Politics

Funke Akindele Chased Out Of Lagos Market During Campaign

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2 months ago

January 27, 2023

Funke Akindele Chased Out Of Lagos Market During Campaign

Nollywood actress Funke Akindele, who is running for governor of Lagos State under the umbrella of the Peoples Democratic Party, has been chased out of a Lagos market.

While canvassing, the actress was chased out of the Ikosi fruit market by people believed to be thugs.

Abdul-Azeez Adediran, also known as Jandor and the PDP’s candidate for governor, admitted that the event caused the campaign to end.

Remember that Akindele was chosen by the Peoples Democratic Party (Nigeria) to run as the deputy governor of Lagos in the impending February elections.

As the actress indicated that her playing career must be “necessarily put on pause,” Jandor noted that the actress would increase the worth of his campaign for the general elections of 2023.

In an interview with newsmen, the PDP Lagos spokesperson, Hakeem Amode, said that the local government chairperson had deployed the thugs to sabotage their campaign.

He said: “Usually when we go to the market, Funke Akindele goes to the market to speak with the Market women, and we know it is our right to be able to talk freely, a campaign to anybody.

“the local government chairperson came into the market, used her car to block, and brought a bunch of thugs to attack us in Kosofe local government, which is very, very sad; it is unbelievable we are not allowed to speak to people freely.

“Under the new electoral act, we are free to campaign anywhere; this is Lagos, where we should be able to talk to everybody without intimidation or discrimination. That should not even happen.”

Politics

PDP Names Damagum As Acting National Chairman

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2 hours ago

March 28, 2023

Tunde Osunfemi

PDP Names Damagum As Acting National Chairman

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) national working committee (NWC) has named Iliya Umar Damagum as the acting national chairman.

Until his appointment, Damagum was the PDP national deputy chairman (north).

Debo Ologunagba, the PDP spokesperson, made the announcement on Tuesday at a press conference in Abuja.

The appointment follows a high court order restraining Ayu from parading himself as the party’s national chairman.

Politics

OBIdient Movement Is Not Tribal – Peter Obi

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1 day ago

March 27, 2023

Peter Mary Tanimu

OBIdient Movement Is Not Tribal - Peter Obi

The second runner-up of the concluded presidential election by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Peter Obi has dismissed claims that the OBIdient movement is fueled by tribe, ethnicity, and religion.

According to the Labour Partyman in a statement from his official social media handle, the movement is the arrowhead in the take-back Nigeria mission, and saving of democracy.

He wrote; “In the life of every nation, there is a turning point. For Nigeria, that time is now; a time to save Nigeria, save our democracy, and give the Nigerian youths hope. The OBIdient Movement has been the arrowhead in the take-back Nigeria mission.”

The former governor of Anambra claims that his position in the Movement is that of a focal point, emphasizing the fact that Nigeria is still a secular nation.

As a result, the movement is neither about tribe nor faith, nor is there any attempt to Christianize Nigeria or further Igbo interests.

Peter Obi continued by expressing his desire for a brand-new Nigeria in which the progeny of nobody will rise to prominence.

A country where the interests of the whole youth from the six geopolitical zones are prioritized over the interests of any particular group; one where national interests, rather than those of any particular group, are the driving force.

“No one should ascribe ethnic or religious coloration to the OBIdient Movement. Nigeria is one and my ambition is to become the President of a United and Indivisible Nigeria,” he added.

Politics

INEC Budgets Over N3bn To Defend Election Results

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1 day ago

March 27, 2023

Tunde Osunfemi

INEC Budgets Over N3bn To Defend Election Results

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has budgeted over N3bn to defend the results of the February 25 presidential and national assembly election and the March 18 governorship and state assembly polls.

It was gathered that several candidates who lost in the elections have filed petitions at the presidential and state election petition tribunals to challenge the outcome of the polls.

So far, over 100 election petitions have been filed by aggrieved candidates and their parties across the country.

The presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar; the Labour Party, Peter Obi; the Action Alliance, Solomon Okangbuan; Allied People’s Movement, Chichi Ojei, have also filed petitions for the nullification of the presidential election results.

INEC had on March 1 declared the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, as the winner of the February 25 presidential election, but the five candidates filed petitions seeking the nullification of the poll.

Also, election petition tribunals in over 12 states have equally received petitions from National Assembly candidates who are not satisfied with the results of the just concluded elections.

The states where the petitions had been received included Edo, Plateau, Ondo, Kwara, Ogun, Bayelsa, Oyo, Osun, Ekiti, Bauchi, Lagos and Niger states.