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  • 2023: My political sojourn so far has a touch of miracles – Peter Obi

    2023: My political sojourn so far has a touch of miracles – Peter Obi

    …says my security plan will be immediate and decisive

    …I deliberately refused to tell Atiku I was leaving PDP

     

    The Presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi has said his political journey so far in Nigeria’s political landscape has a touch of miracles.

    TheNewsGuru.com, (TNG) reports Obi made this disclosure in an interview with a national television program on Monday.

    Obi who went memory lane saying despite the many land mines planted on his political sojourn one way or the other he had managed to survive miraculously.

    When he was asked to react to so many things said about him by a fellow Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, Obi said”well, my political journey has been a miracle.

    “So many things has happened in my life that people never thought would be possible. In 2003, I contested for the Anambra Governorship election under a party that was just one year old, people said it will take a miracle for me to win the election that year, I won.

    “Six months later, I was impeached. I challenged the impeachment in court, people said it will be impossible for me to come back to office, that no governor has ever come back to office after impeachment, they said it will take a miracle for me to win the case in court, I won the case.

    “I came back to office and in 2007, an election was conducted and Andy Uba declared the winner. I went to court again to seek for the interpretation of our laws, I told the court that the tenure of a Governor is Four years and I should be allowed to finish my tenure, people said it will take miracle for me to win that case, I won.

    “So my Political journey has been like a miracle and I’m waiting for the bigger miracle to happen in 2023. That’s my response to Atiku’s statement.

    On the claim by Atiku that 90% of Northerners are not internet compliant, again, Obi said” Well, that’s the problem I’m coming to solve as the Nigerian President. I have said it before that the north will be our new oil, I will convert that population to wealth through Production.

    “I will invest in education so that those who don’t know how to operate the internet in the north, will learn how it is done. The north is our new oil.

    On why he refused to inform Atiku of his defection from PDP, he responded saying: ” A time will come in a man’s life, where he will decide to take a very strong decision about his life and his people, without informing those who are likely to tell him not to take such decision. I have so many important people in my life that I didn’t tell that i was going to leave PDP, I didn’t even tell my family at that time. I took that decision because it is the best thing to do and I didn’t want anybody to distract me.

    “Remember when I left, I told Nigerians that I will rather lose doing the right thing, than win doing the wrong thing.

    On security, he said “it will be immediate and decisive, I will pull people out of poverty, it has been proven that the more you pull people out of poverty, the more you reduce crime. I will invest in education and military manpower. All options will be on the table.

  • Just In: We are in serious talk with Peter Obi, Kwankwaso confirms, speaks on President, VP allocation

    The Presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party and national leader of the Kwankwasiya movement, Rabiu Kwankwaso has confirmed that NNPP is in serious talk with Peter Obi on the possibility of a merger.

    The former Kano State Governor confirmed this in an interview with BBC Hausa.

    There have been speculations that the NNPP and LP are working towards a third force against the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

    While some party insiders have affirmed the possible political shifts, some have described the viral reports as mere speculations.

    However, Kwankwaso in a barely three minutes video clip shared by BBC Hausa on Saturday morning, confirmed he is privately deliberating with Obi over the possible merger.

    Kwankwaso had earlier revealed that a southern Christian would be picked as his running mate for the 2023 election.

    Speaking ahead of the 2023 elections during the interview with BBC Hausa, Kwankwaso said he is truly in talks with Peter Obi. He said consultations are ongoing in his camp and he believes the same is happening with the Labour Party.

    The NNPP leader said it is worthy to note that both APC and PDP did not consider a presidential candidate or vice president from the South East, hence it would be okay if both NNPP and Labour Party could make a move in that direction.

    Translation: “Truly we are in talk with him [Peter Obi]. Consultations committee are working towards a merger. I understand Obi’s camp is also making consultation about the possible merger for the 2023 election.

    “If you look closely, both the APC and PDP did pick their presidential candidate or vice-presidential slot from the South-East

    Speaking about who will take the presidential and VP slot between him and Obi, Kwankwaso said:

    “For the merger, there would be a consideration on who is the senior and who is junior amongst us then the appropriate slot would be accorded to the rightful candidate while the other would be given the VP slot.”

    He noted that though the two camps have submitted names of their running mate, the names submitted are just a camouflage for now.

    The spokesman of LP, Dr Yinusa Tanko had confirmed to TheNewsGuru com, (TNG) on Wednesday that the Obi camp was having serious consultation with NNPP.

  • Rivers polls: Opposition parties laud INEC, as PDP kicks

    Opposition parties in Rivers have lauded the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for suspending the electoral process in the state.

    The Governorship Candidates of the parties, incuding Action Democratic Congress (ADC), Labour Party (LP) and the Social Democratic Party (SDP) made the commendation on Tuesday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Port Harcourt.

    The candidates also called on INEC to cancel the governorship election entirely and order a fresh election in the state.

    Mr Victor Fingesi of the ADC described the suspension of the process as a welcome development.

    Fingesi alleged that the March 9 Governorship and State House of Assembly elections in the state was marred by violence and irregularities.

    He further alleged that many thugs, allegedly dressed in military uniforms, were engaged to disrupt the process.

    He called on the major political stakeholders in Rivers to come to a roundtable to discuss the way out of the current logjam in the state.

    Similarly, Mr Isaac Wowon of the LP condemned the brazen show of desperation for power by some politicians.

    Wowon called on Nigerians to resist impunity and lawlessness in the electoral process.

    Also, Mr Precious Elekima of the SDP called on INEC to declare him winner of the March 9 governorship election.

    Elekima claimed that he polled the highest number of votes cast during the election, judging by the results so far collated.

    He further called for a summit where politicians and prominent Rivers people would sit to take a stand on how to resolve issues of governance in the state.

    Meanwhile, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has rejected the suspension of all electoral processes in the Saturday’s governorship and House of Assembly elections in the state by INEC.

    The party in a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, called on INEC to immediately declare the result of the state governorship election.

    INEC on Sunday announced the suspension of all electoral processes in Rivers until further notice.

    The suspension, according to the statement, issued in Abuja by Mr Festus Okoye, INEC’s National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education, was due to widespread violence and disruptions that characterised the state’s elections.

    Ologbondiyan said that the PDP rejected INEC decision to suspend the electoral process, after results had been collated.

    He described the suspension as a premeditated plan by the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led government to change the wishes of Rivers people as shown in the polling units.

    “Our party contends that elections have been concluded in Rivers state; results of the Governorship and House of Assembly polls have been declared at the various polling units, wards and local government collation centers and all returning officers and political parties in the ballot conclusively have the figures.

    “It is therefore directly incumbent on INEC to declare the final results instead of deliberately creating openings for the subversion of the final process; a development, which exposes the commission’s complicity with the Presidency and the APC to enmesh the election into unnecessary crisis.

    “Our party cautions INEC to note that a lot of innocent Nigerians have already been killed by the APC in its desperation to forcefully take over Rivers state.

    “The commission should therefore save the state from more bloodletting by immediately declaring the results.”

    Ologbondiyan called on President Muhammadu Buhari to reflect on the bloodletting that characterised the election and call the military to order.

    “Mr President should immediately call the security agencies to end their siege to our electoral process. Any further delay is a recipe for escalation of crisis in our nation.”

    Ologbondiyan added that many Nigerians believed that the violence would have been averted if the Amendment to the Electoral Act was signed.