A former Vanguard Newspaper journalist, Okey Ndiribe, has said that the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, is not the messiah for Nigerians in the 2023 general elections as he is being presented.

Ndiribe, who was Obi’s supporter, made a U-turn on Monday when he made a post on his Facebook page, expressing his support for the candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, saying that only revolutionary system can save Nigeria from its present social and economic quagmires.

“Only a social revolution can usher in the change Nigerians so earnestly yearn for. A bourgeoisie who is still tied to the apron-strings of his class cannot introduce any fundamental change with power. He can only implement cosmetic changes that cannot transform our society into what the masses desire.

“He cannot unshackle Nigeria from the chains of neo-colonialism and international finance capital. The earlier Nigerians realize this, the better for all of us. For now Sowore, I think, most closely represents the symbol of the liberation movement that can start the process of implementing a national agenda that could guarantee freedom from imperialism and genuine progress for our people,” Ndiribe wrote.

Reacting to Ndiribe’s post, a Facebook user, Onome Amawhe, wrote, “I like this. Peter Obi is not the messiah,” to which Ndiribe replied and said, “He is not. My initial enthusiasm about his emergence was anchored on the hope that he could at least reduce Nigeria’s cost of governance which appears to be the most scandalous in the world.

“It is crazy that the ruling class does not want to make any concession in this regard despite the fact that Nigeria has become the poverty capital of the world.”
Meanwhile, with the fact that Ndiribe was Obi’s supporter, some Facebook users including Felix Abugu, asked the journalist to check his Facebook account as he might have been cloned.

However, responding, Ndiribe said, “I have neither been cloned nor hacked. This has been my position for decades. It took Peter Obi’s 2nd visit to IBB, to rouse me from my recent political slumber.”

On his sudden switch to Sowore, he said, “I knew him right from his student days. I knew why he had to travel to the US. However, I am more attracted to the movement he is presently leading and its ideology. It is closer to my own ideology.”

Meanwhile, it would be recalled that Ndiribe had supported Obi and once posted on his Facebook page that “Obidatti campaign organisation should as a matter of urgency translate all matters concerning Obi and Datti in Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo and other languages; both their campaign manifesto, the administration of Peter Obi when he was the Governor of Anambra State, the capabilities of Datti to make a positive change in the life of Nigerians, let the materials be used to reach the Northern, Western and Eastern parts of Nigeria for better understanding by the rural dwellers.”

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The Catholic Laity Council, and the Northern Elders Forum have urged Nigerians to vote in the 2023 presidential elections after carefully evaluating the candidates’ ages and capacities on both a mental and physical level.

The Catholic Laity Council of Nigeria, CLCN, pleaded with Nigerians to avoid sentiments and take the age and health status of candidates into consideration before voting, even though the northern elders said they would take these factors into consideration when deciding which presidential candidate to support.

It also recommended people to support the candidates whose platforms and economic plans may help Nigeria escape her current predicament.

NEF insisted that after a thorough but fruitful interrogation, its preferred candidates for the Presidency would be one with strong mental and physical capacity to govern Nigeria and address the pertinent security and economic challenges facing the nation. NEF claimed that its option of a consensus presidential candidate was still open.

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Osun State Governor Adegboyega Oyetola and Governor-elect Ademola Adeleke are at war over election petition, as the tribunal is set to begin sitting today.

The Election Petition Tribunal had fixed September 26 for the beginning of sitting to hear the election petition on Osun 2022 governorship election, which Oyetola filed against Adeleke and Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) seeking the cancellation of 749 polling units because of alleged over voting.

He wanted the tribunal to declare him as the winner.

Ahead of the sitting, the Chief Press Secretary to Oyetola, Ismail Omipidan, in a statement yesterday explained that the decision to challenge the outcome of the July 16 governorship poll should never be seen as an attempt to impugn on the integrity of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

He noted that Oyetola’s decision should rather be hailed as it was aimed at deepening the country’s democratic values and its electoral system.

He expressed confidence in the ability of members of the tribunal to do justice in the case, noting that the outcome would make INEC to fill some gaps that might have been noticed ahead of the 2023 general election.

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PDP Presidential Campaign Committee spokesperson, Dino Melaye has rubbished the nationwide rallies organised in support of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi.

The former lawmaker said the so-called Obi supporters were just hungry Nigerians paid N1,000 to N,2000 and assembled to stand and say that they are ObiDients.

Melaye made the comment on Arise TV’s The Morning Show while reacting to the ObiDient rally that held over the weekend in Abuja.

According to him, the forthcoming presidential election is between the PDP candidate and the other flagbearers.

He added that the former Anambra governor’s presence at the recently concluded governorship election in Osun State is proof that all his ‘support’ cannot translate to votes.

He said; “Just like if you go to court they’ll say Federal Government vs Dino Melaye and others and this particular case you have Atiku Abubakar and others including the APC, Labour Party, SDP, NNPP all of them are others in this regard.

“And I want to tell you that to assemble crowd is just to bring out money. Mobilization is very very cheap in this country.

“People are hungry. If you go to Nyanya, Mararaba people were being loaded in buses from Lugbe and every part of the country to stand and say they’re supporting…let them to the election.

“I think Peter Obi was in Osun. He spoke in Osun, and we saw the result of the Labour Party in Osun – 2700 votes – while PDP was counting four hundred and something thousand votes…so it’s not about the commercial mobilization of the people.

“Nigerians are hungry definitely if you go to Mararaba today to say you need 5000 people with the blow of a whistle, they’ll assemble and collect their N1000 or N2000. It is not the match on the streets that will determine the votes.

“We’re talking of proper votes and Nigerians know that Atiku is speaking to the issues. We’re not on hype movements.”

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A big led truck has been stationed close to the United Nations Headquarters in New York, by a Coalition of self-determination groups such as Freedom from Nigeria (FFN), Ilana Omo Oodua Worldwide (IOOW), Oodua People’s Sovereign Movement (OPSOM), Igbo National Council (INC), Middle Belt Patriotic Front (MBPF), Yoruba Nation Mega Rally, USA, National Council of Women Society (NCWS), United Middle Belt (UMB), etc to campaign against terrorism, banditry, attacks on farm Lands and genocide in South and Middle-Belt Regions of Nigeria and to demand for a Referendum for the Indigenous People of Nigeria to Decide on their Sovereignty at the Ongoing United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) 2022.

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Ex-aide of former president Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri has made a mockery of the Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi’s degree.

The emergence of the degree certificate of LP’s principal has continued to elicit reactions.

Following a series of criticisms about Obi’s education at the University of Nigeria Nsukka, his spokesperson, Valentine Obienyem, published his Bachelor’s Degree certificate (Second Lower) in Philosophy obtained from the institution in 1984.

Reacting, Omokri compared his receptionist’s degree to that of Obi, claiming the former’s was better than the latter’s.

Tableshaker blasted the ‘Obidients’ noting after all the buzz about their ‘saviour’ on social media, he can only boast of Second Class degree in Philosophy.

He tweeted: “Even my receptionist while I was in government has a better degree than Obi. After all this noise on social media, it is only a Second Class degree in Philosophy that your messiah has? Zenith Bank will not even employ such an educationally challenged character!”

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