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PRESS RELEASE: INEC MUST RESPECT COURT JUDGEMENTS ON LABOUR PARTY (LP) LEADERSHIP

PRESS RELEASE: INEC MUST RESPECT COURT JUDGEMENTS ON LABOUR PARTY (LP) LEADERSHIP


The Labour Party has noted, with deep concern, reports that the erstwhile National Chairman of the Party, Barr. Julius Abure, attended the quarterly consultative meeting between the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and leaders of political parties held on Tuesday, 14th October 2025.


While this brazen act of impersonation may appear comical to some, it is, in truth, a tragic reflection of the extent to which certain elements within INEC are willing to compromise the integrity of the Commission by lending themselves to such ignoble conduct in utter defiance of valid and subsisting court judgements, including that of the Supreme Court of Nigeria.


For the avoidance of doubt, on 4th April 2025, the Supreme Court of Nigeria, in Appeal No. SC/CV/56/2025, delivered a unanimous landmark judgement unequivocally declaring that Barr. Julius Abure was no longer the National Chairman of the Labour Party. This pronouncement was further reinforced by the Federal High Court, Abuja, in Suit No. FHC/ABJ/CS/1523/2025, delivered on 15th August 2025, which expressly rejected Julius Abure's prayers based on the earlier judgement of the apex court that held that he was no longer the national chairman of the Labour Party.


It is instructive to note that in the said latter suit, INEC itself deposed to a counter affidavit dated 13th August 2025, affirming under oath that Julius Abure was no longer the National Chairman of the Labour Party.


Against this background, therefore, the Labour Party views the conduct of certain rogue elements within INEC who permitted Abure’s attendance at the meeting as not only reprehensible but also a deliberate affront to the authority of our courts. INEC cannot, in one breath, depose under oath that Abure is no longer chairman, and in another, accord him recognition. Such conduct amounts to contempt of court and a grave desecration of the sanctity of our judicial system, particularly the pronouncements of the Supreme Court.


Even the former INEC leadership, despite its alleged partisanship and meddlesomeness, demonstrated better respect for the rule of law. On 29th July 2024, INEC under Prof. Mahmood Yakubu ordered Barr. Julius Abure out of its consultative meeting with political party leaders, on the clear grounds that he was no longer the National Chairman of the Labour Party. That decision came even before the Supreme Court and Federal High Court judgements that have since laid the matter to rest.


The question, therefore, is: from where did the present actors within INEC derive the authority to override and overrule these court pronouncements and enable Abure’s participation in today’s meeting? This reckless display of impunity is unacceptable and must be condemned by all well-meaning Nigerians.


While the current INEC leadership may be transitional, it must remember that even a brief tenure can leave a lasting stain on history. Every action taken today will be judged tomorrow. Posterity records everything.


The Labour Party therefore calls on INEC to immediately enforce the valid judgements of our courts regarding the leadership of the Party. If the current leadership lacks the courage to uphold the rule of law, it should at least refrain from further tarnishing what remains of the Commission’s credibility before its eventual exit.


Signed:


Ken Eluma Asogwa

Senior Special Adviser, Media, to the Interim National Chairman, Labour Party, Senator Nenadi E. Usman.


14th October, 202


The Labour Party has noted, with deep concern, reports that the erstwhile National Chairman of the Party, Barr. Julius Abure, attended the quarterly consultative meeting between the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and leaders of political parties held on Tuesday, 14th October 2025.


While this brazen act of impersonation may appear comical to some, it is, in truth, a tragic reflection of the extent to which certain elements within INEC are willing to compromise the integrity of the Commission by lending themselves to such ignoble conduct in utter defiance of valid and subsisting court judgements, including that of the Supreme Court of Nigeria.


For the avoidance of doubt, on 4th April 2025, the Supreme Court of Nigeria, in Appeal No. SC/CV/56/2025, delivered a unanimous landmark judgement unequivocally declaring that Barr. Julius Abure was no longer the National Chairman of the Labour Party. This pronouncement was further reinforced by the Federal High Court, Abuja, in Suit No. FHC/ABJ/CS/1523/2025, delivered on 15th August 2025, which expressly rejected Julius Abure's prayers based on the earlier judgement of the apex court that held that he was no longer the national chairman of the Labour Party.


It is instructive to note that in the said latter suit, INEC itself deposed to a counter affidavit dated 13th August 2025, affirming under oath that Julius Abure was no longer the National Chairman of the Labour Party.


Against this background, therefore, the Labour Party views the conduct of certain rogue elements within INEC who permitted Abure’s attendance at the meeting as not only reprehensible but also a deliberate affront to the authority of our courts. INEC cannot, in one breath, depose under oath that Abure is no longer chairman, and in another, accord him recognition. Such conduct amounts to contempt of court and a grave desecration of the sanctity of our judicial system, particularly the pronouncements of the Supreme Court.


Even the former INEC leadership, despite its alleged partisanship and meddlesomeness, demonstrated better respect for the rule of law. On 29th July 2024, INEC under Prof. Mahmood Yakubu ordered Barr. Julius Abure out of its consultative meeting with political party leaders, on the clear grounds that he was no longer the National Chairman of the Labour Party. That decision came even before the Supreme Court and Federal High Court judgements that have since laid the matter to rest.


The question, therefore, is: from where did the present actors within INEC derive the authority to override and overrule these court pronouncements and enable Abure’s participation in today’s meeting? This reckless display of impunity is unacceptable and must be condemned by all well-meaning Nigerians.


While the current INEC leadership may be transitional, it must remember that even a brief tenure can leave a lasting stain on history. Every action taken today will be judged tomorrow. Posterity records everything.


The Labour Party therefore calls on INEC to immediately enforce the valid judgements of our courts regarding the leadership of the Party. If the current leadership lacks the courage to uphold the rule of law, it should at least refrain from further tarnishing what remains of the Commission’s credibility before its eventual exit.


Signed:


Ken Eluma Asogwa

Senior Special Adviser, Media, to the Interim National Chairman, Labour Party, Senator Nenadi E. Usman.


14th October, 202

FACT CHECK: Newly INEC Chair, Prof Joash Amupitan was a member of the legal team of Bola Tinubu & the APC in the presidential election petition of 2023

FACT CHECK: Newly INEC Chair, Prof Joash Amupitan was a member of the legal team of Bola Tinubu & the APC in the presidential election petition of 2023

 FACT CHECK : Was Prof. Joash Amupitan a member of the legal team of Bola Tinubu and the APC in the presidential election petition of 2023?


Yes, Prof. Joash Ojo Amupitan, SAN—a distinguished Nigerian legal scholar, professor of law at the University of Jos, and Senior Advocate of Nigeria—was part of the legal team representing President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2023 presidential election petition tribunal. The tribunal, presided over by the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC), heard challenges to Tinubu’s victory in the February 2023 general elections, primarily from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) led by Atiku Abubakar and the Labour Party (LP) led by Peter Obi.

Key Details of His Role

 

Amupitan 

• Position on the Team: Amupitan served as lead counsel for the APC and Tinubu during the proceedings. This role involved defending the election’s integrity against allegations of irregularities, non-compliance with electoral laws (e.g., the Electronic Transmission of Results or IReV system), voter suppression, and Tinubu’s eligibility under Section 137 of the 1999 Constitution.

 • Context of the Case: The APC’s defense, coordinated under lead counsel Chief Wole Olanipekun, SAN, argued that the petitioners failed to substantiate claims of widespread malpractice. Amupitan contributed to this strategy, focusing on legal precedents in electoral law, evidence admissibility, and procedural dismissals. The tribunal ultimately dismissed the petitions on September 6, 2023, upholding Tinubu’s victory in a unanimous 4-0 decision (with one justice recusing).

 • Team Composition: The APC assembled a formidable team of over 50 Senior Advocates, including Olanipekun, Lateef Fagbemi (SAN, now Attorney-General), and others like Gordy Uche (SAN) and Adeniyi Akintola (SAN). Amupitan’s expertise in corporate governance, evidence law, and electoral reforms aligned with the defense’s emphasis on dismissing petitions for lack of merit.

Evidence and Sources

This involvement has been corroborated in multiple reports, particularly amid recent scrutiny following Tinubu’s nomination of Amupitan as INEC Chairman in October 2025. Civil society groups, such as the Coalition of Civil Society Organizations in Nigeria (COCSON), highlighted his prior role as a potential conflict of interest, urging rejection of the nomination to preserve INEC’s neutrality. For instance:

 • COCSON explicitly noted Amupitan’s service as “lead counsel to the APC and President Tinubu during the 2023 Presidential Election Petition Tribunal,” arguing it could erode public trust in electoral impartiality.

Broader Implications

Amupitan’s participation underscores his deep engagement in high-stakes electoral litigation, drawing from his over 30 years of legal practice since being called to the Bar in 1988. However, his 2025 INEC nomination—approved by the Council of State on October 9, 2025, and pending Senate confirmation—has reignited debates on partisanship in public appointments. Tinubu described him as “apolitical and a man of integrity,” but critics point to this history as evidence of alignment with the APC.

This confirmation is based on contemporaneous 2023 reports and recent 2025 analyses of his career trajectory.

 FACT CHECK : Was Prof. Joash Amupitan a member of the legal team of Bola Tinubu and the APC in the presidential election petition of 2023?


Yes, Prof. Joash Ojo Amupitan, SAN—a distinguished Nigerian legal scholar, professor of law at the University of Jos, and Senior Advocate of Nigeria—was part of the legal team representing President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2023 presidential election petition tribunal. The tribunal, presided over by the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC), heard challenges to Tinubu’s victory in the February 2023 general elections, primarily from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) led by Atiku Abubakar and the Labour Party (LP) led by Peter Obi.

Key Details of His Role

 

Amupitan 

• Position on the Team: Amupitan served as lead counsel for the APC and Tinubu during the proceedings. This role involved defending the election’s integrity against allegations of irregularities, non-compliance with electoral laws (e.g., the Electronic Transmission of Results or IReV system), voter suppression, and Tinubu’s eligibility under Section 137 of the 1999 Constitution.

 • Context of the Case: The APC’s defense, coordinated under lead counsel Chief Wole Olanipekun, SAN, argued that the petitioners failed to substantiate claims of widespread malpractice. Amupitan contributed to this strategy, focusing on legal precedents in electoral law, evidence admissibility, and procedural dismissals. The tribunal ultimately dismissed the petitions on September 6, 2023, upholding Tinubu’s victory in a unanimous 4-0 decision (with one justice recusing).

 • Team Composition: The APC assembled a formidable team of over 50 Senior Advocates, including Olanipekun, Lateef Fagbemi (SAN, now Attorney-General), and others like Gordy Uche (SAN) and Adeniyi Akintola (SAN). Amupitan’s expertise in corporate governance, evidence law, and electoral reforms aligned with the defense’s emphasis on dismissing petitions for lack of merit.

Evidence and Sources

This involvement has been corroborated in multiple reports, particularly amid recent scrutiny following Tinubu’s nomination of Amupitan as INEC Chairman in October 2025. Civil society groups, such as the Coalition of Civil Society Organizations in Nigeria (COCSON), highlighted his prior role as a potential conflict of interest, urging rejection of the nomination to preserve INEC’s neutrality. For instance:

 • COCSON explicitly noted Amupitan’s service as “lead counsel to the APC and President Tinubu during the 2023 Presidential Election Petition Tribunal,” arguing it could erode public trust in electoral impartiality.

Broader Implications

Amupitan’s participation underscores his deep engagement in high-stakes electoral litigation, drawing from his over 30 years of legal practice since being called to the Bar in 1988. However, his 2025 INEC nomination—approved by the Council of State on October 9, 2025, and pending Senate confirmation—has reignited debates on partisanship in public appointments. Tinubu described him as “apolitical and a man of integrity,” but critics point to this history as evidence of alignment with the APC.

This confirmation is based on contemporaneous 2023 reports and recent 2025 analyses of his career trajectory.

2027: "National Council of State Confirms President Tinubu's Nomination, Professor Joash Ojo Amupitan, SAN As New INEC National Chairman

2027: "National Council of State Confirms President Tinubu's Nomination, Professor Joash Ojo Amupitan, SAN As New INEC National Chairman

COMPLAINT FROM LABOUR PARTY (LP) TO THE NEW INEC NATIONAL CHAIRMAN, PROF AMUPITAN

Amupitan


1. The National Council of State has approved the nomination of Professor Joash Ojo Amupitan (SAN) from the North-Central Geo-Political Zone of Nigeria as the new National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).


2. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR presented Amupitan as the nominee to fill the vacant position, following Professor Mahmood Yakubu's exit. Yakubu served from 2015 till October 2025.


3. President Tinubu told the council that Amupitan is the first person from Kogi, North - Central Geo-Political Zone, nominated to occupy the position and he is apolitical. 


4. The Council members unanimously supported the nomination, while Governor Ahmed Usman Ododo of Kogi State described  Amupitan as a man of integrity. 


5. In compliance with the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 as amended, President Tinubu will now send Amupitan’s name to the Senate for screening and confirmation.


6. Amupitan, who was born on April 25, 1967 is 58 years old and hails from Ayetoro Gbede, Ijumu LGA  in Kogi State. After completing primary and secondary education, he attended Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin, from 1982 to 1984, and the University of Jos from 1984 to 1987. He was called to the bar in 1988.


7. Amupitan is a Professor of Law at the University of Jos, Plateau State. He is also an alumnus of the university. He specialises in Company Law, Law of Evidence, Corporate Governance and Privatisation Law. He became a Senior Advocate of Nigeria in September 2014.


8. He earned an LLM at UNIJOS in 1993 and a PhD in 2007, amid an academic career that began in 1989, following his National Youth Service at the Bauchi State Publishing Corporation in Bauchi from 1988 to 1989.


9. Currently, he serves as the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Administration) at the University of Jos, a position he holds in conjunction with being the Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of the Governing Council of Joseph Ayo Babalola University in Osun State.


10. Among the academic positions he has held at UNIJOS are: Chairman of the Committee of Deans and Directors (2012-2014); Dean of the Faculty of Law (2008-2014); and Head of Public Law (2006-2008).


11. Outside of academics, Amupitan serves as a board member of Integrated Dairies Limited in Vom, a member of the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Governing Council, and a member of the Council of Legal Education (2008-2014), among other roles. He was a board member of Riss Oil Limited, Abuja(1996-2004).


12. Amupitan is the author of many books on law, such as Corporate Governance: Models and Principles(2008); Documentary Evidence in Nigeria (2008); Evidence Law: Theory and Practice in Nigeria(2013), Principles of Company Law(2013)  and an Introduction to the Law of Trust in Nigeria (2014).


13. He is married and has four children.


Bayo Onanuga

Special Adviser to the President

(Information and Strategy)"

Thursday 9th October, 2025


*COMPLAINT FROM LABOUR PARTY (LP) TO THE NEW INEC NATIONAL CHAIRMAN, PROF AMUPITAN*


1. It is hoped that professor Amupitan's arrival shall herald the much needed transparency and integrity with accountability in the Nation's electoral processes to engender free, fair and credible elections especially in 2027 were every vote is expected to count.


2. Permit me to bring to the attention of the new INEC national chairman, the case of Labour Party (LP) pending INEC's uploading in its portal the names of Senator Nenadi Usman as National Chairman and Senator Darlington Nwokocha as National Secretary.


3. The pending removal of the names of Julius Abure and Umar Farouk Ibrahim from the INEC portal put their by a court order after the 8th October 2024 FCT High Court Judgement now voided, is long overdue, and owing to the fact that the Supreme Court in its landmark judgement on 4th April 2025 was meritorious in favour of the Appellants: Senator Nenadi Usman and Senator Darlington.


4. Suffice it to say that the Supreme Court Judgement of 4th April 2025 sacked Julius Abure and Umar Farouk Ibrahim as National Chairman and Secretary and dismissed the FCT High Court Judgement of 8th October 2024 and Appeal Court Judgement of 17th January 2025 that recognized Julius Abure as National Chairman for lack of Jurisdiction and sequel to the expiration of their tenure on 8th June 2024.


5. Furthermore, the Federal High Court Judgement of 15th August 2025 affirmed the INEC's Counter Affidavit Suit that voided the illegal and unlawful national convention "gathering" which took place in Nnewi Anambra State on 27th March 2024 conducted by Julius Abure and his co-conspirators.


6. The premise for the nullification of their purported national convention was predicated on the non conduct of Congresses and Delegates Election in violation of the provisions of the party's constitution 2019 as amended and the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 as amended and the electoral Act 2002. 


CONGRATULATIONS Professor Joash Ojo Amupitan, 

COMPLAINT FROM LABOUR PARTY (LP) TO THE NEW INEC NATIONAL CHAIRMAN, PROF AMUPITAN

Amupitan


1. The National Council of State has approved the nomination of Professor Joash Ojo Amupitan (SAN) from the North-Central Geo-Political Zone of Nigeria as the new National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).


2. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR presented Amupitan as the nominee to fill the vacant position, following Professor Mahmood Yakubu's exit. Yakubu served from 2015 till October 2025.


3. President Tinubu told the council that Amupitan is the first person from Kogi, North - Central Geo-Political Zone, nominated to occupy the position and he is apolitical. 


4. The Council members unanimously supported the nomination, while Governor Ahmed Usman Ododo of Kogi State described  Amupitan as a man of integrity. 


5. In compliance with the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 as amended, President Tinubu will now send Amupitan’s name to the Senate for screening and confirmation.


6. Amupitan, who was born on April 25, 1967 is 58 years old and hails from Ayetoro Gbede, Ijumu LGA  in Kogi State. After completing primary and secondary education, he attended Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin, from 1982 to 1984, and the University of Jos from 1984 to 1987. He was called to the bar in 1988.


7. Amupitan is a Professor of Law at the University of Jos, Plateau State. He is also an alumnus of the university. He specialises in Company Law, Law of Evidence, Corporate Governance and Privatisation Law. He became a Senior Advocate of Nigeria in September 2014.


8. He earned an LLM at UNIJOS in 1993 and a PhD in 2007, amid an academic career that began in 1989, following his National Youth Service at the Bauchi State Publishing Corporation in Bauchi from 1988 to 1989.


9. Currently, he serves as the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Administration) at the University of Jos, a position he holds in conjunction with being the Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of the Governing Council of Joseph Ayo Babalola University in Osun State.


10. Among the academic positions he has held at UNIJOS are: Chairman of the Committee of Deans and Directors (2012-2014); Dean of the Faculty of Law (2008-2014); and Head of Public Law (2006-2008).


11. Outside of academics, Amupitan serves as a board member of Integrated Dairies Limited in Vom, a member of the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Governing Council, and a member of the Council of Legal Education (2008-2014), among other roles. He was a board member of Riss Oil Limited, Abuja(1996-2004).


12. Amupitan is the author of many books on law, such as Corporate Governance: Models and Principles(2008); Documentary Evidence in Nigeria (2008); Evidence Law: Theory and Practice in Nigeria(2013), Principles of Company Law(2013)  and an Introduction to the Law of Trust in Nigeria (2014).


13. He is married and has four children.


Bayo Onanuga

Special Adviser to the President

(Information and Strategy)"

Thursday 9th October, 2025


*COMPLAINT FROM LABOUR PARTY (LP) TO THE NEW INEC NATIONAL CHAIRMAN, PROF AMUPITAN*


1. It is hoped that professor Amupitan's arrival shall herald the much needed transparency and integrity with accountability in the Nation's electoral processes to engender free, fair and credible elections especially in 2027 were every vote is expected to count.


2. Permit me to bring to the attention of the new INEC national chairman, the case of Labour Party (LP) pending INEC's uploading in its portal the names of Senator Nenadi Usman as National Chairman and Senator Darlington Nwokocha as National Secretary.


3. The pending removal of the names of Julius Abure and Umar Farouk Ibrahim from the INEC portal put their by a court order after the 8th October 2024 FCT High Court Judgement now voided, is long overdue, and owing to the fact that the Supreme Court in its landmark judgement on 4th April 2025 was meritorious in favour of the Appellants: Senator Nenadi Usman and Senator Darlington.


4. Suffice it to say that the Supreme Court Judgement of 4th April 2025 sacked Julius Abure and Umar Farouk Ibrahim as National Chairman and Secretary and dismissed the FCT High Court Judgement of 8th October 2024 and Appeal Court Judgement of 17th January 2025 that recognized Julius Abure as National Chairman for lack of Jurisdiction and sequel to the expiration of their tenure on 8th June 2024.


5. Furthermore, the Federal High Court Judgement of 15th August 2025 affirmed the INEC's Counter Affidavit Suit that voided the illegal and unlawful national convention "gathering" which took place in Nnewi Anambra State on 27th March 2024 conducted by Julius Abure and his co-conspirators.


6. The premise for the nullification of their purported national convention was predicated on the non conduct of Congresses and Delegates Election in violation of the provisions of the party's constitution 2019 as amended and the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 as amended and the electoral Act 2002. 


CONGRATULATIONS Professor Joash Ojo Amupitan, 

Gruesome killings in Kogi, Kwara states: leadership must be about protecting lives and property, says Peter Obi

Gruesome killings in Kogi, Kwara states: leadership must be about protecting lives and property, says Peter Obi

Peter Obi 

Following the daily increasing bandits attacks and gruesome murder of the Nigerians in different parts of the country, the Labour Party presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections H. E. Peter Obi has said the country's leadership must strive to protect lives and properties in the different parts of the country.


There is no doubt that under the APC leadership and administration of the country since 2015 till date, the country has fair worst than ever. Lives have become short and brutish. The leadership are only concerned about looting and plundering the land's mineral resources illegally without minding who died and who survived.


Peter Obi said: "I am deeply disturbed by the tragic reports of yet another senseless attack in Kogi State’s Yagba West Local Government Area, where over 27 innocent Nigerians were killed by armed bandits. The images are heartbreaking. My thoughts and prayers are with the victims, their families, and the entire people of Kogi State."


"This comes as reports from neighbouring Kwara state say that nine out of 16 LGs in Kwara state are under bandits’ siege, whoW now demand food and drinks as ransom. The nine LGs in the bandit control include Baruten, Edu, Ekiti, Ifelodun, Isin, Kaiama, Oke-Ero, Patigi, and Irepodun.'


"The security situation is now a national emergency. It is deeply troubling that insecurity has become a normal occurrence in our nation, where our citizens die daily more than in countries at war. This is not normal."


"Our citizens cannot sleep in their own homes in peace, our farmers are being driven away from their lands by bandits, our children are living in fear of being attacked, and our nation continues to bleed. Leadership must be about protecting lives and property, the most basic duty of any government."


"May God grant eternal rest to the victims, comfort to their grieving families, and give wisdom and courage to our leaders to protect every Nigerian life." PO concluded.

Peter Obi 

Following the daily increasing bandits attacks and gruesome murder of the Nigerians in different parts of the country, the Labour Party presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections H. E. Peter Obi has said the country's leadership must strive to protect lives and properties in the different parts of the country.


There is no doubt that under the APC leadership and administration of the country since 2015 till date, the country has fair worst than ever. Lives have become short and brutish. The leadership are only concerned about looting and plundering the land's mineral resources illegally without minding who died and who survived.


Peter Obi said: "I am deeply disturbed by the tragic reports of yet another senseless attack in Kogi State’s Yagba West Local Government Area, where over 27 innocent Nigerians were killed by armed bandits. The images are heartbreaking. My thoughts and prayers are with the victims, their families, and the entire people of Kogi State."


"This comes as reports from neighbouring Kwara state say that nine out of 16 LGs in Kwara state are under bandits’ siege, whoW now demand food and drinks as ransom. The nine LGs in the bandit control include Baruten, Edu, Ekiti, Ifelodun, Isin, Kaiama, Oke-Ero, Patigi, and Irepodun.'


"The security situation is now a national emergency. It is deeply troubling that insecurity has become a normal occurrence in our nation, where our citizens die daily more than in countries at war. This is not normal."


"Our citizens cannot sleep in their own homes in peace, our farmers are being driven away from their lands by bandits, our children are living in fear of being attacked, and our nation continues to bleed. Leadership must be about protecting lives and property, the most basic duty of any government."


"May God grant eternal rest to the victims, comfort to their grieving families, and give wisdom and courage to our leaders to protect every Nigerian life." PO concluded.

RAW DETAILS: SDMA, ADC Coalition Stakeholders & Civil Societies Alliance Unveil "AGOBI '27

RAW DETAILS: SDMA, ADC Coalition Stakeholders & Civil Societies Alliance Unveil "AGOBI '27


The AGOBI 2027 Campaign

Press Statement in Ful


POINT-BLANK:


"Atiku and Peter Obi contesting the Presidency from separate political parties against each other and Tinubu in 2027 will be giving Tinubu a free, guaranteed ride to second term."


"After Buhari's punishing woeful years, survey shows that voters and election influencers in majority geopolitical zones (South-West, South-East, South-South, North Central and Middle Belt states) will boycott another Presidential candidate from Buhari's Hausa-Fulani stock and rather vote for Tinubu as a bitter, unpleasant but better alternative in territorial consolation...


"Should His Excellency Atiku Abubakar ignore the patriotic AGOBI entreaty before him, his labours and that of the ADC to win the Presidency in 2027 will go down the drain. If PO fails to make good the AGOBI roadmap with Atiku, as with Atiku so shall it be with Peter Obi; for the second backbreaking time, all his labours and the Obidients of Nigeria will also flush down the drain. King of African wolves, Tinubu's known and hidden aces will defeat the opposition's 2027 bid to end his rule, ending their efforts in pains, scorn, irredeemable regrets and staggering funding losses wasted in a blind, futile election project that will be like building a skyscraper with ashes. Only an extraordinary act of God, not man, could dent this coming reality.


"On the other hand, while Tinubu could easily defeat both Atiku and Peter Obi contesting the Presidency on separate ballots by rigging federal machineries and institutions against their divided votes, a hundred Tinubus with a hundred-fold of all the structures and institutions at his command cannot return to office in 2027 if Atiku gives PO his blessings to run as Presidential choice of ADC and Labour Party coalition. Because that lethal combination will be the real Nigerian People's indomitable Peru coalition."


"This brings to the table the most important question anyone will ever ask Atiku in his entire lifetime. Which of these, Sir, do you wish to be remembered for by posterity? The man who sacrificed his ambition to liberate Nigeria or who sacrificed Nigeria for his ambition yet never got it?


"Dear Atiku, this question will be asked again and again at your final resting place and in many years of history after you have returned to your Maker. The best and only time to give it a noble legacy guaranteeing answer is now. May Allah bless you with a heart that listens to His commands rather than the misleading counsels of self-serving unpatriotically ambitious aides."


AGOBI 2027 CAMPAIGN

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Fellow citizens of the 

Federal Republic of Nigeria,


Prince Tony 

In 2027, about 230million Nigerians will have another opportunity to break the chains of ruthless, rudderless and and remorseless misrule and tyranny in our nation by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).


If the right decisions are taken by stakeholders of our country's opposition political parties and electorates, we shall achieve the urgent objective of emancipating our country through the ballot in 2027. 


If, however, leaders of the progressive opposition missed presidential victory in 2027 through wrong decisions, the consequences shall be dire for our country in countless ways.


One of these is that they shall detain again the destiny of 230million Nigerians and their prospects of boundless progress and prosperity in liberty for another four years or much more, chained in the agonies of unprecedented economic hardship, relentless locust havoc, untamed borrowings and foreign debt stockpile, wastage and corruption, insecurity of lives and properties and multi-dimensional destruction of the concept of governance in our common fatherland.


Fortunately, today Nigeria is blessed with two gigantic and outstanding political opposition figures, each one eminently qualified to preside over our country as President and recover our nation to the path of greatness beginning from 2027. These are His Excellency Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, now of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), and His Excellency Peter Obi, currently of the Labour Party.


Unfortunately, however, incontestable intelligence and outcomes of many months' study commissioned by the steering committee of the AGOBI '27 campaign project have unveiled two barricading truths against the hope of either Atiku or Peter Obi winning Nigeria's Presidential election in 2027, if the wrong decisions are taken by one or both leaders. The second truth is that the ruling APC has strategically, scientifically and comprehensively put in place practically insurmountable obstacles designed to prevent free and fair elections through which either His Excellency Atiku or His Excellency Peter Obi, contesting against each other from different political party ballots against Tinubu on the APC ballot, should ever hope to emerge victorious in the 2027 Presidential race.


For brevity, the following are a few of 25 airtight barricades revealed by our research that will abort either Atiku or Peter Obi winning the 2027 presidential election if they make the fatal, historically regrettable and irredeemable mistake of contesting the 2027 presidential election on the platforms of two separate or competing political parties.


*1.  INEC Cancellation of Physical Permanent Voters Card (PVC), Replacement with Computer Generated Voter's Slip for 2027 Elections*


This masterstroke of electoral fraud ingenuity by President Tinubu and his APC is designed to abolish and replace physical identification and verification of voters on polling day.


In place of BIVAS tablets verifying the physical presence and ballot qualification of a voter on the voting line - while Atiku, Peter Obi and other presidential candidates shall be burning trillions of hard-earned naira campaigning and exhausting themselves supplying logistics needs of their party structures nationwide - President Tinubu's APC shall simply quarantine a body of invisible, inaccessible, security fortified and oath-sworn computer wizkids in air-conditioned strongrooms of INEC's national headquarters and state electoral commission offices nationwide. 


Sitting at ease working with just their fingers without breaking a sweat, they would generate computer concocted wide victory margins in targeted states of the federation as Nigeria's voters database. These will be used to return Tinubu, all APC candidates nationwide, including those who defected in the last minute from other political parties to the APC to serve and "stand on Tinubu's mandate" instead of that of their fatherland and oaths of office. 


The fraud being described here will play out precisely as INEC's outgoing chairman, Prof. Yakubu Mahmood, audaciously accomplished in generating, unchallenged till date, purported new voters registered in Osun state, the home state of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. 


It is important for you to recall that in Osun, a state with a population of *4.6million* citizens, Tinubu's INEC recorded *393,269* as the number of newly registered voters in just one week of commencing the nationwide exercise which began on August 18. On the contrary, in the entire five South-East states which have a combined population of more than *36million* citizens, a paltry *1,998* new voters were recorded by Tinubu's INEC under chairman, Yakubu Mahmood. This implies that Osun state with a population of 4.6million citizens shall have new voters 196 times more than the entire five states of South-East which has a combined population of 36million-plus citizens. 


The same olympian margins have been silently concocted for Lagos state and other parts of the country which President Tinubu has earmarked for 2027 landslide victory, all of these monumental phantom data frauds yet to be challenged in court by the sleepy opposition leaders of Nigeria.


*2.  Armed Security Lockdown* 


On Presidential election day, which is also now ignorantly celebrated as the same day for all other elective offices nationwide, Nigeria shall be locked down from border to border as if in a state of civil war. Weeks before the elections and after, all INEC results announcement offices at state and its national headquarters in Abuja shall be garrisoned with massive, heavily armed military and para-military forces and anti-riot armoured tanks against access by opposition party officials, reporters of uncooperative media houses, election observers and independent inquirers, making INEC offices nationwide look more like army barracks than an election dispensing civil agency. This military lockdown will be justified with the unfailing reference of "security threat reports" concocted by government itself and used to maximize movement restrictions against opposition political parties, their tactically isolated and disbanded supporters under the "no movement" manual that is conventionally enforced on election day. 


Nigerians will recall that President Tinubu performed the groundbreaking ceremony of a new INEC headquarters on June 17, 2025 after approval of the project by the Federal Executive Council. The presidential election fraud project above referred is at the heart of the new INEC headquarters edifice. Besides a 1,000-seat auditorium and shaded, Fort Knox fortified IT floors with conduit cameras, it shall have several cryptic exclusive "keep-off" zones, including a museum, underground basement and detention cells which are special components of its design. Accordingly, the new INEC national headquarters, which FCT sheriff Nyesom Wike promised shall be "completed *before* 2027," is not a patriotic administrative initiative but mainly an election rigging facility for the 2027 elections.


Under the inevitable outcome of the above scenario, Tinubu and his mandate decampees will be returned massively back to office unless their ongoing schemes are challenged, defeated before time and the two frontline opposition leaders of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi make the right compromise on their presidential ticket standing. 


*3.  Rigging Funding Treasury Guaranteed for APC Elected Politicians, Decampees* 


Bola Ahmed Tinubu actually began the campaign for his second term election on the very first day of his first term when he was sworn in at Eagles Square. The first statement of his 2027 re-election campaign that day was when he declared with Caesar swagger, "Subsidy is gone!"  


Since then, through fuel subsidy removal and historical multiple stream tax regimes, the Tinubu administration has amassed and equipped sitting governors, national and state Houses of Assembly lawmakers, local government council chairmen and those decamping in droves from other political parties to his APC with astronomical treasuries they never dreamed of possible in their lifetime. That is why his APC now has and controls 72 Senators in the upper parliament out of 109 from its original 59 members, and 207 House of Rep members from an original 176 members. The tally will jerk up from more cross-carpeting by unpatriotic stomach infrastructure decampees close to the 2027 general elections.


Tinubu's far-seeing core objective of his subsidy removal largesse to the states and political office holders nationwide was not mere presidential obligation or development magnanimity but calculated from inception to lure as many nomad monkeys of the other political parties as possible into his APC camp. This is to ensure that every inch of soil in their various states and constituencies is either won or "snatched" for APC victory and Tinubu's second term return by empowering them with funds beyond their wildest imagination.


*4.  A Nation's Betrayal Triangle, Nigeria Police, Military and Judiciary* 


Towards assured second term return of President Tinubu while holding down progress and modern advancement of the Nigerian people in step with the rest of the world, police, military and para-military brass of all armed forces of Nigeria shall be bride-fattened with unheard-of benefits in budgets running to trillions of naira outside legal statutory provisions. 


For the judiciary, funds have already been mobilized for dazzling mansions comprising 40 housing units in a new judges' estate to be built in Katampe district of the FCT. They shall be furnished, dedicated as FCT judges' piece of paradise and handed over to the judges before the 2027 elections, and they are not hiding it. 


Tinubu's 40 castles of paradise comprise 20 units for FCT High Court judges, 10 for Federal High Court judges and 10 for Appeal Court justices. Needless to state, it is from these tiers of the Nigerian judiciary that critical federal election tribunals of 2027 shall be constituted. On September 23, 2024 FCT emperor Nyesom Wike promised on behalf of Tinubu that these mansions will be completed before 2027.


The mansions will come with high-tech security apparatus, including multi-trillion naira street cameras and drones to separate and protect FCT judges and their families from the tormenting plague of daily insecurity, poverty induced crime rampage which afflict ordinary Nigerians and war-zone massacres rampant in our country. 


As you read this, don't forget that Nigerians are not expected to think, having lost their right to do so a long time ago. So, do not think that this "New Hope Agenda" infrastructure breakthrough for judges of our country is a corruption project to help ease Tinubu and his APC administration's return to office in 2027. Just simply understand that a rent-free tenant does not tell his landlord to sweep compound or "fall out" from his own house.


Also don't forget to remember that Nigeria's elite judges have been homeless IDPs living under bridges all these years and desperately need this uplifting by Jagaban, the Aso Villa Knight of Valour, into human homes at last.


With Herodian swag, President Tinubu personally declared on September 2, 2025 that his administration had met its revenue target for the 2025 budget year as early as August, more than a clear quarter before the end of the budget year. Sourcing the funds for the judges wonder project and similar ones towards his assured second-term rebound shall not be a challenge to his APC administration. 


With 2027 second-term election as their principal priority instead of governance, in 2027 there shall be more than enough funds for all election victory or rigging schemes and logistics. These include budgets for APC's nationwide network of onshore and offshore election day ballot thugs, violence and mayhem recruitment as experienced in 2023. Only in 2027, their rampage against free and fair elections shall be far more savage unless the opposition led by His Excellency Atiku Abubakar, Mr. Peter Obi and others come together for sincere and selfless, masses sensitive compromise and throw their combined weights and resources behind the campaigns of pro-democracy bodies like SDMA, CUPP, Open Nigeria, NADECO USA, Upright Nigeria Foundation, GCPPI, New Nigeria Movers and Nigeria's Gen-Z army to completely overhaul and viscerally amend Nigeria's electoral laws. The top notch of that campaign is SDMA's call to remove the power of Mr. President and Governors to appoint INEC and judiciary officials at federal and state levels respectively, amongst others. A campaign that should be thoroughly  accomplished before the first sun of 2027 rises upon our country. 


*5.  A National Call to Atiku* 


After late Muhammadu Buhari's still recent, punishing woeful eight years of two harrowing under-achieving terms as President of Nigeria,  a survey of the electorates and pulse of Nigeria's political peer shows that voters and election influencers in majority geopolitical zones (South-West, South-East, South-South, North Central and Middle Belt states) will boycott another Presidential candidate from Buhari's Hausa-Fulani stock and rather vote for Tinubu as a bitter, unpleasant but better alternative in territorial consolation.

The voters in these large belts of our country have taken a fierce and resolute stance; the stance that rather than vote another Northern Hausa-Fulani candidate as President of Nigeria in 2027 and shortchange Southern Nigeria of a two-term tenure, they would put their vote and resources free to return Tinubu for a second term, even if it were the devil himself. 


We respectfully entreat Your Excellency Atiku Abubakar to commission an independent, incognito and dispassionate  survey of your own on this claim. Such survey will prove that our finding is true to the hilt.


Knowing, therefore, the inevitable consequences of Your Excellency going forward to contest the Presidency in 2027, given the other four study outcomes above and others which space will not permit, we of this committee, on behalf of the majority of 230million Nigerians, appeal to Your Excellency's sense of duty, legacy, patriotism and submission to the will of Almighty Allah to save Nigeria from the plunge to infinite social-economic and insecurity calamities which our country will continue to suffer under the one party state tyranny that the present APC administration has determined to plunge our country into if stakeholders fail to demonstrate foresight, cooperation and compromise and make the APC to retain power beyond 2027.


Our entreaty to Your Excellency is that earnestly considering the above circumstances, you would appreciate that the only pathway forward is to magnanimously step into the shoes of a statesman, accept the mantle of modern day Father of the Nigerian nation, lead nationalist and liberator of our century. This you would do for our country by giving your blessing, putting your weight, structures, goodwill and institutions behind the man Peter Obi to run as the Presidential candidate of the opposition on your behalf and that of all Nigerians against the APC behemoth in 2027. 


We assure Your Excellency that if the circumstances were reversed and Peter Obi were in your shoes, we would have requested exactly the same concession and sacrifices of him for you.


*The AGOBI Rally Call*


Fellow countrymen, after nearly one year of study, surveys and consultations across the six geopolitical zones and having the foregoing in view, our alliance has put together and hereby unveils Nigeria's now foremost political freedom project since Independence in 1960. This is the project we have named and hereby announce to you as "Atiku Givus Obi 2027" or AGOBI '27 for short. 


In the weeks and months to come, we will unveil a lineup of local and international activities of the AGOBI journey to 2027.


*Conclusion*


Atiku and Peter Obi contesting the Presidency from separate political parties against each other in 2027 will be giving Tinubu a free ride, guaranteed ride to second term.


Should His Excellency Atiku Abubakar and his advisers ignore the patriotic AGOBI entreaty before him, his labours and those of the ADC to win the Presidency in 2027 will go down the drain. This will come principally from a combination of two factors, amongst others. One is the formidable and unconscionable rigging ambush of Tinubu and his ruling APC. Two is massive swing votes by nearly all Southern Nigeria states for Bola Ahmed Tinubu as a sentimental alternative, bad as the recourse may be. 


As with Atiku, so shall it be with Peter Obi. If PO fails to make good the AGOBI roadmap with Atiku, as with Atiku so shall it be with Peter Obi; for the second backbreaking time, all the labours of Peter Obi and the Obidients of Nigeria will be flushed down the drain. King of African wolves, Tinubu's known and hidden aces will defeat the opposition's 2027 bid to end his rule, ending their efforts in pains, humiliation, irredeemable regrets and staggering funding losses wasted in a blind, futile election project that will be like building a skyscraper with ashes. Only an extraordinary act of God, not man, could dent this coming reality. 


On the other hand, while Tinubu could easily defeat both Atiku and Peter Obi contesting the Presidency on separate ballots by rigging federal machineries and institutions against their divided votes, a hundred Tinubus with a hundred-fold of all the structures and institutions at his command cannot return to office in 2027 if Atiku gives PO his blessings to run as Presidential choice of ADC and Labour Party coalition. Because that will be the real Nigerian People's indomitable Peru Coalition.


Without His Excellency Atiku embracing the AGOBI '27 proposition, the only winners will be the one person and party the overwhelming majority of Nigerians do not wish to retain power one day beyond 2027.


This brings to the table the most important question anyone will ever ask Atiku in his entire lifetime. Which of these, Sir, do you wish to be remembered for by posterity? The man who sacrificed his ambition to liberate Nigeria or who sacrificed Nigeria for his ambition yet never got it?


Time will tell and retell the AGOBI story, and this question will be asked again and again at your final resting place and in many years of history after you have returned to your Maker. The best and only time to give it a noble legacy guaranteeing answer is now.


To you we speak and write as men. But unto you Allah speaks as God. This hour He reminds you in His scriptures as follow:


_"Act justly, that is nearer to god-fearing..."  "Persistently standing firm in justice, even if it be against yourself." - Quran 5:8, Surah An-Nisa (4:135)._


May Allah bless you with a heart that listens to His commands rather than the misleading counsels of self-serving unpatriotically ambitious aides.


Ameen.



SIGNED:


*PRINCE TONY AKENI*

Save Democracy Mega Alliance (SDMA)

Steering Committee, South-South


*MALLAM KHALIL AHMED, RUFAI*

Upright Nigeria Foundation (UNF)

Steering Committee, North-West


*PRIMATE HENRY AMIKE*

Steering Committee

South-West


*HIGH CHIEF PETER O. AMEH*

National Secretary CUPP

Steering Committee


*ACG ALI WAKILI (RTD)*

NC-FRONT

Steering Committee, North-East


*HON. CHARLES DARLINGTON*

Good Citizens for Peace & Progress Initiative (GCPPI)

Youths Mobilization Committee


*DCN. COMRADE ABBAS ALAO*

Nigeria Cannot Continue Like This (NCC-LIT)

Steering Committee


*CHIEF OLOYE A. ADENIJI*

National Rescue Congress (NRC)

Steering Committee 


*PRINCE CHUKA R. NNOROM* 

Steering Committee, South-East


*BARR. ESMERALD BRIGHT-BAZUNU*

Legal Committee


The AGOBI 2027 Campaign

Press Statement in Ful


POINT-BLANK:


"Atiku and Peter Obi contesting the Presidency from separate political parties against each other and Tinubu in 2027 will be giving Tinubu a free, guaranteed ride to second term."


"After Buhari's punishing woeful years, survey shows that voters and election influencers in majority geopolitical zones (South-West, South-East, South-South, North Central and Middle Belt states) will boycott another Presidential candidate from Buhari's Hausa-Fulani stock and rather vote for Tinubu as a bitter, unpleasant but better alternative in territorial consolation...


"Should His Excellency Atiku Abubakar ignore the patriotic AGOBI entreaty before him, his labours and that of the ADC to win the Presidency in 2027 will go down the drain. If PO fails to make good the AGOBI roadmap with Atiku, as with Atiku so shall it be with Peter Obi; for the second backbreaking time, all his labours and the Obidients of Nigeria will also flush down the drain. King of African wolves, Tinubu's known and hidden aces will defeat the opposition's 2027 bid to end his rule, ending their efforts in pains, scorn, irredeemable regrets and staggering funding losses wasted in a blind, futile election project that will be like building a skyscraper with ashes. Only an extraordinary act of God, not man, could dent this coming reality.


"On the other hand, while Tinubu could easily defeat both Atiku and Peter Obi contesting the Presidency on separate ballots by rigging federal machineries and institutions against their divided votes, a hundred Tinubus with a hundred-fold of all the structures and institutions at his command cannot return to office in 2027 if Atiku gives PO his blessings to run as Presidential choice of ADC and Labour Party coalition. Because that lethal combination will be the real Nigerian People's indomitable Peru coalition."


"This brings to the table the most important question anyone will ever ask Atiku in his entire lifetime. Which of these, Sir, do you wish to be remembered for by posterity? The man who sacrificed his ambition to liberate Nigeria or who sacrificed Nigeria for his ambition yet never got it?


"Dear Atiku, this question will be asked again and again at your final resting place and in many years of history after you have returned to your Maker. The best and only time to give it a noble legacy guaranteeing answer is now. May Allah bless you with a heart that listens to His commands rather than the misleading counsels of self-serving unpatriotically ambitious aides."


AGOBI 2027 CAMPAIGN

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Fellow citizens of the 

Federal Republic of Nigeria,


Prince Tony 

In 2027, about 230million Nigerians will have another opportunity to break the chains of ruthless, rudderless and and remorseless misrule and tyranny in our nation by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).


If the right decisions are taken by stakeholders of our country's opposition political parties and electorates, we shall achieve the urgent objective of emancipating our country through the ballot in 2027. 


If, however, leaders of the progressive opposition missed presidential victory in 2027 through wrong decisions, the consequences shall be dire for our country in countless ways.


One of these is that they shall detain again the destiny of 230million Nigerians and their prospects of boundless progress and prosperity in liberty for another four years or much more, chained in the agonies of unprecedented economic hardship, relentless locust havoc, untamed borrowings and foreign debt stockpile, wastage and corruption, insecurity of lives and properties and multi-dimensional destruction of the concept of governance in our common fatherland.


Fortunately, today Nigeria is blessed with two gigantic and outstanding political opposition figures, each one eminently qualified to preside over our country as President and recover our nation to the path of greatness beginning from 2027. These are His Excellency Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, now of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), and His Excellency Peter Obi, currently of the Labour Party.


Unfortunately, however, incontestable intelligence and outcomes of many months' study commissioned by the steering committee of the AGOBI '27 campaign project have unveiled two barricading truths against the hope of either Atiku or Peter Obi winning Nigeria's Presidential election in 2027, if the wrong decisions are taken by one or both leaders. The second truth is that the ruling APC has strategically, scientifically and comprehensively put in place practically insurmountable obstacles designed to prevent free and fair elections through which either His Excellency Atiku or His Excellency Peter Obi, contesting against each other from different political party ballots against Tinubu on the APC ballot, should ever hope to emerge victorious in the 2027 Presidential race.


For brevity, the following are a few of 25 airtight barricades revealed by our research that will abort either Atiku or Peter Obi winning the 2027 presidential election if they make the fatal, historically regrettable and irredeemable mistake of contesting the 2027 presidential election on the platforms of two separate or competing political parties.


*1.  INEC Cancellation of Physical Permanent Voters Card (PVC), Replacement with Computer Generated Voter's Slip for 2027 Elections*


This masterstroke of electoral fraud ingenuity by President Tinubu and his APC is designed to abolish and replace physical identification and verification of voters on polling day.


In place of BIVAS tablets verifying the physical presence and ballot qualification of a voter on the voting line - while Atiku, Peter Obi and other presidential candidates shall be burning trillions of hard-earned naira campaigning and exhausting themselves supplying logistics needs of their party structures nationwide - President Tinubu's APC shall simply quarantine a body of invisible, inaccessible, security fortified and oath-sworn computer wizkids in air-conditioned strongrooms of INEC's national headquarters and state electoral commission offices nationwide. 


Sitting at ease working with just their fingers without breaking a sweat, they would generate computer concocted wide victory margins in targeted states of the federation as Nigeria's voters database. These will be used to return Tinubu, all APC candidates nationwide, including those who defected in the last minute from other political parties to the APC to serve and "stand on Tinubu's mandate" instead of that of their fatherland and oaths of office. 


The fraud being described here will play out precisely as INEC's outgoing chairman, Prof. Yakubu Mahmood, audaciously accomplished in generating, unchallenged till date, purported new voters registered in Osun state, the home state of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. 


It is important for you to recall that in Osun, a state with a population of *4.6million* citizens, Tinubu's INEC recorded *393,269* as the number of newly registered voters in just one week of commencing the nationwide exercise which began on August 18. On the contrary, in the entire five South-East states which have a combined population of more than *36million* citizens, a paltry *1,998* new voters were recorded by Tinubu's INEC under chairman, Yakubu Mahmood. This implies that Osun state with a population of 4.6million citizens shall have new voters 196 times more than the entire five states of South-East which has a combined population of 36million-plus citizens. 


The same olympian margins have been silently concocted for Lagos state and other parts of the country which President Tinubu has earmarked for 2027 landslide victory, all of these monumental phantom data frauds yet to be challenged in court by the sleepy opposition leaders of Nigeria.


*2.  Armed Security Lockdown* 


On Presidential election day, which is also now ignorantly celebrated as the same day for all other elective offices nationwide, Nigeria shall be locked down from border to border as if in a state of civil war. Weeks before the elections and after, all INEC results announcement offices at state and its national headquarters in Abuja shall be garrisoned with massive, heavily armed military and para-military forces and anti-riot armoured tanks against access by opposition party officials, reporters of uncooperative media houses, election observers and independent inquirers, making INEC offices nationwide look more like army barracks than an election dispensing civil agency. This military lockdown will be justified with the unfailing reference of "security threat reports" concocted by government itself and used to maximize movement restrictions against opposition political parties, their tactically isolated and disbanded supporters under the "no movement" manual that is conventionally enforced on election day. 


Nigerians will recall that President Tinubu performed the groundbreaking ceremony of a new INEC headquarters on June 17, 2025 after approval of the project by the Federal Executive Council. The presidential election fraud project above referred is at the heart of the new INEC headquarters edifice. Besides a 1,000-seat auditorium and shaded, Fort Knox fortified IT floors with conduit cameras, it shall have several cryptic exclusive "keep-off" zones, including a museum, underground basement and detention cells which are special components of its design. Accordingly, the new INEC national headquarters, which FCT sheriff Nyesom Wike promised shall be "completed *before* 2027," is not a patriotic administrative initiative but mainly an election rigging facility for the 2027 elections.


Under the inevitable outcome of the above scenario, Tinubu and his mandate decampees will be returned massively back to office unless their ongoing schemes are challenged, defeated before time and the two frontline opposition leaders of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi make the right compromise on their presidential ticket standing. 


*3.  Rigging Funding Treasury Guaranteed for APC Elected Politicians, Decampees* 


Bola Ahmed Tinubu actually began the campaign for his second term election on the very first day of his first term when he was sworn in at Eagles Square. The first statement of his 2027 re-election campaign that day was when he declared with Caesar swagger, "Subsidy is gone!"  


Since then, through fuel subsidy removal and historical multiple stream tax regimes, the Tinubu administration has amassed and equipped sitting governors, national and state Houses of Assembly lawmakers, local government council chairmen and those decamping in droves from other political parties to his APC with astronomical treasuries they never dreamed of possible in their lifetime. That is why his APC now has and controls 72 Senators in the upper parliament out of 109 from its original 59 members, and 207 House of Rep members from an original 176 members. The tally will jerk up from more cross-carpeting by unpatriotic stomach infrastructure decampees close to the 2027 general elections.


Tinubu's far-seeing core objective of his subsidy removal largesse to the states and political office holders nationwide was not mere presidential obligation or development magnanimity but calculated from inception to lure as many nomad monkeys of the other political parties as possible into his APC camp. This is to ensure that every inch of soil in their various states and constituencies is either won or "snatched" for APC victory and Tinubu's second term return by empowering them with funds beyond their wildest imagination.


*4.  A Nation's Betrayal Triangle, Nigeria Police, Military and Judiciary* 


Towards assured second term return of President Tinubu while holding down progress and modern advancement of the Nigerian people in step with the rest of the world, police, military and para-military brass of all armed forces of Nigeria shall be bride-fattened with unheard-of benefits in budgets running to trillions of naira outside legal statutory provisions. 


For the judiciary, funds have already been mobilized for dazzling mansions comprising 40 housing units in a new judges' estate to be built in Katampe district of the FCT. They shall be furnished, dedicated as FCT judges' piece of paradise and handed over to the judges before the 2027 elections, and they are not hiding it. 


Tinubu's 40 castles of paradise comprise 20 units for FCT High Court judges, 10 for Federal High Court judges and 10 for Appeal Court justices. Needless to state, it is from these tiers of the Nigerian judiciary that critical federal election tribunals of 2027 shall be constituted. On September 23, 2024 FCT emperor Nyesom Wike promised on behalf of Tinubu that these mansions will be completed before 2027.


The mansions will come with high-tech security apparatus, including multi-trillion naira street cameras and drones to separate and protect FCT judges and their families from the tormenting plague of daily insecurity, poverty induced crime rampage which afflict ordinary Nigerians and war-zone massacres rampant in our country. 


As you read this, don't forget that Nigerians are not expected to think, having lost their right to do so a long time ago. So, do not think that this "New Hope Agenda" infrastructure breakthrough for judges of our country is a corruption project to help ease Tinubu and his APC administration's return to office in 2027. Just simply understand that a rent-free tenant does not tell his landlord to sweep compound or "fall out" from his own house.


Also don't forget to remember that Nigeria's elite judges have been homeless IDPs living under bridges all these years and desperately need this uplifting by Jagaban, the Aso Villa Knight of Valour, into human homes at last.


With Herodian swag, President Tinubu personally declared on September 2, 2025 that his administration had met its revenue target for the 2025 budget year as early as August, more than a clear quarter before the end of the budget year. Sourcing the funds for the judges wonder project and similar ones towards his assured second-term rebound shall not be a challenge to his APC administration. 


With 2027 second-term election as their principal priority instead of governance, in 2027 there shall be more than enough funds for all election victory or rigging schemes and logistics. These include budgets for APC's nationwide network of onshore and offshore election day ballot thugs, violence and mayhem recruitment as experienced in 2023. Only in 2027, their rampage against free and fair elections shall be far more savage unless the opposition led by His Excellency Atiku Abubakar, Mr. Peter Obi and others come together for sincere and selfless, masses sensitive compromise and throw their combined weights and resources behind the campaigns of pro-democracy bodies like SDMA, CUPP, Open Nigeria, NADECO USA, Upright Nigeria Foundation, GCPPI, New Nigeria Movers and Nigeria's Gen-Z army to completely overhaul and viscerally amend Nigeria's electoral laws. The top notch of that campaign is SDMA's call to remove the power of Mr. President and Governors to appoint INEC and judiciary officials at federal and state levels respectively, amongst others. A campaign that should be thoroughly  accomplished before the first sun of 2027 rises upon our country. 


*5.  A National Call to Atiku* 


After late Muhammadu Buhari's still recent, punishing woeful eight years of two harrowing under-achieving terms as President of Nigeria,  a survey of the electorates and pulse of Nigeria's political peer shows that voters and election influencers in majority geopolitical zones (South-West, South-East, South-South, North Central and Middle Belt states) will boycott another Presidential candidate from Buhari's Hausa-Fulani stock and rather vote for Tinubu as a bitter, unpleasant but better alternative in territorial consolation.

The voters in these large belts of our country have taken a fierce and resolute stance; the stance that rather than vote another Northern Hausa-Fulani candidate as President of Nigeria in 2027 and shortchange Southern Nigeria of a two-term tenure, they would put their vote and resources free to return Tinubu for a second term, even if it were the devil himself. 


We respectfully entreat Your Excellency Atiku Abubakar to commission an independent, incognito and dispassionate  survey of your own on this claim. Such survey will prove that our finding is true to the hilt.


Knowing, therefore, the inevitable consequences of Your Excellency going forward to contest the Presidency in 2027, given the other four study outcomes above and others which space will not permit, we of this committee, on behalf of the majority of 230million Nigerians, appeal to Your Excellency's sense of duty, legacy, patriotism and submission to the will of Almighty Allah to save Nigeria from the plunge to infinite social-economic and insecurity calamities which our country will continue to suffer under the one party state tyranny that the present APC administration has determined to plunge our country into if stakeholders fail to demonstrate foresight, cooperation and compromise and make the APC to retain power beyond 2027.


Our entreaty to Your Excellency is that earnestly considering the above circumstances, you would appreciate that the only pathway forward is to magnanimously step into the shoes of a statesman, accept the mantle of modern day Father of the Nigerian nation, lead nationalist and liberator of our century. This you would do for our country by giving your blessing, putting your weight, structures, goodwill and institutions behind the man Peter Obi to run as the Presidential candidate of the opposition on your behalf and that of all Nigerians against the APC behemoth in 2027. 


We assure Your Excellency that if the circumstances were reversed and Peter Obi were in your shoes, we would have requested exactly the same concession and sacrifices of him for you.


*The AGOBI Rally Call*


Fellow countrymen, after nearly one year of study, surveys and consultations across the six geopolitical zones and having the foregoing in view, our alliance has put together and hereby unveils Nigeria's now foremost political freedom project since Independence in 1960. This is the project we have named and hereby announce to you as "Atiku Givus Obi 2027" or AGOBI '27 for short. 


In the weeks and months to come, we will unveil a lineup of local and international activities of the AGOBI journey to 2027.


*Conclusion*


Atiku and Peter Obi contesting the Presidency from separate political parties against each other in 2027 will be giving Tinubu a free ride, guaranteed ride to second term.


Should His Excellency Atiku Abubakar and his advisers ignore the patriotic AGOBI entreaty before him, his labours and those of the ADC to win the Presidency in 2027 will go down the drain. This will come principally from a combination of two factors, amongst others. One is the formidable and unconscionable rigging ambush of Tinubu and his ruling APC. Two is massive swing votes by nearly all Southern Nigeria states for Bola Ahmed Tinubu as a sentimental alternative, bad as the recourse may be. 


As with Atiku, so shall it be with Peter Obi. If PO fails to make good the AGOBI roadmap with Atiku, as with Atiku so shall it be with Peter Obi; for the second backbreaking time, all the labours of Peter Obi and the Obidients of Nigeria will be flushed down the drain. King of African wolves, Tinubu's known and hidden aces will defeat the opposition's 2027 bid to end his rule, ending their efforts in pains, humiliation, irredeemable regrets and staggering funding losses wasted in a blind, futile election project that will be like building a skyscraper with ashes. Only an extraordinary act of God, not man, could dent this coming reality. 


On the other hand, while Tinubu could easily defeat both Atiku and Peter Obi contesting the Presidency on separate ballots by rigging federal machineries and institutions against their divided votes, a hundred Tinubus with a hundred-fold of all the structures and institutions at his command cannot return to office in 2027 if Atiku gives PO his blessings to run as Presidential choice of ADC and Labour Party coalition. Because that will be the real Nigerian People's indomitable Peru Coalition.


Without His Excellency Atiku embracing the AGOBI '27 proposition, the only winners will be the one person and party the overwhelming majority of Nigerians do not wish to retain power one day beyond 2027.


This brings to the table the most important question anyone will ever ask Atiku in his entire lifetime. Which of these, Sir, do you wish to be remembered for by posterity? The man who sacrificed his ambition to liberate Nigeria or who sacrificed Nigeria for his ambition yet never got it?


Time will tell and retell the AGOBI story, and this question will be asked again and again at your final resting place and in many years of history after you have returned to your Maker. The best and only time to give it a noble legacy guaranteeing answer is now.


To you we speak and write as men. But unto you Allah speaks as God. This hour He reminds you in His scriptures as follow:


_"Act justly, that is nearer to god-fearing..."  "Persistently standing firm in justice, even if it be against yourself." - Quran 5:8, Surah An-Nisa (4:135)._


May Allah bless you with a heart that listens to His commands rather than the misleading counsels of self-serving unpatriotically ambitious aides.


Ameen.



SIGNED:


*PRINCE TONY AKENI*

Save Democracy Mega Alliance (SDMA)

Steering Committee, South-South


*MALLAM KHALIL AHMED, RUFAI*

Upright Nigeria Foundation (UNF)

Steering Committee, North-West


*PRIMATE HENRY AMIKE*

Steering Committee

South-West


*HIGH CHIEF PETER O. AMEH*

National Secretary CUPP

Steering Committee


*ACG ALI WAKILI (RTD)*

NC-FRONT

Steering Committee, North-East


*HON. CHARLES DARLINGTON*

Good Citizens for Peace & Progress Initiative (GCPPI)

Youths Mobilization Committee


*DCN. COMRADE ABBAS ALAO*

Nigeria Cannot Continue Like This (NCC-LIT)

Steering Committee


*CHIEF OLOYE A. ADENIJI*

National Rescue Congress (NRC)

Steering Committee 


*PRINCE CHUKA R. NNOROM* 

Steering Committee, South-East


*BARR. ESMERALD BRIGHT-BAZUNU*

Legal Committee

Labour Party Commends House of Reps Speaker Abbas for Alarm On Tinubu's Reckless Borrowing, Tasks Akpabio to Follow Good Example

Labour Party Commends House of Reps Speaker Abbas for Alarm On Tinubu's Reckless Borrowing, Tasks Akpabio to Follow Good Example

By Prince Tony Akeni, Labour Party National Publicity Secretary (Interim)



The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Abbas Tajudeen, after his initial catharsis of truth on the prodigal and dangerous borrowings of President Tinubu's APC administration on Monday has, in the last 18 hours, been telling Nigerians that his statement was quoted out of context. 


But that is not true. If he has come under pressure by his party's hawks and blows by the long hammer of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu from his vacation beach in Europe to recant, Nigerians are good at understanding, so we can understand.


For avoidance of doubt, speaking yesterday September 8, 2025 at the opening of the 11th Annual Conference and General Assembly of the West Africa Association of Public Accounts Committees (WAAPAC), which took place at the National Assembly, Abuja, below is what Speaker Abbas said, verbatim:


_“As at the first quarter of 2025, Nigeria’s total public debt stood at N149.39 trillion, equivalent to about US$97 billion. This represents a sharp rise from N121.7 trillion the previous year, underscoring how quickly the burden has grown. Even more CONCERNING is the debt-to-GDP ratio, which now stands at roughly 52 percent, well above the statutory ceiling of 40 percent set by our own laws._


_"The BREACH of the debt limit is a signal of strain on fiscal sustainability... THERE IS NEED for stronger oversight, transparent borrowing practices, and a collective resolve to ensure that tangible economic and social returns match every naira borrowed.”_


_“This is not just a budgetary concern but A STRUCTURAL CRISIS that demands urgent parliamentary attention and coordinated reform._


_“Borrowing should support infrastructure, health, education, and industries that create jobs and reduce poverty. RECKLESS DEBT THAT FUELS CONSUMPTION OR CORRUPTION must be exposed and rejected. Oversight is not just about figures, but about the lives and futures behind those figures."_


When there is too much sand in a soup, even the blind will notice. That is what Rep Tajudeen Abbas, the APC's own Speaker of Nigeria's House of Representatives, has done. 


Nigeria's astronomical debts without the benefit of visible economic and infrastructure development for the citizens on behalf of whom they are borrowed, the dangers the debts hold for the country's future are so grave and frightening that Speaker Abbas could not hide it from the world. 


Speaker Tajudeen Abbas also did not hide the fact that his own party's administration led by President Tinubu is responsible for the country's public debts peril to Nigerians born and unborn.


For Nigerians to appreciate Speaker Abbas' sense of alarm, one must put in perspective the facts. 


Both the Debt management Office and CBN's published data available to the public confirm that in the first 90 days of this year alone, Nigeria's public debts soared from #121.7trillion in December 2024 to #149.39trillion.


What is more frightening is that as Speaker Abbas pointed out, in the same three-month period the debt-to-GDP ratio resulting from these debts rose to 52%, which is far above the highest safe limit of 40% set by Nigeria's own fiscal laws. 


What further worsens the alarming nature of the country's debts is the revelation that in the last nine months, Nigeria used N8.93trillion or $6.2billion to service her debts. This means that 61% of the country's revenues of #14.55trillion earned during the same period went into debt servicing!


Choosing his words carefully for minimum image damage to his party, even Speaker Abbas could not escape admitting that this is an extreme breach of the debt ceiling and revenue security threshold set by Nigeria's fiscal laws.


Yet, not done, President Tinubu, even as he jetted out to France last week on a 10-day vacation, is seeking a new World Bank loan, a proposal of which Labour Party has learned is currently being prepared for Senate President Godswill Akpabio's "ayes have it" National Assembly choir. 


The public might condemn Speaker Abbas as a co-culprit crying wolf over a collective guilt for Nigeria's calamitous debts profile since, as Speaker of the National Assembly, he presides over one of the two legislative chambers which approved Tinubu's borrowings. 


True as that may be, Labour Party believes that Speaker Abbas' admission of President Tinubu as the architect-in-chief of Nigeria's skyscraping debts, although coming somewhat late, calls for commendation more than condemnation at this point. This is especially so if his alarm will help put some breaks on the APC administration's recklessness in loan procurements. It is better late than never.


The Labour Party enjoins all Nigerians to join Speaker Abbas' call advocating, in his own words, "stronger oversight, transparent borrowing practices, and a collective resolve to ensure that tangible and social returns match every naira borrowed." 


At this juncture of our country's captivity in the grip of President Tinubu's fiscal management disasters, there is not a more cogent, urgent and compelling call to duty to God and country as the one being made now by Speaker Abbas.


Finally, the Labour Party wishes to recommend to Senate President Godswill Akpabio to emulate Speaker Abbas. Taking the initiative and leading from the front ahead of Akpabio, Mr. Speaker has shown the Senate President a resounding example of objective patriotism by the call to put Nigeria first henceforward in all public loans procurement through responsible oversight.


Going forward, both the Speaker and Senate President should act in accord to ensure that wayward and prodigal borrowings proposed henceforth by the Tinubu administration, which do not have clear achievable blueprint for tangible benefits in infrastructural development, economic wellbeing and security of Nigerians are outrightly rejected and thrown out.


In particular, before Senate President Akpabio accepts another loan request from President Tinubu and railroads his assembly of she-men to chorus "the ayes have it," he should remember history. Any people pushed to the wall by grinding poverty with nowhere to turn would defy all one day and turn on their oppressors. 


The solution to preventing this is to end altogether the APC government's prodigal borrowing and squandering of loans. The alternative is to, at the minimum, heed Speaker Abbas' recommendations of strict oversight over loans and ensure commensurate returns in benefits to Nigerians.


Tony Akeni Le Moin

September 9, 2025

By Prince Tony Akeni, Labour Party National Publicity Secretary (Interim)



The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Abbas Tajudeen, after his initial catharsis of truth on the prodigal and dangerous borrowings of President Tinubu's APC administration on Monday has, in the last 18 hours, been telling Nigerians that his statement was quoted out of context. 


But that is not true. If he has come under pressure by his party's hawks and blows by the long hammer of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu from his vacation beach in Europe to recant, Nigerians are good at understanding, so we can understand.


For avoidance of doubt, speaking yesterday September 8, 2025 at the opening of the 11th Annual Conference and General Assembly of the West Africa Association of Public Accounts Committees (WAAPAC), which took place at the National Assembly, Abuja, below is what Speaker Abbas said, verbatim:


_“As at the first quarter of 2025, Nigeria’s total public debt stood at N149.39 trillion, equivalent to about US$97 billion. This represents a sharp rise from N121.7 trillion the previous year, underscoring how quickly the burden has grown. Even more CONCERNING is the debt-to-GDP ratio, which now stands at roughly 52 percent, well above the statutory ceiling of 40 percent set by our own laws._


_"The BREACH of the debt limit is a signal of strain on fiscal sustainability... THERE IS NEED for stronger oversight, transparent borrowing practices, and a collective resolve to ensure that tangible economic and social returns match every naira borrowed.”_


_“This is not just a budgetary concern but A STRUCTURAL CRISIS that demands urgent parliamentary attention and coordinated reform._


_“Borrowing should support infrastructure, health, education, and industries that create jobs and reduce poverty. RECKLESS DEBT THAT FUELS CONSUMPTION OR CORRUPTION must be exposed and rejected. Oversight is not just about figures, but about the lives and futures behind those figures."_


When there is too much sand in a soup, even the blind will notice. That is what Rep Tajudeen Abbas, the APC's own Speaker of Nigeria's House of Representatives, has done. 


Nigeria's astronomical debts without the benefit of visible economic and infrastructure development for the citizens on behalf of whom they are borrowed, the dangers the debts hold for the country's future are so grave and frightening that Speaker Abbas could not hide it from the world. 


Speaker Tajudeen Abbas also did not hide the fact that his own party's administration led by President Tinubu is responsible for the country's public debts peril to Nigerians born and unborn.


For Nigerians to appreciate Speaker Abbas' sense of alarm, one must put in perspective the facts. 


Both the Debt management Office and CBN's published data available to the public confirm that in the first 90 days of this year alone, Nigeria's public debts soared from #121.7trillion in December 2024 to #149.39trillion.


What is more frightening is that as Speaker Abbas pointed out, in the same three-month period the debt-to-GDP ratio resulting from these debts rose to 52%, which is far above the highest safe limit of 40% set by Nigeria's own fiscal laws. 


What further worsens the alarming nature of the country's debts is the revelation that in the last nine months, Nigeria used N8.93trillion or $6.2billion to service her debts. This means that 61% of the country's revenues of #14.55trillion earned during the same period went into debt servicing!


Choosing his words carefully for minimum image damage to his party, even Speaker Abbas could not escape admitting that this is an extreme breach of the debt ceiling and revenue security threshold set by Nigeria's fiscal laws.


Yet, not done, President Tinubu, even as he jetted out to France last week on a 10-day vacation, is seeking a new World Bank loan, a proposal of which Labour Party has learned is currently being prepared for Senate President Godswill Akpabio's "ayes have it" National Assembly choir. 


The public might condemn Speaker Abbas as a co-culprit crying wolf over a collective guilt for Nigeria's calamitous debts profile since, as Speaker of the National Assembly, he presides over one of the two legislative chambers which approved Tinubu's borrowings. 


True as that may be, Labour Party believes that Speaker Abbas' admission of President Tinubu as the architect-in-chief of Nigeria's skyscraping debts, although coming somewhat late, calls for commendation more than condemnation at this point. This is especially so if his alarm will help put some breaks on the APC administration's recklessness in loan procurements. It is better late than never.


The Labour Party enjoins all Nigerians to join Speaker Abbas' call advocating, in his own words, "stronger oversight, transparent borrowing practices, and a collective resolve to ensure that tangible and social returns match every naira borrowed." 


At this juncture of our country's captivity in the grip of President Tinubu's fiscal management disasters, there is not a more cogent, urgent and compelling call to duty to God and country as the one being made now by Speaker Abbas.


Finally, the Labour Party wishes to recommend to Senate President Godswill Akpabio to emulate Speaker Abbas. Taking the initiative and leading from the front ahead of Akpabio, Mr. Speaker has shown the Senate President a resounding example of objective patriotism by the call to put Nigeria first henceforward in all public loans procurement through responsible oversight.


Going forward, both the Speaker and Senate President should act in accord to ensure that wayward and prodigal borrowings proposed henceforth by the Tinubu administration, which do not have clear achievable blueprint for tangible benefits in infrastructural development, economic wellbeing and security of Nigerians are outrightly rejected and thrown out.


In particular, before Senate President Akpabio accepts another loan request from President Tinubu and railroads his assembly of she-men to chorus "the ayes have it," he should remember history. Any people pushed to the wall by grinding poverty with nowhere to turn would defy all one day and turn on their oppressors. 


The solution to preventing this is to end altogether the APC government's prodigal borrowing and squandering of loans. The alternative is to, at the minimum, heed Speaker Abbas' recommendations of strict oversight over loans and ensure commensurate returns in benefits to Nigerians.


Tony Akeni Le Moin

September 9, 2025

LP Spokesperson — APC In a Fresh Plot to Infiltrate, Hijack Our Congress Structures

LP Spokesperson — APC In a Fresh Plot to Infiltrate, Hijack Our Congress Structures

Tony Akeni 

The Interim Publicity Secretary of the Labour Party in Nigeria, Prince Tony Akeni has confirmed that the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) is currently in a fresh and desperate plots to infiltrate and hijack the party again.


The Labour Party is just coming out of a very long leadership crisis believed to have been politically motivated and sponsored by the ruling party. The  Apapa—Abure leadership imbroglio and later INEC insistence on tenure expiration of the Abure led leadership crippled the party's progress and momentum since 2023 general election.


With 2027 general election already in Sight, the Senator Nenadi Usman-led Labour Party (LP) has cried out over what it described as a desperate plot by the Bola Ahmed led federal government and the All Progressives Congress (APC) to hijack its structures by infiltrating its ranks.


The party's leadership has consistently maintained it's opposition against Tinubu’s  unending love for foreign travels amidst Nigeria’s growing security and economic challenges. 


According to Akeni the information reaching the party’s headquarters from various states of the federation showed that the ruling party was positioning its moles to infiltrate the party structures through the scheduled party congresses at the ward, local government, state, zonal, and ultimately, the national level.


“We have been made aware of the heinous plot by the ruling APC to infiltrate our ranks at all levels to derail our forthcoming congresses."


“If they fail, they plan to get a seat on our party’s table to continue from where they stopped after failing to use former National Chairman, Julius Abure, to distract us from our goal of rebuilding our party.


“Nigerians are also aware of what the current administration has turned our institutions, such as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), into."


“We are all witnesses to what transpired during the by-elections, which were held in 16 out of the 36 states recently, and the manipulation of the ongoing voter registration exercise."


“Our nation cannot afford to have a repeat of the era where the American boxer, Mike Tyson, the late pop star, Michael Jackson, and Lionel Richie appear on our voters’ register.'


“As a party, we will continue to urge Nigerian voters to be vigilant. Eternal vigilance, as they say, is the price we all must pay to protect our democracy."


“The body language of INEC as presently constituted gives it away as an institution which is only ready to pander to the whims and caprices of the ruling party."


“We can only pray that whosoever is coming into office after the tenure of the current INEC boss expires in November or December is not going to throw the confidence of Nigerians down the drain", he explained.


In a statement earlier issued by Akeni on behalf of the party, he criticised Tinubu’s seemingly unending love for foreign travels amidst Nigeria’s growing security and economic challenges.


He said the president’s trip this time around indicated that he was increasingly becoming allergic to staying at home to tackle the nation’s problems.


President Tinubu left Nigeria for a 10-day working vacation in France and the United Kingdom as part of his 2025 annual leave on Thursday.


Akeni noted that available records show that 135 million Nigerians fell into poverty within the first 18 months of Tinubu’s administration due to difficult economic policies.


He equally pointed out that galloping inflation, weakening of Nigeria’s currency, the naira, and insecurity have been the hallmark of Tinubu’s rule since he took power in 2023.


Akeni said, “President Bola Ahmed Tinubu departed Nigeria for yet another of his many overseas trips. “This time, the trip is officially explained as a 10-day vacation and part of his 2025 annual leave, which he will spend in France and the United Kingdom.


“As President Tinubu takes to the sky, he leaves behind a country ravaged by economic hardship where 135 million citizens fell into poverty in the first 18 months of his administration, caused by his difficult economic policies.


“Tinubu also leaves behind an insecurity of historic proportions, where 57 Nigerians die every day from various forms of violent death.


“This amounts to seven deaths more than Ukraine’s war casualties, which lose 50 citizens per day in its full-scale war with Russia, according to research by Mediazona and The Book of Memory Group, corroborated by a similar BBC study.


“The Nigerian casualty figures exclude deaths from daily traffic accidents, Nigeria’s frequent boat mishaps, and other civil hazards.


“You will recall that President Tinubu had only sat in office for four months after his swearing in on May 29, 2023, when he flew overseas on his first annual vacation. This was on October 2, 2023.


“This means that under the APC governance manual, four months made up one year for the Nigerian president to go on an annual vacation. This is historic for a post-inaugural president because it doesn’t happen anywhere else in the world.


“Since assuming office on May 29, 2023, President Tinubu has travelled and virtually ‘lived’ outside Nigeria for nearly 160 days. This is almost half of an entire year in only two years of office.


“Tracing this unproductive trend backwards to Buhari’s days, records show that APC produces dinner and toothpick presidents who eat breakfast in Abuja, have lunch in Paris, and belch in London.


“They enjoy costly vacations abroad like children enjoy excursions to amusement parks. From Buhari’s administration to Tinubu’s current rule, that is the only reason why billions of naira they vote every year for the Aso Villa presidential clinic perpetually empty into unknown pockets, and the clinic’s medicine shelves do not have drugs for even cramps.


“From late Buhari to Tinubu, APC has continued to produce nomadic presidents whose medical and social tourism cost our country billions of Naira in taxpayers’ money.”


The Labour Party’s interim spokesman said the party will do things differently should Nigerians vote it into power come 2027.


According to him, it is the government’s responsibility to put in place a standard healthcare system that would cater to...


Tony Akeni 

The Interim Publicity Secretary of the Labour Party in Nigeria, Prince Tony Akeni has confirmed that the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) is currently in a fresh and desperate plots to infiltrate and hijack the party again.


The Labour Party is just coming out of a very long leadership crisis believed to have been politically motivated and sponsored by the ruling party. The  Apapa—Abure leadership imbroglio and later INEC insistence on tenure expiration of the Abure led leadership crippled the party's progress and momentum since 2023 general election.


With 2027 general election already in Sight, the Senator Nenadi Usman-led Labour Party (LP) has cried out over what it described as a desperate plot by the Bola Ahmed led federal government and the All Progressives Congress (APC) to hijack its structures by infiltrating its ranks.


The party's leadership has consistently maintained it's opposition against Tinubu’s  unending love for foreign travels amidst Nigeria’s growing security and economic challenges. 


According to Akeni the information reaching the party’s headquarters from various states of the federation showed that the ruling party was positioning its moles to infiltrate the party structures through the scheduled party congresses at the ward, local government, state, zonal, and ultimately, the national level.


“We have been made aware of the heinous plot by the ruling APC to infiltrate our ranks at all levels to derail our forthcoming congresses."


“If they fail, they plan to get a seat on our party’s table to continue from where they stopped after failing to use former National Chairman, Julius Abure, to distract us from our goal of rebuilding our party.


“Nigerians are also aware of what the current administration has turned our institutions, such as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), into."


“We are all witnesses to what transpired during the by-elections, which were held in 16 out of the 36 states recently, and the manipulation of the ongoing voter registration exercise."


“Our nation cannot afford to have a repeat of the era where the American boxer, Mike Tyson, the late pop star, Michael Jackson, and Lionel Richie appear on our voters’ register.'


“As a party, we will continue to urge Nigerian voters to be vigilant. Eternal vigilance, as they say, is the price we all must pay to protect our democracy."


“The body language of INEC as presently constituted gives it away as an institution which is only ready to pander to the whims and caprices of the ruling party."


“We can only pray that whosoever is coming into office after the tenure of the current INEC boss expires in November or December is not going to throw the confidence of Nigerians down the drain", he explained.


In a statement earlier issued by Akeni on behalf of the party, he criticised Tinubu’s seemingly unending love for foreign travels amidst Nigeria’s growing security and economic challenges.


He said the president’s trip this time around indicated that he was increasingly becoming allergic to staying at home to tackle the nation’s problems.


President Tinubu left Nigeria for a 10-day working vacation in France and the United Kingdom as part of his 2025 annual leave on Thursday.


Akeni noted that available records show that 135 million Nigerians fell into poverty within the first 18 months of Tinubu’s administration due to difficult economic policies.


He equally pointed out that galloping inflation, weakening of Nigeria’s currency, the naira, and insecurity have been the hallmark of Tinubu’s rule since he took power in 2023.


Akeni said, “President Bola Ahmed Tinubu departed Nigeria for yet another of his many overseas trips. “This time, the trip is officially explained as a 10-day vacation and part of his 2025 annual leave, which he will spend in France and the United Kingdom.


“As President Tinubu takes to the sky, he leaves behind a country ravaged by economic hardship where 135 million citizens fell into poverty in the first 18 months of his administration, caused by his difficult economic policies.


“Tinubu also leaves behind an insecurity of historic proportions, where 57 Nigerians die every day from various forms of violent death.


“This amounts to seven deaths more than Ukraine’s war casualties, which lose 50 citizens per day in its full-scale war with Russia, according to research by Mediazona and The Book of Memory Group, corroborated by a similar BBC study.


“The Nigerian casualty figures exclude deaths from daily traffic accidents, Nigeria’s frequent boat mishaps, and other civil hazards.


“You will recall that President Tinubu had only sat in office for four months after his swearing in on May 29, 2023, when he flew overseas on his first annual vacation. This was on October 2, 2023.


“This means that under the APC governance manual, four months made up one year for the Nigerian president to go on an annual vacation. This is historic for a post-inaugural president because it doesn’t happen anywhere else in the world.


“Since assuming office on May 29, 2023, President Tinubu has travelled and virtually ‘lived’ outside Nigeria for nearly 160 days. This is almost half of an entire year in only two years of office.


“Tracing this unproductive trend backwards to Buhari’s days, records show that APC produces dinner and toothpick presidents who eat breakfast in Abuja, have lunch in Paris, and belch in London.


“They enjoy costly vacations abroad like children enjoy excursions to amusement parks. From Buhari’s administration to Tinubu’s current rule, that is the only reason why billions of naira they vote every year for the Aso Villa presidential clinic perpetually empty into unknown pockets, and the clinic’s medicine shelves do not have drugs for even cramps.


“From late Buhari to Tinubu, APC has continued to produce nomadic presidents whose medical and social tourism cost our country billions of Naira in taxpayers’ money.”


The Labour Party’s interim spokesman said the party will do things differently should Nigerians vote it into power come 2027.


According to him, it is the government’s responsibility to put in place a standard healthcare system that would cater to...


Tinubu Should End His Nomad Vacation And Give Nigerians Real Governance — Labour Party

Tinubu Should End His Nomad Vacation And Give Nigerians Real Governance — Labour Party

 More than 57 Nigerians die everyday from various forms of violent death


Tinubu on an endless vacation 

Labour Party National Publicity Secretary (Interim)  Prince Tony Akeni has said the Nigerian President Bola Tinubu should end his incessant nomadic vacation and give Nigerians real governance.


Tony in a statement made available to the press men on Friday  said  Tinubu embark on vacation leaving behind a country ravaged by economic hardship where 135million citizens fell into poverty in the first 18months of his administration, caused by his difficult economic policies. 


"Yesterday September 4, 2025, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu departed Nigeria for yet another of his too many oversea trips."


"This time, the trip is officially explained as a 10-day vacation and part of his 2025 annual leave, which he will spend in France and the United Kingdom. "


"As President Tinubu takes to the sky, he leaves behind a country ravaged by economic hardship where 135million citizens fell into poverty in the first 18months of his administration, caused by his difficult economic policies. "


"Tinubu also leaves behind insecurity of historic proportions where 57 Nigerians die everyday from various forms of violent death. This amounts to seven deaths more than Ukraine's war casualties, which loses 50 citizens per day in its full-scale war with Russia, according to research by Mediazona and The Book of Memory Group, corroborated by a similar BBC study. The Nigerian casualty figures exclude deaths from daily traffic accidents, Nigeria's frequent boat mishaps and other civil hazards."


APC's AHA Presidents


You will recall that President Tinubu had only sat in office for four months after his swearing in on May 29, 2023 when he flew overseas on his first annual vacation. This was on October 2, 2023. 


This means that under the APC governance manual, four months made up one year for the Nigerian president to go on an annual vacation. This is historic for a post-inaugural president because it doesn't happen anywhere else in the world.


"Since assumption of office on May 29, 2023, President Tinubu has travelled and virtually "lived" outside Nigeria for nearly 160 days. This is almost half of an entire year in only two years of office."


"Tracing this unproductive trend backwards to Buhari's days, records show that APC produces dinner and toothpick presidents who eat breakfast in Abuja, have lunch in Paris and belch in London. They enjoy costly vacations abroad like children enjoy excursions to amusement parks. From Buhari's administration to Tinubu's current rule, that is the only reason why billions of naira they vote every year for the Aso Villa presidential clinic perpetually empty into unknown pockets and the clinic's medicine shelves do not have drugs for even cramps."





Prince Tony 


"Nigeria of today can no longer afford At-Home-Abroad (AHA) nomadic leaders who have deliberately failed to build international standard health facilities in their own country but rather travel overseas for expensive extended periods, leaving their citizens trapped and helpless in the country's dangerous healthcare system, biting economic hardship, insecurity and all-round sufferings of our country's citizens."


"From late Buhari to Tinubu, APC has continued to produce nomad presidents whose medical and social tourism cost our country billions of naira in taxpayers money."


"Nigerians must ensure that the syndrome of AHA Presidents ends in 2027 by ending the APC run of our country and opting for a political party and president who will prioritize building for Nigerians global standard health facilities supremely equiped to treat the No. 1 citizen and presidents of other countries, thereby saving and additionally earning significant revenues for the country. "


"That is one of the promises and dividends of true democracy which the Labour Party stands for and will attain for Nigerians." Prince Tony concluded.


 More than 57 Nigerians die everyday from various forms of violent death


Tinubu on an endless vacation 

Labour Party National Publicity Secretary (Interim)  Prince Tony Akeni has said the Nigerian President Bola Tinubu should end his incessant nomadic vacation and give Nigerians real governance.


Tony in a statement made available to the press men on Friday  said  Tinubu embark on vacation leaving behind a country ravaged by economic hardship where 135million citizens fell into poverty in the first 18months of his administration, caused by his difficult economic policies. 


"Yesterday September 4, 2025, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu departed Nigeria for yet another of his too many oversea trips."


"This time, the trip is officially explained as a 10-day vacation and part of his 2025 annual leave, which he will spend in France and the United Kingdom. "


"As President Tinubu takes to the sky, he leaves behind a country ravaged by economic hardship where 135million citizens fell into poverty in the first 18months of his administration, caused by his difficult economic policies. "


"Tinubu also leaves behind insecurity of historic proportions where 57 Nigerians die everyday from various forms of violent death. This amounts to seven deaths more than Ukraine's war casualties, which loses 50 citizens per day in its full-scale war with Russia, according to research by Mediazona and The Book of Memory Group, corroborated by a similar BBC study. The Nigerian casualty figures exclude deaths from daily traffic accidents, Nigeria's frequent boat mishaps and other civil hazards."


APC's AHA Presidents


You will recall that President Tinubu had only sat in office for four months after his swearing in on May 29, 2023 when he flew overseas on his first annual vacation. This was on October 2, 2023. 


This means that under the APC governance manual, four months made up one year for the Nigerian president to go on an annual vacation. This is historic for a post-inaugural president because it doesn't happen anywhere else in the world.


"Since assumption of office on May 29, 2023, President Tinubu has travelled and virtually "lived" outside Nigeria for nearly 160 days. This is almost half of an entire year in only two years of office."


"Tracing this unproductive trend backwards to Buhari's days, records show that APC produces dinner and toothpick presidents who eat breakfast in Abuja, have lunch in Paris and belch in London. They enjoy costly vacations abroad like children enjoy excursions to amusement parks. From Buhari's administration to Tinubu's current rule, that is the only reason why billions of naira they vote every year for the Aso Villa presidential clinic perpetually empty into unknown pockets and the clinic's medicine shelves do not have drugs for even cramps."





Prince Tony 


"Nigeria of today can no longer afford At-Home-Abroad (AHA) nomadic leaders who have deliberately failed to build international standard health facilities in their own country but rather travel overseas for expensive extended periods, leaving their citizens trapped and helpless in the country's dangerous healthcare system, biting economic hardship, insecurity and all-round sufferings of our country's citizens."


"From late Buhari to Tinubu, APC has continued to produce nomad presidents whose medical and social tourism cost our country billions of naira in taxpayers money."


"Nigerians must ensure that the syndrome of AHA Presidents ends in 2027 by ending the APC run of our country and opting for a political party and president who will prioritize building for Nigerians global standard health facilities supremely equiped to treat the No. 1 citizen and presidents of other countries, thereby saving and additionally earning significant revenues for the country. "


"That is one of the promises and dividends of true democracy which the Labour Party stands for and will attain for Nigerians." Prince Tony concluded.


BOAT MISHAPE IN NIGER STATE: LP Chair Nenadi Calls For More Robust Legislations, Stricter Regulation For Inland Waterways

BOAT MISHAPE IN NIGER STATE: LP Chair Nenadi Calls For More Robust Legislations, Stricter Regulation For Inland Waterways

Sen. Nenadi Usman 

The interim National Chairman of the Labour Party in Nigeria Senator Nenadi Usman has called on the relevant authorities to urgently consider more robust legislations and stricter regulation for inland waterways in the country .


According to the Usman, the recurrent boat mishaps in Nigeria, particularly in Niger State, where such tragedies have become very frequent  demand an immediate and decisive action.


The lastest incident occurred at the Malale riverfront in Borgu Local Government Area of Niger State. 


The ill-fated boat, carrying about 90 passengers, departed Tugan Sule in Shagunu Ward, Borgu LGA, en route to Dugga for a condolence visit when the tragedy struck. 


 Initial reports put the death toll at about 29, but has now, regrettably, risen to nearly 60 lives lost. 

"It is deeply unfortunate and heart-wrenching that people on a journey to sympathize with others became victims of a calamity themselves."


"This is one tragedy too many, and the frequency with which we record such mishaps on our inland waterways should be a matter of grave concern to all Nigerians."


"On behalf of the entire Labour Party family, I extend our deepest condolences to the bereaved families, the government and people of Niger State, and indeed all Nigerians, on this national tragedy." Nenadi concluded.



FULL STATEMENT:


*Re: "From the Desk of Senator Nenadi E. Usman, PhD*


PRESS STATEMENT


It is with a heavy heart that I received the tragic news of the recent boat mishap in Niger State, where initial reports put the death toll at about 29, but has now, regrettably, risen to nearly 60 lives lost. This is one tragedy too many, and the frequency with which we record such mishaps on our inland waterways should be a matter of grave concern to all Nigerians.


According to the information at my disposal, the incident occurred at the Malale riverfront in Borgu Local Government Area of Niger State. The ill-fated boat, carrying about 90 passengers, departed Tugan Sule in Shagunu Ward, Borgu LGA, en route to Dugga for a condolence visit when the tragedy struck. It is deeply unfortunate and heart-wrenching that people on a journey to sympathize with others became victims of a calamity themselves.


I, therefore, use this moment to call on the relevant authorities to urgently consider more robust legislations and stricter regulation of our inland waterways. The recurrent boat mishaps in Nigeria - particularly in Niger State, where such tragedies have become very frequent - demand immediate and decisive action.


On behalf of the entire Labour Party family, I extend our deepest condolences to the bereaved families, the government and people of Niger State, and indeed all Nigerians, on this national tragedy.


*Senator Nenadi E. Usman, Ph.D* 

Interim National Chairman, Labour Party.  

4th September, 2025"


Sen. Nenadi Usman 

The interim National Chairman of the Labour Party in Nigeria Senator Nenadi Usman has called on the relevant authorities to urgently consider more robust legislations and stricter regulation for inland waterways in the country .


According to the Usman, the recurrent boat mishaps in Nigeria, particularly in Niger State, where such tragedies have become very frequent  demand an immediate and decisive action.


The lastest incident occurred at the Malale riverfront in Borgu Local Government Area of Niger State. 


The ill-fated boat, carrying about 90 passengers, departed Tugan Sule in Shagunu Ward, Borgu LGA, en route to Dugga for a condolence visit when the tragedy struck. 


 Initial reports put the death toll at about 29, but has now, regrettably, risen to nearly 60 lives lost. 

"It is deeply unfortunate and heart-wrenching that people on a journey to sympathize with others became victims of a calamity themselves."


"This is one tragedy too many, and the frequency with which we record such mishaps on our inland waterways should be a matter of grave concern to all Nigerians."


"On behalf of the entire Labour Party family, I extend our deepest condolences to the bereaved families, the government and people of Niger State, and indeed all Nigerians, on this national tragedy." Nenadi concluded.



FULL STATEMENT:


*Re: "From the Desk of Senator Nenadi E. Usman, PhD*


PRESS STATEMENT


It is with a heavy heart that I received the tragic news of the recent boat mishap in Niger State, where initial reports put the death toll at about 29, but has now, regrettably, risen to nearly 60 lives lost. This is one tragedy too many, and the frequency with which we record such mishaps on our inland waterways should be a matter of grave concern to all Nigerians.


According to the information at my disposal, the incident occurred at the Malale riverfront in Borgu Local Government Area of Niger State. The ill-fated boat, carrying about 90 passengers, departed Tugan Sule in Shagunu Ward, Borgu LGA, en route to Dugga for a condolence visit when the tragedy struck. It is deeply unfortunate and heart-wrenching that people on a journey to sympathize with others became victims of a calamity themselves.


I, therefore, use this moment to call on the relevant authorities to urgently consider more robust legislations and stricter regulation of our inland waterways. The recurrent boat mishaps in Nigeria - particularly in Niger State, where such tragedies have become very frequent - demand immediate and decisive action.


On behalf of the entire Labour Party family, I extend our deepest condolences to the bereaved families, the government and people of Niger State, and indeed all Nigerians, on this national tragedy.


*Senator Nenadi E. Usman, Ph.D* 

Interim National Chairman, Labour Party.  

4th September, 2025"


Farooq Kperogi's defense of Deji Adeyanju, a significant flaws and ethical breaches

Farooq Kperogi's defense of Deji Adeyanju, a significant flaws and ethical breaches


 Farooq Kperogi is rightly acclaimed as a versatile academic and a titan of Nigerian media commentary. But, a closer examination of his record reveals significant flaws and ethical breaches that complicate his stature. For instance, during a period of grief, he publicly alluded to Aisha Buhari as being "divorced" from her recently deceased husband. In another instance, he diagnosed former President Muhammadu Buhari with "dementia" without medical authority.


These are not mere differences of opinion but rather demonstrative examples of a troubling propensity to cross the lines of public decency and responsible commentary in pursuit of provocation. Our discernment of his work must account for moments where his analysis appears to veer into ethically questionable territory. 


It was in this context that I encountered his latest post: a curiously defensive and, I would argue, recreant polemic aimed squarely at undermining the legal merit of Peter Obi's suit against Adeyanju.


While Professor Farooq Kperogi's column presents itself as an "unemotional perspective," it is, in fact, a masterclass in constructing a narrative that selectively weaponises facts to defend defamation under the guise of robust public discourse. Its central flaw is the conflation of verifiable facts with malicious insinuation, and its argument, while intellectually stylish, is fundamentally unsound both legally and ethically.


The core of Kperogi's defense rests on two pillars: the legal doctrines of "truth" and "fair comment." But, his application of these doctrines is dangerously expansive. It's one thing to state that Peter Obi, as governor, invested state funds in a company linked to his former business interests, a matter of public record. It is entirely another to label that action "fraud" and its perpetrator a "fraud" and a "scum." The first is a fact that can be contextualised; the latter is a defamatory conclusion that imputes criminal intent without proof. The law recognises truth as a defense only if the defamatory imputation itself is true. Proving an underlying fact (the investment) does not automatically prove the truth of the malicious label (fraud) slapped onto it. Adeyanju’s rhetoric is not commentary; it is character assassination masquerading as critique.


Similarly, the "fair comment" doctrine protects honest expressions of opinion based on true facts. Kperogi points to the leaked audio as grounds for Adeyanju calling Obi a "religious bigot." But again, Adeyanju’s language transcends fair comment. A fair comment would be, "Obi's appeal to religious solidarity was divisive and cynical." Branding him a "bigot" is a definitive, pejorative judgment of character that the factual record does not incontrovertibly support. The doctrine is not a license to leap from a single data point to a damning and absolute personal indictment.


Kperogi’s argument commits a critical error by excising Adeyanju’s most egregious and unsupported claims into a narrow, dismissible sidebar. He admits that claims like Obi "pays all influencers online" are baseless and that calling him "always a scum" is a reckless personal insult. Yet, he bizarrely argues that Obi should only sue on these "narrow grounds," as if a defamation suit is a surgical strike rather than a response to the entire, toxic ecosystem of falsehoods that Adeyanju has cultivated. A defendant cannot poison the well with outright lies and then claim protection for the entire contaminated body of his speech because a few droplets within it contain mineral traces of truth.


The most pernicious part of Kperogi’s thesis is the assertion that public figures like Obi are "cowards" for suing and that such lawsuits are inherently "SLAPPs" (Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation). This is a grave misunderstanding of power dynamics. While SLAPPs are a real tool of the powerful, the premise that a private citizen activist is inherently the "weaker target" is naive. In the court of public opinion, amplified by social media, an activist like Adeyanju can wield immense power to shape narratives and destroy reputations with near-impunity. To suggest that a public figure must silently endure a relentless campaign of defamation, which includes both verifiable facts and outright lies woven together, is to demand they relinquish their right to a legal defense entirely. The right to "counter in the marketplace of ideas" is nullified when the marketplace is being flooded with sewage. Litigation is not always intimidation; sometimes, it is the only tool left to demand accountability for outright falsehoods.


Kperogi’s column operates on a dangerous slippery slope. By arguing that because some allegations have a basis in fact, Obi therefore forfeits his right to challenge any of them, he creates a charter for defamers everywhere. All one must do is mix a teaspoon of truth into a barrel of lies to gain immunity. The health of Nigerian democracy is not served by allowing activists to be "uncouth" and "defamatory." It is served by fostering a culture of rigorous, responsible criticism that respects the line between holding power to account and engaging in wanton character annihilation.


Peter Obi's lawsuit is not an attempt to criminalise uncomfortable facts. It is a challenge to the malicious and unsupported conclusions that Deji Adeyanju has grafted onto those facts. A truly "unemotional perspective" would recognise that the law exists precisely to adjudicate this difference, and that no one, regardless of their stature or profession, should be expected to accept being called a "fraud" and a "scum" as simply the price of a public life.


 Farooq Kperogi is rightly acclaimed as a versatile academic and a titan of Nigerian media commentary. But, a closer examination of his record reveals significant flaws and ethical breaches that complicate his stature. For instance, during a period of grief, he publicly alluded to Aisha Buhari as being "divorced" from her recently deceased husband. In another instance, he diagnosed former President Muhammadu Buhari with "dementia" without medical authority.


These are not mere differences of opinion but rather demonstrative examples of a troubling propensity to cross the lines of public decency and responsible commentary in pursuit of provocation. Our discernment of his work must account for moments where his analysis appears to veer into ethically questionable territory. 


It was in this context that I encountered his latest post: a curiously defensive and, I would argue, recreant polemic aimed squarely at undermining the legal merit of Peter Obi's suit against Adeyanju.


While Professor Farooq Kperogi's column presents itself as an "unemotional perspective," it is, in fact, a masterclass in constructing a narrative that selectively weaponises facts to defend defamation under the guise of robust public discourse. Its central flaw is the conflation of verifiable facts with malicious insinuation, and its argument, while intellectually stylish, is fundamentally unsound both legally and ethically.


The core of Kperogi's defense rests on two pillars: the legal doctrines of "truth" and "fair comment." But, his application of these doctrines is dangerously expansive. It's one thing to state that Peter Obi, as governor, invested state funds in a company linked to his former business interests, a matter of public record. It is entirely another to label that action "fraud" and its perpetrator a "fraud" and a "scum." The first is a fact that can be contextualised; the latter is a defamatory conclusion that imputes criminal intent without proof. The law recognises truth as a defense only if the defamatory imputation itself is true. Proving an underlying fact (the investment) does not automatically prove the truth of the malicious label (fraud) slapped onto it. Adeyanju’s rhetoric is not commentary; it is character assassination masquerading as critique.


Similarly, the "fair comment" doctrine protects honest expressions of opinion based on true facts. Kperogi points to the leaked audio as grounds for Adeyanju calling Obi a "religious bigot." But again, Adeyanju’s language transcends fair comment. A fair comment would be, "Obi's appeal to religious solidarity was divisive and cynical." Branding him a "bigot" is a definitive, pejorative judgment of character that the factual record does not incontrovertibly support. The doctrine is not a license to leap from a single data point to a damning and absolute personal indictment.


Kperogi’s argument commits a critical error by excising Adeyanju’s most egregious and unsupported claims into a narrow, dismissible sidebar. He admits that claims like Obi "pays all influencers online" are baseless and that calling him "always a scum" is a reckless personal insult. Yet, he bizarrely argues that Obi should only sue on these "narrow grounds," as if a defamation suit is a surgical strike rather than a response to the entire, toxic ecosystem of falsehoods that Adeyanju has cultivated. A defendant cannot poison the well with outright lies and then claim protection for the entire contaminated body of his speech because a few droplets within it contain mineral traces of truth.


The most pernicious part of Kperogi’s thesis is the assertion that public figures like Obi are "cowards" for suing and that such lawsuits are inherently "SLAPPs" (Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation). This is a grave misunderstanding of power dynamics. While SLAPPs are a real tool of the powerful, the premise that a private citizen activist is inherently the "weaker target" is naive. In the court of public opinion, amplified by social media, an activist like Adeyanju can wield immense power to shape narratives and destroy reputations with near-impunity. To suggest that a public figure must silently endure a relentless campaign of defamation, which includes both verifiable facts and outright lies woven together, is to demand they relinquish their right to a legal defense entirely. The right to "counter in the marketplace of ideas" is nullified when the marketplace is being flooded with sewage. Litigation is not always intimidation; sometimes, it is the only tool left to demand accountability for outright falsehoods.


Kperogi’s column operates on a dangerous slippery slope. By arguing that because some allegations have a basis in fact, Obi therefore forfeits his right to challenge any of them, he creates a charter for defamers everywhere. All one must do is mix a teaspoon of truth into a barrel of lies to gain immunity. The health of Nigerian democracy is not served by allowing activists to be "uncouth" and "defamatory." It is served by fostering a culture of rigorous, responsible criticism that respects the line between holding power to account and engaging in wanton character annihilation.


Peter Obi's lawsuit is not an attempt to criminalise uncomfortable facts. It is a challenge to the malicious and unsupported conclusions that Deji Adeyanju has grafted onto those facts. A truly "unemotional perspective" would recognise that the law exists precisely to adjudicate this difference, and that no one, regardless of their stature or profession, should be expected to accept being called a "fraud" and a "scum" as simply the price of a public life.

LABOUR PARTY PRESS STATEMENT: OPEN NOTE TO DEJI ADEYANJU — AMBITION WITHOUT PRINCIPLE IS WORSE THAN SUBSTANCE ABUSE

LABOUR PARTY PRESS STATEMENT: OPEN NOTE TO DEJI ADEYANJU — AMBITION WITHOUT PRINCIPLE IS WORSE THAN SUBSTANCE ABUSE

By Prince Tony Akeni, 

Labour Party National Publicity Secretary (Interim)




Deji Adeyanju & Prince Tony 

Substance abuse go far beyond narcotics intake, meth, _colos,_ heroin or other cerebrum invading and dementing hard drugs. 

Ambition without principle is worse than substance abuse. Any mental activity conceived in the labyrinths of ambition-damaged mind which distorts rational thinking and actions, either at a cost to the individual or to society at large, is as dangerous or more dangerous than substance abuse. 

These include uncontrollable drive for material acquisitions instead of society serving legacy, typical of officials of the ruling administration. It accounts for the pathologically obsessive attack rabies Deji Adeyanju harbours in his blood streams against His Excellency Peter Obi.

When ambition is unbridled and abused, blackmail becomes a strategy. The French social philosopher Oscar Wilde captured this when he wrote: "Ambition is the last refuge of the failure." George MacDonald was even closer home on Deji Adeyanju about greed driven hatred in his defining words: "Ambition is the evil shadow of aspiration."

Learning from mentors, Daniel Bwala and Reno Omokri

With the advent of the emilokan Presidency in 2023, Deji has learned crucial financial lessons. He learnt from his new mentors, the once merciless scorners and critics of President Tinubu, Daniel Bwala, the president's Special Adviser on Media & Public Communications, and Reno Omokri, the lynch pin of Nigeria's stomach infrastructure pseudo-critics. 

Deji learned that the shortest route to Tinubu's lake of federal treasury, bloated by the removal of subsidy, is to volunteer bootlicking services in either Tinubu's sycophancy orchestra or enlist in his infantry of attack dogs trained for the jugulars of APC's opposition leaders, chief of whom is Mr. Peter Obi. 

It is therefore not difficult to understand why, over the last several months, Deji Adeyanju frequently digs into Omokri's and Bwala's bags of heathen lies and blackmail manuals in pursuit of Tinubu's pockets and Tinubu's support for Deji's 2027 ambitions. 

One will, however, advise that Deji should not let the lures of corrupt administration politicians acquiring estates, plazas and mansions all over the capital and countryside make him succumb to unbridled ambitions for same.

Appointment or wealth by blackmail of the Labour Party's presidential phenom, Mr. Peter Obi, should not blind him to the true depths of the multi-dimensional sufferings of the Nigerian people on whose behalf he once claimed to be an activist for good governance, neither the excruciating urgency for the rescue of the Nigerian nation from second colonization by the ruling APC.

A good Nigerian 

Fortunately, there are still good Nigerians contrary to the view that holds otherwise. Fair-minded and upright citizens who do not need inducement, personal benefit or bribe to stand up for the truth.

One such Nigerian, Mr. Ike Abonyi, a reputable journalist and author, was present in July 2022 when the Labour Party's presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections, His Excellency Peter Obi, in his uncommon humility, simplicity and amity, met Deji Adeyanju for a mutual conversation about their political interests in the 2023 elections. This involved Obi running for Nigeria's Presidency on the platform of the Labour Party, and Deji for the Abuja Municipal Federal Constituency seat in the National Assembly potentially also on the platform of the Labour Party. 

It was Mr. Abonyi, a common friend of both Obi and Deji, who brokered and witnessed the meeting from its first minute to the end. With a rational, psychologically stable individual, it was the kind of privileged private conversation between two citizens that ought to have been treasured and kept that way eternally. But not so with Deji. Instead Deji turned it into a feedstock of garbage fiction for his imaginary social media empire. 

On his part Abonyi has since publicly attested that not one moment in the entire meeting which he moderated was Obi involved in any act or confession of corruption involving investing Anambra state's money in his private family business while he was governor of the state. Deji has not countered or contradicted him.

Traditional "welcome" kola, logistics goodwill

In most parts of Nigeria and many African societies, it is age-old tradition to offer a guest the traditional kola nut fruit, complemented with supporting physical cash called "wedge" down south. Where the kola nut is not available, the custom is these days commonly monetized.

In modern times, this tradition has expanded into logistics goodwill, and sometimes affinity empathy where a host extends money support to a visitor that may have travelled some distance or denied himself other activities of the day to visit a host, especially a financially well-off host.

It is not called bribe but custom because it is not given to cover up, solicit or co-opt the visitor into an act of corruption, crime investigation or scandal. 

Thus, even if, without conceding, Peter Obi had offered Deji Adeyanju a physical kola nut or the monetized version of the custom, it is not an act of corruption but a courtesy of custom.

It therefore amounts to an extremely malevolent, duplicitous and despicable misrepresentation of an African tradition for Deji to convert the gesture to an arsenal of political blackmail as Deji has notoriously set out to do against Peter Obi before the world. 

To garnish his fairy tale with a facade of credulity in his double-down on a Channels TV interview, Deji added that during the conversation with Peter Obi, Obi confessed to him that he invested Anambra state funds in his private family business, the bases upon which Deji accuses and defames Peter Obi as "corrupt." An illogical, infantile, apparent concoction.

However, from all over Nigeria and far beyond our borders, the Labour Party is delighted with and thankful for the feedback we are receiving from millions of Nigerians on Deji's self-immolating tinder of lies.

Nigerians are asking: what did His Excellency Peter Obi give Deji a "bribe" envelope for, two months after winning his own Presidential ticket of the Labour Party at Asaba? Was it to help Deji bribe his way through party primaries over which Obi had no control and did not assert one? 

What, in Deji's poorly woven imagination, led Obi to confess to him that as governor he dipped his hands into Anambra state treasury? Was it for forgiveness of sins because at that time Deji was the in-house catechist of Anambra Government House Chapel and Treasury?

Deji knows this.

In every election of Nigeria since 2023 to date, Tinubu sets the tone for violent brigandage, killings and mayhem against opposition voters and citizens throughout Nigeria. 

The traumatic memory of countless pro-Obi voters lynched, bloodied and some gunned to death, including pregnant victims and housewives during the 2023 elections are still fresh. This anomaly has been emphatically entrenched as the norm in Nigeria's elections especially following Tinubu's political philosophy of "snatch, grab and run" away with ballot results and power. Deji Adeyanju knows this.

On the contrary, all over the country, rightfully loud and strident against bad governance, members of Peter Obi's Obidient movement peacefully type their views on public governance, protests and dissenting opinions from keyboards and digital space from the quiet of their homes. They do not bear guns, hurt a soul or kill. Deji  knows this.

On the other hand, Tinubu's APC youths and zealots run wild committing mayhem, murder, myriad havoc and life threatening violence against dissenting voices all over the country, especially during election activities. Deji Adeyanju knows this. 

On November 24, 2024, over mere NURTW drivers union election conflict, a conflict over which the Appeal Court of Nigeria had already delivered judgment against President Tinubu supported faction of MC Oluomo, thugs of the President's violence and mayhem generalissimo, Oluomo, audaciously stormed in broad day the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) headquarters in Utako. 

Armed with guns and other dangerous weapons, MC Oluomo's thugs broke into the NUJ headquarter conference hall where the Appeal Court victorious drivers faction were holding a press meeting. 

The thugs seized and beat up everyone within their grip, violently chased out the participants and in the process destroyed the cameras and equipment of several journalists who were covering the event. A felony committed with impunity before the eyes and right in the hive of the Nigerian press. Adeyanju knows this.

Yet Deji obsessively and frequently but wrongly label the peaceful Obidient movement of Peter Obi as an unruly, abusive and intolerant body, as he disingenuously depicted in his recent Channels TV interview. Only sheer hypocrisy and his vaulting narcotics-like ambition to join Reno Omokri and Daniel Bwala for Tinubu's employment, contract or consultancy showers can be responsible for that.

Otherwise, how could Deji switch his once copiously confessed preference for the benevolent dove personality, sterling economic intelligence and towering character content of Peter Obi whom Deji has hailed numerous times as the best presidential choice in the entire country, suddenly switch preference and campaign for President Tinubu whose violent supporters massacre voters and send some to early graves in virtually every election since 2023? 

Doesn't Deji know this?


Tony Akeni Le Moin
Labour Party National Publicity Secretary (Interim)

Tuesday September 2, 2025

By Prince Tony Akeni, 

Labour Party National Publicity Secretary (Interim)




Deji Adeyanju & Prince Tony 

Substance abuse go far beyond narcotics intake, meth, _colos,_ heroin or other cerebrum invading and dementing hard drugs. 

Ambition without principle is worse than substance abuse. Any mental activity conceived in the labyrinths of ambition-damaged mind which distorts rational thinking and actions, either at a cost to the individual or to society at large, is as dangerous or more dangerous than substance abuse. 

These include uncontrollable drive for material acquisitions instead of society serving legacy, typical of officials of the ruling administration. It accounts for the pathologically obsessive attack rabies Deji Adeyanju harbours in his blood streams against His Excellency Peter Obi.

When ambition is unbridled and abused, blackmail becomes a strategy. The French social philosopher Oscar Wilde captured this when he wrote: "Ambition is the last refuge of the failure." George MacDonald was even closer home on Deji Adeyanju about greed driven hatred in his defining words: "Ambition is the evil shadow of aspiration."

Learning from mentors, Daniel Bwala and Reno Omokri

With the advent of the emilokan Presidency in 2023, Deji has learned crucial financial lessons. He learnt from his new mentors, the once merciless scorners and critics of President Tinubu, Daniel Bwala, the president's Special Adviser on Media & Public Communications, and Reno Omokri, the lynch pin of Nigeria's stomach infrastructure pseudo-critics. 

Deji learned that the shortest route to Tinubu's lake of federal treasury, bloated by the removal of subsidy, is to volunteer bootlicking services in either Tinubu's sycophancy orchestra or enlist in his infantry of attack dogs trained for the jugulars of APC's opposition leaders, chief of whom is Mr. Peter Obi. 

It is therefore not difficult to understand why, over the last several months, Deji Adeyanju frequently digs into Omokri's and Bwala's bags of heathen lies and blackmail manuals in pursuit of Tinubu's pockets and Tinubu's support for Deji's 2027 ambitions. 

One will, however, advise that Deji should not let the lures of corrupt administration politicians acquiring estates, plazas and mansions all over the capital and countryside make him succumb to unbridled ambitions for same.

Appointment or wealth by blackmail of the Labour Party's presidential phenom, Mr. Peter Obi, should not blind him to the true depths of the multi-dimensional sufferings of the Nigerian people on whose behalf he once claimed to be an activist for good governance, neither the excruciating urgency for the rescue of the Nigerian nation from second colonization by the ruling APC.

A good Nigerian 

Fortunately, there are still good Nigerians contrary to the view that holds otherwise. Fair-minded and upright citizens who do not need inducement, personal benefit or bribe to stand up for the truth.

One such Nigerian, Mr. Ike Abonyi, a reputable journalist and author, was present in July 2022 when the Labour Party's presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections, His Excellency Peter Obi, in his uncommon humility, simplicity and amity, met Deji Adeyanju for a mutual conversation about their political interests in the 2023 elections. This involved Obi running for Nigeria's Presidency on the platform of the Labour Party, and Deji for the Abuja Municipal Federal Constituency seat in the National Assembly potentially also on the platform of the Labour Party. 

It was Mr. Abonyi, a common friend of both Obi and Deji, who brokered and witnessed the meeting from its first minute to the end. With a rational, psychologically stable individual, it was the kind of privileged private conversation between two citizens that ought to have been treasured and kept that way eternally. But not so with Deji. Instead Deji turned it into a feedstock of garbage fiction for his imaginary social media empire. 

On his part Abonyi has since publicly attested that not one moment in the entire meeting which he moderated was Obi involved in any act or confession of corruption involving investing Anambra state's money in his private family business while he was governor of the state. Deji has not countered or contradicted him.

Traditional "welcome" kola, logistics goodwill

In most parts of Nigeria and many African societies, it is age-old tradition to offer a guest the traditional kola nut fruit, complemented with supporting physical cash called "wedge" down south. Where the kola nut is not available, the custom is these days commonly monetized.

In modern times, this tradition has expanded into logistics goodwill, and sometimes affinity empathy where a host extends money support to a visitor that may have travelled some distance or denied himself other activities of the day to visit a host, especially a financially well-off host.

It is not called bribe but custom because it is not given to cover up, solicit or co-opt the visitor into an act of corruption, crime investigation or scandal. 

Thus, even if, without conceding, Peter Obi had offered Deji Adeyanju a physical kola nut or the monetized version of the custom, it is not an act of corruption but a courtesy of custom.

It therefore amounts to an extremely malevolent, duplicitous and despicable misrepresentation of an African tradition for Deji to convert the gesture to an arsenal of political blackmail as Deji has notoriously set out to do against Peter Obi before the world. 

To garnish his fairy tale with a facade of credulity in his double-down on a Channels TV interview, Deji added that during the conversation with Peter Obi, Obi confessed to him that he invested Anambra state funds in his private family business, the bases upon which Deji accuses and defames Peter Obi as "corrupt." An illogical, infantile, apparent concoction.

However, from all over Nigeria and far beyond our borders, the Labour Party is delighted with and thankful for the feedback we are receiving from millions of Nigerians on Deji's self-immolating tinder of lies.

Nigerians are asking: what did His Excellency Peter Obi give Deji a "bribe" envelope for, two months after winning his own Presidential ticket of the Labour Party at Asaba? Was it to help Deji bribe his way through party primaries over which Obi had no control and did not assert one? 

What, in Deji's poorly woven imagination, led Obi to confess to him that as governor he dipped his hands into Anambra state treasury? Was it for forgiveness of sins because at that time Deji was the in-house catechist of Anambra Government House Chapel and Treasury?

Deji knows this.

In every election of Nigeria since 2023 to date, Tinubu sets the tone for violent brigandage, killings and mayhem against opposition voters and citizens throughout Nigeria. 

The traumatic memory of countless pro-Obi voters lynched, bloodied and some gunned to death, including pregnant victims and housewives during the 2023 elections are still fresh. This anomaly has been emphatically entrenched as the norm in Nigeria's elections especially following Tinubu's political philosophy of "snatch, grab and run" away with ballot results and power. Deji Adeyanju knows this.

On the contrary, all over the country, rightfully loud and strident against bad governance, members of Peter Obi's Obidient movement peacefully type their views on public governance, protests and dissenting opinions from keyboards and digital space from the quiet of their homes. They do not bear guns, hurt a soul or kill. Deji  knows this.

On the other hand, Tinubu's APC youths and zealots run wild committing mayhem, murder, myriad havoc and life threatening violence against dissenting voices all over the country, especially during election activities. Deji Adeyanju knows this. 

On November 24, 2024, over mere NURTW drivers union election conflict, a conflict over which the Appeal Court of Nigeria had already delivered judgment against President Tinubu supported faction of MC Oluomo, thugs of the President's violence and mayhem generalissimo, Oluomo, audaciously stormed in broad day the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) headquarters in Utako. 

Armed with guns and other dangerous weapons, MC Oluomo's thugs broke into the NUJ headquarter conference hall where the Appeal Court victorious drivers faction were holding a press meeting. 

The thugs seized and beat up everyone within their grip, violently chased out the participants and in the process destroyed the cameras and equipment of several journalists who were covering the event. A felony committed with impunity before the eyes and right in the hive of the Nigerian press. Adeyanju knows this.

Yet Deji obsessively and frequently but wrongly label the peaceful Obidient movement of Peter Obi as an unruly, abusive and intolerant body, as he disingenuously depicted in his recent Channels TV interview. Only sheer hypocrisy and his vaulting narcotics-like ambition to join Reno Omokri and Daniel Bwala for Tinubu's employment, contract or consultancy showers can be responsible for that.

Otherwise, how could Deji switch his once copiously confessed preference for the benevolent dove personality, sterling economic intelligence and towering character content of Peter Obi whom Deji has hailed numerous times as the best presidential choice in the entire country, suddenly switch preference and campaign for President Tinubu whose violent supporters massacre voters and send some to early graves in virtually every election since 2023? 

Doesn't Deji know this?


Tony Akeni Le Moin
Labour Party National Publicity Secretary (Interim)

Tuesday September 2, 2025

How Federal High Court Interprets Supreme Court's Judgment on LP Leadership Crises: Declares Abure's Tenure Expired, Affirms INEC's Rejection of Abure's NEC!

How Federal High Court Interprets Supreme Court's Judgment on LP Leadership Crises: Declares Abure's Tenure Expired, Affirms INEC's Rejection of Abure's NEC!

 Comrade Tony Akeni, Interim National Publicity Secretary, Labour Party


Senator Nenadi 

The Federal High Court in Abuja today put paid to the protracted confusion trailing the Supreme Court judgment delivered April 4 this year on the tenure of the Julius Abure led National Executive Council (NEC) of the Labour Party. 


The judgment has consequently also put to rest the ensuing furore of the judgment's true interpretation by contending parties.


Delivering its verdict today in the federal capital, the court unequivocally also upheld INEC's rejection of the Julius Abure leadership of the party contained in the electoral commission's affidavit on oath which asserted that Abure's tenure as national chairman of the Labour Party terminated on June 8, 2024, and that the purported Nnewi convention which Abure and his defunct council hitherto clung to was inconsistent with INEC's rules and regulations governing political party convention, the country's Electoral Act, illegal and therefore null and void. 


The development which gives the Nnenadi Usman council the clear and puts her squarely in the reins of the Labour Party leadership was made known today in Abuja by Sen. Usman Nenadi herself in an official statement on the judgment and spirited commendation of the judiciary on the party's leadership disputes and INEC. 


Below is the full statement.



I WELCOME THE FEDERAL HIGH COURT JUDGMENT IN SUIT NO. FHC/ABJ/CS/1523/2025 AND INEC’S SWORN CONFIRMATION OF THE EXPIRATION OF MR. JULIUS ABURE’S TENURE AS NATIONAL CHAIRMAN OF THE LABOUR PARTY


I received with profound relief and deep satisfaction the news of the judgment of the Federal High Court, Abuja, in Suit No. FHC/ABJ/CS/1523/2025, which today dismissed in its entirety the case instituted by Mr. Julius Abure against the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). This decision stands as yet another unambiguous and authoritative affirmation of the rule of law and the judiciary’s steadfast consistency in upholding the binding pronouncements of the Supreme Court of Nigeria.


This latest judgment aligns squarely with the earlier decision of the Supreme Court, delivered on 4 April 2025 in Appeal No. SC/CV/56/2025, which unequivocally nullified all previous recognitions of Mr. Abure’s purported leadership of the Labour Party. In its wisdom - and in strict adherence to the Supreme Court’s final pronouncement - the Federal High Court in Abuja rightly struck out the originating suit for want of jurisdiction. That decision of the apex court remains binding on all persons and authorities in Nigeria pursuant to Section 287 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.


I must also commend the Independent National Electoral Commission for the clarity, courage, and institutional integrity reflected in its Counter Affidavit during the pendency of the case. In that sworn testimony before the court, INEC categorically confirmed that the tenure of Mr. Abure, along with that of the entire National Executive Committee, expired in June 2024. The Commission further affirmed that it neither monitored nor recognised the purported National Convention held in Nnewi on 27 March 2024, having found it to be in flagrant breach of the 1999 Constitution (as amended), the Electoral Act 2022, INEC’s own Regulations and Guidelines for Political Parties 2022, and the Labour Party Constitution.


This unequivocal position, rendered under oath by the nation’s electoral umpire before a competent court of law, removes all lingering doubts and reinforces the imperative for every member, officer, and stakeholder of our great party to submit, at all times, to the supremacy of our Constitution and the dictates of the rule of law.


With this judgment - and INEC’s clear, unambiguous stance - it is time for all members of the Labour Party to put this needless distraction behind us and to recommit ourselves to the urgent task of rebuilding and repositioning our party into the credible, disciplined, and people-centred political movement that Nigerians deserve.


Under my leadership as Interim National Chairman, I remain unwavering in my commitment to ensuring strict compliance with our party’s Constitution, entrenching transparent internal democratic processes, and restoring unity, discipline, and shared purpose as we prepare for the political contests ahead.


_SIGNED:_


*Senator Nenadi Usman, PhD*

Interim National Chairman, Labour Party

15th August, 2025

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 Comrade Tony Akeni, Interim National Publicity Secretary, Labour Party


Senator Nenadi 

The Federal High Court in Abuja today put paid to the protracted confusion trailing the Supreme Court judgment delivered April 4 this year on the tenure of the Julius Abure led National Executive Council (NEC) of the Labour Party. 


The judgment has consequently also put to rest the ensuing furore of the judgment's true interpretation by contending parties.


Delivering its verdict today in the federal capital, the court unequivocally also upheld INEC's rejection of the Julius Abure leadership of the party contained in the electoral commission's affidavit on oath which asserted that Abure's tenure as national chairman of the Labour Party terminated on June 8, 2024, and that the purported Nnewi convention which Abure and his defunct council hitherto clung to was inconsistent with INEC's rules and regulations governing political party convention, the country's Electoral Act, illegal and therefore null and void. 


The development which gives the Nnenadi Usman council the clear and puts her squarely in the reins of the Labour Party leadership was made known today in Abuja by Sen. Usman Nenadi herself in an official statement on the judgment and spirited commendation of the judiciary on the party's leadership disputes and INEC. 


Below is the full statement.



I WELCOME THE FEDERAL HIGH COURT JUDGMENT IN SUIT NO. FHC/ABJ/CS/1523/2025 AND INEC’S SWORN CONFIRMATION OF THE EXPIRATION OF MR. JULIUS ABURE’S TENURE AS NATIONAL CHAIRMAN OF THE LABOUR PARTY


I received with profound relief and deep satisfaction the news of the judgment of the Federal High Court, Abuja, in Suit No. FHC/ABJ/CS/1523/2025, which today dismissed in its entirety the case instituted by Mr. Julius Abure against the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). This decision stands as yet another unambiguous and authoritative affirmation of the rule of law and the judiciary’s steadfast consistency in upholding the binding pronouncements of the Supreme Court of Nigeria.


This latest judgment aligns squarely with the earlier decision of the Supreme Court, delivered on 4 April 2025 in Appeal No. SC/CV/56/2025, which unequivocally nullified all previous recognitions of Mr. Abure’s purported leadership of the Labour Party. In its wisdom - and in strict adherence to the Supreme Court’s final pronouncement - the Federal High Court in Abuja rightly struck out the originating suit for want of jurisdiction. That decision of the apex court remains binding on all persons and authorities in Nigeria pursuant to Section 287 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.


I must also commend the Independent National Electoral Commission for the clarity, courage, and institutional integrity reflected in its Counter Affidavit during the pendency of the case. In that sworn testimony before the court, INEC categorically confirmed that the tenure of Mr. Abure, along with that of the entire National Executive Committee, expired in June 2024. The Commission further affirmed that it neither monitored nor recognised the purported National Convention held in Nnewi on 27 March 2024, having found it to be in flagrant breach of the 1999 Constitution (as amended), the Electoral Act 2022, INEC’s own Regulations and Guidelines for Political Parties 2022, and the Labour Party Constitution.


This unequivocal position, rendered under oath by the nation’s electoral umpire before a competent court of law, removes all lingering doubts and reinforces the imperative for every member, officer, and stakeholder of our great party to submit, at all times, to the supremacy of our Constitution and the dictates of the rule of law.


With this judgment - and INEC’s clear, unambiguous stance - it is time for all members of the Labour Party to put this needless distraction behind us and to recommit ourselves to the urgent task of rebuilding and repositioning our party into the credible, disciplined, and people-centred political movement that Nigerians deserve.


Under my leadership as Interim National Chairman, I remain unwavering in my commitment to ensuring strict compliance with our party’s Constitution, entrenching transparent internal democratic processes, and restoring unity, discipline, and shared purpose as we prepare for the political contests ahead.


_SIGNED:_


*Senator Nenadi Usman, PhD*

Interim National Chairman, Labour Party

15th August, 2025

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NIGERIA: Peter Obi Doesn't Have Times For Names Calling Politics, His Style Is Issue-based, Free From Personal Attacks or violence Says Tanko Yinusa

NIGERIA: Peter Obi Doesn't Have Times For Names Calling Politics, His Style Is Issue-based, Free From Personal Attacks or violence Says Tanko Yinusa


As far as the Nigerian politics is concerned, the Labour Party presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections Mr Peter Obi has no tim for name callings, his political styles devoid of personal attack and violence.


According to the Coordinator of the Obidient Movement world wide Dr Yunusa Tanko in a video uploaded by Channels Television on YouTube, he  emphasized that Peter Obi’s political style is distinctively issue-based and free from personal attacks or violence.


His political styles, nomenclature and approaches to issues are contrary to expectations from certain quarters who are of the opinions that Obi should be bullying and yelling on the personalities of the perceived enemies of the Nigerian citizens 


Tanko said: “Have you ever seen Mr. Peter Obi abusing anybody? He doesn't even call names. He deals with the issue.


“He's an issue based kind of politician and he never engaged anything about violence and that's what makes him different and distinct”


Obedient leader highlighted that Obi’s politics revolves around addressing Nigeria’s critical challenges rather than engaging in divisive or cheap blackmail. His focus is on rescuing Nigeria from poverty, insecurity, and systemic decay, particularly in the northern region where the level of poverty is alarmingly high.


Peter Obi’s dedication to grassroots engagement was illustrated by his travels to volatile areas by road, visiting internally displaced persons camps despite security risks.


Yinusa also addressed concerns from some Obi's supporters who fear that his coalition talks with other political figures might dilute his clean record and ideology.


He reassured that these discussions are about uniting like-minded individuals committed to Nigeria’s rescue, not about political power plays or alliances that compromise principles.


Going forward to 2027, a strong and formidable alliance may be an added advantage to ensure victory at the polls against the anti- people led APC government.


Regarding the Obedient Movement’s role, Yinusa said the youth-driven movement is being reorganized to regain momentum after the 2023 elections.


He noted the movement’s expansion across Nigeria, including northern states previously less engaged, emphasizing the growing interest of Nigerian youths in good governance.




As far as the Nigerian politics is concerned, the Labour Party presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections Mr Peter Obi has no tim for name callings, his political styles devoid of personal attack and violence.


According to the Coordinator of the Obidient Movement world wide Dr Yunusa Tanko in a video uploaded by Channels Television on YouTube, he  emphasized that Peter Obi’s political style is distinctively issue-based and free from personal attacks or violence.


His political styles, nomenclature and approaches to issues are contrary to expectations from certain quarters who are of the opinions that Obi should be bullying and yelling on the personalities of the perceived enemies of the Nigerian citizens 


Tanko said: “Have you ever seen Mr. Peter Obi abusing anybody? He doesn't even call names. He deals with the issue.


“He's an issue based kind of politician and he never engaged anything about violence and that's what makes him different and distinct”


Obedient leader highlighted that Obi’s politics revolves around addressing Nigeria’s critical challenges rather than engaging in divisive or cheap blackmail. His focus is on rescuing Nigeria from poverty, insecurity, and systemic decay, particularly in the northern region where the level of poverty is alarmingly high.


Peter Obi’s dedication to grassroots engagement was illustrated by his travels to volatile areas by road, visiting internally displaced persons camps despite security risks.


Yinusa also addressed concerns from some Obi's supporters who fear that his coalition talks with other political figures might dilute his clean record and ideology.


He reassured that these discussions are about uniting like-minded individuals committed to Nigeria’s rescue, not about political power plays or alliances that compromise principles.


Going forward to 2027, a strong and formidable alliance may be an added advantage to ensure victory at the polls against the anti- people led APC government.


Regarding the Obedient Movement’s role, Yinusa said the youth-driven movement is being reorganized to regain momentum after the 2023 elections.


He noted the movement’s expansion across Nigeria, including northern states previously less engaged, emphasizing the growing interest of Nigerian youths in good governance.



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