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  • Peter Obi decries spate of insecurity, promises to make Nigeria work

    Peter Obi decries spate of insecurity, promises to make Nigeria work

    Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has lamented over the spate of insecurity, killings and unemployment in the country, promising that he will make Nigeria work.

    According to him, with the help of his Vice-presidential candidate, Ahmed Datti, he will make Nigeria better.

    Obi, while addressing LP supporters at the Nelson Mandela Freedom Park, Osogbo, Osun State, on Saturday, said the parties with structures have caused the common man pain.

    He urged Osun people to support him to defeat Tinubu and PDP candidate, Atiku Abubakar.

    In his words: “Nigerians are hungry. Youths have no jobs. It is not safe to travel anywhere in Nigeria today. All these challenges are caused by those who say they have party structure, but these structures have crippled Nigeria. I want me and you to destroy these structures by voting them out next month.”

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports that Obi served as governor of Anambra from March to November 2006, February to May 2007, and June 2007 to March 2014.

    In May 2022, he became the Labour Party nominee for President of Nigeria in the 2023 presidential election, after defecting from the Peoples Democratic Party.

    Obi ran for governor in 2003 as a member of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, but his main opponent was unlawfully declared victor.

    After three years of legal battles, Obi was declared the winner in 2006 and assumed office in March 2006. He was impeached in November the same year, but his impeachment was overturned and he returned to office in February 2007.

    He was removed after the 2007 Anambra State gubernatorial election, but the judiciary again intervened by ruling that he should be allowed to complete a full four-year term. In 2010, he won re-election to a second term. Obi’s terms were marked by improvements in state finances, education, and healthcare.

  • Facility Attack: INEC speaks on holding 2023 elections

    Facility Attack: INEC speaks on holding 2023 elections

    The National Electoral Commission (INEC) has promised that election will hold in the country next year despite attacks on its facilities.

    INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, made this comment during a meeting with the Africa Union Special Pre-Electoral Political Mission led by Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka.

    Yakubu assured that the election materials that got damaged during some of the attacks will be replaced by the commission.

    Three local government area offices across the country were targeted in the last three weeks; the most recent was on Sunday in Ebonyi.

    He said, “So far, we can recover from all the losses but it’s a source of concern. This shouldn’t be allowed to continue.”

    Yakubu added that security agencies would be engaged to protect INEC facilities ahead of the general polls.

    INEC is expected to conduct the 2023 general elections in the country on the 25th of February and 12th of March.

    However, if there is going to be a re-run election INEC will announce it in due course.

  • Election 2023: I’m contesting to solve Nigeria’s economic woes – Obi

    Election 2023: I’m contesting to solve Nigeria’s economic woes – Obi

    The presidential candidate of Labour Party has said he’s contesting the presidency  to solve the economic problems of the country.

    Obi made this statement on a political programme on Arise TV on Wednesday morning and monitored by TheNewsGuru.com

    The former Anambra governor, said his mission is to rescue Nigeria from its economic  and political woes the country  has found itself.

    Asked why he’s been traveling around the globe at this electioneering period Obi said; ” I’m traversing the globe to shop for quality hands in which we will rescue the country together.

    ” I do not want to wait till after the election to start doing that.

    I’m also using the opportunity to check and see how great economies are being run so that we can replicate same for our country Nigeria

    ” I want party loyalists who will disagree with me on issues sometimes, because that’s the only way we can move forward as a people”

    On former president Olusegun Obasanjo’s urge to sell his candidacy to the North, Obi said that everybody has agreed with him that he can do the job.

    Peter Obi is expected to announce a substantive running mate to replace place holder Doyin Okupe latest Friday.

     

  • 2023 Election: INEC set to end online voters registration

    2023 Election: INEC set to end online voters registration

    The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has stated that it would suspend the registration of Continuous Voters Registration (CVR) online pre-registration nationwide on May 30 2022. TheNewsGuru.com can confirm.

    Mahmood Yakubu the INEC chairman on Wednesday said that the the online pre-registration and physical registration will continue until the CVR exercise is suspended on June 30, 2022.

    He said this would give time to those who registered online to complete their registration physically and would enable the commission to clean up the registration data.

    “As you are aware, the ongoing Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise ends next month i.e. 30th June 2022. Both the online pre-registration as well as the physical registration at designated centres are taking place simultaneously,” Yakubu said.

  • Obaseki promises to obey national PDP decisions on 2023

    Obaseki promises to obey national PDP decisions on 2023

    Governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki, has said the state’s chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will obey any decision reached by the party at the national level ahead of the presidential primary election as long as the decision is fair and just.

    The Governor stated this when he received the PDP presidential aspirant and Governor of Bauchi State, Bala Mohammed, who visited him at the Government House, Benin City, to seek his support, and that of the party delegates ahead of the primary elections.

    Obaseki noted, “I believe that you know what the issues are in Nigeria today, and have practically touched all of them. You are sensitive; and you have that displayed sensitivity always, even when we go through contentious issues in our meetings.”

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    The Governor expressed belief in Mr Mohammed whom he described as a patriot and a democrat; “I like your spirit, which is why democracy is about contestation. There is nothing wrong when you throw your hat in the ring, and you’ve been quite clear. There may be other aspirants who may possess such attributes.

    “You feel that you have what it takes to run this country and deal with all the critical issues affecting us today. What I want to assure you is that for us in Edo, we’re PDP and we want our party to produce the next president.

    “Whatever tour party agrees to do, as long as it’s fair and just, we, in Edo, will support it. You’ve come to seek the support of our delegates. They also have the privilege to hear from you and know the decision to take when the time comes,” Obaseki noted.

    Earlier, Mohammed said his wealth of experience and track record over the years would enable him to deliver good governance to Nigerians if elected president,’ the Newsguru.com can report.

    He said, “I have a track record of being a nationalist, a federalist, a civil servant, and a reporter like these young people. I know the country very well and the people of the country know me. I have been tested as a civil servant, a legislator in Abuja and Bauchi, using small resources to do more as you are doing a similar thing here in Edo.”

    The presidential hopeful, thenewsguru.ng reports, noted that his reign as the president would foster oneness among Nigerians and further deepen leadership

  • I am the only one that can defeat APC – Wike

    I am the only one that can defeat APC – Wike

    A presidential aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has said he is the onlyy one that can wrest power from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2023 elections.

    He started this while addressing delegates in Lokoja, the Kogi State Capital on Wednesday.
    Wike noted that the ruling APC has plunged the country into a deep hole to the extent that only a president with great character and political strength will harness all available human resources with close supervision to pull the country out.

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    In his words; “This country has never been this divided with so many insecurities even in Mr. President’s home state. Nigeria, therefore, needs someone who can bail her out, and I am putting myself forward to rescue her.”
    To Governor Wike, next year’s election is what every Nigerian must face front ally because the country needs the best.
    He however admitted that no one can do it alone and that the next president must know how to harness all available human resources for optimal performance.
    Governor Wike said his party had done so much for him as a person, and he would do everything within his power to repay the party members by giving them good governance.

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    “I owe PDP a lot; even if I don’t win the ticket, I will remain PDP
    Let me go and take power from APC. What should be on the lips of every delegate now should be Wike!” he said.
    He asked those not delegates to monitor delegates to deliver him for the party.
    “We need a strong leader who takes action when necessary. We need a leader with character who knows a particular thing and stands by it.
    “Give your vote to someone with energy who will work for you.
    “Vote for me and go to bed; I will work for you,” he further assured.

  • Unknown gunmen in southeast threaten to stop elections over detention of Nnamdi Kanu

    Unknown gunmen in southeast threaten to stop elections over detention of Nnamdi Kanu

    Unknown gunmen terrorizing major parts of Nigeria’s southeast region have released 2 minutes 55 seconds video shot in a forest, as they demand the release of the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, before any election would be allowed to take place in the region.

     

    Kanu is being held by the Department of State Services (DSS) at its headquarters in Abuja, after the Nigerian government repatriated him from Kenya in June 2021, an action his lawyers termed “illegal, unlawful, unconstitutional extradition”.

     

    He is standing trial on charges bordering on treasonable felony and terrorism before the court.

     

    In the words of a member of the unknown gunmen: “We the unknown gunmen in Biafraland have come to make our position known to the public. We are here to protect our fatherland by all means. We don’t have any sponsors. And we are not planning to have.

     

    “We are not under the command of Simon Ekpa, DOS or Uwazuruike. Any government giving any of these people money is wasting their time. Only the release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu can calm us down. Monday sit-at-home is sacrosanct. Nothing can stop it apart from the release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

     

    “There shall be no election, and anybody that attempts any election matter will die. And for the INEC people, what will happen to you when we get you, only God knows, no more posters, political posters in Biafra land, if you try us, you campaigning, fire will burn you, fake Biafra media, you think you can post rubbish, we the unknown gunmen have endured enough from you. We shall no longer tolerate any rubbish.”