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Pan Igbo organisation Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide has said that it is not its duty to endorse the Presidential candidate of Labour Party (LP) Peter Obi. Rather, the organisation said its duty is to commend people who have seen the vision in demanding justice and equity by endorsing an Igbo for the seat. Speaking on Sunday with The Nation, the Publicity Secretary of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, Chief Alex Ogbonnia, said the duty of Ohanaeze Ndigbo ended when about 90 per cent of Igbos and majority of other Nigerians keyed into the Ohanaeze's philosophy of having a President of Igbo extraction. "The…

Former presidential aide, Reno Omokri, has claimed that the All Progressives Congress didn't include notable Christians in its newly-released list of nominees for presidential campaign council. He made this observation on his Twitter handle on Saturday. Omokri also warned Nigerians about the 2023 election telling them to look at how the APC removed prominent Christians from their campaign list, asking what would happen if APC won the election. He said, “Dear Nigerians, I hope you are watching how the All Progressives Congress’s Muslim-Muslim ticket just kicked out the top Christian in government, VP Osinbajo, and the only Northern Christian Speaker…

A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday, dismissed the suit filed by Udom Ekpoudom, a retired Deputy Inspector General of Police, challenging the APC’s failure to summit his name to Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as the party’s candidate for the Akwa Ibom North West Senatorial District for the 2023 general elections. Delivering judgment, Justice David Okorowo, held that the plaintiff’s action was not justiciable, hence, the suit was incompetent. The court upheld the preliminary objection filed by counsel to All Progressive Congress (APC) to hold that the failure to join Senator Godswill Akpabio as a party to the suit…

The Supreme Court has struck out a suit instituted against the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to enforce the party’s zoning and rotatory policy ahead of the 2023 presidential election. The Court on Friday, in a unanimous judgment delivered by Justice Adamu Jauro, struck out the suit on the ground of lack of jurisdiction to entertain it. A Presidential aspirant of the PDP and former Deputy Speaker of Abia State House of Assembly, Hon Cosmos Ndukwe instituted the suit against his party, praying for an order to compel it to uphold the zoning and rotatory policy of the party. Specifically, the…

Presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu met with some Christian clerics under the aegis of the Pentecostal Bishops Forum of Northern Nigeria. At the meeting, Tinubu, disclosed that his choice of a former governor of Borno State, Kashim Shettima was not a threat to the Christian community. He added that his decision was based on competence and not religious considerations, adding that only competence can resolve the political and socio-economic challenges bedevilling the nation. The APC presidential candidate said he has always been a friend of the Christian community and he should be…

Officials of the Department of State Service, on Thursday, in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, allegedly denied human rights activist and presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, Mr Omoyele Sowore, access to detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, despite granting him a formal invitation. Sowore was listed among those expected to visit Kanu as requested by the IPOB leader on Thursday. A document acquired by The Punch revealed. The activist who arrived at the facility at about 2 pm at the appointed time was asked to sit in the visitor’s waiting room till about 4:50…