Politics

The Director-General of the Peter Obi Campaign Organisation, Doyin Okupe, has revealed that a substantive deputy to Peter Obi will be announced before Friday all things being equal.

Mr Okupe, who is occupying the slot of the running mate in a ‘place holding’ capacity at the moment, revealed that Mr Obi and the Labour Party will announce a substantive VP following the collapse of the talks with the NNPP which lingered for too long.

While speaking in an interview on ‘Politics Today’ on Tuesday night in a program which was monitored by Africa Daily News, New York, Mr Okupe …

The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has declared that Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso does not have the competence to assess the Igbo, stressing that it does not reckon him as presidential material.

Ohanaeze Ndigbo revealed that Ndigbo was long prepared for the presidency of the country, insisting that any person that had done well in business will do well in any other venture.

Ohanaeze Ndigbo was reacting to Kwankwaso’s description of the Igbo nation as ‘politically immature to win the presidency,’ where he asserted that the highest political position Igbo could occupy in the country was the vice presidency.

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The Federal Government has opposed the request by five Republican senators from the United States that Nigeria is reclassified as a nation of particular concern due to alleged persecution of Christians.

The senators who made the appeal also claimed that Nigerian Christians’ freedom to practise their religion had been violated in a letter to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

Responding to the allegation in an interview with reporters on Monday, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, on Monday said the call was based on false premise and misunderstanding of what was going on in the country.…

As the crisis over Atiku Abubarkar’s running mate continues to worsen, the Chairman of the PDP’s Board of Trustees, Senator Walid Jibrin, has revealed that the party has set up a nine-member committee to beg the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesome Wike not to leave the party.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that sequel to his victory at the PDP convention last month, where he beat Wike and other contenders to the presidential ticket, Atiku had nominated Okowa as his running mate, despite the recommendation of Wike by a 17-man committee set up by the party.

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