Tag: 2023 Elections

Politicians and jeopardy of trial by ordeal, by Azu Ishiekwene

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“I’m going to waste my vote,” a friend told me recently. “And don’t argue with me,” he added. “It’s my right to do so.”   I defied him. Regrettably, though I also recruited help nearby to press home my point, my unsolicited advice fell on deaf ears.   My friend’s mind was made up and nothing would stop him. What he intends to do, according to him, is to vote for a candidate in the 2023 presidential election that he knows would lose.   He did not name names, though…

2023: A WATERSHED MOMENT FOR NIGERIA By Valentine Ozigbo

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There comes a defining moment in the life of any country when all people of good conscience must stand up to be counted. Those times offer no middle ground; you are either on the dark side or on the side of the light. For Nigeria, 2023 is such a moment. Nigerians will be divided into two classes – those who will work to entrench the forces that have destroyed Nigeria or those warriors of the light who will work to bring justice, equity, and peace to our beloved country. And…

Do away with bad leaders, vote for competence – Aisha Yesufu

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Foremost Nigerian activist and social critic, Aisha Yesufu, has said it was in the hands of the Nigerian people to do away with the present political class that hasn’t worked and vote in competent leaders.   In a series of tweets, Thursday afternoon, via her verified Twitter handle @AishaYesufu, Yesufu said Nigerians cannot keep voting in the same people and expect a different result.   Using education as a point of reference, where ASUU has been on strike for six months, she said with the present debacle in the education…

2023: Obi support group slams Tinubu for wishing Peter Obi,supporters dead, tells INEC to call him to order

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The Peter Obi Support Network (POSN) has slammed All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, accused him of wishing the Labour Party Presidential Candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, and his supporters dead.   POSN in a statement issued on Wednesday observed with dismay that Tinubu has refused to condemn the obituary column written by one of his aides, Mr. Sam Omatseye, and published on Monday by Tinubu’s newspaper, The Nation.   Omatseye had in the article published in The Nation Newspaper wished the Labour Party Presidential Candidate, Mr.…

Inside Omatseye’s Heathen Heart By Emmanuel Ogbeche

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Sam Omatseye, the Delta state-born chairman of the Nation Newspaper, ignited a firestorm with his graceless piece, Obi-tuary, in the August 1, 2022 edition of the paper. There has been an avalanche of cringing over the article steeped in half-truths and absolute falsehoods.   It is an article that is filled with bile as it is vile; tasteless, gangster-like, and morbid. Reading the1,329 worded write-up is like wading through a field of putrid. It ranks foul as it is revolting.   The piece, as in Omatseye’s style, is couched in…

2023: Gov Sani Bello urges APC members to work for party’s candidates at all levels

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Niger State Governor, Abubakar Sani Bello has enjoined all members and stakeholders of the All Progressive Congress (APC) to put aside their differences and support the party’s candidates at all levels.   Speaking at an interactive meeting with political appointees, at Government House, Minna, the Governor emphasized that the ruling party must realign, restrategize and work for all its flag bearers in the overall interest of the party.   He said the meeting was apt and will further serve as veritable platform to reconcile all aggrieved party loyalist stressing that…

2023: Give Women a chance, Senator Nnamani ….. condemns human trafficking

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Ahead of the 2023 general elections, former Governor of Enugu state and Senator representing Enugu East in the Senate, Senator Chimaroke Nnamani has for the umpteenth time canvassed for more women inclusion in elective and appointive positions in government.   Senator Nnamani also condemned in strong terms the unabating cases of human trafficking especially against women and the girl child for labour and prostitution .   In a statement issued to commemorate this year’s “ World Day Against Trafficking in persons” in Abuja at the weekend, he urged governments at…

Don’t ignite religious crisis over 2023 Elections – NDD warns religious groups

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The Network for Democracy and Development (NDD)has condemned the illiberal disposition of some religious groups against people of other religions.   The group in a release jointly signed by Tajudeen Alabede,National Coordinator and Muhammad Jameel Muhammad,General Secretary,expressed worries over a recent flyer that was widely circulated on the social media where a particular religious group equated a vote for a non-Christian as a vote for a “swine”.   “This is derogatory, offensive and provocative. We call on the leadership of the group to withdraw the insensitive material and apologise to…

APC, 2023 elections and the prophecy of Bogaru, by Hassan Gimba

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The All Progressives Congress (APC) is losing the 2023 elections big time, says a friend who, for the sake of this piece, I will call Bogaru.   Bogaru has been a childhood friend whose views, most of which turn out to be prophecies, I never take for granted. I knew him to be very brilliant academically and endowed with a fair share of native intelligence that he can predict with certain accuracy how a child will turn out later in life by merely observing his interactions with his peers.  …

Defections: Lawmakers predict trouble for APC ahead 2023

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With the defections, last week, of four Senators from the APC to the Peo­ples Democratic Party (PDP), the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) and the Labour Party (LP), some federal lawmakers have predicted difficult times ahead for the ruling party in the buildup to the 2023 polls.   The spread of lawmakers in the Upper Chamber is now APC 66, with PDP, Young Peo­ple’s Party (YPP), All Progres­sives Grand Alliance (APGA), NNPP and LP members of the minority parties standing at 43.   At the resumption of plena­ry on June…