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How Peter Obi will win 2023 presidential election – Doyin Okupe
By Ikechukwu Okaforadi
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Labour Party (LP) chieftain, Doyin Okupe insists presidential candidate, Peter Obi, will win the 2023 election.
The politician made an analysis on Tuesday in response to ThisDay Election Centre Projections.
Okupe said the projections were “false, bogus and do not represent the actual situation on ground across the nation”.
The former presidential aide declared that they were “essentially aimed at misinforming the public”.
Okupe said the calculations ignored many important electoral parameters that have operated in Nigeria’s polity for over six decades.
“Without any doubt, PO will score 25% in no less than 24/25 states including Taraba, Adamawa and Gombe, and will lead all the other 3 numerically.
“He is the candidate to beat. Peter Obi will win and lead massively in the SE (South-East) averagely (70%) including all states in the SS (South-South).
“In the SW (South-West), PO will score minimum of 40% in Lagos. 25% in Ogun, Oyo, Ekiti and Ondo.
“Osun 15% min. NW (NorthWest) 40% min in Kaduna, and no less than 10% of all the other 6 states, mainly because of Igbo residents”, he tweeted.
Okupe, a former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), was until recently the Director General of Peter Obi/Yusuf Baba-Ahmed Campaign.
LP urges Nigerians to keep hope alive
From: Femi Oyelola, Kaduna
The Director, Youth Affairs of the Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council Isah Abubakar has urged Nigerians to keep hope alive with the party.
This was contained in a statement made available to the media in Kaduna yesterday.
According to him, civil servants in the country were not paid their monthly salaries, which resulted in most family not to have resources to celebrate the birth of Christ.
He added that this is in addition to the doubling of the price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), which has led to an increase in the prices of goods and services in the country.
NNPP senatorial candidate in Borno urges electorate to vote right
Shehu Abubakar, Maiduguri
The persistent scourge of vote buying in Nigeria’s electoral process has constituted a matter for serious worry to the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) senatorial candidate for Borno Central Senatorial District in the 2023 elections, Attom Mohammed Magira.
Consequently, he advised the electorate in the district: “Since they (vote-buying politicians) cannot stop buying votes, when they come to you with their money, take it, but vote the right candidate.”
Addressing his teeming supporters at Bama, Magira attributed bad political leadership to the ‘cashfor-vote’ syndrome in the country’s electoral process.
He appealed to the Borno Central electorate to vote for him, saying, however, that he has no money to give them, but he possessed the required character, capacity and commitment to deploy and provide them the required representation at the National Assembly.
He promised to execute qualitative constituency projects for the development of education, women and youth empowerment and health for the people of the district.
Katsina State Governor, Rt.Hon. Aminu Bello Masari(4th left); AGILE Project Task Team Lead, Aisha Garba(3rd left); AGILE Project Deputy National Project Cordinator, Mrs Ajanigo Abuka(6th right); other officials of the AGILE Project after the visit to the Government House recently
From Yakubu Mustapha Minna
National Directorate of Employment (NDE) has commenced the training of 26 participants on Environmental Beautification Training Scheme (EBT$).
The State Coordinator, Alhaji Mohammed Dantsoho Abubakar disclosed this while flagging off the scheme in Minna.
He said the programme commenced in batches, hence the turn of Niger state which is going to be simultaneously across the nation.
Dantsoho Abubakar explained that the beneficiaries were selected fairly, adding that the participants will be entitled to soft loans which is repayable.
He urged the trainees to pay the required attention to acquire the requisite knowledge to achieve the mandate of the federal government and NDE of job creation.
Pray for victims of Southern Kaduna killings -SKCLA
From: Femi Oyelola, Kaduna
urged the Christendom to use the Christmas season in praying for the repose of the souls of those whose lives were cut short by the terrorists in southern Kaduna.
This was contained in a statement by the SKCLA Chairman, Apostle Dr Emmanuel Nuhu Kure and made available to the media in Kaduna yesterday.
He said the Association noted that though the celebration is bleak in the midst of renewed attacks on communities in Southern Kaduna, the people cannot be intimidated or cowed to vacate their ancestral land.
