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Lula da Silva extends lead over Jair Bolsonaro 10 days from Brazil vote

Just 10 days before elections, Brazilian ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva extended his lead over incumbent Jair Bolsonaro, according to polling released Thursday, inching closer to the 50 percent of votes needed to avoid a runoff.

Lula climbed two percentage points from the prior week — now polling at 47 percent, up from 45. Bolsonaro, meanwhile, remained at 33 percent both weeks, according to the latest poll from the Datafolha institute.

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If Lula gathers 50 percent of the vote (not including blank or null ballots) he will be able to call victory in the October 2 first round.

The survey’s margin of error is plus or minus two percentage points and analysts continue to predict a second vote as the most likely outcome.

Nonetheless in recent days “an environment favorable to a victory in the first political round has arisen,” Adriano Laureno, a political analyst at Prospectiva consulting firm told AFP.

The two candidates are running in Brazil’s most polarized presidential race in decades: Lula, a leftist who led the country from 2003 to 2010, is popular but tarnished by a corruption scandal, while the tactics of far-right Bolsonaro have earned the current president the nickname “Tropical Trump.”

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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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