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<strong>2023Elections: Obi Beats, Atiku, Tinubu In Port Harcourt LG With 62,451 Votes</strong>

27Feb

By Mary UgwuanyiNo Comments

Elections, News, Nigeria

2023Elections: Obi Beats, Atiku, Tinubu In Port Harcourt LG With 62,451 Votes

Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has won the presidential election in Port Harcourt City Local Government Area of Rivers State. According to the latest result, LP topped the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, and the All Progressives Congress, APC in the council which is among the largest in the state. Results declared by Prof Victoria Olumide, the Port Harcourt City Collation Officer, the LP got 62451, while the PDP and APC got 7203 and 5562 votes respectively. The votes gotten by the APC in the Rivers State capital are a threat to the entire results so far collated, although Obio/Akpor, Government Nyeswom Wike’s LGA which had yet to be collated has the largest voting strength in the South-South state. Prof Charles Adias, the State Collation Officer for the pr...

<strong>LP Candidate Clinches Reps Poll in Anambra</strong>

27Feb

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Elections, News, Nigeria

LP Candidate Clinches Reps Poll in Anambra

Prof. Oby Orogbu, the candidate of the Labour Party for Awka North/South House of Representatives in Anambra State, has been declared the winner in the February 25 National Assembly election. On Monday, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, returning officer of the Awka North/South, declared Orogbu as the winner at the local government headquarters in Amawbia. The LP candidate scored a total of 34,741 votes to defeat her closest opponent, Obi Nwankwo of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, who got 24,814 votes, and Emeka Igwe of the Peoples Democratic Party who polled 12,850 votes. The candidates of the Young Progressive Party polled 2,042 votes, All Progressives Congress, got 850 votes and Action Alliance polled 625 votes. See Also: LP Chairpersons Threaten...

<strong>Vehicle Conveying NSCDC Officers To Lagos Crashes in Abuja</strong>

25Feb

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Elections, News, Nigeria

Vehicle Conveying NSCDC Officers To Lagos Crashes in Abuja

Some personnel of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, were reportedly injured during an accident involving an operational vehicle on Friday evening. The road mishap happened at the Giri roundabout in Abuja. The officers were reportedly on their way to Lagos on election duty. The number of officers of the agency involved could not be obtained at the time of filing this report. A video shared by the NTA pictured passersby picking up papers suspected to be electoral materials scattered on the ground. The electoral materials were being conveyed by the vehicle, as an eyewitness said some of the NSCDC personnel in the vehicle sustained ‘life-threatening injuries’. See Also: Umahi Explains Why FG Deployed Surveillance Aircraft In Ebonyi The eyewitness said,...

<strong>Umahi Explains Why FG Deployed Surveillance Aircraft In Ebonyi</strong>

25Feb

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Elections, News, Nigeria, Security

Umahi Explains Why FG Deployed Surveillance Aircraft In Ebonyi

Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State has said that the Federal Government deployed a helicopter to the state to provide aerial surveillance during Saturday’s elections. He disclosed this on Friday in Abakaliki, the state capital, noting that the deployment of the helicopter was intended to augment security measures already put in place in the state. According to the News Agency of Nigeria, the Umahi said the helicopter would be flying at low altitudes and asked residents to go about their activities without fear. The governor gave assurance that the exercise was intended to scare away insurgents or bandits from disrupting the election in any part of the state. See Also: Eight Students Travelling Home For Election Die in Auto Crash He said, “We got a surprise package from...

<strong>LP Chairpersons Threaten To Withdraw Support For Party Over Logistics Funds</strong>

24Feb

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Elections, News, Nigeria

LP Chairpersons Threaten To Withdraw Support For Party Over Logistics Funds

The national leadership of Labour Party, LP, has said that the party’s focus is on people casting their vote with their conscience rather than expecting monetary gains in exchange for a vote. Earlier on Thursday, chairpersons of the party across states had threatened to withdraw support for the party over non-receipt of mobilisation funds. Gombe LP chair, Sani Abdulsalam, at a media briefing on Thursday said, “We have never been respected by the party leadership and also our presidential candidate has no respect for our party executives at state levels because Peter Obi deliberately mismanaged our goodwill with the imposition of his members and other support groups that decamped with him in May 2022 to our party,”. “Of note, Wednesday, February 22, 2023, was the meeting we ha...

<strong>104-Year-Old Woman Endorses Peter Obi For Presidency</strong>

23Feb

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Elections, News, Nigeria

104-Year-Old Woman Endorses Peter Obi For Presidency

Iyom Josephine Ezeanyaeche, a 104-year-old woman, has expressed her support for Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi, to become the president in Saturday’s election. Ezeanyaeche, popularly known as Mama Africa, during a visit to the LP’s office in Abuja, said Obi would make Nigeria an investment hub. She said the endorsement of Obi to win the forthcoming election was given his qualification as the best out of the four major contestants. She said, “The searchlight for his selection was nationally oriented and accepted for his visionary leadership, integrity, transparency, competence, capacity, character, selflessness, enlightenment, education, and nationalism. “Calling him for this honourable task in our assessment will comfort Nigerians for a new begi...

Akeredolu Tells Buhari Parting Gift To Give Nigerians

19Feb

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Economy, Elections, Finance, News, Nigeria

Akeredolu Tells Buhari Parting Gift To Give Nigerians

Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has told President Muhammadu Buhari to allow the old and new naira notes to both be in circulation as legal tender. Cash scarcity has been witnessed across the country as a fallout of the Central Bank of Nigeria’s naira redesign policy. This has resulted in protests and attacks on banks in some states across the country in the past few days. Reacting to the development in a statement issued on Saturday, Akeredolu said the crisis may upset the forthcoming general election. He said the “failed implementation” of the policy is as a result of “miscalculation, error of judgement and disinformation“ from the apex bank. The governor insisted that as appealing as the policy appears to be, its implementation drives curiosity as regar...

<strong>APC Conceived, Birthed And Nurtured Naira Scarcity – Atiku</strong>

16Feb

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Economy, Finance, News

APC Conceived, Birthed And Nurtured Naira Scarcity – Atiku

The presidential flagbearer of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, has expressed sympathy with Nigerians that died in the violent protests over naira scarcity. Atiku in a statement issued on Thursday said the crisis brought about by the redesign of some naira notes was conceived by the All Progressives Congress, APC. The statement read, “We have, in recent days, witnessed upheavals in different parts of the country in which lives were lost and properties destroyed. “On behalf of my family and presidential campaign organisation, I express my deepest condolences to the families of all those who have lost dear ones. “This crisis may be coming on the heels of the currency swap, but it is pertinent to remind us that it is a culmination of the frustrations o...

<strong>Kano LP Governorship Candidate Decamps To Opposition Party</strong>

13Feb

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Elections, News, Nigeria

Kano LP Governorship Candidate Decamps To Opposition Party

Bashir Bashir, the governorship flagbearer of the Labour Party, LP, in Kabno State has dumped the party for the All Progressives Congress, APC. According to an associate of Bashir who spoke to TheCable under the condition of anonymity, on Sunday night, that the defection was informed by the “exclusion of major northern stakeholders in the decision-making process of the party’s campaign”. The associate also said another reason for the defection was the “lack of clear direction on the interest of northern Nigeria”. See Also: Labour Party Assembly Candidate In Imo Dies Reports say Bashir held meetings with the APC presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, and Kashim Shettima, Tinubu’s running mate. The meetings were said to have been held in Lagos and Abuja, where an agreement ...

<strong>Lagos Govt Closes Chrisland School Over Pupil’s Death, Father Alleges Cover-up</strong>

13Feb

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Education, Lagos News, News, Nigeria

Lagos Govt Closes Chrisland School Over Pupil’s Death, Father Alleges Cover-up

The Lagos State Government has mandated the closure of Chrisland International School pending the outcome of the investigation into the circumstances leading to the death of a pupil, identified as Whitney Adeniran, who died during the school’s inter-house sports at Agege stadium, in the Agege area of the state. The development was confirmed by the state Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Gbenga Omotoso, during a telephone conversation with a Punch correspondent on Sunday. Omotoso said, “We are investigating the matter but as a first step, we are going to shut down the school (Chrisland) tomorrow (Monday) to allow for a full investigation. “The Commissioner for Education, Mrs Folasadee Adefisayo, has spoken with the father of the child to sympathise with him and commiserat...