former military head of state, Ibrahim Babangida has said that Nigerians should seek God’s intervention for direction in the country’s political activities. He said this on Tuesday while speaking with journalists in Minna, the Niger capital, as part of activities to commemorate his birthday. The former head of state will clock 81 on August 17, 2022. In his remarks, he also urged Nigerians to continue to have faith in the unity of the country...

KADUNA — Supporters of Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s (LP) presidential candidate, Obidients, has been dragging Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State on Twitter for denigrating a proposed street march in support of Obi in the state. The governor had mocked a plan by ‘Obidients’ to hold a “two-million-man march” for the former Anambra governor in the state. Supporters of Obi have been holding a one-million-man marches across the country to show their solidarity with...

Human rights activist and convener of Concerned Nigeria, Deji Adeyanju, has challenged the supporters of Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party, to a $10,000 bet. Adeyanju, who has said he will not support any presidential flag bearer, said the bet was over the slim chances of Obi in the forthcoming general elections. He expressed his readiness to bet $10,000 with any ‘Obidient’, in Nigeria or in diaspora, that Obi will come a distant...