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AntiTerrorist:
https://newsdirect.ng/disquiet-as-amaechi-keeps-mum-on-tinubu-appears-in-northern-turban-during-visit-to-ondo/?utm_source=operamini&utm_medium=feednews&utm_campaign=operamini_feednews

With Wike ,APC don't need him to win Rivers.

julaion:
the shock that await you this feb will put you in coma

You still have strengths to say this? Nawaa

Oziens:
Fake news. APC desperately seeking for validation to hoodwink the gullible. Provide the video evidence of the press briefing. What you hear is speculation " inside source said this .."

This is from Thisday. They are clearly anti Tinubu and APC. For them to write this and put it confirmed, what else?

Confirmed: After G5 Govs’ Meeting in London, Wike, Makinde Agree to Openly Declare Support for Tinubu in January
Breaking | 39 mins ago
*Ikpeazu, Ugwuanyi to work quietly for Tinubu to avoid backlash in South-east, Ortom leans towards Obi


After much speculations, members of the G-5 governors, a rebel group of five governors in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), have finally agreed to work for the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, and that of the Labour Party candidate, Peter Obi, THISDAY can authoritatively report.

THISDAY learnt that the five governors met with Tinubu in London to finalise the deal.

The G-5 members are Rivers State Governor, Mr. Nyesom Wike, Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, Samuel Ortom of Benue State, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State and Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State,


Specifically, inside sources revealed that while Wike and Makinde had decided to work for the victory of Tinubu openly, Ortom reiterated his support for Obi.

However, THISDAY learnt that Ikpeazu and Ugwuanyi agreed to work for the APC presidential candidate quietly for fear of repercussions in the South-east.

But they all foreclosed working for the presidential candidate of the PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.

More details later..
https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2022/12/30/confirmed-after-g5-govs-meeting-in-london-wike-makinde-agree-to-openly-declare-support-for-tinubu-in-january/

Georgejeez:
If you need more education, go to a reputation law firm around you, pay the consultation fees and be enlightened properly ...
Na Una de make Lawyers de trek teh so ,,,, see ya big mouth like Lawyers Oya , because na you pay their law school fees to de demand for free legal advice online ,, tiiifff

If you are a lawyer, poor and Hungary, abegi don't transfer your anger to me

Babaken:
give people the full view of the hospital not half bake cake just to make useless points.

Is there another view of Amaku teaching hospital you want to see? That is all that is there.

Chinjo2:
The APC's romance with wike is a big slap on Amaechi's face.

Is Amaechi campaigning for Tinubu?

We need more education on this. Is it against the electoral law to be a candidate of another party and campaign DG of a different party? Lawyers oya.

This Emefiele will be like another Mrs. Madueke after the election. He is too controversial for a CBN governor. Deeply involved in politics starting from his failed attempt to contest election even as a CBN governor. After the election he will run.

OP, because obidients only attack Tinubu. Atiku is their fall back option.

Is it office he is only inaugurating?

Premium Times Nigeria



ANALYSIS: Tinubu’s campaign focusing on states with local APC strongmen
As he did in the run-up to the APC presidential primary, Bola Tinubu has so far campaigned in states where his party is either in government or has local strongmen.
ByBakare Majeed December 29, 2022 Reading Time: 5 mins read
To win the presidential election, Bola Tinubu apparently believes that he must retain the support that his All Progressives Congress (APC) enjoyed in the core North in the 2015 and 2019 elections and also improve on the ruling party’s fortune in the South, particularly the South-east and the South-south – two regions that have been outside the control of the APC.

Unlike in the past two election cycles, 2023 has been projected as a four-horse race with Peter Obi of the Labour Party, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party and Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP) projected as strong challengers. Also, the region of origin of the candidates may reflect in the sharing of votes.

Atiku and Mr Kwakwaso are from the North-east and North-west respectively, while Mr Tinubu and Mr Obi are from the South-west and South-east respectively. If the candidates do well in their home regions, it leaves the Northcentral and Southsouth as potential battlegrounds. However, Atiku’s running mate, Ifeanyi Okowa, is from the South-south.

In 2015, the ruling APC did not get 20 per cent of the votes cast in any of the11 South-east and South-south states except Edo, where Mr Buhari polled 40 per cent of the total votes cast.

However, the fortune of the party improved in 2019 when President Buhari polled a total of 403,968 from the five Southeast states, more than twice the 198,248 he got in 2015. In addition, the APC now has two governors in the region, David Umahi of Ebonyi and Hope Uzodinma of Imo State.

Unsurprisingly, Mr Tinubu appears to have prioritised these two states in the region in his campaign. He has held rallies and engagements there, leveraging on the governors to mobilise supporters for the rallies and all.

The campaign council has not kept to its timetable for rallies. It appears that the idea now is to focus on states where the standard bearer has strong allies.

In Abia State, Mr Tinubu also has a strong political associate in the senator, Orji Kalu. As a matter of fact, APC has one senator and two members of the House of Representatives in the state, but APC is facing a crisis in the state due to dispute over its governorship ticket.





Uche Ogah and Ikechi Emenike won parallel primaries conducted by different factions of the party and have been in court since. However, Mr Emenike is the coordinator of the party’s presidential campaign in the state.

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With this tussle, the party has not been able to leverage its strong presence in Abia North. In addition, there is Governor Okezie Ikpeazu’s factor. The governor, who is a member of the PDP rebel G5 governors, is not backing the PDP presidential candidate but is yet to say who else he will root for.

In Enugu State, APC remains very weak and it is unclear how much help the endorsement of Mr Tinubu by a former governor of the state and serving PDP senator, Chimaroke Nnamani, will be. Meanwhile, Anambra State is the home state of Mr Obi.

Overall, the opening of the newly built second Niger Bridge for temporary use during the holiday has presented Mr Tinubu and the APC with a strong campaign tool. He has endured having to defend the record of the current administration. Most times, he has been forced to resort to “I am Bola Tinubu, he is Muhammadu Buhari” and to campaign with his record in Lagos.



In the South-south, Mr Tinubu has focused on Delta, Bayelsa and Cross River where he has close allies. They include Governor Ben Ayade in Cross River, Minister of State for Petroleum and former governor Timipriye Sylva and David Lyon in Bayelsa, and Ovie Omo-Agege, the Deputy Senate President and APC governorship candidate in Delta State.

At a town hall meeting in Cross River, Mr Tinubu intervened in the post-primary dispute between John Enoh and Itu Bassey. The former lost the governorship primary and approached the court to nullify the election.

“I saw you (Enoh) at the airport and I begged you and I am still begging you publicly, let it end, let it end. Please, enough lawsuits,” he said.

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This campaign strategy is similar to what Mr Tinubu deployed in the APC primary where he focused his energy on states that promised votes. An erstwhile ally, Babachir Lawal, who abandoned him after Mr Tinubu picked a Muslim as his running mate, later claimed that Mr Tinubu refused to visit any of the South-east states because he considered it a waste of resources.

“During the convention, he (Tinubu) did not even allow us to go to the South-east. He said it is a waste of time and money. South-south is not his territory, so where is he going to get the votes?,” the man who was sacked by President Buhari from his position as Secretary to the Government of the Federation over a corruption allegation, scoffed after vowing to help stop Mr Tinubu.

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As pointed out earlier, to win, Mr Tinubu may need to do better than the incumbent president did as in the South. This is because without President Buhari on the ballot, the ruling party faces a stiffer challenge than in 2015 and 2019 from Atiku of the PDP and Mr Kwankwaso of the NNPP in the North-west and the North-east. Being from the South, Mr Tinubu will be counting on the APC governors in the zones to deliver the votes.

He will need President Buhari to charge the base. The president has only joined Mr Tinubu during the flagoff of his campaign in Jos, Plateau State. Last week, however, the presidency issued a statement that Mr Buhari is fully in support of Mr Tinubu’s election but will not allow campaign rallies distract him from official functions.

PREMIUM TIMES had also reported that both men held a closed-door meeting on that Wednesday at the Villa. Having the president on the campaign trail, particularly in the North-west and North-east, may help Mr Tinubu’s bid to inherit the traditional bloc votes of Mr Buhari.

So far, the strategy of focusing on states with strong allies seems to be working. Two of the three other major candidates, Atiku and Mr Obi, have experienced embarrassing campaign moments. In Lagos, attendees at the PDP presidential rally could not fill the venue, while Mr Obi had an abysmal outing in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital, and Port Harcourt in Rivers State.

Inevitably, Mr Tinubu and his team will have to visit states where he does not have local strongmen, whatever the colours he allotted to them in his ledger.
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/features-and-interviews/572694-analysis-tinubus-campaign-focusing-on-states-with-local-apc-strongmen.html

iwaeda:
You can't even type Hold correctly, like father, like urchin.

This had shown the kid in you. That was not my write up but copy and paste from PM News.

Tinubu is teaching them how to campaign.

AdaojoTheUrchin:
Jebe na nke Mike Ejeagha.

Anaeme. Odiegwu.

AdaojoTheUrchin:
Urchin, Obi will win the Presidential, and ObiDients will be even more gingered to come out and vote in the Guber elections. Your Tinubu will not smell the presidency. Stop deceiving yourself.

Akuko.

AdaojoTheUrchin:
If Wike supports Thiefnubuu which is almost impossible, his anointed PDP Guber candidate will also lose that election as everyone will vote Labour party for both Presidency and Guber. He will end up with the short end of the stick.

Presidential election comes before gubernatorial. After the presidential election and if Peter lost, do you think Obidients will come out to vote in the subsequent elections?

A very good endorsement. Waiting on the G5 governors also.

The kind of insults and abuse Wike will receive from Obidients only God knows. I will stay one corner and read them all.

DSC7:
Being wealthy doesn't guarantee peace of mind, Joy and Happiness....

The Rich also cry....

At 90 plus? He had done his work.

The group of five People’s Democratic Party (PDP) governors under the umbrella G5 governors, have left Nigeria for London to reach an agreement on who to support between Bola Tinubu and Peter Obi for the presidency in 2023.

The group led by the Rivers State Governor, Mr. Nyesom Wike, has in continuation of its endless foreign trips, left the country for London in the early hours of Monday.

The group which includes Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia), Samuel Ortom (Benue), Seyi Makinde (Oyo) and Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (Enugu) had mobilised other party leaders including Chief Bode George, Prof Jerry Gana, etc. to form the ‘Integrity Group’ against Atiku.


It was gathered that while two of the governors are rooting for Peter Obi, candidate of the Labour Party, three are in support of Bola Tinubu, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

The group of governors it was gathered jetted off from the Port Harcourt International Airport.

A top party chieftain in the state who pleaded anonymity, confirmed the trip.

“Yes, they left for UK early yesterday morning, but I can’t say the reason for the trip,” the source said.

The G-5 governors have been calling for the resignation of the PDP’s National Chairman, Dr. Iyorchia Ayu, as their minimum condition for peace in the party and to join the presidential campaign council of the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.

Wike, the leader of the quartet, has refused to accept his defeat at the party’s presidential primary in good faith.

Since he lost the primary and even the vice presidential slot, Wike has utilised the enormous resources at his disposal to mobilise four other governors to fabricate crisis in the party.

The aggrieved governors have insisted that it was unfair for the party to have the national chairman and presidential candidate from the north.

They have maintained that they will not go back on their call for Ayu to step down to pave the way for a Southerner to succeed him as the party’s chairman.

Wike had specifically boasted that Atiku will not win the election if he and his allies do not support his presidential ambition.

A source said Wike and his team will use the opportunity of the London trip discuss the way forward on the crisis rocking the party while in London.

The source added that from London, the group of governors would also visit Madrid, Spain.


Top on the agenda for the meeting is who they would support for in the presidential election.
https://hallmarknews.com/2023-divided-3-to-2-between-tinubu-obi-g5-governors-head-to-london-to-finalize/

Tinubu and his supporters must work very hard to avoid run off at all cost. Atiku is scheming for a run off because he knows the south east will shift allegiance to him and vote him. This will add to the number of states he will carry because in the run off, Obi will not be in the ballot

He is left handed. People that writes with left always have good hand writing.

tuoyoojo:
I have been wondering

Why does reno's twit make front page on nairaland consistently

Where dey occur

Your likes made him popular when he was your darling while hitting Buhari. Enjoy him please.

PeterObi4LP:
Does it matter? But what he said is very Clear and obvious.

Akuko

corleone21:
I'm glad he's not supporting our incoming president, PO. There will be no place for corrupt people like him

So you believe in this nonsense?

Said by somebody who will lose his polling booth that day.

kimjongJezebel:
THISDAY poll – The Explainer – released by THISDAY 2023 Election Centre says the candidate of APC, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is virtually non-existent in most South East and South South States.

https://www.nairaland.com/7498004/thisday-2023-election-centre-why

Does this mean the APC candidate is a regional candidate?

Regional candidate and they gave him 20 states against Atiku's 21 despite the fact Thisday is a PDP mouth piece. This means Tinubu will get upto 25 states.

FarahAideed:
If Tinubu doesnt win at first ballot , a run off with Atiku is very likely and when that happens Atiku will win that easily

I agree with you

ganisucks:
I thought they said this man was rolling with Tinubu. If Nnamdi Kanu puts on an Eko ni baje shirt, Tinubu supporters will claim he has joined them. They are so desperate for support they'll claim anybody.

The man is talking about his own re election and not presidential election. He is also contestant-goernorship