Tag: SMBLF
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Elections: Attempt to collate and announce unreconciled results is a recipe for chaos – SMBLF cautions
Members of the Southern and Middle Belt Leaders Forum (SMBLF) have declared that the present attempt to ‘collate and announce unreconciled results’ – which are products of suspicious process breach will be tantamount to Electoral manipulation, a recipe for chaos and destabilization. The zonal groups disclosed this in a statement jointly signed by all leaders…
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2023: SMBLF rejects Okowa, says he is a traitor
The Southern and Middle Belt Leaders’ Forum (SMBLF) has slammed the Governor of Delta State, Ifeanyi Okowa for accepting his nomination as Vice Presidential Candidate to Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Presidential Candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the forthcoming 2023 general elections. The umbrella body said it was regretful that Okowa, who is currently…
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Southern, Middlebelt leaders condemn PDP over Atiku candidacy
The Southern and Middle Belt Leaders Forum has expressed disgust over the picking of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar as the presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP describing the development as a brazing affront on the people of Southern Nigeria. TheNewsGuru.com, (TNG) reports this was contained in a statement issued by SMBLF and…
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2023: Don’t vote for northern candidates, SMBLF cautions delegates
Few days to the national conventions of the political parties, the Southern and Middle Belt Leaders Forum ( SMBLF) has cautioned delegates of all political parties, and true lovers of democracy, to reject presidential aspirants from the North, and only vote for those from the South during the party primaries. The group of politicians and…
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2023: Clark renews call for power shift
Chief Edwin Clark, National Leader, Southern and Middle Belt Leaders Forum (SMBLF), has supported clamour for the Southern Nigeria to produce the President in 2023. He said this on Sunday, in Abuja, at an expanded meeting of the forum with the theme, “State of the Nation and Preparations toward 2023 General Elections”. Clark, also an…
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Nigeria@60: Buhari’s independence day speech dry, uninspiring – SMBLF
The Southern and Middle Belt Leaders (SMBL) Forum on Thursday faulted the nationwide broadcast by the President Muhammadu Buhari in commemoration of the 60 years of independence of Nigeria, but compared it with “the tale full of sound and fury signifying nothing.” The organisation said Buhari would have made sense if he had used the…