Osita Okechukwu, Director General, Voice of Nigeria (VON) and founding member of All Progressives Congress (APC),  has described former Vice President Atiku Abubakar’s attack on President-elect Asiwaju Bola Tinubu’s transition as political hypocrisy. Recall that Atiku, the presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the just concluded general elections decried the absence of any Igbo person on the membership list of Tinubu’s transition committee. While reaction to the former Vice President’s Reacting to Atiku’s...

Says Nigerians are free to live anywhere in the country Presents gift items to them Peter Obi, the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the just cocluded general elections, on Sunday paid a visit to Muslims in Anambra State, reiterating the fact that Nigerians are free to  live in any part of the country where he or she is found. According to him, the conviction made him as Anambra State Governor in 2006,...

The Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) inaugurated last year has been dissolved with immediate effect. This is contained in a statement on Saturday night, jointly signed by the Director General of the APC PCC, Governor Simon Bako Lalong, and the Secretary of the council, James Abiodun Faleke. Part of the statement reads: “Since the campaign council began in September 2022, we have witnessed an unprecedented, relentless, and engaging mobilization of...

Ebenezer Obadare, a Douglas Dillon senior fellow for Africa studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, CFR, says he wasn’t surprised that Peter Obi did not win the 2023 presidential election. Obi, a former governor of Anambra State, was one of the three major candidates that contested for the office of the first citizen. He ran under the umbrella of the Labour Party. The others are Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress and Atiku...

A Twitter user has volunteered to pay for the Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi’s verification on Twitter following the loss of his blue check mark on Thursday. On Thursday, Twitter stripped an array of high-profile users, including local and international celebrities, political leaders and organisations who failed to subscribe to Twitter Blue, a paid verification service, of their blue ticks. Vice President Prof. Yemi Osibanjo, President-elect Bola Tinubu, and 2023 presidential aspirants Peter Obi...