Peter Obi Archives - Page 10 of 25

May

28

2023

Tinubu’s inauguration: Peter Obi calls on Obidients to be law abiding.

News, Opinion, Politics2023, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Peter Obi

Ahead of the inauguration of Bola Tinubu coming up on Monday, the presidential flag bearer of the Labour Party (LP) in the last election, Peter Obi, has called on his supporters and other citizens of the country to remain calm and law abiding. According to Obi, only the court of law will decide the actual winner of the poll in due course. The former Anambra governor who spoke on the sidelines of an event in Kaduna State, stated that the peace, unity and security of the country is paramount than any other interest. He, therefore, called on all citizens to…

Apr

25

2023

By Amos Oge Kalu

Peter Obi swipes at Tinubu, says “No serious leader will go on rest”

News2023, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Next Level, Nigeria, Opinion, Peter Obi, Politics

Peter Obi of the Labour Party said no serious leader would go on a rest (vacation) in Nigeria. Obi, the presidential candidate of LP during the February 25 election, disclosed this on Monday when he paid the Muslim community in Akwa Central Mosque an Eid-el-fitr visit. He urged that Nigerians should not be divided based on religion or politics. He said: “People who want to rest can go and relax. I am not resting because I have to visit schools and hospitals and interact with people. “No serious leader will go and rest in Nigeria. We will continue to visit…

Apr

11

2023

By Amos Oge Kalu

BREAKING: Peter Obi, Datti Wins In Court (Video)

News2023, Datti Baba-Ahmed, Labour Party, Next Level, Nigeria, Peter Obi, Politics

The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has dismissed an appeal by the Allied Peoples Movement, APM, seeking to disqualify Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, from the February 25 general election. In the appeal marked: CA/ABJ/CV/1414/2022, the Movement had approached the court, contending that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, ought not to have recognized Peter Obi as a valid candidate for the presidential poll. APM said this was in consideration of the time Obi defected from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the LP. The party argued that the period of Obi’s defection for…

Apr

11

2023

By Kalu Odinakachi

Election Tribunal: INEC tells Court to dismiss Obi, LP’s prayers in the suit.

News2023, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, INEC, Labour Party, Nigeria, Peter Obi, Politics

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has told the Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC to dismiss a suit filed by Peter Obi of the Labour Party because the reliefs sought are not grantable. Nigeria’s electoral body, INEC, disclosed this on Monday at the PEPC’s Secretariat by its lawyer, Abubakar Mahmoud, SAN, in Abuja. The Commission asked the Court to either “dismiss or strike out the suit for being nebulous, generic, grossly incompetent, abusive, vague, general, non-specific, ambiguous, equivocal, hypothetical and academic.” DAILY POST had reported that Peter Obi, the 1st petitioner, and LP, the 2nd petitioner, had sued INEC, Bola…

Apr

02

2023

By Kalu Odinakachi

APC Propaganda Machine Can’t Stop Us From Reclaiming Our Mandate – OBI

Opinion, Politics2023, All Progressives Congress, Next Level, Nigeria, Opinion, Peter Obi, Politics

Labour Party Presidential Candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, has dismissed the leaked audio of him purportedly discussing with Winners Chapel General Overseer, Bishop David Oyedepo, as fake and the handiwork of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Obi said in a statement issued on Saturday and signed by Diran Onifade, Head, Obi-Datti Media, that the fake audio in which he purportedly described the 2023 presidential ballot as a religious war, is “aimed at promoting religious tension in the country.” He equally blamed APC for last week’s “drama in the Ibom Air aircraft” during which a passenger claiming to be an Obidient…