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Here’s a chieftain of APC admitting the masses are not with the party anymore. He went further to say that PDP will sweep the entire NW excluding Kano (says Kwankwaso will win here) & majority of the NE & NC. He went further to say that despite Wike’s tantrums PDP will sweep the SS while APC takes the SW.

Forget crowd, most Kaduna normal people are Atikulated.

PDP will massively win the state 2023.

60% of Buhari 2019 voter's are now Atikulated, 30% are kwankwasied, 10% are left for Tinubu.

Atiku in Kaduna vs Peter Obi in Kaduna, mehn the difference is clear �

The real poll happens offline not online

#AtikuInKaduna

After hours of struggling due to large crowd of people holding him on his way, HE Atiku Abubakar has finally arrived at the event venue. Now struggling to be on the stage �#AtikuInKaduna #KadunaIsPDP

H.E Alhaji Abubakar hasn’t even arrived the venue of his rally yet, but you need to see the traffic gathering inside town already. Please if you have somewhere urgent to go, avoid Ahmadu bello way, independence way and anywhere around town axis #AtikuInKaduna

Sen Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso will not be attending the engagement with Arewa Elders Forum. According to a letter signed by his campaign spokesperson, @AbdulAbmJ, the process has being infiltrated by some interests and the event will be used to endorse a particular candidate from the North.

Also, the event has clashed with his planned schedule, and the event was shifted to this date to coincide with a particular candidate’s campaign in Kaduna, where the engagement is happening.

Tinubu in zaria �

They went house to house with 1k each in zaria begging residents to come out and stand with tinubu. But they refused.

Tinubu never see anything.

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party and former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar, has said that Nigeria needs a president that is ready to give his all to the entire nation and not one that displays nepotistic tendencies.

He also said a credential of national inclusivity, not ethnicity, should be an ideal that the Northern part of the county should examine in electing a new president for the country in the February 2023 presidential election.

Atiku made the remarks when he featured as a guest of the Arewa Joint Committee interactive sessions alongside other presidential candidates from other political parties on Saturday in Kaduna.

The session, which took place at the Arewa House, was attended by high-ranking leaders of various Northern Nigeria-based socio-cultural bodies.

The interactive session was organised by several groups, including the Arewa Consultative Forum, Arewa House, Sir Ahmadu Bello Memorial Foundation, Northern Elders Forum and Arewa Research and Development Project, among others.

At Saturday’s event, Atiku noted that with a political career that spans over 30 years, he stands shoulder-high as a Nigerian of Northern descent who has built bridges of unity across the country.

“I have been in politics for more than three decades and I am a Northerner,” said Atiku. “So, if you ask me why I am the best candidate to lead Nigeria in 2023, I will simply say that what Nigeria needs is a pan-Nigerian president, not whether he is Yoruba, Igbo, or Hausa-Fulani.”

Atiku, while delivering his speech at the event, highlighted the key policy agendas which he seeks to pursue if elected president to include promoting national unity through deliberate actions that will secure mutual trust and confidence amongst all tendencies.

The other policy areas that Atiku enumerated are reforms in education, Agriculture, and reversing the economic downturn of the country.

In a related development, the Kaduna State chapter of the PDP has rescheduled the planned consultative visit of the presidential candidate of the party, Atiku, and his running mate, Ifeanyi Okowa, to Kafanchan earlier scheduled for Sunday, October 16, 2022.

In a news release signed by the chairman of the chapter, Hassan Hyat, the party explained that the visit was postponed following consultations with political stakeholders and religious leaders of the zone wherein the stakeholders resolved that a new date would be most suitable for the planned visit.

“The PDP regrets any inconveniences this change might cause and assures the good people of Southern Kaduna of Atiku’s commitment to meeting with the leaders and people of the zone as soon as a new and convenient date is fixed,” the statement partly read.

Na wa o. Tinubu said El-Rufai has the capacity to turn "a rotten situation into a bad one." Was that a Freudian slip, a targeted missile, or an innocent verbal mishap? I see why Tinubu avoids the media like the plague.

About 2,000 supporters of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have dumped the ruling party and joined the main opposition, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Yobe State.

According to them, they cease to support the APC citing “failures” by President Muhammadu Buhari, Governor Mai Mala Buni and the party.

The decampees also pledged to support and canvas more votes for PDP’s Atiku Abubakar in the 2023 presidential election.

The PDP Deputy Gubernatorial flag-bearer in Yobe State, Alhaji Bashir Abubakar Sadiq, received the new party members on Tuesday at Dogo Nini Ward in Potiskum Local Government Area (LGA).

Sadiq during his speech promised the decampees that he would work with them. He expressed his delight with their association with the PDP.

The occasion was graced by the PDP Potiskum Local Government Party Chairman, Alhaji Abdullahi Shuaibu; PDP State Vice Chairman Zone B, Alhaji Hassan Sharu; among other party chieftains.

Yesterday @OfficialPDPNig chairman Borno state chapter Alhaji Zanna Gaddama Mustapha received thousands of defectors from APC to our great party PDP in Monguno Local government.

Yesterday @OfficialPDPNig chairman Borno state chapter Alhaji Zanna Gaddama Mustapha received thousands of defectors from APC to our great party PDP in Monguno Local government. pic.twitter.com/cx7c1KChI8

— Bulama (@Bulama8976) October 9, 2022

“APC is a dead party, I’m advising Tinubu to go and focus on his health related issues.”

On whether he will withdraw or support Tinubu, kwankwaso said

“No one will vote for a dead party, even if I asked people to do so, they won’t vote for APC.”

A statement attributed to Peter Obi, a former governor of Anambra state, saying the All Progressives Congress (APC) is a Yoruba political party has been circulating online.

On Tuesday, Obi, who joined the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential race in 2019 as Atiku Abubakar’s running mate, said he would be running for president if his party zones the ticket to the south.

The declaration generated mixed reactions on social media.

Some social media users later quoted him to have said the ruling party belongs to an ethnic group.

“The All Progressive Congress Is A Yoruba Party- Peter Obi, ” the viral quote read.

The statement was circulated on Facebook and Twitter with some users calling Obi “a bigoted politician”.



VERIFICATION

Online checks of previous statements made by Peter Obi showed that the presidential aspirant did not make such a statement.

A keyword internet search by TheCable gave no result on where or when he made the statement, and none of the users who posted the quotes indicated their source(s).

When TheCable contacted Valentine Obienyem, Obi’s spokesperson, he said his principal did not make the viral statement.

“Not at all! Oga did not say such a thing. It’s political opponents that are putting up such propaganda,” Obienyem said.


VERDICT

There is no evidence that Peter Obi said APC is a Yoruba political party.

All the 16 executives of the APC in Lajinge and Makuwana wards of Sabon Birni Local Government Area of Sokoto state have defected to the PDP.

Receiving the new members, Bello Goronyo, the state PDP Chairman, assured them of equal treatment with all other members of the party.

“In PDP, we treat all our members the same, we always stand on our name for the people, as such, I assure you that we will work together in the best interest of our state and Nigeria.

“Your decision to join us in this journey is of great concern to us as leaders and I am optimistic that with you on board, we will succeed in our struggle,” he said.

Mr Goronyo further called on them to continue to educate the general public on the legacy projects and initiatives of Governor Aminu Tambuwal’s administration in the state.

Responding on behalf of the new members, Garba Dan-Sanda said their decision to join the party was based on the track records of the PDP-led state government.

Mr Dan-Sanda assured that they will work closely with the PDP leadership at all levels to ensure its success during the 2023 polls.

Some of the defectors include Aliyu Liman, Adamu Salihu, Alinbo Dan-Tudu, Abdullahi Belbela, Abdu Langebo, Hussain Langebo and Umaru Dadi.

Others are Abubakar Isa, Abdullahi Na-Datti, Agada Lajinge, Usman Kalla, Isa Suleiman, Yawale Isa, Jadi Abdullahi and Aminu Makuwana.

BURSTED! BURSTED!

Igbo Town Hall summit, for the Endorsement of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and Babajide SanwoOlu.

Payment for attending, 4,500 naira for each person.

Total cost, 16,768,600 naira.

@AfamDeluxo @UcheOkoyep @urchilla01 @General_Oluchi

Alongside my running mate, Hon Sagir Bafarawa, and Sokoto State PDP Chairman, Hon Bello Goronyo, I welcomed to @OfficialPDPNig, the former Gada Local Government Council Chairman, Hon Musa Hashimu who dumped the failing APC together with over 2000 of its supporters in Gada LG.

National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Abdullahi Adamu, has said the party would lose the 2023 presidential poll without the support of governors who are members of the party.

Adamu spoke at the opening session of a meeting of governors, National Working Committee (NWC) and other stakeholders at the party’s national secretariat on Wednesday in Abuja.

Recall that APC governors were reportedly aggrieved over the composition of the party’s presidential campaign council, released recently by the Secretary of the Council, James Faleke.

Following their grievances, the Director General of the Campaign Council and Plateau State governor, Simon Lalong, postponed the kick-off of the party’s presidential campaign, saying the move was to allow room for inclusion of more party chieftain in the Council.

At Wednesday’s meeting, Adamu said, “Being the chief executive officers of their various states, the onus of our great party lies in the hands of God and in their hands because they are the commanders of the party fortunes in their various states.

“We cannot make meaningful progress in the affairs of these states, particularly in an election year that is approaching. We cannot plan without the buy-in of our governors so that we can stand together, believing that we share same aspirations.

“We will plan together to see how best we can deliver the interest of the party and ensure that victory is ours in 2023 general election that is by the corner. That is the essence of this meeting.”

Speaking during the event, the Director-General of the Presidential Campaign Council and Plateau State governor, Simon Lalong, said Adamu called for the meeting to discuss issues related to the progress of the party.