Tag: Igbo
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2023: Northerners don’t need Yoruba, Igbo as president – Atiku
Presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) for the 2023 elections, Atiku Abubakar has said Northerners do not need a Yoruba person nor an Igbo person to be the president, stressing that the country needs a Northerner to be the president of the country next year.
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The Igbo are accommodating and hard working – Ortom
The Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has expressed confidence in the Igbo people, saying they are accommodating and hard-working. Ortom, who disclosed in Makurdi, the state capital, on Wednesday when Igbo PDP Forum paid him a courtesy visit, said the South-Easterners are accommodating and hard working.
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Being an Igbo man, voting against Tinubu is madness – Orji Kalu
Senate Chief Whip, Orji Uzor Kalu has declared his intention to work and vote for the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress(APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the coming 2023 general elections despite being an Igbo man. TheNewsGuru reports that the former Abia State Governor made it clear that the presidency is not a regional…
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‘Nigeria cannot defeat the Igbo and Yoruba at the same time’
The greatest thing Nigerians accomplished in the last thirty years was electing Muhammadu Buhari as president. If he had lived and died without being president, no one would push back when politicians fall over themselves to deliver tributes and call him the greatest president that Nigeria never had.
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Kwakwanso didn’t say Igbos are at bottom of politics – NNPP
The New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) has denied its Presidential candidate, Sen. Rabiu Kwakwanso had said the South-East (Igbo people) are good in business, but at the bottom of politics in Nigeria. TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Prof Rufa’i Ahmed Alkali, the National Chairman of NNPP, made the clarification in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja while stressing that Kwakwanso will not…
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2023: Obi, LP and the Igbo quest for presidency – By Ehichioya Ezomon
Due to the unpredictable scheduling and rescheduling of its congresses and primaries, most Nigerians still doubt the readiness of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to hold its presidential primaries “finally” fixed for June 6 to 8, 2022, in Abuja. The party repeatedly shifted the timelines for its political activities that culminated in the National Convention…
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Buhari to Igbo leaders: Nnamdi Kanu’s fate remains with the court, my worry is for innocent civilians
President Muhammadu Buhari has insisted that the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu must defend himself in court.
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No Igbo politician should run as vice-presidential candidate in 2023 – Ohaneze
The apex socio-political organisation in the Southeast, the Ohaneze Ndigbo, declared on Thursday that no politician of Southeast extraction should accept to be running mate to any presidential candidate in 2023.
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Hate speech: Tunde Bakare in trouble as group demands withdrawal of incitement against Igbo
Fiery clergyman, Pastor Tunde Bakare is in trouble as a group under the aegis of Igbo Board of Deputies demands he withdraws his alleged incitement against the Igbo race within the next seven days or face litigation. The group in a letter obtained by TheNewsGuru.com, (TNG) stated that : “We have waited reverently for Lent…
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We’ve put a seal on abolition of Osu caste in Igbo land – Archbishop Obinna
The outgoing Archbishop of the Catholic Diocese of Owerri, His Grace, Most Rev. Anthony Obinna, said that the Church has completely abolished the Osu caste system in Igbo land.