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Nigerian afrobeats music star, Femi Kuti has denied calling “Obidients”, who are simply those campaigning for Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, zombies. “You know what obedience means? Stand up, sit down, sit there — zombie,” Mr Kuti said during a performance at the Shrine Thursday night in Lagos, wondering why Mr Obi’s popularity […]
Continue ReadingPeter Obi comes across as a humble, conciliatory, mild-mannered, and good-natured person—in contrast to his toxic, obnoxious online devotees whose rhetorical causticity he habitually has a need to restrain with words of caution. I honestly have a hard time understanding the untempered hate often directed at him by his critics. You may disagree with his […]
Continue ReadingPresidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi, on Sunday met with former Ekiti State Governor and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, Ayodele Fayose at his residence in Lagos. An ally and spokesperson of Fayose, Lere Olayinka, confirmed this in a post on his social media handle. Lere Olayinka had shared photos of […]
Continue ReadingFormer governorship candidate and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain in Lagos State, Babatunde Gbadamosi has defected to Labour Party (LP) and declared his support for its presidential candidate, Peter Obi. Gbadamosi, who was also a former Lagos East Senatorial Candidate of the PDP, made this known in a statement on Friday, August 5. He said: […]
Continue ReadingPeter Obi is the man of the moment. The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) visited the Dunamis International Gospel Center, on Friday evening to attend “the Judgement Praise Night with Pastor Paul Enenche.” In a video clip posted on Twitter by @peterobipikin, Enenche’s wife, Becky introduced Obi during a prayer vigil of the […]
Continue ReadingFormer Presidential Aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in the 2019 presidential election, Dr. SKC Ogbonnia has disclosed his conclusion to dump his political party affiliation and its 2023 presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu to support the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi. Ogbonnia said that his endorsement of Obi was […]
Continue ReadingPresidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi, has reportedly visited Bishop David Oyedepo, the founder and Senior Overseer of the Living Faith Church International, popularly known as Winners Chapel. A picture of Mr. Peter Obi and Bishop David Oyedepo surfaced online on Wednesday. According to reports, the former governor of Anambra State […]
Continue ReadingChimamanda Ngozi Adichie took to Facebook to celebrate presidential aspirant Peter Obi. Obi turns 61 today, July 19, 2022. The author shared a photo she took with Peter Obi at her mother’s funeral in 2021. In the caption, she wrote glowingly about the former Anambra state governor, recalling fond memories they share. She wrote: “Happy […]
Continue ReadingThe Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, and his running mate, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, visited former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, on Sunday. The founder of Baze University, Abuja, Baba-Ahmed took to his Twitter handle to share pictures from the meeting. The visit may likely be to gather wider acceptance and support for their presidential ambitions. Baba-Ahmed […]
Continue ReadingPa Ayo Adebanjo, leader of the pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, has endorsed presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi. Speaking on Yoruba Gbode, an online radio programme, Adebanjo said only Peter Obi can rule independently among the current crop of presidential candidates. The Afenifere leader also accused Presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu […]
Continue ReadingIn the book titled the ‘protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism’ the German sociologist, Max Weber attributed the development of capitalism to the protestant ethic (protestantism is a form of christianity that originated with the 16th-century reformation, a movement against what its followers perceived to be errors in the Catholic Church). What then is […]
Continue ReadingLabour Party presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, has unveiled Datti Baba-Ahmed as his running mate in Nigeria’s 2023 presidential election. Obi announced Baba-Ahmed at a press conference and also on Twitter. 46-year-old Ahmed who is the founder of Baze University, Abuja, and also a former lawmaker who represented Kaduna North Senatorial district, was unveiled on Friday July […]
Continue ReadingAt this stage in his campaign, Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, should be laying out the policy ideas and ideology that will define his government and building a team of competent managers who can run with his vision. For a man who has accumulated a growing band of self-motivated and organic following in a […]
Continue ReadingHow time flies! I met Mr Peter Obi for the first time almost 19 years ago — in August 2003 to be specific. He had come to the THISDAY head office in Apapa, Lagos state, on a visit to Mr Olusegun Adeniyi, then Sunday Editor. I was the Saturday Editor. As I saw him in […]
Continue ReadingOn December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, a 42-year woman named Rosa Parks did what philosophers call against method. Paul Feyeraband, an Austrian philosopher, had in 1976 pioneered that thesis. In a racial American society of the time where blacks were inferior and were expected to leave their bus seats for whites, Parks refused to give up […]
Continue ReadingPreparatory for the 2023 general elections, the Lagos State chapter of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo socio-cultural organization, has refuted reports that it dumped Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi and endorsed Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC. Chairman of the Lagos chapter, Sunday Ossai, said the misleading claim that Ohanaeze in Lagos dumped […]
Continue ReadingSpiritual Director of the Adoration Ministry Enugu, Nigeria (AMEN) Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka, has tendered a public apology to the Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, and all his supporters over his condescending comments about the politician. Recall that while preaching in his church on Wednesday, June 16, Fr Mbaka described Mr. Obi as […]
Continue ReadingSpokesperson of National Consultative Forum, Dr. Yinusa Tanko has commented on a possible merger between Labour Party Presidential candidate, Peter Obi and New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) presidential candidate, Engr. Rabiu Kwankwaso. In an interview on Arise TV, Tanko stated that there is need for Obi and Kwankwaso who are well rooted in the Southern and […]
Continue Reading…Let Us Return Nigeria to Their Rightful Owners I thank Nigerians; especially members of the Labour Party who have gathered here since yesterday to partake in the primaries to choose the person that will fly Labour flag in the forthcoming National election to choose the President of Nigeria. History beckons. Nigerians remain hopeful for a […]
Continue ReadingThe recently decamped and a former Governor of Anambra State in Nigeria, Mr. Peter Obi, has emerged as the presidential candidate of the Labour Party. Sequel to Professor Pat Utomi and another aspirant, 45-year-old Joseph Faduri stepping down, Obi emerged at the Labour Party’s Convention and presidential primary held in Asaba, Delta State. Utomi announced […]
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