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  • Nigerians criticise Davido for liking a tweet against Labour Party

    Nigerians criticise Davido for liking a tweet against Labour Party

    Nigerians have criticized Davido on social media for what they believe to be an assault on the Obedient movement.

    The musician reportedly enjoyed a video that activist Deji Adeyanju shared in which she claimed that the Labour Party was also involved in the rigging of the election.

    In a video he posted over the weekend, Adeyanju alleged that some people were tampering with the results on the ballots, just like the APC and PDP.

    Checking Davido’s Twitter account revealed that he had liked the message, which infuriated his supporters, many of whom are Obedient movement members.

    Those who hauled him found his actions even more troubling because he had never previously concealed his allegiance to the Peoples Democratic Party

    Probably sensing danger, Davido unlike the post shelve himself from any blame but did not stop angry fans from venting their spleen on him.

    A tweep known as @itzbasito expressed surprise because he thought the DMW boss had stayed off social media since last year.

    “Thought they said Davido is offline?” he wrote.

    @Finesse77481538; When will 30BG be happy?? This our idol is making life hard for us !!! @davido I thought u will not be active on social media till March, what now happened? Useless man!!!

    @big_keed9; .. person wey don m@d  So na even PDP Davido dey support chai .. na why e no talk anything about election cause Dem go too drag am 

    @Lil_mizzy10; So Davido is online? Wahala don start, dragging don start

    @TweetInspector0; …and to think that Post was even Fake Story……

    Everybody is just again Peter Obi & the Obidients movement cus they know a Win for Peter Obi is a win for Nigerians and a pathway to start breaking the structure of Criminality

    @Afeez311600641; Lmao.30BG go talk say na mistake e take like the tweet now. Dey watch 

    @grimeboy4; Everybody Dey craze no worry wizkid Davido burna all of them!

    @Charles_Mecon; Davido dn rush unlike the post …baba de online since

    @debola_szn; I thought I saw it too. He don remove am now.

    @rubysugary; No wonder he’s silent. All of them are the same. Period. Useless artistes!

    @AustinWire_Wire; is in support of this evil government that’s why he’s been silent all this while. @1_ezekwueche come and see for yourself oo.

  • Nigerian opposition parties demand new elections as ruling party assumes control

    Nigerian opposition parties demand new elections as ruling party assumes control

    In a joint press conference held in the nation’s capital, Abuja, the main opposition parties in Nigeria demanded new elections and denounced the results that are currently being released by the electoral authority as “heavily doctored and manipulated.”

    In a joint statement released on Tuesday in Abuja, the Peoples Democratic Party, Labour Party, and African Democratic Congress stated that their parties would no longer participate in the ongoing collation process there and that they had lost faith in Mahmood Yakubu, the chairman of the electoral body.

    The parties urged the Independent National Electoral Commission to elect a new head as well as hold fresh elections (INEC).

    “We call on the international community to note that the results being declared at the National Collation centre have been heavily doctored and manipulated and do not reflect the wishes of Nigerians expressed at the polls on February 25, 2023,” they said.

    The election process has been dogged with controversy, and the announcement at the national collation center in Abuja has seen some tense moments, with opposition party members walking out of the collation center as the results were being announced Monday.

    Several observers including the European Union have said the election fell short of expectations and “lacked transparency.” 

    “The election fell well short of Nigerian citizens’ reasonable expectations,” said a joint observer mission of the International Republican Institute (IRI) and National Democratic Institute (NDI).

    Ruling party candidate Bola Ahmed Tinubu is so far leading the race with nearly half of the vote already tallied Tuesday, according to the country’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) results.

    23 out of 36 states have declared their results at state level. The leading opposition party PDP’s Atiku Abubakar is in second place, according to INEC figures.

    Despite his shock win over Tinubu on his home turf in Lagos State, Peter Obi, the much-touted ‘third force’ candidate is trailing in third place. 

    According to INEC’s iRev results portal, 83.798 out of 176.846 polling units have submitted their results. 

    INEC meanwhile continues to announce results coming in, despite fierce criticism of the commission’s handling of how the elections with widespread reports of delays, allegations of voter manipulation and polling stations that failed to open leaving disappointed voters unable to participate.

    “The conduct of the February 25, 2023 election has been marred by widespread violence, rigging, intimidation of voters, doctoring of the results, and violation of the laid down electoral process which was communicated by the national electoral body, INEC,” the People’s Democratic Party and the Labour party said in a joint statement.

    Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has also called for elections that lacked credibility to be cancelled.

    But the government warned him not to truncate the #2023GeneralElections with “his inciting, self-serving and provocative letter on the elections,” in a statement from Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed. 

    Meanwhile Yakubu asked any candidate with complaints to seek redress in the courts during a results announcement in Abuja Monday. 

    Yakubu says he plans to continue with results announcement despite complaints. 

  • Atiku Abubakar promises to expose and prosecute Nigerian oil thieves

    If elected president in 2023, Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party’s presidential candidate, has promised to name and shame oil thieves in the country.

    This pledge was made by Atiku Abubakar on Saturday during an interactive session with the Business Dialogue Stakeholders Forum at the Eko hotel in Lagos. Atiku attended the session alongside his running mate, Delta State Governor Ifeanyi Okowa.

    The PDP presidential candidate also promised to seize any oil blocks assigned to Nigerians who have yet to put them into operation.

    Nigeria- I Will Name And Shame Oil Thieves, If Elected - Atiku Abubakar (News Central TV)
    Atiku Abubakar, Nigeria’s Presidential Candidate for the Peoples’ Democratic Party

    “If you are not going to develop oil blocs given to you, we will take it away and give it to those who will develop it.” he stated, adding that We will also assemble the names of those involved in oil theft, publish same and prosecute them.”

    He reiterated his resolve to privatising the refineries in Kaduna, Port Harcourt, and Warri in order to boost production.

    The Chairman and Director General of the Atiku/Okowa presidential campaign team, governors Udom Emmanuel and Aminu Waziri Tambuwal of Akwa Ibom and Sokoto states, respectively, spoke at the gathering and asked stakeholders to support their presidential flagbearer, for a better Nigeria.

  • Why I left music to join politics – Banky W

    Nigerian musician, Olubankole Wellington, otherwise known as Banky W, has explained his switch from entertainment to politics.

    Mr Wellington, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) House of Representatives candidate for Eti-Osa Federal Constituency, joined the party in April.

    Eti-Osa is a constituency in Lagos State, South-west Nigeria.

    Before winning the PDP ticket in May, he had contested for the position in 2019 under the default Modern Democratic Party platform, but lost in the general elections.

    The musician, who spoke when he appeared as a guest on Arise TV’s The Morning Show on Wednesday, explained that the decision to join politics was driven by his desire for good governance in the country.

    “As long as I have been relevant in the art world, music, film and as a small entrepreneur, I have always been very vocal about the need for good governance and the need for young people to participate in politics,” he said.

    Mr Wellington said that in his quest for good governance, he has participated in several peaceful protests and activism for change.

    He said he realised in 2018 that the system would not change if he failed to join politics and cooperate with like-minded people to make the system in the country work.

    “For me, the message started to change from raising awareness via activism and advocacy to saying that we have to start moving from protests to power. We have to start taking this energy and channelling it towards getting like-minds into government and using that consensus of like-minds to get a change,” Mr Wellington said.

    He added that “we need to start focusing on the National Assembly, the Senate and House of Representatives, and the States House of Assembly.”

    He said the Nigerian problem comes from “top-down” and that the solution can only come “from the bottom-top,” stressing that the country can only be changed for good with the involvement of young people in governance.

    The 41-year-old musician said he joined politics despite a warning from his wife who held the view that politics is “dirty and dangerous.”

    “The truth of the matter is that politics will always be dirty and dangerous until good people start to be intentional about putting the like-minds in the system,” he said.

    Why PDP?

    He said his choice of PDP was informed by the fact that the party’s ideology on democracy aligns with what he stands for.

    Mr Wellington said he was not coming to defend “everything bad” that the PDP-led governments may have done in the past but “I am here to reform it. I am here to build the bridge into mainstream politics, starting from Lagos and Eti-Osa.”

    Wrestling power from APC

    Eti-Osa, like other constituencies in Lagos State, is a stronghold of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

    Mr Wellington expressed confidence that he would displace the APC in the constituency in 2023.

    He said the APC had been winning elections in the constituency because of political apathy on the part of many voters, saying the recent interest of Nigerians in the forthcoming elections will reverse the trend.

    He lauded the enactment of the 2022 Electoral Act, which he said legalised the use of technology and ushered electronic voting in the country.

    He said the law would frustrate possible attempts to rig the 2023 poll.

    “The fact that the Electoral Act was passed has done amazing things for our democracy because now this election will be won or lost at each individual polling unit. No one can go into a room somewhere in a collation centre and thumbprint hundreds of ballots for their candidates. Now, you actually have to win the votes.

    “By the law, the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System has to accredit that you are who you are and that this (PVC) card belongs to you. And that you are legally allowed to vote at this polling unit. Also, the result from that polling unit cannot be different from what the system accredited. Because no more manual accreditation and the results are transmitted electronically to INEC server,” the PDP candidate said.

    Source:myjoyonline.com