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2023: Opposition Members Not Safe Anymore – PDP Senators

November 21, 2019 7:11 am

Senators elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), have expressed doubts over the ability of security agents to protect members of the opposition during the 2023 general elections.

They said the violence that characterised Kogi and Bayelsa gubernatorial elections was a pointer to what lies ahead in 2023 when the country return to the poll.

Minority Leader of the Senate, Enyinnaya Abaribe, while briefing newsmen in Abuja, also called on the Inspector-General of Police to fish out culprits who burnt a PDP woman leader to death in Kogi State.

He said the impunity that greeted the

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2023: Third Term Agenda Re-Emerges In Senate

November 18, 2019 12:07 pm

The Senate has dismissed claims that it has introduced moves to elongate the tenure of President Muhammadu Buhari. It said such claims were unfounded and untrue.

It said the hate speech Bill which is being tied to the move, is not meant to cage Nigerians and pave the way for President Buhari to run for another term in office.

The Bill tagged: “National Commission for the Prohibition of Hate Speeches”, scaled first reading on the floor of the Senate last week. The Bill is sponsored by Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi, who doubles as Deputy Chief Whip of the Senate.

Acting spokesman, …

2023: No Sign That APC, PDP Will Consider Igbo – Elliot Uko

November 16, 2019 7:26 am

President and Founder of Igbo Youth Movement (IYM), Elliot Ugochukwu Uko has said that there is no sign that Nigeria’s two big parties, the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are seriously considering to present an Igbo as candidate in the 2023 presidential election.

Speaking with VINCENT KALU, Uko, who is Secretary of the Eastern Consultative Assembly (ECA), and a member of Southern Leaders of Thought, noted that an Igbo man as president would serve as a soothing balm and a unifying gambit to heal the land.

The 20th anniversary of IYM was …

2023: Count Igbo Out Of Nigeria If Chance Is Denied -Ezeife

November 11, 2019 4:09 am

Former Governor of Anambra State, Chukwuemeka Ezeife, has threatened to back any option taken by Igbo people in 2023, including pulling out of Nigeria if they are denied the chance to produce Nigerian president in 2023.

The former governor had earlier said they would explore other options including prayers and lobbying all nationalities and political stakeholders in Nigeria to buy their support, but if that fails, then the people of the South East would consider pulling out of the “marriage” which he will fully support.

He was happy with the formation of an advocacy group, South East for President 2023 …

2023: APC Wont Zone Presidency To North – Prof. Itse Sagay

November 9, 2019 9:00 am

Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay, has told the North not to think of contesting the 2023 presidential election, as it is the turn of the South to produce the next president of Nigeria. In this interview with VINCENT KALU, the legal luminary gave conditions Igbo must fulfil to succeed Buhari.

Nigeria is more divided now than even during the civil war, why and how can this division be arrested?

Yes. Nigeria is more divided now because a lot of people who were living on free Nigerian money which they didn’t work for; which were depleting …

2023: No Division Among Our Governors – PDP

November 4, 2019 11:59 am

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said there was no division among its governors over the 2023 presidential ticket.

National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, at a press briefing in Abuja, yesterday, dismissed media reports that the opposition party wanted to retain its presidential ticket in the North and South East as speculative.

Ologbondiyan said the PDP was yet to discuss the 2023 presidential election. He also said there was no plot to stop the ambition of any member in the 2023 election.

Ologbondiyan said the PDP, at present, was focused on working with governors and lawmakers elected on its platform …