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As the results of Saturday’s presidential elections trickle in, what’s certain from the pattern of voting based on the results declared or published so far is, whoever secures the victory is moving to Aso Villa aware of the power of the people and that it’s no longer business as usual. Even though some of the […]
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As the results of Saturday’s presidential elections trickle in, what’s certain from the pattern of voting based on the results declared or published so far is, whoever secures the victory is moving to Aso Villa aware of the power of the people and that it’s no longer business as usual. Even though some of the opposition parties are contesting the electoral process, with Dino Melaye vying to be the year’s catalyst akin to Peter Godsday Orubebe’s collocation centre spectacle in 2015, the “third-force” parties, particularly the Labour Party, achieving seemingly insurmountable victories, were not foreseen by the incumbent party’s prognostications.

I was one of the sceptics dazzled by the performance of Labour Party’s flag-bearer, Peter Obi, because, even in my most patronising predictions, I never envisaged their electoral conquests to capture Bola Tinubu’s Lagos State, along with Plateau and Nasarawa states, the home states of the All Progressives Congress Chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, and the Director-General of APC’s Presidential Campaign Council, Governor Simon Lalong, respectively. 

Notably, even President Muhammadu Buhari’s home state succumbed to the sway of the Peoples Democratic Party’s Atiku Abubakar, along with Governor Nasir El-Rufai’s Kaduna, despite a robust campaign and assurances to secure their support for the APC.

Regrettably, the voting trend that emerged is not a cause for jubilation. It is the result of a distressing impulse to align with and cater to our primal affiliations, and the incoming government will need ample time to begin the healing process for our gravely battered nation.

When Atiku emerged as PDP’s flag-bearer in a closely-contested primaries, after the party claimed it wasn’t bound by the APC-type rotational arrangement, nigeria’s political chessboard became a chaos. However, the APC was at risk of an imposition if it flirted with the idea of another Northern Muslim candidate after Buhari’s eight-year term. Among the contenders, Tinubu stood out as he possessed three key attributes – political pedigree, financial might, and Muslim background – that matched those of Atiku. Both politicians, ironically, were also disadvantaged in their bid for the presidency. Atiku was perceived as seeking to replace a fellow Muslim and northerner, while Tinubu had to persuade the Christian electorate to support his Muslim-Muslim ticket.

Peter Obi’s popularity, thus, was propelled by this predicament that both Atiku and Tinubu faced. His candidacy, beyond the partisan and intellectual analyses of where he ranks against the others, doused the concerns of the electorate who felt marginalised by the choices fielded by the nation’s two largest political parties. What was mocked as a dance for his southeast stronghold instantly became a widespread campaign to replace the APC and the PDP. While the sentiment that propelled Obi’s candidacy is rooted in a legitimate grievance, it’s worth noting that politics is not a theatre for moral contortionism.

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Don’t Use NLC’s Platform, Funds To Pursue Your 2027 Ambition – Abure Knocks Ajaero

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Lifestyle Nigeria gathered that National Chairman of Labour Party, LP, Comrade Julius Abure, has told the President of the nigeria Labour Congress, Comrade Joe Ajaero not to use the platform, funds and resources of the NLC to pursue his ambition of either becoming the president of the country in 2027 or governor of Imo State.

Abure stated this at Asaba, Delta State on Wednesday while reacting to the shutting down of the Labour Party’s National Headquarters by protesting members of the NLC who demanded for his immediate removal as National Chairman of the party.

He said the “picketing” of the party’s office was politically motivated, describing it as a show of rascality and abuse of office and the laws of the land.

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Why I Withdrew From Ondo Guber Race — Eyitayo Jegede

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Lifestyle Nigeria gathered that the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ondo state in 2020, Chief Eyitayo Jegede, on Thursday, said he withdrew from the 2024 governorship race to give room for unity and ensure victory for the party in the forthcoming governorship election.

Jegede who noted that disunity has not allowed any candidate from that party to win the governorship race in the state, said he chose to sacrifice his ambition for the development of the party.

This is just as a group within the party, PDP Crusader, hailed the decision of Jegede to step aside in the forthcoming governorship election in the state in order to build a strong and united party that can send the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) packing in the state.

The Coordinator of the PDP Crusader, Hon Mayokun Akinmoladun, said the group was ready to follow and support Jegede in any decision he took on the party’s primary and the November 16 governorship election.

Akinmoladun said the most important thing to the party is to come together and rescue the state, noting that the party was not being run the way it was supposed to be.

He said the party may go into extinction if care is not taken, and commended Jegede for financing the party since it lost the governorship seat some eight years ago.

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El-Rufai Visits SDP Office Amid Rumour Of Defection (Update)

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Lifestyle Nigeria gathered that Ahead of the 2027 general elections, former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El- Rufai on Wednesday visited the Abuja National Secretariat of the Social Democratic Party, SDP.

A source said El-Rufai paid a consultation visit to the National Chairman of the party, Alhaji Shehu Musa Gabam.

The former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja, is a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC.

He was nominated for a ministerial position in President Bola Tinubu’s administration but was not confirmed by the Senate.

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