Posts

Showing posts with the label Bola Ahmed Tinubu

Busted! As Obi attacks INEC for defending Tinubu, Atiku claims victory

Image
  The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, says since 1993 when he began gunning for the President seat, he has done so without any controversy, unlike the All Progressives Congress candidate, Bola Tinubu, who is contending with alleged drugs and identity scandals. Atiku said this in his response to the preliminary objection filed by Tinubu and APC in reaction to Atiku's petition, challenging Tinubu's emergence as the February 25 presidential election winner. The Independent National Electoral Commission had declared that Tinubu polled 8,794,726 votes to win the election. The commission said that Atiku came second with  6,984,520 votes, while it announced Labour Party's Peter Obi as the second runner-up with  6,101,533 votes. But Atiku, Obi and some other parties rejected the results reported by INEC and heeded the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal in Abuja with prayers that the election should be nullified. In response to Atiku'

Die Is Cast, As Ohanaeze Criticises Tinubu For Not Including Igbos In Transition Committee

Image
  The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has criticised Nigeria’s President-elect, Bola Tinubu, for not including Igbo people in his transition committee. Mr Tinubu recently nominated 14 people to the committee to assist him in achieving a smooth transition from President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration to his own on 29 May. In the list of nominees seen by PREMIUM TIMES, no Igbo person was on the committee. Reacting, the Vice-President of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Damian Okeke-Ogene, accused the president-elect of being a “tribalist”, according to a  report by Vanguard newspaper. “Igbophobia is in his (Tinubu) veins, and by not including Igbo people in the handover committee, he is only trying to reopen old wounds. He inherited the hatred (Muhammadu) Buhari has against Igbo, especially when the President-elect has said he will continue from where the incumbent president stopped,” Mr Okeke-Ogene was quoted as saying. “He said he will continue with Buhari’s policies, and ou

All Is Set, For Another History To Be Made As Tinubu AppointsYar’Adua, Onanuga, Marwa, 11 Others For 29th May Inauguration

Image
  President-elect Bola Tinubu appointed 13 Nigerians to the Presidential Inauguration Committee before the May 29 ceremony. Tinubu listed the names in a letter to the Secretary to the Government of Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, Chairman of the Presidential Transition Council (PTC). Abdulazeez Yar’Adua, a younger brother of the late President Umar Yar’Adua, will serve as the Head of Security and Ceremonial Parade.  President of Aspire Women Forum (AWF), Zainab Marwa-Abubakar, daughter of ex-Lagos Military Administrator Gen Buba Marwa (retd), will coordinate Pre-Inauguration Dinner and Gala Night. Director of Media and Publicity at the APC Presidential Campaign Council, Bayo Onanuga, will hold the same position on the committee. Former Borno North Senator and All Progressives Congress (APC) National Deputy Chairman Abubakar Kyari is the Director of Finance and Budget. The Executive Director (Business Development) at the Nigeria Export-Import (NEXIM) Bank, Stella Okotete, is the Head o

If Opponents Come At Us Through Land, Air, Sea, We’ll Respond To Them Same Way, Peter Obi Tells

Image
  The 2023 general election in Nigeria has come and gone, but the discussion of hope continues. Apart from the renewed hope agenda of the Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the  APC, they have been statements of hope from one of the major opposition parties, the Labour Party, by its presidential candidate of the just concluded presidential election, Mr Peter Obi, who, according to Zahara Reporter assuring his supporter of perfect light at the end of the tunnel, following his petition at the election tribunal challenging the constitutional bridges by the Independent National Electoral Commission declaration of Sen. Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the winner of the 25 February 2023 election, Sahara Reporter quoted that Mr Peter Obi of saying that he is capable of victory at the end, The question is, does Mr Peter Obi have confident on the judiciary?   He reiterated his commitment to a "Nigeria that will benefit every Nigerian". The candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 presidential election, Mr Pe