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  • Ebonyi votes are for APC not Labour or any other party — Umahi

    Ebonyi votes are for APC not Labour or any other party — Umahi

    Gov. David Umahi on Monday said that Ebonyi people would massively vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) and not Labour or any other party.

    Umahi, apparently reacting to the growing popularity of the Labour Party and its Presidential Candidate, Mr Peter Obi in the South-East zone, made the declaration while swearing-in five new commissioners.

    The governor said that the APC was instrumental to the infrastructural and economic development of the state and the people would identify with it at all time.

    “Let the states which the Labour or any other party helped vote for it as Ebonyi has been liberated and risen.

    “The APC presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, started with one state and used it to liberate his people.

    “We should do the same in Ebonyi and make people negotiate with us with our massive number of votes,” he said.

    He noted that he has decided on his consensus candidates for the forthcoming local government area elections in the state and urged that his wish be respected.

    “The stakeholders should meet and decide where the councillorship positions should be zoned.

    “We want to elect people who are popular and are capable of winning elections for us,” he said.

    Umahi berated LGA leaders for the dismal number of registered voters in their areas with some recording as low as 2,000 voters in the ongoing registration exercise.

    “I will sack commissioners and other appointees from local government areas which record fewer than 30,000 before the end of the continuous voters exercise.

    “I hereby direct the deputy governor, among other stakeholders, to meet immediately and appoint five people in each registration centre who shall serve as polling administrators” he said.

    The governor congratulated the new commissioners on their appointments and urged them to contribute positively as the administration anchors in 2023.

    Mr Cletus Ofoke, the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justic, said that the new commissioners were appointed to fill the vacuum created by the previous appointees who resigned to seek elective offices.

  • 2023: Peter Obi Receives Labour Party Certificate of Return

    2023: Peter Obi Receives Labour Party Certificate of Return

    The Labour Party has issued Peter Obi his certificate of return after recent victory at the LP Presidential primary.

    National Chairman of the party, Julius Abure, handed over the certificate to Obi at a ceremony at its National headquarters in Abuja, on Friday.

    While handing over the certificate, Abure described the ceremony as a milestone in the life of the party.

    He said, “I said so because it is a new dawn for the people of this country. It is a new dawn because the people have been enslaved over the years and a new movement has began that will liberate them from the slavery of hunger, poverty, employment, bad governance and insecurity in the land.

    “Today we have started this movement and nothing, no amount of intimidation, no amount of pretence of factionalization, no amount if stopping us from registering or preventing us from participating in the ongoing voter registration will stop this movement.

    “Wherever I have been to people have confronted me on how Am i going to deliver Peter Obi since you have no structure and my response has always been that a people that have decided to liberate themselves you can never stop them.

    “I have also maintained that it is people that form structure. The structure belongs to the people and the people of Nigeria have made up their minds to liberate themselves and what will happen in the next few weeks will shock you what Nigeria s will do.

    “We already have structure across the country, across the states and local government as well as in the units.

    That structure will be further ventilated because Nigerians have decided to make a change and this change is inevitable. “

    In response, the presidential candidate Peter Obi while responding said, “Whenever I hear of no structure my answer to it is simple. The 100 million Nigerians living under poverty will be the structure.

    “The 35 million Nigerian youths who don’t know where the next meal will come from, will be structure.

    “The elderly, the mothers and fathers, the old ones that are dying or being owed gratuity and pension, will be the structure, ASUU, the lecturers who are being owed, the students that are not in school will be the structure since it is all about the structures of a human being.

    He also explained that in 2011 when ASUU went on Strike, though he could not meet up but he was able to strike a middle ground with ASUU.

    According to him Anambra State University is not part of the ongoing ASUU strike because the precedent he set of N5b subvention yearly is still on.

    He said the money that was in his custody was for the public hence he had the duty to utilize it judiciously for the people.

    He promised to turn Nigeria from a consumer nation to producer nation.

    “We must talk about the future of Nigeria to change the trend to ensure that our youth become productive, woth job opportunities, our aim us to move Nigeria from consumption to production.”

  • Jude Ezenwafor withdraws from Presidential Race

    Jude Ezenwafor withdraws from Presidential Race

    Mr. Jude Ezenwafor, the factional presidential candidate of the Labour Party has reportedly withdrawn from the contest.

    Ezenwafor had received ultimatum from the Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide led by Mazi Okwu Nnabuike to withdraw from the contest.

    DAILY POST learnt that he took the decision via a letter he conveyed to the national leadership of his faction of the party.

    He said in the letter being circulated online that his decision to withdraw was personal and appealed to his supporters to understand him.

    The letter reads, “I hereby withdraw from the forthcoming Presidential Election in 2023. After consulting my supporters Nationwide, I decided to withdraw for personal reasons.

    “I regret any inconvenience my withdrawal might cost our great Party. I thank the leadership of our great Party for giving me the opportunity to serve Nigeria”.

    This is coming amidst ultimatum also given to him by the Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB.

    The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, as well as the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, had also earlier dismissed Ezenwafor and his faction.

    With the development, the coast is now clear for former Anambra Governor and Presidential candidate of the party, Mr. Peter Obi.

  • Trouble for Peter Obi as Labour Party Faction Elects Ezenwafor As Presidential Candidate

    Trouble for Peter Obi as Labour Party Faction Elects Ezenwafor As Presidential Candidate

    The crisis rocking Labour party appears to be festering as a faction of the party led by Mr Calistus Okafor has held its National Convention to elect Ambassador Jude Ezenwafor as its presidential flagbearer.

    “What we are doing here today is to elect a man who is worthy to give us that change we’ve been yearning for,” Okafor said.

    In his acceptance speech, the presidential candidate of the Okafor-led faction pledged to rescue Nigeria.

    “I have never been in a wrong place. Labour party is going for a rescue mission,” Ezenwafor said.

    With the deadline set by the Independent National Electoral Commission for the election of presidential candidates looming, the Labour party appears divided on who will be the party’s flagbearer.

    Mr Peter Obi is the candidate of the INEC-recognised Julius Abure-led faction.

  • Ex-APGA Chairman, Victor Umeh Joins Peter Obi in Labour Party

    Ex-APGA Chairman, Victor Umeh Joins Peter Obi in Labour Party

    The former National Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, Chief Victor Umeh, has defected to the Labour Party.

    His defection is coming six days after he lost the APGA ticket to a member of the House of Representatives, Dozie Nwankwo, who currently represents the Anoacha/Dunukofia/Njikoka Federal Constituency.

    Umeh, who was the National Chairman of APGA for eight years, narrowly lost the APGA ticket for the Anambra Central Senatorial zone to Nwankwo.

    Umeh is currently contesting the ticket of the Labour Party for the Anambra Central Senatorial zone for the 2023 general election.

    Details later…

  • 2023: Peter Obi Joins Labour Party

    2023: Peter Obi Joins Labour Party

    A former Anambra State Governor, Peter Obi, has joined the Labour Party few days after dumping the main opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party, saying the party is the right platform that aligns with his aspiration.

    Obi confirmed this on his Twitter page on Friday as he registered with the party in his Agulu Ward in Anambra State.

    Giving reasons for joining the Labour Party, Obi said:“ Since I resigned from the PDP because of issues that are at variance with my persona and principles, I have consulted widely with various parties and personalities to ensure we do not complicate the route to our desired destination.

    “ For me, the process of achieving our goal is as fundamental as what one will do thereafter.

    “Therefore, I have chosen a route that I consider to be in line with our aspirations and my mantra of taking the country from consumption to production; and that is the Labour Party which is synonymous with the people, workers, development, production, securing and uniting Nigerians as one family.

    “I invite all Nigerians to join me in taking back our country.

    “Be assured that I’ll never let you down.”