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Obi Cubana’s Wife Publicly Reveals Candidate She’s Supporting For Saturday’s Presidential Election

Lush, the wife of Nigerian billionaire and socialite, Obinna Oyiegbu aka Obi Cubana has revealed her preferred candidate for Saturday’s presidential election.
She publicly declared support for the Labour Party (LP) flagbearer, Peter Obi.
However, Obi Cubana failed to reveal his preferred candidate.
Instead, he urged youths to vote wisely.
He wrote: “Dear Youth!! This Saturday we vote!!! Make it a duty to vote. Your vote counts!! Vote wisely, your vote determines your future! Have an amazing week”
 
A few hours later, his wife shared a video of Peter Obi’s visit to their home but her husband was not captured in the video.
She announced she would be voting for the former Anambra governor for the sake of her children and the future of the country.
She wrote: “For the future of my children
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For the future of my dear country
 
“For a breath of fresh air….
 
“As for me and my family, On OBIDIENT WE STAND!
 
“VOTE WISELY THIS WEEK! @peterobigregory  Our leader”
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2023: Nigerians Don’t Know If Elections Will Hold – Falana

Femi Falana, a senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), has talked about the anticipated elections.

He said there’s no guarantee that Nigeria is prepared for the general election.

Falana stated this while appearing on Arise TV programme on Tuesday.

The scarcity of naira notes following the redesign of he N200, N500, and N1000 notes, coupled with the scarcity of petrol, has led to protests in some parts of the country.

There also concerns whether the presidential and governorship elections on February 25 and March 11, will go on as scheduled.

However, Falana says, “by now, Nigerians should be fully prepared for the election.

“But unfortunately, there is no indication, and people are still saying will the election hold or not.

“Even the armed forces and the NSA spoke about the effect of cash scarcity on counter-insurgency campaigns.

“And for the masses, it is only when you have access to your money that you can be happy and ready for the election,” He maintained.

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2023: APC Plotting To Attack INEC Facilities, Hack BVAS — PDP

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has been accused of plotting to attack some equipment of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) ahead of the elections.
The allegation was made by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
According to PDP National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba in a statement issued on Monday in Abuja, some members of the ruling party have allegedly mobilized thugs to launch fresh attacks on INEC offices and its facilities.
It also claimed that the APC has orchestrated the plan to hack the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) to frustrate INEC’s ability to conduct the elections.
The PDP, therefore, asked security agencies to protect the facilities and equipment of the electoral body and ensure that the forthcoming polls are free, fair, and credible.
The statement reads: “Ahead of Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly elections, the PDP charges security agencies to beef up security around the offices and facilities of INEC from any attacks by the sinking APC.
The PDP’s position is coming against the background of apprehensions in the public space of alleged plots by certain APC interests to launch a coordinated attack on INEC offices and facilities in various parts of the country to destroy the Commission’s BVAS machines to cripple INEC’s ability to conduct the elections.
“Credible information available to our Party indicates that the said APC interests which are bent on scuttling the elections to avoid a humiliating defeat are allegedly mobilizing thugs to launch fresh attacks on INEC offices and its facilities where BVAS machines are located.
“Some prominent APC leaders including certain APC governors, having failed in their designs to have the elections postponed and having also been resisted in their plot to use their orchestrated cash scarcity to destabilize the nation, are now allegedly plotting to cripple INEC’s ability to conduct the elections by destroying the BVAS machines.
“These APC leaders and their apologists have evidently revealed themselves as a clear and present threat not only to the electoral process but also to our corporate existence as a nation and must be resisted by all.
“The PDP, therefore, charges the security agencies to take all necessary steps to provide adequate protection for INEC facilities, equipment, and personnel before, during, and after the elections.”
The PDP asked President Muhammadu Buhari to put all measures in place for free, fair, transparent, and credible elections in keeping with his assurances to Nigerians and the international community.
It added that Tinubu must realize that Nigerians will never be deterred from their resolve to vote for its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, to rebuild the nation.
“The APC and the Tinubu/Shettima Campaign must accept the fact that Nigerians will never be deterred from their resolve to vote in the Presidential Candidate of the PDP, Atiku Abubakar, to rebuild our nation from the disastrous misrule of the APC,” the PDP added.
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Shehu Sani Sends Strong Warning To Nigerians Ahead Of 2023 Elections

Shehu Sani, a former Nigerian lawmaker, has warned Nigerians ahead of the forthcoming general elections.

He warned that electing a wrong leader would plunge the country into another four years of darkness.

Sani also called on Nigerians to be guided by their conscience and experience and elect a competent leader.

His statement was contained in a post via his verified Twitter handle on Tuesday.

Sani, also a social critic, urged Nigerians not to allow religious leaders to mislead them.

“On Saturday, this country has a date with history. Don’t vote for a candidate because your mosques or churches asked you to do so. Be guided by your conscience and experience & elect a competent leader. A wrong choice is another 4 years of journey into darkness,” he tweeted.

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Only Corrupt People Are Against Peter Obi — LP National Vice Chairman, Reuben

The National Vice Chairman, South South of the Labour Party (LP), Favour Reuben has revealed why some politicians are against the presidential candidate of the party, Peter Obi.
According to him, only people who are against the progress of Nigeria are against Obi’s presidency.
Reuben was reacting to the recent move by the LP in the North Western part of the country, who collapsed their structure to support the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu.
He said the people against the candidacy of Obi are those who have the structure of criminality and corruption.
 
“As I’m talking to you, even the northerners are endorsing him, everybody is endorsing him.
 
“The only people that cannot endorse Peter Obi are people who are corrupt, people who have decided to destroy this country, people who have decided that suffering should be the way of this country. That’s the only people who cannot endorse Peter Obi,” he said.
The LP in the North Western part of the country, had on Sunday, collapsed their party structure to support Tinubu.
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I’m Ready To Sacrifice My Senatorial Ambition For Peter Obi To Win – Ortom

The Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom has vowed that he’s ready to sacrifice his senatorial ambition to see that the presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi wins Saturday’s presidential election.
Channels Television made the revelation on Monday during an interview.
Ortom, a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), is contesting the election in the Benue North-West senatorial district.
His January endorsement of Obi came after months of refusal to support the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, whose emergence in May 2022 was viewed by several high-ranking party members as unfair.
The Benue governor reiterated his support for the former Anambra State governor while addressing members of the Igbo community in the state on Monday.
“For me, it’s not even that I’m contesting an election. Yes, the form was bought for me by the people of Benue State. I’ve gone round; they have accepted that they will vote [for] me,” he said.
“But if I’m to sacrifice my senatorial ambition for Peter Obi to win, so shall it be,” he said to loud cheers from the crowd.
He added, “I know that if [any group of] people are connected in this world, they are the Igbo. This is the opportunity you have to say that an Igbo man from the South-East is president.”
 
Ortom identified with those who believed in the unity of Nigeria and working together, saying it was for this reason that he accommodates everybody.
“So, let us not miss this opportunity that God himself is providing. The youth have told me, my own people have told me – stakeholders here, traditional rulers, party people across party lines. Obi’s matter is not about APC or PDP or SDP or any other party. It’s about Nigeria.”
Speaking to the crowd, he told them that they have the population, adding that they should thank God for “what is unfolding”.
 
He described Obi as a species that is not bound by ethnicity.
“That is why when I hear some prominent Igbo personalities castigating Peter Obi for contesting the election – is it not you people that have been saying you have been marginalised since after the war?
 
“The opportunity has come today and you’re still complaining. What do you want?! What are you looking for?  
 
“The whole country – North, South, East, and West – are saying Peter Obi, and you hear some people say, ‘We don’t want it.’ Haba! Those people should be outcasts.”
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INEC Reassures Nigerians, International Community Of Free, Fair Elections

Nigerians and the international community have been assured of free, fair and credible elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission.

INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, gave the reassurance when he received Commonwealth Election Observer Mission to Nigeria, led by former South Africa President, Thabo Mbeki, at INEC headquarters in Abuja on Monday.

”INEC understands the enormous benefits of conducting credible elections, not just in Nigeria but the African continent.

“Election in Nigeria is huge and we understand. As I said, the responsibility rests on our shoulders.

“We also understand the benefits of credible elections. It will not only bring peace and good governance to our country but the positive effects on our sub-region.

“I want to assure you that we will never let Nigeria and the international community down,’’ Yakubu said.

Yakubu also commended the Commonwealth Observer Mission’s contributions to the development of Nigeria’s electoral system.

He said that Nigeria had benefited a lot from the Commonwealth through the implementation of recommendations in its reports on Nigeria’s previous elections.

“We have benefited from your previous election observation reports. So many of the innovations introduced over time are benefited from your observation reports.

“We don’t take your observations lightly.,” he said.

He said that INEC looked forward again to the mission’s robust reports on the 2023 general elections.

Earlier in his remarks, Mbeki said the mission was in Nigeria to observe the country’s election and in the end make it report.

Mbeki expressed confidence that Nigeria would achieve credible and successful elections.

“This is the seventh election since independence. Nigeria is a very important country with huge impacts on itself and on the continent.

“So, it is always very important that as commonwealth we should come and be with you as you hold these important elections and to observe same.

“Of course, we come very hopeful and very confident that we will have successful elections, peaceful elections and intrusive elections and at the end hopefully there will be no complaints,” Mbeki said.

He said the mission was at the INEC headquarters to listen to the level of preparations and render assistance for the commission to achieve its mandate.

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NNPP Reacts To Alleged Reports Of Kwankwaso, Atiku Alliance Days To Presidential Election

The New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) has denied reports that its presidential candidate, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, would step down to form an alliance with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Atiku Abubakar.
This comes after a report attributed to the Peoples Democratic Party had emerged claiming that the former Governor of Kano State would, within the next 96 hours to the commencement of the 2023 election.
Reacting, NNPP faulted the report, describing it as falsehoods and stupid propaganda. It further expressed optimism that its candidate, Kwankwaso, will cruise to victory in the 2023 presidential election.
The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Agbo Major, stated this in a statement made available to newsmen on Monday, noting that “People write whatever they want with their phones.”
 
“Kwankwaso is in this race to win and will win,” he noted.
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Soyinka Disowns Social Media Post Endorsing Tinubu

Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka has distanced himself from a statement attributed to him endorsing the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu.
Punch reported that the social media post also purportedly indicated that the elder statesman described the Peoples Democratic Party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, and ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, in uncharitable words.
The statement read, “Quote me anywhere, Nigerians don’t need the likes of Atiku and Obasanjo to lead them again. We have tested the two: Atiku is corrupt and Obasanjo is a liar. Both of them are greedy and self-centered…”
 
“Anybody, any cabal, any Viju milk activist, attempting to humiliate Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu must have me to contend with. An average PDP man is angry with Asiwaju because he brought them to their knees. If anyone thinks that bringing down Asiwaju is his project, that mission will not only crash but it will boomerang. He owns Lagos! I hear you! Ask your grandfather and parents how they acquired your so-called family land. Is it God that allocated it to them?”
Reacting to the post, the playwright in an email to Punch on Sunday, he said, “Professor Soyinka did NOT at any time or on any occasion issue such a statement. It is simply the works of peddlers of fake news and falsehood, who profit from Misinformation to gain political advantages. The media and members of the public are advised to ignore the message or any other political message that addresses or targets any political party or political actor.’’
In the past, doctored videos and distorted statements had been credited to the essayist which he distanced himself from.
In one of his responses to the fake posts, Soyinka noted that one can continue to monitor and respond to the concoctions of the addicts of falsehood, and their assiduous promoters who had yet to learn to wipe the filth off their tablets.
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Falzs shares election advise with youth, names preferred candidate

Nigerian rapper Falz has shared a piece of advice to the youth while naming his preferred candidate as the elections approach.

The rapper has advised the youth on procrastination and making excuses for not casting their votes adding that it is time to decide their fate.

Falz in an online video advised young people to ignore any message of discouragement from anyone from voting but instead focus on the goal of determining who rules. He also endorsed Peter Obi‘s Labour Party describing the party as a “formidable third force”.

He said;

Oya election don come oooo this is my PVC, I’m sure you have yours and you are ready to vote. I don’t want to hear any of that rubbish that my vote will not count, so what’s the point of voting?

Oh God, please nobody should annoy me, this is 2023, with everything we’re going through, if there are still some people saying that, then really and truly I don’t know what is wrong with them.

Somehow, we have been able to gather momentum, unbelievable momentum for this formidable 3rd force. I say to you it is very possible, forget about all those pessimists, all those cynics that are coming to you, all those irresponsible people that apparently love to suffer and want to keep this status quo forget about those people and just focus on the goal.

The goal is that we the people this time around, have decided that we are going to choose who rules us.

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