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  • Nigeria Decides 2023: No miracle on earth will make APC or PDP win – NNPP Spokesman

    Nigeria Decides 2023: No miracle on earth will make APC or PDP win – NNPP Spokesman

    Spokesman of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), Abdulmumin Jibrin has said no miracle will make the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) or the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) win the 2023 presidential election.

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Jibrin, who is a former member of the Nigerian House of Representatives, said this on Monday while stressing that the presidential candidate of the NNPP, Rabiu Kwankwaso will win the election.

    Jibrin argued that the presidential candidate of the APC, Bola Tinubu cannot in any way benefit from the advantage of President Muhammadu Buhari in the forthcoming presidential election.

    The NNPP Spokesman, speaking on Channels TV Politics Today, opined that Northern votes will come in bulk and that they will go to Kwankwaso because of his credibility, and the trust that the Northern voters have in him.

    “When they do their analysis, all the time, they talk about only the PDP. They say PDP lost Kwankwaso, PDP lost Peter Obi and PDP lost 5 governors. Yes, PDP is in crisis, PDP is in a mess but APC is even in a more challenging and more damaging situation.

    “One, that 12 million vote is not there. Two, when you say Kwankwaso left PDP, the assumption is that he left with only PDP people. Many people from APC joined him. Where did I come from? Am I not coming from APC?

    “As it stands today, APC has lost about 70 to 80 of its support based in Northern Nigeria. By the time Kwankwaso mop up those votes, particularly in the North Western part of the country, we will be able to win the election.

    “I dont see how the APC will win the election. There is no miracle on earth will APC or PDP win the next presidential election. We are winning the election.

    “The North always tilt to a particular side. The Northern vote will come in bulk. It is not going to go into pieces. And because of the credibility of Kwankwaso, because of the performance of Kwankwaso, because of the trust that the Northern voters have in this gentle man, Kwankwaso is going to mop substantially the vote that is going to come from the Northern part of the country.

    “Kwankwaso is the beneficiary of the Buhari 12 million votes. Certainly, a Northern politician would have to come up to inherit that because Buhari’s politics is commoners’ politics, masses based. None of the surviving Northern politicians has that connection with the masses like Kwankwaso,” Jibrin said.

    NNPP inaugurates 2023 Presidential Campaign Council

    Meanwhile, the NNPP on Monday inaugurated its 2023 Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) known as Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso (RMK2023 PCC) for the success of the party in the 2023 presidential election.

    The NNPP Presidential Candidate, inaugurating the council in Abuja, said the party would continue to work for a new and better Nigeria to kick-start from May 29.

    Kwankwaso said that the “RMK2023 Presidential Campaign Council (PCC)’’ was made up of four organs including the PCC, the Management of the PCC, the Board of Advisors, and the Committees of the PCC.

    He said that all the organs would be working in sync for the success of the NNPP in the 2023 presidential elections.

    He urged all Nigerians, especially NNPP members, especially support groups such as the Kwankwasiyya, and the TNM etc to join hands to continue to mobilise supports and votes for the party.

    Kwankwaso said that the party “Presidential Road Campaign’’ had visited all the states of the federation with the exception of three states.

    He said that the party deliberately chose to do the road campaign to avail itself with the difficulties that Nigerian road users were living with across the country

    “We have covered tens of thousands of kilometres and visited over 300 local government areas so far.

    “We have gone through difficult terrains, visited hard-to-reach communities like Illela in Sokoto State, Kauran Namoda in Zamfara State, Kamba in Kebbi State, Mubi in Adamawa State, Ikom and Ughep in Cross River State.

    “Geidam in Yobe State, Ikare in Ondo State, Kwoi in Kaduna State and numerous such other places.’’

    Kwankwaso said that in all the places visited, the party took time to visit the traditional and religious leaders in the areas in its determination to carry them along when it eventually took over power.

    “In particular, these leaders will be the drivers of our flagship initiative of Community Participation and Reorientation Committees (CPRC), which we intend to create at all the 8809 wards.

    “This committees will be funded directly from the Federal Government through appropriate legislations.’’

    kwankwaso added that it was gratifying that NNPP met with the under-served communities across the country, we listened to their experiences, their grievances, their fears and their expectations.

    He said that the experiences on the road campaign had further strengthened NNPP’s commitment to the pledges it had made to Nigerians.

    “Let me remind us that we are determined to reform the education sector to improve quality and access at all levels.

    “Specifically we will provide 500 thousand classrooms across the states of the federation to accommodate the over 20 million out-of-school children that we planned to mop up from the streets of Nigeria.

    “We will make all application forms for admission and employment free; we will make all examinations such us WAEC, NECO, NABTEB, NBIAS, JAMB etc. free;’’

    He added that NNPP would introduce a four-year moratorium for JAMB so that Nigerian children co9uld use the same JAMB results to gain admission into tertiary education institutions.

    “We will upgrade and expand all our universities, polytechnics and colleges of education and raise their standard to global competitiveness.’’

    Kwankwaso disclosed that the party would be putting its campaign rallies on holds for a couple of days to honour an invitation from London.

    “I am happy to announce that beginning from Jan. 12 this month, we will start our Zonal Rallies in Bauchi for the Northeast, Kaduna on the 14th for the North West, and Lafia on the 16th for the North Central.

    “We will pause the zonal rallies for a couple of days to create time to travel to London to honour the invitation from the Royal Institute of International Affairs Chatham House and present a discussion paper to a selected global audience.

    “Immediately we return from London, we shall resume the zonal rallies and complete the remaining zones.’’

    Highlight of the occasion include the unveiling of Fundraising Portal by the party to support  Kwankwaso presidential ambition.

    Kwankwaso expressed his gratitude to all supporters and volunteers for their commitment and the purchasing power of the peoples.

    The campaign organisation, comprising “The Council, The Management, The Advisory Board, and The Committees,’’ is to be chaired by Kwankwaso  while the Campaign is headed by a technocrat, Madam Folashade Aliu as the National Campaign Secretary.

    Boniface Aniebonam, BoT Chairman; the Party Presidential running mate Bishop Isaac Idahosa, Deputy Chairman; Prof. Rufai Alkali Deputy Chairman II; Contact and Mobilisation Committee is chaired by Buba Galadima.

  • #NigeriaDecides2023: Fuel subsidy will go immediately if I’m elected president – Peter Obi

    #NigeriaDecides2023: Fuel subsidy will go immediately if I’m elected president – Peter Obi

    Candidate of the Labour Party for the 2023 presidential election, Mr Peter Obi has said fuel subsidy payments will go immediately if he is elected president of Nigeria.

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Peter Obi said this on Sunday when he appeared on The People’s Townhall 2023 where he compared fuel consumption in Nigeria with what is consumed in Pakistan.

    Recall that fuel subsidy payments gulped N2.565 trillion between January and August 2022.

    In the Medium-Term Expenditure Framework, the federal government proposed to spend N3.3 trillion on fuel subsidy between January and June 2023.

    However, Peter Obi argued that half of what is being mentioned as fuel subsidy payments is not ought to be, adding that with Nigeri’as debt profile, the money could be used to finance critical social development issue.

    Peter Obi said: “I can assure you fuel subsidy will go immediately. Subsidy, I have said it before, is an organized crime and I cannot allow it to stay a day longer.

    “What they are telling you is not what it is. Half of subsidy payments that is being mentioned is not subsidy.  First is that we consume the quantity that is not supposed to be consumed. We are the same population as Pakistan. They consume below 50% of what we consume.

    “So, the first half, I will remove it and give those people who are drinking it water. Because that is what they are supposed to be drinking. So we can save money. Two, we will deal with the other remaining issue.

    “With our debt profile, we need the money to be able to invest in critical social development issues. Look at this year’s budget. This year’s budget, education, which is the highest since this government came, is about N2 trillion; health, which is the highest since this government came, is about N1.5 trillion. Then, infrastructure, which is road and everything related, is about N1 trillion.

    “So, these three critical development areas, are receiving N4.5 trillion while subsidy is N3.6 trillion for the half year. So, if it is full year, it is about N7 trillion.

    “Which country will invest more in subsidy than education, health and even roads put together? It doesn’t make sense.

    “The annual budget for education is N2 trillion, annual budget for health is N1.5 trillion, road infrastructure is N1 trillion, and fuel subsidy half year is N3.6 trillion. It will go immediately”.

  • #NigeriaDecides2023: Why Tinubu will win presidential election – Senator Musa

    #NigeriaDecides2023: Why Tinubu will win presidential election – Senator Musa

    Sen Sani Musa (APC/Niger East) has said that the antecedents of Sen Ahmed Tinubu, the APC presidential candidate, would give him victory in the 2023 election.

    Musa said this in a telephone interview on Sunday, stressing that Tinubu also had the followers and supporters to win the nation’s top seat.

    “Tinubu possesses enormous qualities to make Nigeria great again. His legacies in Lagos are responsible for its rising economic fortunes that has made it the economic hub of West Africa.

    “Tinubu remains the best for Nigeria today in terms of experience, exposure and commitment to a better Nigeria for generations yet unborn,” the Niger Senator said.

    Sani expressed optimism that Tinubu would attract foreign investments into the Nigeria while building the home economy, just like he did in Lagos.

    “In Tinubu, we have an astute political strategist, an economist and administrator whose contributions to democracy resonates across the country and beyond.

    “He has the capacity, experience, knowledge, the firmness; he understands governance and would bring that to bear in his leadership.

    “He has done it before and will do it again; he is tested and trusted. He transformed Lagos to what it is today.

    “Since 1999 and after leaving office as the Governor of Lagos State, he has consistently led his party to victory. No politician in Nigeria, for the past 21 years, has that track record,” Musa said in the interview with NAN.

    He appealed to Nigerians to embrace the Tinubu project and work for the success of the APC in 2023.

    “Tinubu remains committed to changing Nigeria’s narratives and will surpass the expectations of Nigerians.

    “He has the foresight to identify Nigeria’s problems and tackle them just as he transformed Lagos to what it is today. We should give him the opportunity to reenact the Lagos feat at the national level,” Musa said.

    He urged Nigerians to rally round Tinubu to enable him emerge Nigeria’s President in 2023.

  • #NigeriaDecides2023: We have agents to monitor polls – Labour Party

    #NigeriaDecides2023: We have agents to monitor polls – Labour Party

    Contrary to recent reports, the Labour Party has made disclosure of having agents and volunteers to monitor the 2023 general election.

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Dr Yunusa Tanko, Spokesman of the Labour Party presidential campaign council, made the disclosure in a statement on Sunday.

    Recall reports have circulated recently that the Labour Party does not have polling agents in core Northern states to monitor the polls.

    However, Dr Tanko disclosed that agents of the party are solidly on ground championing the ways and means to change the narrative in the 2023 general election.

    “We have volunteers all over the country that surpass even the number of agents required for each Polling booth so the issue of not being able to supply agents for 90,000 units is a complete fallacy designed by the enemies of progress in Nigeria,” Tanko stated.

    He also revealed in the statement that his party has a task force on the recruitment and selection of agents headed by Peter Obi himself, who is the presidential candidate of the party.

    The statement reads in full: “The attention of the Labour Party Presidential campaign council, (LP PCC) has been drawn to yet another deceitful information circulating in the social media to the effect that our party has not submitted agents for 90,000 Polling Units in North Central, Northeast and Northwest.

    “We see this as yet another propaganda from the opposition to bring our rising influence down and deceive the electorate in an election year.

    “We have volunteers all over the country that surpass even the number of agents required for each Polling booth so the issue of not being able to supply agents for 90,000 units is a complete fallacy designed by the enemies of progress in Nigeria.

    “INEC gave a window of up to January 20th for political parties to submit their list of agents for the elections and as such cannot at this time raise concerns about any political Party not being able to submit enough agents.

    “The Labour Party has a task force on the recruitment and selection of agents headed by our presidential candidate H.E. Peter Obi himself and his Vice, Datti, the National Chairman and the National Secretary of the party are all members of that committee.

    “LPPCC is investigating the source of this propaganda because we know it is not definitely from the INEC.

    “We appeal to the Obidient family and the teeming supporters of our party to disregard the deceitful information and focus on the collection of their PVCs which are our collective weapons to dislodge the enemies of our dear country”.

  • 2023 elections: Nigerians will not accept a rigged election – Cardinal Onaiyekan warns

    2023 elections: Nigerians will not accept a rigged election – Cardinal Onaiyekan warns

    His Grace, Cardinal John Onaiyekan, Catholic Archbishop Emeritus of Abuja has warned that Nigerians will not accept it quietly if the 2023 presidential election is rigged.

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Cardinal Onaiyekan gave the warning on Saturday during the celebration of his 40th anniversary as Bishop, at the Holy Trinity Church, Maitama, Abuja.

    Archbishop Emeritus Onaiyekan gave the warning while cautioning politicians that the 2023 presidential election will not be business as usual.

    “With the current yearnings of the people for a better country, the election will no longer be business as usual. As regards to the results of the elections, politicians should desist from any form of manipulations to their favour if not voted for.

    “All those who are planing to play games and scheme to rig in order to frustrate the desire of the decision of the people as regards the results of the elections, should desists from such.

    “All of them whether they are in government or not; they should desist from rigging or causing violence, they should not do it, they should allow this election to run in a free and fair way,” Onaiyekan noted.

    He assured that he has no special candidate, adding that the advice was for the politicians to understand that “the mood in which Nigeria now is, is not a mood that they will quietly accept a rigged election.

    “For the sake of peace, there will be serious repercussions if anybody doesn’t allow a free and fair elections. It won’t be business as usual, anymore.

    “I want Nigerians to know that they can no longer keep quiet all the time, hoping that things will change; that God will work miracles.”

    Onaiyekan advised Nigerians to use their voter cards to express their minds.

    According to him, the outcome of the election will no be about who has more campaign posters or can mobilise more crowds to stadiums.

    “It will depend on who can convince Nigerians, and give us a new kind of government.

    “Government that is based on people interested in working for the common good and not out to enrich themselves or stay in power or protect their stolen wealth so as not to be queried,” he said.

    The Archbishop advised politicians to fear God, as they would answer to their actions before Him.

    “Even if no one asks questions, God will ask questions and He has His way of asking questions,” he added.

    Also during the church service, the cardinal narrated his journey through priesthood.

    “on a Thursday afternoon, January  1983, Pope John Paul II ordained  me, Monsignor John Onaiyekan, a Bishop at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome.

    “40 years after as a Bishop, I return thanks to God, many who were with me in that day are no more, but God through His special grace has kept me,” he said.

    He prayed God to bless all who had come and those who couldn’t but have prayed for him.

    In his speech, the Archbishop of Abuja Archdiocese, His Grace Ignatius Kaigama, described the cardinal as a man of humility and peace.

    “So, we celebrate Gods gift to us in Nigeria, Abuja and in the world and i am happy that God has spared him thus far,” Kaigama said.

    Friends and clerics from within and outside Nigeria came out to celebrate the cardinal.

  • 2023 election: Vote for me to secure your future – Tinubu

    2023 election: Vote for me to secure your future – Tinubu

    The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress ( APC), Sen. Bola Tinubu, has said that votes cast for him on Feb. 25 shall secure the future of Nigerians.

    Speaking at the APC Presidential Rally at the Moshood Abiola Democracy Park, on Saturday in Akure, Tinubu said that his “Renewed Hope” agenda was to transform the country and make Nigerians to be happy.

    The presidential candidate, who lauded the mammoth crowd that received him, explained that he was in the race for the betterment of the country.

    He promised that he would replicate his achievements as Lagos State governor at the national level if elected as president.

    According to him, Nigeria should not be put in the hands of any individual that cannot be trusted.

    Tinubu, who described Ondo State as a state of the progressives, promised to make the proposed Ondo Sea Port a reality if elected.

    While also promising to invest massively on infrastructure and make electricity supply a reality, Tinubu pledged to prioritise education “so that indigent students could access student loan scheme”.

    The APC presidential candidate implored the electorate to keep their permanent voter’s cards and come out in large numbers to cast their votes for him on Feb. 25, saying that would determine their destiny.

    Earlier, Gov. Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, who described Ondo as a progressive state, urged the people to support the “Renewed Hope” agenda of the party through their votes in the forthcoming elections.

    In his speech, Sen. Iyiola Omisore, the National Secretary of the party, urged voters to cast their votes for all candidates of the party.

    Omisore stressed the need for continuity, both at the state and the national level, explaining that the APC-led government had done great work for the survival of the country.

    He gave assurance thatif elected Tinubu would bring to the federation more achievements than he recorded in Lagos as a governor.

    Mr Ade Adetimehin, the state Chairman of APC, said that Ondo State was 100 per cent a progressive state

    Adetimehin said that the party would deliver the state for Tinubu, stressing “no other state in the country, not even Lagos, will beat Ondo State in terms of percentage of votes  for Tinubu in the forthcoming election.’’

    He said that Akeredolu had given the party an order to win convincingly, pointing out that there was no division or faction in the state chapter of the party.

    Some of the dignitaries that attended the rally included Gov. Abdulahi Ganduje of Kano State, Gov. Dapo Abiodun of Ogun, Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State, former Gov. Gboyega Oyetola of Osun and and former Gov. Ibikunle  Amosun of Ogun.

    Others were Sen. Dayo Adeyeye,  Sen. Smart Adeyemi and Chief Dele Alake, among others.

  • Nigeria Decides 2023: Action Alliance threatens protest at NASS over exclusion of its candidates

    Nigeria Decides 2023: Action Alliance threatens protest at NASS over exclusion of its candidates

    Action Alliance (AA) on Saturday, threatened to stage a peaceful protest at the National Assembly over alleged exclusion of its candidates from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)’s list for the 2023 general elections.

    The National Chairman of AA, Dr Adekunle Omo-Aje, stated this at a news conference at the party’s national headquarters in Abuja.

    Omo-Aje said that INEC’s alleged failure to upload the names of all the candidates presented to it by his leadership in spite of various court orders against the recognition of the list of candidates submitted by the sacked national chairman of the party, Mr Kenneth Udeze, might jeopardise the forthcoming polls.

    “We shall move to the National Assembly on a protest and, to submit our protest letter and to inform our lawmakers that, if the INEC Chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, is not called to order, there will be negative consequential effects on the outcome of 2023 elections.

    “We shall use all legal channels to ensure we get justice against any form of exclusion from presenting our candidates for elections, and every such election stands the chances of annulment by law,” he said.

    Omo-Aje alleged that “Yakubu is covertly orchestrating a clandestine plan against the 2023 elections, and Action Alliance will not fold our arms and watch our nascent democracy rubbished and wounded.”

    He said that Udeze was the party’s national chairman up to June 2019 before he was suspended and expelled.

    Omo-Aje said he emerged the national chairman after a national elective convention conducted in February 2020 and monitored by INEC officials.

    He said instead of Udeze to challenge his suspension and expulsion from the party internally and through the courts, he instituted several court cases urging the courts to declare him national chairman of the party but lost all.

    According to him, in spite of fulfilling all INEC electoral guidelines and requirements according to the Nigerian constitution with the commission, the electoral umpire is “hell bent on excluding Action Alliance from the coming 2023 general elections.”

    “It has gotten to the level for us in Action Alliance to come out in the open and make categorical statements loud and clear on the rooftop to the hearing of all concerned citizens of this country.

    “This forms the crux of our press briefing, to draw the attention of the relevant authorities and the nation in particular about the miscarriage of justice in INEC, actively promoted by its Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu,” he said.

    He also called on the Nigerian Bar Association to intervene in concertedly sanitising the legal profession by fishing out bad eggs among its membership.

    “There is a clique of lawyers today on our streets that neither cares about the ethics of the bar nor give credence to professionalism.

    “These lawyers sniff around for legal lacuna to exploit, not minding whether such constitute abuse of court processes or not.

    “In the course of our ordeal, we have seen a lot of these tactical unprofessional practices where lawyers are engaged by persons to sue themselves as if they were truly sued in real terms, ” he said.

    At a national congress held by AA in Abuja, Mr Solomon-David Okanigbuan emerged the party’s presidential candidate, among others.

    But retired Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, the former aide to late Gen. Sani Abacha, also won the presidential primary election conducted by the Udeze-led faction on June 9 in Abuja.

    The electoral umpire had recognised all the candidates presented to it by the Udeze-led faction, despite court judgements declaring that Udeze was no longer a member of the party.

    There is also an order directing INEC to accept and publish all the candidates sent to it by the Omo-Aje leadership of the AA.