Politics
Presidency: North ready to support S’East in 2023 –Ohuabunwa
Presidential aspirant, Chief Sam Ohuabunwa, yesterday, said that the people of the North would support the Southeast zone to produce the president of the country in the 2023 general elections.
Ohuabunwa stated this when he met with the executives of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Ebonyi State chapter, as part of his consultations to actualize his ambition.
He disclosed that Northerners have assured him that they would support the Southeast in 2023 because it is the turn of the zone.
He, therefore, called on the people of Southeast to speak with one voice in order not to miss 2023, which he described as the best opportunity for the president of Igbo extraction.
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Ohuabunwa who is the convener of the New Nigeria Group said: “We need to change, we need to revolutionize, we need to change our attitude to politics. We must seek to put the right people with the right PDP in position. The people in the North are telling me that they are tired of their leaders, that they have had more leaders in national politics than anybody else, but they don’t have anything to show for it. They still have the poorest poverty, the worst healthcare. Everything is terrible. So, telling them it must be another Northerner, they don’t buy them, they want to try somewhere else.
“And the world is saying, let us give the Southeast a chance, Nigerians are saying let us give Southeast a chance. This is our best chance, this is our best opportunity and we must rise up spiritually. One of the painful things I have is that it is the Igbo man who says that he can’t be president.
“The Southeast says we don’t want Nigeria, we don’t want this. Gentlemen, it is going to be too bad if we allow this opportunity to slip from us, this is the best opportunity and God has sanctioned it that come 2023, a man from Southeast, an Igbo man, will be the an occupant of Aso Villa. It may be me, it may be somebody else, only God knows.”
He called on political parties to give a level playing ground to all aspirants to produce right people in all the elective positions in the general election.
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Politics
BREAKING: LP Re-elects Julius Abure As National Chairman
BREAKING: LP Re-elects Julius Abure As National Chairman
The Labour Party (LP) has re-elected Julius Abure as its National Chairman for a second term in office.
Abure was re-elected by a unanimous affirmation of delegates at the party’s National Convention in Nnewi, Anambra State.
The Chairman of the National Convention and Deputy Governor of Abia State, Ikechukwu Emetu declared him the winner during the event attended by party leaders and members.
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Politics
El-Rufai set to dump APC, visits Gowon after meeting SDP leaders
El-Rufai set to dump APC, visits Gowon after meeting SDP leaders
There are talks that a former governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, may quit the All Progressives Congress (APC) and move to the Social Democratic Party (SDP) for the second time.
The rumour is coming after the APC chieftain had held meetings with SDP leaders.
El-Rufai also visited ex-military Head of State, Yakubu Gowon, at his residence in Abuja on Tuesday.
His second visit to SDP stalwarts on Tuesday has further fueled speculations that the former governor is planning to dump the APC.
El-Rufai lost his bid to become a minister in the President Bola Tinubu as he was screened out by the Senate over a damaging petition written against him.
He was however pictured at the Abuja residence of Senator Abubakar Gada, along with SDP chairman Shehu Musa Gabam and other party leaders.
Also reported to be present at the meeting were Senator Teslim Folarin, APC governorship candidate for Oyo State in the 2023 general elections, and Senator Nazif Suleiman, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party from Bauchi State.
The meeting at Gada’s home in Abuja on Sunday night came after El-Rufai hosted a Ramadan iftar at his Abuja residence.
Those at the Ramadan iftar include the National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu, Kashim Ibrahim-Imam and Shehu Musa Gabam.
El-Rufai also visited Gabam at the SDP secretariat.
Last Friday, a former spokesperson for the Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Organisation, Daniel Bwala, said the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 Presidential Election, Peter Obi, was planning to leave the Labour Party and join El-Rufai in the SDP.
Bwala, in a post on his X handle, said Obi was planning to leave the Labour Party following the current crisis in the party with the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) threatening to take over the party.
Obi, a former Governor of Anambra State, joined the Labour Party in May 2023 in the buildup to the 2023 general elections following his defection from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
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Happening now: Senator Idiat Adebule distributes massive palliatives to Lagos West residents (photos)
Happening now: Senator Idiat Adebule distributes massive palliatives to Lagos West residents (photos)
Hundreds of people mostly the poor and members of the All Progressives Congress in the Lagos West Senatorial District are currently gathered at the Ikeja Police College where the senator representing the area, Idiat Adebule, is dolling out palliatives to the downtrodden, among others.
Adebule said 10,000 packs were given out to the vulnerable in the senatorial district.
She listed the items as rice, semovita, beans, pasta garri, vegetable oil and cloths.
Even as she said the package was a tip of the iceberg, stressing that people should expect bigger and better packages, not necessarily food items.
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