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Politics › Yahaya Bello, Denies Dumping Tinubu, Says His Support For Tinubu Is Unwavering by tinsel(op): 5:18am On Jan 23, 2023

FAKE NEWS ALERT‼️ 🚨

Kindly disregard every fake news being spread by mischievous media outlets.

My unwavering support for Tinubu/Shettima 2023 is 💯 % undiluted.

God bless APC!!!

God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria 🇳🇬!

https://twitter.com/OfficialGYBKogi/status/1617103794365399041?t=yHSgsfeuwinGp8bzM8-L9g&s=19

If not for joblessness and jankara jounalism, how will a certified journalist and National Newspaper not even know the Senatorial district of the AG of Kogi State. This is what happens when you employ cheap labour into an organization.

Kogi Is APC 💯
APC is Kogi 💯

https://twitter.com/ed_onoja/status/1617153021670207489?t=yHSgsfeuwinGp8bzM8-L9g&s=19

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Politics › Re: PT State Of The Race: APC, PDP Flex Muscles As Campaigns Enter Final Month by tinsel(op): 5:12am On Jan 23, 2023

DaddyFreeze2020:
They came to see Buhari not Tinubu. Most people thought Buhari would be coming.
Tinubu likes using other Gubernatorial candidates rally to gum his own camapaign.

Let Tinubu go to Kano alone, before comparing crowd

You are honestly a kid.

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Politics › Re: PT State Of The Race: APC, PDP Flex Muscles As Campaigns Enter Final Month by tinsel(op): 5:07am On Jan 23, 2023

DaddyFreeze2020:
They came to see Buhari not Tinubu.
Tinubu likes using other Gubernatorial candidates rally to gum his own camapaign

See this boy. Was Buhari in Kano? Are you from the moon?

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Politics › Re: PT State Of The Race: APC, PDP Flex Muscles As Campaigns Enter Final Month by tinsel(op): 5:01am On Jan 23, 2023

DaddyFreeze2020:
They obviously wrote the article prior to LP campaigns in Kano

Labour party campaign in Kano? Are you not ashamed with such a crowd? Go and watch Tinubu's crowd in Kano and compare it to nonsense Obi' pulled there. Divide Tinubu's crowd in Kano into 10. One part was more than that of Obi.

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Politics › Re: PT State Of The Race: APC, PDP Flex Muscles As Campaigns Enter Final Month by tinsel(op): 4:59am On Jan 23, 2023

Mynd44:
Premium times has turned this election to what it us, a two horse race

That is actually what it is.

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Politics › PT State Of The Race: APC, PDP Flex Muscles As Campaigns Enter Final Month by tinsel(op): 9:02pm On Jan 22, 2023

The major candidates in the presidential race have ramped up their campaigns since we entered the election year. However, pictures emerging from their rallies across Nigeria appear to invalidate some of the assumptions that have been made about the race.

Since the campaigns resumed in January, Bola Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has addressed rallies in Adamawa, Yobe, Kwara and Jigawa; while Atiku Abubakar of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been in Kogi, Ekiti, Ogun and Oyo states. Peter Obi has held his own rallies in Delta, Osun, Kaduna, Niger and Plateau states just as Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) has addressed supporters in Plateau, Bauchi, Kaduna and Nasarawa states.

Attendance at the rallies, especially at those of the APC and PDP candidates, has generally been impressive and tends to reflect the structures of the two established parties across the country. It also suggests that the two parties retain massive support among Nigerians, in spite of issues surrounding their tickets.
In previewing this race, some analysts had flashed back to the 1979 election which nearly went into a runoff. Recall that in that election 43 years ago, the five candidates comfortably won in their home regions. Shehu Shagari of the National Party of Nigeria (NPN) narrowly prevailed eventually because he won in the then southern minorities’ states of Rivers and Cross River that had no native candidate in the poll.
The observation that the four major candidates in this election also come from different zones of the country and appear to be popular in their own homes is one of the factors behind a projection that this election may head into a runoff as each candidate may sweep the poll in his home zone.

However, turnouts at the rallies that Atiku has so far held in southern states show that his party has a large support base in those states and indicate that the supporters value loyalty to their party above the ethnic affinity that they share with a major opponent of the party’s presidential candidate. It has helped Atiku too that the PDP now has two sitting governors in Mr Tinubu’s home zone.
However, the same can be said of Mr Tinubu. His rallies so far across the northern zones have also been scenes of multitudes and great kinetic enthusiasm. Atiku and Mr Kwankwaso have been projected to end the dominance of the APC in the northern region where the ruling party currently runs 15 of the 19 state governments. After their party’s rallies in Kaduna and Katsina, some Atiku campaign officials had even boasted that he has inherited the voters of President Muhammadu Buhari in the region, especially in the president’s home North-west zone. Those voters had given Mr Buhari the edge in the region in the five presidential elections that the outgoing president stood in between 2003 and 2019. But now that he is retiring, those voters are up for grabs. Pictures from his rallies however indicate that Mr Tinubu remains well in consideration for the Buhari votes.
The APC has at least demonstrated a capacity to get people to campaign grounds in the North, just as the PDP has in the South. This is remarkable. We assumed that Atiku would face chastisement from Southern voters for disrupting the PDP rotation principle that should have handed the party’s presidential flag to a southern bidder. Anger in the region over the development has been amplified by the dissident group of five (G5) governors of the party, led by Rivers’ Nyesom Wike. Members of the group continue to antagonize and rebuke the party and the presidential candidate at public fora. They have also refused to be part of his campaign or support it in their states. Yet, Atiku has been well received by party members on every campaign stop in the South.

On his part, Mr Tinubu faced a backlash for his same-faith ticket arising from his choice of Kashim Shettima, a senator and former governor of Borno State, as running mate. The choice had drawn instant condemnation from Christian groups across the country. It will only be confirmed at the poll whether that anger has dissipated and if not, to what extent it would hurt him. However, that his rallies and other public engagements have drawn participants from across the faiths should give Mr Tinubu a cause for optimism.

If this election is not decided on the first ballot, it may not be because each of the top four candidates denied the others, votes in his home zone. The structures of the APC and PDP, at least, look strong enough to draw for their candidates more than a quarter of the votes in more than each of 24 states and the Federal Capital Territory, the second condition for election. The one between them with the most votes will most likely be elected on 25 February.

One other assumption is that this is a four-horse raise. At this point, only the candidates of the two established parties appear to have a visible path to victory. The campaigns would have demonstrated to Messrs Obi and Kwankwaso, both of whom are experienced politicians, the value of party structures. Both former governors are virtually running as independent candidates as their parties do not appear to enjoy popularity beyond the auras around the candidates.

Mr Obi’s bid has enjoyed unprecedented support from younger Nigerians. But apart from in the first weeks of the campaigns when they held a series of seemingly spontaneous “million-man” marches in many cities across the country, the youths and Mr Obi’s other supporters have not been showing up in impressive numbers at his rallies. He has also failed to draw prominent politicians to his side, although to do so would have contradicted his vow to destroy the extant political structure of the country which he described as corrupt and blamed for the country’s woes. And while his two major rivals have enjoyed a warm reception in his supposed strongholds, he does not appear to be attracting much attention in their own zones.
Mr Kwankwaso’s campaign too has so far been lack-lustre and appears to have lost steam even before it took off. Outside his catchment state of Kano, people do not seem to rate his bid as serious.

There are still 33 days before the election, so the coming weeks will shed more light on the likely outcome of the election.

PDP presidential aspirant Atiku Abubakar and APC presidential aspirant Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
PDP presidential aspirant Atiku Abubakar and APC presidential aspirant Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Tinubu, Atiku trade accusations
Last week, Mr Tinubu and Atiku took their verbal fisticuffs beyond the campaign stop podiums when they demanded the arrest and disqualification of each other from the presidential race over allegations of graft.

Mr Tinubu’s campaign team threw the first punch when they asked security agencies to wade into what had been dubbed the #AtikuGate scandal.

The scandal emanated from a video clip made by Michael Achimugu, who described himself as a former aide of Atiku. A voice in the video, said to be that of Atiku, is heard saying, as vice president between 1999 and 2007, Atiku and then President Olusegun Obasanjo operated illegal “Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs) accounts to warehouse kickbacks from government contracts for their personal benefits.

Responding, Atiku and the PDP opted to throw barbs of his own, describing Mr Tinubu as a convict who should not be allowed in the presidential race, adding that his alleged $460,000 drug money forfeiture was evidence of a crime.

On Tuesday, after a 72-hour ultimatum he gave the agency elapsed, a spokesperson of the APC Presidential Campaign Council, Festus Keyamo, filed a suit against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), seeking the arrest of Atiku over the scandal. He joined the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Offences Related Commission (ICPC) and Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) in the suit.

PDP bares fangs
The PDP on Friday finally wielded the stick against chieftains in three states it accused of anti-party activities. According to a statement by its spokesperson, Debo Ologunagba, the party suspended a former governor of Enugu State, Chimaroke Nnamani, a son of former Ekiti State governor Ayo Fayose and a former spokesperson of Mr Fayose, over the alleged infractions. The party also dissolved its state executive committee in Ekiti State, which was controlled by allies of Mr Fayose.

The former Ekiti governor is with the G5 governors or Integrity Group that has been in open confrontation with the national leadership of the party and Atiku. Mr Fayose did not attend Atiku’s rally in the state and is believed to be routing for Mr Tinubu of the APC instead. His son, Oluwajomiloju, is a candidate of the party in the House of Representatives election. Mr Nnamani is also a PDP senatorial candidate in Enugu but had also declared support for Mr Tinubu.

PDP’s sanction against the members indicates that its patience with the G5 is exhausted. But that does not seem to have deterred Mr Wike. Instead, he has dared the party to extend the punishment to himself and the other governors in his group. The Rivers governor also described the suspension of the members as illegal and warned that it would be challenged in court.
Speaking at the flag-off of the PDP Campaign Council in Bori, Khana Local Government Area of Rivers, on Saturday, Mr Wike said: “Let me also use this opportunity to say to Iyorchia Ayu and his team, your dissolving Ekiti State Exco will not help you in any way. Suspending people will not help you in any way. The battle line has been fully drawn. As I speak to you, we will do everything legally possible to challenge any decision we know is illegal.”

“So, don’t think you can threaten people by saying so, so persons have been suspended. Rubbish! Complete rubbish. We are above that level that you think you can threaten anybody, intimidate anybody with whatever illegal decision you have taken. So, we are waiting for you to announce my own and any other of my friends. Like I have said, when a man says you will not sleep, he too, will he sleep? Will Ayu sleep? Will his cohorts sleep? So, don’t worry, we have the capacity to pay back. We have the capacity to tell you that enough is enough.”

The crisis in the party has become one of the defining issues of this presidential election. It is not the first time that the PDP has gone into an election as a divided force. In 2014, seven of its state governors defected to the then-newly formed APC in an angry rebuttal of the renomination of the then-incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan as the party’s candidate for the 2015 presidential election.

This time though, Mr Wike and his four governor-comrades have refused to quit the party or subject themselves to its authority
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/features-and-interviews/577103-pt-state-of-the-race-apc-pdp-flex-muscles-as-campaigns-enter-final-month.html

Politics › PT State Of The Race: APC, PDP Flex Muscles As Campaigns Enter Final Month by tinsel(op): 5:09pm On Jan 22, 2023

The major candidates in the presidential race have ramped up their campaigns since we entered the election year. However, pictures emerging from their rallies across Nigeria appear to invalidate some of the assumptions that have been made about the race.

Since the campaigns resumed in January, Bola Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has addressed rallies in Adamawa, Yobe, Kwara and Jigawa; while Atiku Abubakar of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been in Kogi, Ekiti, Ogun and Oyo states. Peter Obi has held his own rallies in Delta, Osun, Kaduna, Niger and Plateau states just as Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) has addressed supporters in Plateau, Bauchi, Kaduna and Nasarawa states.

Attendance at the rallies, especially at those of the APC and PDP candidates, has generally been impressive and tends to reflect the structures of the two established parties across the country. It also suggests that the two parties retain massive support among Nigerians, in spite of issues surrounding.

In previewing this race, some analysts had flashed back to the 1979 election which nearly went into a runoff. Recall that in that election 43 years ago, the five candidates comfortably won in their home regions. Shehu Shagari of the National Party of Nigeria (NPN) narrowly prevailed eventually because he won in the then southern minorities’ states of Rivers and Cross River that had no native candidate in the poll.

The observation that the four major candidates in this election also come from different zones of the country and appear to be popular in their own homes is one of the factors behind a projection that this election may head into a runoff as each candidate may sweep the poll in his home zone.

However, turnouts at the rallies that Atiku has so far held in southern states show that his party has a large support base in those states and indicate that the supporters value loyalty to their party above the ethnic affinity that they share with a major opponent of the party’s presidential candidate. It has helped Atiku too that the PDP now has two sitting governors in Mr Tinubu’s home zone.

However, the same can be said of Mr Tinubu. His rallies so far across the northern zones have also been scenes of multitudes and great kinetic enthusiasm. Atiku and Mr Kwankwaso have been projected to end the dominance of the APC in the northern region where the ruling party currently runs 15 of the 19 state governments.

After their party’s rallies in Kaduna and Katsina, some Atiku campaign officials had even boasted that he has inherited the voters of President Muhammadu Buhari in the region, especially in the president’s home North-west zone. Those voters had given Mr Buhari the edge in the region in the five presidential elections that the outgoing president stood in between 2003 and 2019. But now that he is retiring, those voters are up for grabs. Pictures from his rallies however indicate that Mr Tinubu remains well in consideration for the Buhari votes.

The APC has at least demonstrated a capacity to get people to campaign grounds in the North, just as the PDP has in the South. This is remarkable. We assumed that Atiku would face chastisement from Southern voters for disrupting the PDP rotation principle that should have handed the party’s presidential flag to a southern bidder. Anger in the region over the development has been amplified by the dissident group of five (G5) governors of the party, led by Rivers’ Nyesom Wike. Members of the group continue to antagonize and rebuke the party and the presidential candidate at public fora. They have also refused to be part of his campaign or support it in their states. Yet, Atiku has been well received by party members on every campaign stop in the South.

On his part, Mr Tinubu faced a backlash for his same-faith ticket arising from his choice of Kashim Shettima, a senator and former governor of Borno State, as running mate. The choice had drawn instant condemnation from Christian groups across the country. It will only be confirmed at the poll whether that anger has dissipated and if not, to what extent it would hurt him. However, that his rallies and other public engagements have drawn participants from across the faiths should give Mr Tinubu a cause for optimism.

If this election is not decided on the first ballot, it may not be because each of the top four candidates denied the others, votes in his home zone. The structures of the APC and PDP, at least, look strong enough to draw for their candidates more than a quarter of the votes in more than each of 24 states and the Federal Capital Territory, the second condition for election. The one between them with the most votes will most likely be elected on 25 February.

One other assumption is that this is a four-horse raise. At this point, only the candidates of the two established parties appear to have a visible path to victory. The campaigns would have demonstrated to Messrs Obi and Kwankwaso, both of whom are experienced politicians, the value of party structures. Both former governors are virtually running as independent candidates as their parties do not appear to enjoy popularity beyond the auras around the candidates.

Mr Obi’s bid has enjoyed unprecedented support from younger Nigerians. But apart from in the first weeks of the campaigns when they held a series of seemingly spontaneous “million-man” marches in many cities across the country, the youths and Mr Obi’s other supporters have not been showing up in impressive numbers at his rallies. He has also failed to draw prominent politicians to his side, although to do so would have contradicted his vow to destroy the extant political structure of the country which he described as corrupt and blamed for the country’s woes.

And while his two major rivals have enjoyed a warm reception in his supposed strongholds, he does not appear to be attracting much attention in their own zones.Mr Kwankwaso’s campaign too has so far been lack-lustre and appears to have lost steam even before it took off. Outside his catchment state of Kano, people do not seem to rate his bid as serious.

There are still 33 days before the election, so the coming weeks will shed more light on the likely outcome of the election.

Tinubu, Atiku trade accusations
Last week, Mr Tinubu and Atiku took their verbal fisticuffs beyond the campaign stop podiums when they demanded the arrest and disqualification of each other from the presidential race over allegations of graft.

Mr Tinubu’s campaign team threw the first punch when they asked security agencies to wade into what had been dubbed the #AtikuGate scandal.

The scandal emanated from a video clip made by Michael Achimugu, who described himself as a former aide of Atiku. A voice in the video, said to be that of Atiku, is heard saying, as vice president between 1999 and 2007, Atiku and then President Olusegun Obasanjo operated illegal “Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs) accounts to warehouse kickbacks from government contracts for their personal benefits.

Responding, Atiku and the PDP opted to throw barbs of his own, describing Mr Tinubu as a convict who should not be allowed in the presidential race, adding that his alleged $460,000 drug money forfeiture was evidence of a crime.

On Tuesday, after a 72-hour ultimatum he gave the agency elapsed, a spokesperson of the APC Presidential Campaign Council, Festus Keyamo, filed a suit against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), seeking the arrest of Atiku over the scandal. He joined the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Offences Related Commission (ICPC) and Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) in the suit.

PDP bares fangs
The PDP on Friday finally wielded the stick against chieftains in three states it accused of anti-party activities. According to a statement by its spokesperson, Debo Ologunagba, the party suspended a former governor of Enugu State, Chimaroke Nnamani, a son of former Ekiti State governor Ayo Fayose and a former spokesperson of Mr Fayose, over the alleged infractions. The party also dissolved its state executive committee in Ekiti State, which was controlled by allies of Mr Fayose.

The former Ekiti governor is with the G5 governors or Integrity Group that has been in open confrontation with the national leadership of the party and Atiku. Mr Fayose did not attend Atiku’s rally in the state and is believed to be routing for Mr Tinubu of the APC instead. His son, Oluwajomiloju, is a candidate of the party in the House of Representatives election. Mr Nnamani is also a PDP senatorial candidate in Enugu but had also declared support for Mr Tinubu.

Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike [PHOTO CREDIT: Gov Nyesom Ezenwo Wike]
Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike [PHOTO CREDIT: Gov Nyesom Ezenwo Wike]
PDP’s sanction against the members indicates that its patience with the G5 is exhausted. But that does not seem to have deterred Mr Wike. Instead, he has dared the party to extend the punishment to himself and the other governors in his group. The Rivers governor also described the suspension of the members as illegal and warned that it would be challenged in court.
Speaking at the flag-off of the PDP Campaign Council in Bori, Khana Local Government Area of Rivers, on Saturday, Mr Wike said: “Let me also use this opportunity to say to Iyorchia Ayu and his team, your dissolving Ekiti State Exco will not help you in any way. Suspending people will not help you in any way. The battle line has been fully drawn. As I speak to you, we will do everything legally possible to challenge any decision we know is illegal.”

“So, don’t think you can threaten people by saying so, so persons have been suspended. Rubbish! Complete rubbish. We are above that level that you think you can threaten anybody, intimidate anybody with whatever illegal decision you have taken. So, we are waiting for you to announce my own and any other of my friends. Like I have said, when a man says you will not sleep, he too, will he sleep? Will Ayu sleep? Will his cohorts sleep? So, don’t worry, we have the capacity to pay back. We have the capacity to tell you that enough is enough.”

The crisis in the party has become one of the defining issues of this presidential election. It is not the first time that the PDP has gone into an election as a divided force. In 2014, seven of its state governors defected to the then-newly formed APC in an angry rebuttal of the renomination of the then-incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan as the party’s candidate for the 2015 presidential election.

This time though, Mr Wike and his four governor-comrades have refused to quit the party or subject themselves to its authority

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/features-and-interviews/577103-pt-state-of-the-race-apc-pdp-flex-muscles-as-campaigns-enter-final-month.html

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Politics › Re: Pictures From The Obi-datti Kano Rally by tinsel: 3:42pm On Jan 22, 2023

Millz404:
People looking for space inside stadium and shouting sai obi and sai Nigeria

The 5000 capacity Sani Abacha stadium?
Shame

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Politics › Re: Pictures From The Obi-datti Kano Rally by tinsel: 3:41pm On Jan 22, 2023

Millz404:
People looking for space inside stadium and shouting sai obi and sai Nigeria

The 5000 capacity Sani Abacha stadium?

Politics › Re: Massive Crowd Welcome Peter Obi In Kano! Kano For Obi by tinsel: 3:28pm On Jan 22, 2023

Madmohamed123:
obi Nigeria president

Quite unfortunate.

Politics › Re: Gov Yahaya Bello Lobbies Ayu, Vows To Deliver Kogi To Atiku - SaharaReporters by tinsel: 3:06pm On Jan 22, 2023

https://mobile.twitter.com/OfficialGYBKogi/status/1617103794365399041

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Politics › Re: Peter Obi Takes Campaign To Sabon Gari Kano by tinsel: 2:28pm On Jan 22, 2023

alsudan:
Won’t be surprised if Obi ends his North West Campaign today in Kano.

The man has shored up his base and has left the other candidates to scuffle for the NW/NE.

Obi is a highly divisive person from his campaign tactic. He is a danger to one Nigeria. He did what he is doing now in Anambra between Anglican and Catholics.

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Politics › Re: Does Anyone Remember The Defections To APC Before Anambra Guber Elections? by tinsel: 10:01pm On Jan 21, 2023

You clap when you see defections from APC to PDP. But it does not matter when they defect to APC.

Politics › Re: More Pictures From Atiku's Presidential Campaign Rally In Niger State by tinsel: 6:34pm On Jan 21, 2023

He try sha. Not the nonsense Obidients are displaying as rallies.

Politics › Re: Anxiety In Delta State As Ibori Endorses APC Senatorial Candidate by tinsel(op): 5:43am On Jan 21, 2023

Pwettylinda:
Ibori is a known thief na so what do you expect

APC is the party of thieves 😊😊

This thing pained you too much

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Politics › Re: Anxiety In Delta State As Ibori Endorses APC Senatorial Candidate by tinsel(op): 4:49am On Jan 21, 2023

KingKO22:
All road clear for APC

But why are all top politicians from SS/SE are avoiding Pandora Obituary 😀😂🤣

They know there is no road.

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Politics › Anxiety In Delta State As Ibori Endorses APC Senatorial Candidate by tinsel(op): 4:23am On Jan 21, 2023

Former governor of Delta State, Chief James Ibori, has has thrown his weight behind the ambition of Hon Joel Onowakpo-Thomas, the Delta South Senatorial Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2023 general election.

Ibori stated this on Wednesday when senatorial candidate visited him in his country home in Oghara, Ethiope West Local Government Area, as part of his campaign and consultations to realize his dream of succeeding Senator James Manager in the Upper Chamber of the National Assembly via next month’s election.

Onowakpo-Thomas is a man of immense and undeniable capabilities that can deliver the desired democratic representation towards the transformation of the state and Delta South in particular, the former governor said.

Describing him as intelligent and humble despite his towering personality and remarkable professional track-record, Ibori prayed that God will grant him his heart’s desire to represent the people of Delta South in the Senate.

The action of Ibori, a chieftain and two-term governor under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has heightened growing disquiet among members of the party in the state, which has witnessed several resignations of prominent members of the party especially in Delta Central and Delta South senatorial districts of the state.

Although, the party has also been receiving members defecting from the APC and other patties, many prominent PDP members announcing the resignation are believed to be strong Ibori loyalists.

Photos of Onowakpo-Thomas, the former chairman of state board of internal revenue (DBIR), adorned in the APC campaign colours and kneeling to receive blessings and support from Ibori went viral on Thursday, fuelling speculations that the reputed political godfather of the PDP in Delta State might be either going to act the spoiling game in the coming election or on his way out of the party for good.

Although, Chief Ibori, whose daughter, Mrs Erhiatake Ibori-Soenu, is the PDP House of Representatives Candidate for Ethiope Federal Constituency, hails from Delta Central senatorial district, the APC Delta South senatorial candidate, Onowakpo-Thomas, said that he wished to pay homage, get his prayers for his ambition to represent his zone under the APC canopy.

He also said that he wished to tap from the enormous political experience and influence of the former governor.

“Your Excellency, I am here today to officially announce to you that I am contesting for the position of Delta South Senatorial District under the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to represent my people in the red chambers.

“Not only that, I have also come for your prayers and support. It remains an undeniable fact that you remain one of the foremost leaders we have in Delta State, Niger-Delta and Nigeria at large. As I embark on this journey, I solicit your support and those of your numerous followers in Delta South Senatorial District as this will go a long way in my envisaged victory come February 25, 2023”, Onowakpo-Thomas said.

The APC flag-bearer is up against a major challenge from the PDP whose senatorial candidate in the district is Michael Diden, a.k.a. Ejele, who is also a close political ally of the PDP Vice-Presidential Candidate and Delta State Governor, Dr feanyi Okowa.

https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2023/01/19/anxiety-in-delta-pdp-as-ibori-endorses-onawakpo-thomas-apc-senatorial-candidate/

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Politics › Re: Wizkid Disassociates Himself From Obi's Rally Threatens Legal Action by tinsel(op): 11:05pm On Jan 20, 2023

Propaganda and falsehood don't win election.

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Politics › Wizkid Disassociates Himself From Obi's Rally Threatens Legal Action by tinsel(op): 10:27pm On Jan 20, 2023

The presidential election is billed to hold on February 25. Obi has been doing campaign rounds.

Posters claiming Wizkid will be performing at a campaign concert in Abuja have been circulating on social media.

The concert tagged ‘2023 ObiDatti Showdown Music Concert’ is advertised for February, 18, at Eagle Square.

Other artistes listed as performers at the event include Burna Boy, Tiwa Savage, 2Baba, and Seun Kuti.

Reacting to the development, Are threatened legal action against those using the singer to promote Peter Obi.

“This is to inform the general public that this event is a scam, Wizkid and his management know nothing about this event and accordingly, he will not perform at the said event as claimed,” the manager said.

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“So please beware of this poster and information put out from its organizers as Wizkid and his management will not be liable for any damages.

“Appropriate legal action is currently being explored against the persons responsible for creating and disseminating this false information.”

Obi is contesting against Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) among others.
https://lifestyle.thecable.ng/wizkids-manager-dissociates-singer-from-rumoured-peter-obi-concert/

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Politics › Peace Committee Calls Out Fani-Kayode, Reno Omokri & Obidients by tinsel(op): 8:04pm On Jan 20, 2023

National Peace Committee Describes Fani-Kayode, Reno Omokri As Purveyors Of Fake News, Hate Speech, Accuses Labour Party Supporters Of Cyber Bullying, Malicious Utterances

The National Peace Committee (NPC) on Friday again met with some presidential candidates and other stakeholders on breaches to the Peace Accord signed in 2022.

Presidential candidates of all political parties had in September 2022 signed a peace accord committing themselves to a peaceful campaign for the 2023 election.

All the candidates and the national chairman chairmen of their parties signed the accord organised by the NPC.

Meanwhile, 18 recognised political parties are fielding candidates in the 25 February election.

In attendance at the Friday’s meeting are the presidential candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, and African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore; as well as the vice presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ifeanyi Okowa; and New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Bishop Isaac Idahosa.

Also present are the Chairman of the NPC, General Abdulsalami Abubakar (retd); Secretary, Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Kukah; and Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar III.

Others in attendance are leaders of political parties, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the Nigeria Police, and civil society organisations.

Speaking during the meeting, Idayat Hassan, director of the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) and member of NPC named Director of Special Projects and New media of the Tinubu/Shettima presidential campaign Council, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode and former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri as the two most notorious purveyors of hate speech.

Three Twitter handles operated by Labour Party supporters namely FS Yusuf (@FS_Yusuf_), NEFERTITI (@firstladyship) and one “Talk-boy” were accused of malicious post and cyber bullying.

The peace committee further said PDP and APC political parties were worst in terms of attacking personalities, adding that that some media houses were also guilty of hate speech.

https://saharareporters.com/2023/01/20/national-peace-committee-describes-fani-kayode-reno-omokri-purveyors-fake-news-hate

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Politics › Re: Tinubu, Atiku, Kwankwaso Sign Peace Accord For The 2023 Election by tinsel: 5:25pm On Jan 20, 2023

Africum:
Atiku was represented by Gov Okowa while H.E Peter Obi and his Vice Presidential candidate were absent

Is Obi in the election?

Politics › Re: Peter Obi's Kindergarten Rallies by tinsel(op): 5:19pm On Jan 20, 2023

PureMe01:
So it's no more "four people tweeting in a room"?
Una don shift am to election day lol

After he wins on Feb25,next is "let's see how he will perform" lol

Who dash monkey banana? He is winning with fake news you guys dump everywhere?

Politics › Re: Akwa Ibom North-West: Supreme Court Affirms Akpabio As APC Senatorial Candidate by tinsel: 5:17pm On Jan 20, 2023

Where is that loud mouth Mike Igini?

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Politics › Re: Peter Obi's Kindergarten Rallies by tinsel(op): 5:09pm On Jan 20, 2023

Thanksful:
Lol! Is he insulting himself as president or what?

Sorry I get it now.

As in coming president of Nigeria.

Chill! The insult is part of the sweet story for us all and a motivation for those who will encounter such tomorrow.

People are laughing at him. He better resort to only town hall meetings instead of all these inter houses ports rallies.

Politics › Re: Peter Obi's Kindergarten Rallies by tinsel(op): 5:05pm On Jan 20, 2023

[quote author=Thanksful post=120224140]Lol! Is he insulting himself as president or what?

Sorry I get it now.

As in coming president of Nigeria.

Chill! The insult is part of the sweet story for us all and a motivation for those who will encounter such tomorrow.[/quote
People are laughing at him. I feel for him.

Politics › Re: Peter Obi's Kindergarten Rallies by tinsel(op): 5:02pm On Jan 20, 2023

Thanksful:
Una say when obi go campaign for North? Now nah another story.

Una go tell story tire.

Soon nah opposition story una go dey tell when Obi finally sit in aso rock as Nigerian president.

I am ashamed with those rallies. Obi is insulting himself.

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Politics › Peter Obi's Kindergarten Rallies by tinsel(op): 4:59pm On Jan 20, 2023

I have watched with amusement the distorted pictures and blurred images Obidients sent out for their rallies in Niger state, Ekiti, Oyo, Kogi and Kaduna after much photoshops. This is the reason these pictures and video do come out late on the day of the rally.
But a keen observer will will not be fooled with these photoshopped and edited images.
Despite the poor attendance in these rallies, Obidients still believe in miracle. My question is from where do Obidients hope to get the votes from ? From fake news like Sultan of Sokoto endorsing Obi?

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Politics › Re: 2023 Election Is Now Between Obi & Atiku, Tinubu Is Out! by tinsel: 4:42pm On Jan 20, 2023

OP, Peter Obi with what we have seen in Niger, Kaduna and Plateau today?

Politics › Re: Pictures & Video From Peter Obi Town Hall Meeting With Plateau State Students by tinsel: 4:31pm On Jan 20, 2023

Why are all your pictures always blurred?

Politics › Re: Jos Labor Party Supporters Accuse Party Leaders Of Embezzling Funds by tinsel: 3:45am On Jan 20, 2023

Those you see at his rallies are organic and are there only for their love for Peter and Nigeria. Nonsense.

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Celebrities › Brymo Speaks To BBC by tinsel(op): 8:17pm On Jan 19, 2023

Watch below

Brymo speaks to the BBC. pic.twitter.com/R69SibUC52
— Ayekooto (@DeeOneAyekooto) January 19, 2023

Politics › Re: Andrew Liver Salt Campaign Rally… Niger State Branch. by tinsel: 8:09pm On Jan 19, 2023

Kyase:
5k each.
Or you no see the video yesterday

Jos rally tomorrow too, dem blow fight yesterday for abattoir because of money

Jos will likely be better than what we saw in Niger today and Kaduna yesterday

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