The new Director General of Labour Party presidential campaign council, Mr Akin Osuntokun has dismissed speculations that he might have influenced his new appointment. The former aide to President Olusegun Obasanjo was unveiled as the new helmsman of Mr Peter Obi campaign in Abuja on Tuesday. He replaced Dr Doyin Okupe, who announced his resignation last Tuesday following a Federal …

The Director General of the Labour Party presidential campaign council, Dr Doyin Okupe has stepped down from his position. This came hours after the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign council demanded his resignation. On Monday, a Federal High Court in Abuja sentenced Okupe to two years imprisonment for breaching the money laundering act. The former presidential special adviser was …

Labour Party vice presidential candidate, Senator Datti Baba-Ahmed has dismissed what he described as “a false narrative been spread nationwide that Mr Peter Obi is against the production of oil in the north; nothing could be farther from the truth”. At a media conference in Abuja on Thursday, Baba-Ahmed said that the “false narrative” has been spreading that, Labour Party …

The National Consultative Front (NCFront), the umbrella platform of the Third Force Movement in Nigeria, and their allies have rejected the Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) released on Wednesday by the Labour Party on the ground that the list included “opportunists, infiltrators and political jobbers who will constitute a major liability to the campaign”. Among the protesting stakeholders and allies of …

The Labour Party has announced 1,234 members into its Presidential Campaign Council. It is headed by an Assistant Inspector General of Police (rtd.), Mohammed Zarewa, as chairman. Former presidential spokesman, Dr Doyin Okupe is the Director General, while Clement Ojukwu and Yunusa Tanko are the secretary and spokesperson respectively. At a media session on Wednesday, Okupe explained that the council is …

The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered the Labour Party (LP) and its supporters not to converge at the Lekki toll gate for its #Obidatti23 Forward Ever Rally billed to hold on the 1st October, Nigeria’s Independence anniversary. The court also directed the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Usman Baba, and the Lagos State Police Commissioner, Abiodun Alabi …

Supporters of Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi stormed the the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja on Saturday for one-million march in the nation’s capital. Under the aegis of the “Obidient Movement”, they mobilised and marched in their numbers across designated routes in Abuja. The coalition of supporters and other well wishers began their walk from the famous Unity …

Labour Party leader, Prof. Pat Utomi has said that the manifesto of the party’s presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi for the 2023 elections will be released before campaign starts next week. Campaign for presidential and national elections officially kicks off next Wednesday. While receiving the leadership of Progressive Movement for Better Nigeria (PM4BN) in Abuja, Utomi said the document is …

The Labour Party (LP) has called on security agencies to place the spokesman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council, Mr Festus Keyamo on security watch list. Responding to Keyamo’s allegation that LP’s presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi was planning to fake an assassination attempt by hiring hoodlums donning APC caps and T-shirts to attack his party offices, …

The interview with Labour Party presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi on Cable News Network (CNN) has been rescheduled from Saturday, 3 September to next Tuesday, 6 September. Obi himself announced the change in a tweet on @PeterObi late Friday. “My CNN interview initially scheduled for 3rd September with Zane Asher has been rescheduled to 6th September, 2022. -PO”. Anchor of …