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2027 Presidency: Labour Party clears air on alleged plans to dump Peter Obi

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5 months ago

June 24, 2024

By Kayode Sanni-Arewa

The Labour Party (LP) Directorate on Mobilisation and Integration has denied any plan to dump Mr Peter Obi as the presidential candidate of the party for the 2027 election.

The directorate was reacting to the story on the social media that the party had reconciled with the Apapa-led faction of the party where they agreed to field another candidate in the 2027 presidential election.

The refutal was contained in a statement signed by the Director General of the directorate, Marcel Ngogbehei, the Deputy Director Media and Communications, Ambassador Aju Elumelu and the Deputy Director, Strategic Engagement, Sheikh Rufai Al-Saddiq.

The directorate acknowledged that there are efforts to reconcile aggrieved groups in the party, but that no agreement had been reached with the groups.

The statement read: “The leadership and members of our great party recognises the importance of this great admonition based on our African culture of ensuring peaceful coexistent among brothers and acknowledging the fact that there’s a bigger target-liberating Nigeria from the shackles of greedy politicians and building a nation that protects the interest of its citizens.

“The party has decided to follow a peaceful approach to resolving the internal misunderstanding.

This effort within the Labour Party and its successes has elicited different reactions; and we have seen an attempt by the opposition to make a false spin for their own selfish interest, misinforming the general public with the aim of causing more crisis in our party.

“For the records, this directorate was setup to facilitate reconciliation and help mobilise and integrate Labour Party (LP) stakeholders toward electoral victory for our presidential candidate, Peter Obi come 2027.

“The party leadership recognised the need for unity and cohesion within the party as a requirement for internal party stability and improving the winning chances of Peter Obi, in the coming 2027 elections.

“We have reached out through various channels to different stakeholders and discussions are still ongoing on various fronts; and we are also making great successes in this endeavour.

“To misconstrue this effort as against our presidential candidate is unfortunate and we can’t help those with this mindset. But to set the records straight, Peter Obi remains our presidential candidate for 2027 as ratified and all the party leadership are behind him and committed to his message of a new Nigeria.

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VIDEO: God’s kingdom is your birthright it’s not negotiable -Bishop Elim(Part 1)

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3 hours ago

November 17, 2024

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Bishop Godwin Elim, the Senior Pastor at Live for Christ, aka Lifting Assembly in Abuja has said God’s Kingdom is the birthright of believers as this is not negotiable.

Naijablitznews reports Bishop Elim made this assertion on Saturday in his sermon drawing vivid examples from bible passages and real life examples.

This is part one of the series to run through the week.

Watch clip below;

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BREAKING: APC Picks All 20 Chairmanship, 236 Councillorship Seats In Ogun LG Polls

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3 hours ago

November 17, 2024

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The All Progressives Congress, APC has won all 20 Chairmanship and 236 Councillorship seats in the Ogun LG Polls.

Naijablitznews reports that the Ogun State Independent Electoral Commission (OGSIEC) on Sunday, declared all the 20 chairmanship candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) winners of Saturday’s local government elections conducted in the state.

The Chairman of the commission, Babatunde Osibodu also declared all 236 APC councillorship candidates as winners of the election while presenting the official results of the polls at the commission’s headquarters at Oke-Ilewo, Abeokuta, the state capital.

Osibodu said the ruling party, APC, emerged victorious across all the 20 local government areas and 236 wards in the state by polling a total of 613,156 votes cast in the exercise which witnessed major political parties like the Accord Party (AP), African Action Congress (AAC), African Democratic Congress (ADC), Action Democratic Party (ADP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC), participating.

Other political parties that participated in the exercise included the Allied Peoples Movement (APM), All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Labour Party (LP), Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Social Democratic Party (SDP), Young Progressive Party (YPP), Action People’s Party (APP), Action Alliance (AA), Boot Party (BP), People’s Redemption Party (PRP), National Rescue Movement (NRM) and Zenith Labour Party (ZLP).

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BREAKING: INEC declares Aiyedatiwa of APC winner of Ondo guber election

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3 hours ago

November 17, 2024

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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa as the winner of the guber election conducted in Ondo State on Saturday.

Aiyedatiwa, who is the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the election.

He polled a total of 366,781 votes to defeat his closest rival in the election, Agboola Ajayi, who is the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party in the election.
The APC cleared all 18 local government areas.

While the PDP polled a total of 117,845 votes, the Labour Party (LP) polled 1,162 votes and the Zenith Labour Party (ZLP) polled 2,692 votes.

Prof Olayemi Akinwunmi announced the result of the Ondo governorship election at the State headquarters of INEC in Akure.