Vote for your future Obi charges Nigerians at Kwara Rally

By Christiana Ekpa

The Labour Party Presidential Candidate, Peter Obi has urged the people of Kwara state and the rest of Nigerians to vote for their future on February 25, 2023.

Obi and his campaign train arrived in Ilorin, Kwara state capital on Monday to the warm embrace of a large crowd of Obidient family singing to him that he is the best as he told the people that a new Nigeria is possible and in their hands.

He urged the people to vote for trustworthy persons, not people who have no trace of good records in the past where they were.

Addressing the crowd after paying a courtesy call on the paramount ruler of the ancient City of Ilorin, the Emir of Ilorin, Alhaji

IbrahimKolapo Sulu Gambari Dan Bawa, Obi charged the people to reject deceit from those who will come with religious and ethnic sentiments because they used it all along to hold the country down.

Obi said that over the years successive governments have been producing insecurity and poverty and making Nigeria one of the poorest nations in the World.

He told the people that he and Datti are in the race to build a new and working Nigeria where the people will be United and live in harmony.

“Only Datti and I are saying vote for character, vote for competence, they come to you with sentiments of tribe and religion, when they come with those divisive sentiments tell them you have no job, and let them tell you how to get the job”

Obi said that Kwara state is among the states in the North he and Datti have mapped out for a great agricultural revolution in line with the consumption-toproduction mantra of his manifesto if elected.

“They will come to you with money, to buy your votes but I urge you to collect their money and vote your conscience, vote for competence and capacity, vote for those who will make New Nigeria possible. Collect their money and vote for papa mama picken”

According to Obi, the voters should ask questions, what has umbrella done for us when we voted for them if not corrupt or is it the broom that brought poverty in the land, “this is the time to vote for human beings with the capacity and capabilities to deliver good governance and stabilize our country.

The Vice Presidential candidate Yusuf Datti Baba Ahmad also spoke in this line that he and Obi are coming to give Nigerians sincere leadership away from corruption and deceit.

The LP National Chairman Comrade Julius Abure told the people that their destiny is in their hands as the party has provided them the rescuers in Obi and Datti and it was left for them to vote them into office.

The high point of the rally was a minute silence in honor of the Kwara state Commissioner for Women Affairs who died recently.

Obi also commended the Kwara state government for providing the facility for the rally saying it’s in the spirit of a new Nigeria where people will live in peace and concord as brothers and sisters.

By Ikechukwu Okaforadi

The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan has said that the judgement delivered on Monday by the Supreme Court on the disputed All Progressives Congress (APC) Yobe North Senatorial ticket was victory for his party APC and democracy.

The Supreme Court, in its judgement, affirmed Ahmad Lawan as the APC Senatorial candidate for Yobe North ahead of the February 25th National Assembly polls.

The judgement, in effect, set aside the earlier judgements of the lower courts which declared Bashir Machina as the candidate.

Speaking to journalists after the judgement was delivered, Lawan said: “the Supreme Court Judgement of today on Yobe

No assassination plot against Atiku –Ohanaeze

By Christiana Ekpa

Apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has dismissed the purported assassination plot against the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.

Recall that Mr. Emma Powerful, the spokesman of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) had alleged of a plot to assassinate Atiku in the South-East.

However, in a statement issued on Monday by the National President of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide, Mazi Okwu Nnabuike, he urged Atiku to ignore the alleged plot.

Okwu said there was nothing to warrant the killing of Atiku or anyone else in the South-East, stressing that all the presidential candidates were free to come to the region and present their blueprints to the masses.

He noted that “We received with concern the statement credited to IPOB, wherein they alleged that there was a plot to assassinate the PDP presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar in the South-East.

“We want to make it clear that no such plot exists anywhere in Igboland. Ndigbo are known for their hospitality and this has not changed.

“The PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar has an Igbo man, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa as his running mate for the election. He is also an in-law to Ndigbo and should therefore feel free to come to the South-East for his campaign any day any time.”

Okwu cautioned against any action or statement that would create unnecessary tension in the South-East.