INEC Chairman Amupitan Honoured For Dedication At Law Teachers' Conference, As He Promised Reform , Free , Fair And Credible Electoral Process

The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Joash Ojo Amupitan, was honoured with a plaque for his "dedication, hard work, and inspiration to many" by the Federal University of Lokoja, during the 56th Annual National Conference of the Nigerian Association of Law Teachers (NALT).

The award highlighted a speech in which Prof. Amupitan pledged to collaborate with the National Assembly to deliver a “credible, fair, and free” electoral process for Nigeria.

Already under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu who has been vilifying Nigerians through his ant people's policies and programs, destabilizing the opposition political parties and silencing opposing views and critics, 2027 general election under his appointee Ojo Amupitan is on the watch for any credibility. Only time will tell.

Amupitan, addressing the conference, which he described as a “momentous occasion,” the INEC Chairman reflected on the foundational role of law in society. “Law is not merely a set of rules but a foundation upon which societies build their progress,” he stated, emphasizing that the electoral process is fundamentally driven by legal frameworks.

According to the INEC release, with the Electoral Act currently under amendment, Prof. Amupitan committed to active participation in the legislative process. “I will start waiting to participate in the National Assembly to be sure that we have a learning electoral process and laws that you and I and Nigerians should be proud of,” he said.

A key goal of this reform, he noted, is to reduce electoral litigations. “Let us not see electoral petitions in court,” Amupitan urged, stressing the aim to establish a fair process that inspires public confidence.

The presentation of the plaque from the Federal University of Lokoja served as a recognition of his ongoing contributions to public service and legal education, concluding an address where he also called for the support of the academic community in strengthening Nigeria's democracy.

Nigerians should not be carried away by political comments and promises but must rise up demand leadership accountable, ensure free , fair and credible elections in the country.

Source: INEC 

OBIORA IFOH, CLEMENT OJUKWU & OTHER NDIGBOS AGAINST PETER OBI'S PRESIDENTIAL BID: IMPLICATIONS TODAY & FUTURE"

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OPEN REPLY TO OBIORA IFOH'S CLAIM LP NATIONAL CHAIRMAN, PUBLICITY SECRETARY NOT PARTY MEMBERS

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

HIGHLIGHT

"For several years before 2010, the Labour Party chapter of Delta state was abolished by the National Executive Council (NEC) of the party's then national chairman, Chief (Barr.) Dan Nwanyanwu and late Alhaji A.A. Salaam, then National Secretary. The national leadership stated that this was because of rogue sellout of elections to the PDP dynasty of the Delta governors at the time, James Ibori and later Emmanuel Uduaghan. After entreaties to me by a delegation led by Emeka Nkwaola of Asaba textile union, I led remnants of the party in Delta state to Abuja to the National Chairman, Chief Dan Nwanyanwu, to unproscribe the Delta state chapter."

"The meeting which began with awkward, high octave hostility ended with roaring success after my intense presentation of a case for Delta LP's restoration.

"After my presentation and resolution of the mission, I, in that same occasion, presented to the National Chairman, Chief Dan Nwanyanwu, and his NEC a written proposal for the establishment of a "Labour University" by the Labour Party and its NLC founding institution for Nigeria's workers and underprivileged Nigerians in general. Chief Nwanyanwu enthusiastically received the proposal with the opening words: "Ideas rule the world." ...If the LU concept had been followed through by the Labour Party and the NLC, Labour University would have celebrated more than its 10th anniversary by this year.

"Beyond the successful restoration of the Delta state LP chapter by Chief Nwanyanwu's NEC, in order to expand the nationwide membership base of Labour Party at the time, I developed a membership recruitment scheme to boost the size and personality roll-call of the Labour Party in Delta state in particular and Nigeria in general. This culminated in my leading personality recruitment engagements and delegations to frontline Delta personalities such as Prof. Pat Utomi in Lagos, Barr. Victor Odebala of Sapele, the late veteran labour leader Chief Frank Kokori, also in Lagos, and other non-Deltans who included Cross River state former governor, Mr. Donald Duke.*

"At that time (in 2010), over fifteen years ago to the day, Julius Abure, Obiora Ifoh's master and saviour of his political universe, was a blurred mere dot in the circle of Labour Party affairs, to borrow Muhammadu Buhari's phrase; an unknown background shadow working as a postal clerk in NIPOST, Edo state, while somewhere in the west Arabambi was roaming in the wilderness of nowhere. Neither of the two was anywhere near the pedestal of my already region-wide influence ambit, much less national activity status in the Labour Party.

"Given the above, if these creatures, Obiora Ifoh and Abayomi Arabambi, were well brought up growing up, they would lie lizard flat on their bellies to greet me in obeisance wherever they meet me. Not interrogate my membership of the Labour Party. Unfortunately, it is apparent they were not.

"While many Nigerians who are not Igbos are dying for Obi's cause, fellow Ndigbo themselves such as Obiorah Ifoh, Clement Ojukwu, Joe Igbokwe, Minister David Umahi, Governor Charles Soludo, Governor Emmanuel Mbah, former governor Orji Uzor Kalu, the loquacious and delirious National Assembly Deputy Speaker Benjamin Kalu, Prisoner Ike Ekweremadu, similar doppelgangers or evil twins of the Igbo nation and sections of stomach infrastructure Ohaneze leadership have been going about like drunken sailors in a beach party recklessly endorsing Tinubu for 2027.

"With opium abandon, they have, both overtly and covertly, set out to reduce the extraordinary generational gem Nigerians of all tribes have found in the person of Peter Obi from "Obi Nwanne of Africa" to "PO of Agulu village," in the same manner their political ancestors cornered, narrowed and minimized Azikiwe from Zik of Africa to Owelle of Onitsha.

"Peter Obi's last best chance and the South-East's next best shot for a long time at the Presidency of Nigeria is 2027. If in 2027 Igbo nation allowed these Igbo political lice succeed to wreck Peter Obi's presidency bid while other Nigerians who are not Igbo are laying down their lives for a Peter Obi Igbo Presidency, let no Igbo person anywhere under the sun, elite or commoner, say Nigerians do not love the Igbos. It will be more correct, almost forever after, to say that Igbos do not love themselves. From 2027, it will officially become a universal maxim, signed and sealed by the Igbos themselves, that the Igbos love what is in their individual pocket and stomach more than their collective posterity and future."

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Tony 

1.  I read with profound sympathy for Igbo nation and Peter Obi, in particular, the recent bad air from one Obiora Ifoh in his reaction to a private memo addressed to the Sen. Nenadi Usman led National Executive Council (NEC) and Board of Trustees of the Labour Party, which, unfortunately, leaked and found its way to the Nigeria public a few days ago through the Vanguard and Punch newspapers of October 17 and '18 respectively, amongst others.

2.  To begin, let me dismiss with despatch Obiora's misleading claim in the above referred Punch newspaper wherein he alleged that Labour Party's national chairman, Sen. Nenadi Usman, is not a member of the party because, according to Obiora, Sen. Nenadi is not in the membership register of Abure's dead NEC of the party. A rebel band which Nigeria's highest court, the Supreme Court, comprehensively sacked on April 4, 2025. 

3.  Mr. Obiora Ifoh and one Abayomi Arabambi, another political rodent in the Julius Abure colony of felony which specializes in candidate fraud, documents forgery, grand thefts and perjury, jointly share the same title of "National Publicity Secretary" in the Supreme Court sacked defunct Julius Abure council of the party; a crass misnomer against Labour Party's constitution.

4.  Together, these two creatures constitute the ugliest, ethically depraved noise drums in the political space of contemporary Nigeria. 

5.  First, why should any Labour Party member be found in the register of a council declared dead and buried by a terminal judgment of the highest court in the land? 

6.  Secondly, all courts of Nigeria, from the lowest to the apex court, scrutinized, certified and satisfied themselves of Sen. Nenadi Usman's membership of the Labour Party, hence she was recognized as having locus standi on behalf of the party in all suits she filed against the Abure swarm, all of which she won without exception, eternally annulling and obliterating Abure's impersonating group from existence.  

7.  Next, let's look up Comrade Tony Akeni's membership of the Labour Party and his leadership status in the party. He was also declared by Obiora as one not in their dead council's membership register.

8.  For several years before 2010, the Labour Party chapter of Delta state was proscribed by the National Executive Council (NEC) of the party's then national chairman, Chief (Barr.) Dan Nwanyanwu and late Alhaji A.A. Salaam, then National Secretary. The Nwanyanwu NEC held that the shutting down of the party in Delta was because of rogue sellout of elections to the PDP dynasty of then Governor James Ibori and later Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan.

9.  On June 12, 2010, remnant stakeholders of the disbanded Delta state LP led a delegation to me (Tony Akeni) in Benin as a Labour Party stalwart of the South-South states who was recommended to them for my reach across the party. The Delta LP delegation, led by Mr. Emeka Nkwaola of the Asaba textile union and comprising one Mr. Emmanuel Emuakpodje, Pastor Tracy Agol and others, had come to entreat me to lead them to Chief Dan Nwanyanwu to plead a case for lifting the suspension of the Delta state Labour Party chapter in order to enable them participate in elections in Delta state. 

10.  This later came to include the Delta state governorship re-run election of February 6, 2011, after Justice Monica Dongban-Mensem, who was the Chief Judge of the Appeal Court Benin, in a seismic judgment that shook the country, sacked Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan for electoral transgressions in the 2007 governorship election of Delta state. Justice Monica is presently the President of the Appeal Court of Nigeria, Abuja.

11.  On June 12, 2010, I was in a June 12 celebration podium at the centre of a sea of music fiesta crowds at Museum Ground, King's Square, Ring Road, Benin City, with Dr. Osagie Obayuwana, performing musicians Majek Fashek and Orits Wiliki, Apostle Comrade Paul Oyarenua and other dignitaries when the Emeka Nkwaola delegation from Delta state entreated me to a side canopy to explain their predicaments and entreaty to approach National Chairman Chief Dan Nwanyanwu to unproscribe Delta Labour Party. 

12.  I was a co-coordinator of the June 12 rally in my capacity as Director of Mobilization of Nigerians United for Democracy (NUD), whose national leader was legal luminary Femi Falana (now SAN). Dr. Obayuwana was our state leader of the NUD, while Apostle Comrade Paul Oyarenua was our Edo state chapter chairman.

13.  Arriving Abuja the following week, the late Alhaji A.A. Salaam, then the national secretary of Labour Party, received my delegation and heralded us to the front of Chief Dan Nwanyanwu. The meeting which started with awkward, high octave hostility ended with roaring success after my intense presentation of a case for Delta LP's restoration. 

14.  After my presentation and resolution of the mission, I, in that same occasion, presented to National Chairman Chief Dan Nwanyanwu and his NEC a written proposal for the establishment of a "Labour University" by the Labour Party and its NLC founding institution. 

15.  Chief Nwanyanwu enthusiastically received the proposal with the opening words: "Ideas rule the world." He went on to narrate that while he was a struggling young man fresh out of school and used to travel by "luxurious buses" from the east to Lagos, he experienced how an entire jumbo bus would be stopped by pressed passengers to stop in the middle of nowhere, and passengers would run into the bush to relieve themselves. 

16.  Nwanyanwu said he afterwards at some forums suggested that toilet compartments should be built into luxurious buses. He narrated that a few years later, to his pleasant surprise, the first set of luxurious buses fitted with toilet closets arrived Nigeria. He concluded that my idea of a "Labour University for less privileged Nigeria workers and Nigerians in general" could see the light of day some day just like his closet idea in luxurious buses.

17.  After the Abuja delegation, Emeka Nkwaola of Imo state became the Delta state chairman of Labour Party, Emmanuel Emuakpodje of Kokori town, Delta Central, the state secretary, Emmanuel Amalokwe of Obiarukwu, Delta North, the organizing secretary and I, from Isoko nation, Delta South, the Delta state Labour Party publicity secretary, amongst others. Chief Dan Nwanyanwu and other persons mentioned above except A.A. Salaam and Majek Fashek are still alive to confirm this report. 

18.  Beyond the successful restoration of the Delta state LP chapter by Chief Nwanyanwu's NEC, in order to expand the nationwide membership base of Labour Party at the time, I developed a membership recruitment scheme to boost the size and personality roll-call of the Labour Party in Delta state in particular and Nigeria in general. This culminated in my leading personality recruitment engagements and delegations to frontline Delta personalities such as Prof. Pat Utomi in Lagos, Barr. Victor Odebala of Sapele, the late veteran labour leader Chief Frank Kokori, also in Lagos, and other non-Deltans who included Cross River state former governor, Mr. Donald Duke, in his office at Victoria Island, Lagos.

19.  Earlier, when Prof. Pat Utomi visited my kingdom of Ozoro in 2007 with his ADC presidential campaign train and was received in the home of 2nd Republic deputy Speaker of defunct Bendel State and 3rd Republic Senator, late Sen. Francis "Spanner" Okpozo, I, being a double-barrel prince of the kingdom, was by Sen. Okpozo's side to receive and hear Utomi on behalf of our palace political elite.

20.  Earlier in 2006 when the brilliant late Sen. Pius Ewherido, a former deputy Speaker of Delta state, came to Ozoro kingdom with his campaign entourage to sell his Delta governorship aspiration and Sen. Okpozo also received him on behalf of our kingdom, I was also delegated to receive him as observer on behalf of Ewherido's friends and associates of Ozoro kingdom. Pius attended Notre Dame College (NDC) Ozoro as a kid and had many friends and well-wishers in our kingdom. We were looking to convert him to the Labour Party if PDP missed him as their candidate.

21.  In the 2010 meeting with Chief Kokori in his home in Lagos, he addressed us on a wide range of issues from my entreaty of him to join the Labour Party as a veteran labour doyen, his arrest, torture and gulag travails during the June 12 struggle under tyrant Abacha to Chief Great Ogboru's contest-and-run-away perpetual governorship syndrome. You could feel intimately all over the war-tested labour veteran a traffic of exhaustion from moral betrayals and the agony of a loving one-woman man as he pointed upstairs over our heads, where he nursed his cherished wife who, he told us, had been bedridden for years. Chief Kokori concluded that day, "I don't have the energy to do this anymore. But maybe, for one last time because of your delegation, I will think over it." 

22.  That one last time made us to see him again, thin and bone weary, in Chief Ogboru's re-run governorship rally at Ughelli in 2011. He died a dozen years later on December 7, 2023 at the age of 80.

23.  Except late Chief Frank Kokori, Sen. Francis Okpozo and Sen. Pius Ewherido, all the persons mentioned above, fortunately, are alive. Go and verify, as Peter Obi would say.

24.  In 2010, over fifteen years ago to the day, Julius Abure, Obiora Ifoh's master and saviour of his political universe, was a blurred mere dot in the circle of Labour Party affairs, to borrow Muhammadu Buhari's phrase; an unknown background shadow working as a postal clerk in NIPOST, Edo state, while loitering somewhere in the west Arabambi was in the wilderness of nowhere. Neither was anywhere near the pedestal of my already region-wide influence ambit, much less national activity status in the Labour Party.

25.  Quite ahead of me in LP affairs then were the irrepressible Veteran Comrade Lawson Osagie. Side by side Pa Victor Aguebor, Pa Irowa, Chief Patrick Osagie Eholor (Ultimate Equals) and Pa Gabano, I held the Labour Party media trumpet in the background during the years of Adams Oshiomhole as governor of Edo state. 

26.  I was among the backroom influencers of the party when we organized and coordinated the Edo state Labour Party congress at Gabano Hotel, near Uniben, which brought Bishop Samuel Omede to office as Edo state LP chairman. Afterwards, from the dim backyards of his NIPOST employment Julius Abure clawed, scrambled and spidered his way into the spot of state secretary in Bishop Omede's state council of the Labour Party.

27.  Given the above, if these creatures, Obiora Ifoh and Abayomi Arabambi, were well brought up growing up, they would lie lizard flat on their bellies to greet me in obeisance wherever they meet me. Not interrogate my membership of the Labour Party. Unfortunately, it is apparent they were not.

*Hold Up. Stand Up for Peter Obi*

28.  About 20years ago, I read the editorial of a Tanzanian newspaper that shook me to my bones from the acid contempt, even hate, with which many African nations see Nigeria and our country's internal politics.

29.  It stated that Nigeria was one of the most absurd countries in the world where its citizens reduce their best to their lowest worst. Citing the life and times of Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe to exemplify the point, the Tanzanian newspaper said Nigeria had achieved the unbelievable feat of reducing the great Nnamdi Azikiwe from "Zik of Africa to Owelle of Onitsha."

30.  Together, African countries and the rest of the world are watching again. How, while many Nigerians who are not Igbos are dying for Obi's cause, while fellow Ndigbo themselves such as Obiorah Ifoh, Clement Ojukwu, Joe Igbokwe, Minister David Umahi, Governor Charles Soludo, Governor Emmanuel Mbah, former governor Orji Uzor Kalu, the loquacious and delirious National Assembly Deputy Speaker Benjamin Kalu, Prisoner Ike Ekweremadu, similar doppelgangers or evil twins of the Igbo nation and sections of stomach infrastructure Ohaneze leadership have been going about like drunken sailors in a beach party recklessly endorsing Tinubu for 2027. 

31.  With opium abandon, some like Obiorah Ifoh, Clement Ojukwu and Benjamin Kalu have, both overtly and covertly, set out to reduce the extraordinary generational gem Nigerians of all tribes have found in the person of Peter Obi from "Obi Nwanne of Africa" to "PO of Agulu village," in the same manner their political ancestors cornered, narrowed and minimized Azikiwe from Zik of Africa to Owelle of Onitsha.

32.  Great Nigerians like Femi Falana, Dele Farotimi, David Hundeyin (South-West), Yunusa Tanko, Haruna Goro, Nana Kazaure (North), Deacon Chris Iyovwaye, Smart Madu Ajaja, Aisha Yesufu, Magnus Oraka, Peter Akah (Niger Delta South-South), Reginald Nnorom, Precious Oruche "Mama Pee" (South-East) and many others have erased crooked old boundaries in Nigeria's political topography to prove that Nigeria can be one huge, united country and Africa's democratic powerhouse.

33.  Peter Obi's last best chance and the South-East's next best chance for a long time at the Presidency of Nigeria is 2027. If in 2027 Igbo nation allowed Igbo political lice succeed to wreck Peter Obi's presidency bid while other Nigerians who are not Igbo are laying down their lives for a Peter Obi Igbo Presidency, let no Igbo person anywhere under the sun, elite or commoner, say Nigerians do not love the Igbos. It will be more correct, almost forever after, to say that Igbos do not love themselves. From 2027, it will officially become a universal maxim, signed and sealed by the Igbos themselves, that the Igbos love what is in their individual pocket and stomach more than their collective posterity and future.

34.  In our time, we must reject the poison of these Ndigbo wolves against Peter Obi's person and presidential project. We must reject the Tanzanian curse and stand up for Peter Obi in 2027, provided he stands up for himself by filtering out and disbanding his choristers of misleading praise singers, and rising above sycophancy indulgence to pillar his cause with genuine trench soldiers who tell him the truth that will lead to his victory.

35.  Peter Obi and our Labour Party NEC must rise with a sense of urgency to launch confidence building agenda of actions and activities that will encourage and strengthen our party's remaining few loyal elected members of the National Assembly and State Houses of Assembly across the country. No effort should be spared to inspire them to remain true to the PO 2027 presidency project.

36.  In case Peter Obi and the Sen. Nenadi council are not adequately aware, currently these brave steadfast loyalists of our party are like forlorn IDP orphans in the National Assembly and various State Houses of Assembly. 

37.  They tip-toe about their daily activities within the National Assembly and State Assembly complexes to survive daily pressures on them to defect to the ruling APC and other ruling parties in various states. 

38.  They are under constant psychological onslaught of Tinubu's conquest storms under Senate President Godswill Akpabio's and Speaker Tajudeen Abbas' brinkmanship; an ancient Roman triumvirate determined to ensure Tinubu's wholesale state capture of Nigeria into a one-party banana pseudo-democracy. The time for all true Labour Party faithfuls to rally round them is now before it's too late.

God bless and keep us all, as many as will continue to stand tall by the truth and refuse to bow to Nigeria's god of cash-out corruption and political cash crops of compromised politics.

*Tony Akeni Le Moin*

Labour Party National Publicity Secretary (Interim)

Attempted Coup: Nigerian Defence Intelligence Reportedly Detains 16 Senior Military Officers Over Alleged Coup Plot To Overthrow President Tinubu

Defense Headquarters: : We Never Mentioned Any Coup Attempt But Professional Misconducts!

No fewer than 16 Senior Military Officers have been detained over an alleged coup plot to Overthrow President Bola  Tinubu.

The details of the detained officers are yet to be made public but they are Army Officers attached to NSA Nuhu Ribadu's office, including an Ex-Governor’s Nephew.

According to Sahara Reports in an exclusive report, at least sixteen senior military officers have been detained by the Armed Forces of Nigeria for allegedly planning a coup d’etat to overthrow Nigerian President.

However, the Nigerian Army in a press statement on Saturday said the detained officers under investigation were arrested and detained for professional misconduct been activities linked to the Nigeria’s 65th Independence Anniversary but was never linked to an alleged attempted military coup, called the report a spurious one.

The statement signed by the Director Defence Information, Brigadier General Tukur Gusau in Abuja,  the Armed Forces of Nigeria (AFN) categorically stated that the claims of any coup attempt  are entirely false, malicious, and intended to cause unnecessary tension and distrust among the populace. The decision regarding the cancellation of 65th independence anniversary parade  was  to allow Mr President attend a strategic bilateral meeting outside the country and for members of the AFN to sustain the momentum on the fight against terrorism, insurgency and banditry.

Nigeria witness the first military coup d'etat in January 1966 where the first generation of the country's leaders where brutally assassinated. A coup d'état is an overt attempt by a military organisation or other government elites to unseat an incumbent person or leadership.

The present socio-economic, political and State of insecurity in the country is at alarming rates as the government policies and programs are basically anti masses. The Nigerian citizens are hoping for a democratic change of government by 2027 if the electoral umpire will be impartial with the electoral processes as majority are tired of the APC led pro Terrorists Regime. 

However, the opposition political parties are in comatose with the agents of the ruling party APC destabilizing both Labour Party (LP) and People's Democratic Party (PDP). The hope for a peaceful and democratic change of government via a free, fair and credible elections are becoming slime.

Neighbouring countries in West Africa like Mali, Bokina Faso and Niger Republic are currently under military juntas.

Despite APC mis-governance and maladministration of the highest order,, support for any military intervention will be very minimal especially among the elites and those who either witness or are part of the June 12 1993 elections and struggles that claimed many lives before the the country returned to democracy in 1999.

The decades of military rules and unchecked corruption lead the country to this present Golgotha where the country is regarded as the global capital of poverty.

Read below, the Army statement:

PRESS RELEASE

DHQ NEVER MENTIONED ANY COUP ATTEMPT 

1.  The attention of the Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has been drawn to a false and misleading report by an online publication insinuating that the cancellation of activities marking Nigeria’s 65th Independence Anniversary was linked to an alleged attempted military coup. The report also made spurious references to the recent DHQ press release announcing the arrest of sixteen officers currently under investigation for professional misconduct.

2.  The Armed Forces of Nigeria (AFN) wishes to categorically state that the claims by the said publication are entirely false, malicious, and intended to cause unnecessary tension and distrust among the populace. The decision regarding the cancellellation of 65th independence anniversary parade  was  to allow Mr President attend a strategic bilateral meeting outside the country and for members of the AFN to sustain the momentum on the fight against terrorism, insurgency and banditry.

3.  Furthermore, the DHQ wishes to reassure Nigerians that the ongoing investigation involving the sixteen officers is a routine internal process aimed at ensuring discipline and professionalism is maintained within the ranks. An investigative panel has been duly constituted, and its findings would be made public.

4.  The DHQ calls on all peace loving citizens to continue to provide necessary support to the security agents. The FG, the legislature and the judiciary are working closely for the safety, development and well being of the nation. Democracy is forever. 

5.  The DHQ urges members of the public to disregard the falsehood being circulated by the purveyors of misinformation and enemies of our nation. The Armed Forces of Nigeria remains firmly loyal to the Constitution and the Federal government under the leadership of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR.

Signed:

TUKUR GUSAU

Brigadier General

Director Defence Information, Abuja

18 October 2025

Insecurity in Nigeria: Fans of the Romanian national football team Identify with Nigerian Christians ( Photos)

 

'Defend Nigerian Christians'

Fans of the Romanian national football team unfurled a banner before their Worlld Cup Qualifier

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

Alaafin in Igbo-Ora, Stresses on confounding power of cultures, significance of twins in Yorubaland

By

Bode Durojaiye

Yesterday's road-trip led dignatories and people from all walks of life to Igbo-Ora, a small town in Oyo State reputed for having a large occurrence of twin births.

Only two other towns in the world share this phenomenon - Kodinhi, India and Candido, Brazil, but Igbo-Ora has the largest population.

Igbo-Ora, is famously known as the “Twin Capital of the World.”

It is believed that one in every four births in this community results in twins. This rate is incredibly high, considering that the global average is estimated at one in every 80 births.

The phenomenon of twinning in Igbo-Ora has been a topic of interest for decades, and researchers have been studying the town to try and unravel the mystery behind it. While there is no conclusive evidence to explain the high rate of twin births in the community, many theories have been put forward.

The people of Igbo-Ora have a deep cultural appreciation for twins, and they are viewed as a symbol of good fortune and a source of pride in the community. Twins are often referred to as “Ibeji,” which means “double birth.” The town celebrates Twins Festival annually, which attracts people from all over the world who have an interest in twinning.

Apart from the fascination with twins, Igbo-Ora is also a beautiful town with a rich cultural heritage. The community is known for its skilled craftsmen who create exquisite wooden carvings that are sold all over Nigeria and beyond. The town is also home to the popular Oke-Mosan Hill, which provides a panoramic view of the town and its surroundings.

Igbo-Ora is a unique town in Nigeria that has gained worldwide attention due to its high rate of twin births. While the mystery behind this phenomenon remains unsolved, the town continues to celebrate and cherish its twins, who are viewed as a blessing to the community.

Against this background and in its annual practise, the Oyo State Government , through the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Ibarapa Central Local Government and in conjunction with TWC Intercontinental today celebrated 2025 World Twins Festival in Igbo- Ora town.

The theme of this year's celebration is " Twinning For Youth Re-orientation And Empowerment ".

The festival which attracted hundreds of twins and their families, also featured traditional music, dances, and rituals to honour the twins and seek blessings from Ibeji.

Symbolically, a mother of twins presented her children to both the Alaafin and Ayaba , after which His Imperial Majesty carried the twins before they were returned to their mother amid admiration from the crowd.

The well attended event was colourful, as the Alaafin and his entourage were warmly received by traditional rulers from Ibarapa area of the State amid drumming and panegyrics with thunderous shouts of "" Iku Baba Yeye"" from the surging crowd.

In his address, the Alaafin of Oyo , His Imperial Majesty, Oba Engineer Abimbola Akeem Owoade 1, said Yoruba people are blessed with diverse cultural systems that are distinctly unique in their operations.

According to him, ""from their language to marriage, to birth or naming

ceremony, to leadership, and most significantly their songs, chants

and folks are deeply rooted in all the Yoruba cultural systems .

""For instance, there are praise poetries and songs for children of various

birth circumstances such as Ibeji (twins). The popular question is expressed with astonishment when one sees two humans who look very similar, especially of the same sex, possibly even wearing identical clothing. Yet, as fascinating as it is, twin births are not as rare as you probably think; one in every twelve Nigerian is a twin"".

Alaafin' who was accompanied by his pretty and charming Queen Consort, Ayaba Abiwunmi, stated that twins hold a unique and revered position in Yoruba culture.

By Bode Durojaiye, 

Director of Media and Publicity to the Alaafin, Paramount Ruler of Oyo Kingdom and the Superior Head of Yorubaland

POINT-BLANK: NEW INEC CHAIRMAN PROF. AMUPITAN — A REDEEMER OR ANOTHER HOPE BETRAYED, TIME WILL TELL - LABOUR PARTY

By Prince Tony Akeni



"Labour Party, in particular, will forever remember Prof. Mahmood Yakubu's pretentious cooperation in matters of justice in political parties' internal leadership affairs. While pretending to follow due process in enabling Labour Party to resolve its Julius Abure led tenure rebellion, Prof. Yakubu Mahmood in another hand, in unashamed treachery, actually connived to betray justice for the party to the last minute of his exit. Prof Mahmood deliberately retained the name of the Supreme Court sacked Abure on INEC website as the party's national chairman, clinically sabotaged the Labour Party from participating in crucial elections throughout the country by unlawfully delisting the party from fielding candidates in the 2025 local government elections of various states, the Abuja municipal council elections coming up in 2026 and all other tiers of election across the country to the end of his tenure...

"As many Nigerians who are not yet under the collective hypnotism of APC's baptism of delusion *WILL ASK* , what rationale, except the opium of corruption harvest, made Prof. Yakubu Mahmood to retain on INEC's portal the defunct Julius Abure led leadership of Labour Party in spite of having the certified judgment of the Supreme Court and its corroborating interpretation of the Abuja Federal High Court, both of which unequivocally ruled that the Julius Abure leadership of the Labour Party had irreversibly ended?


"That is the Prof. Yakubu Mahmood the Labour Party and 230million Nigerians remember, and history centuries away will also remember and wrinkle their noses at his final resting place."

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Prof. Joash Ojo Amupitan has a fate larger than life thrust at his feet. To either redeem the largest democracy in Africa or further mutilate and bury its corpse which the ballot master-liar of all time, Prof. Yakubu Mahmood, has left behind as INEC chairman.

Above the pecks, glamour and glitter of the highly visible office which Prof. Amupitan now occupies, he must choose what he wishes to achieve and be remembered for.

He must choose who he will serve and the legacy he wishes to leave behind for his name and posterity.

He must choose whether to be honoured by more than 230million Nigerians who employed President Bola Ahmed Tinubu or to serve the unconstitutional wishes and caprices of a single man, Tinubu, who appointed him.


To help him make that choice, Prof. Amupitan will do well to reflect how more than 230million Nigerians at home and all over the world will forever remember his immediate predecessor, Prof. Yakubu Mahmood.


Under the Obasanjo years, when Nigerians' thought Prof. Maurice Iwu, the INEC chairman at the time, was the worst electoral referee that happened to Nigeria, Prof. Attahiru Jega happened to Nigeria and erased that record. This was to the extent that one Elder Godsday Orubebe, who was the Minister of Niger Delta in the Jonathan administration of the time, screamed blue murder and embarked on a one-man rampage against INEC at the 2015 presidential election collation centre in front of the world press and international election observers.


At the close of that era when Nigerians' thought that it was impossible to manufacture a worse election overseer than Jega, Prof. Yakubu Mahmood came to mortally mar the mood and seal the hopes of Nigerians that elections could ever be free, fair or credible in our country, destroying the last vestige of Nigeria's electoral integrity almost to the point of no redemption.


Before Mahmood's tenures as INEC chairman, Nigerians merely lamented if their votes would count but with some reservoir of hope. However, Prof. Yakubu Mahmood buried that hope and made it a proverb of despair set in concrete, creating an endemic voter apathy throughout Nigeria that has no comparison in any other country in Africa and almost the whole world.


In the run-up to the epic 2023 general elections, Prof. Yakubu Mahmood promised Nigerians and the world in countless media briefings that ballot results would be transmitted in real-time from the polling units and entered from BIVAS records to the IREV servers for global integrity.


Mahmood promised this would be a process that shall not be compromised, violated or accepted by INEC, only to brazenly take the opposite stand against his sworn process by dismissing BIVAS results as non-compulsory in the collation of election results. He and his returning electoral commissioners across the country then uploaded insanely mutilated and duplicated result sheets supplied by the ruling party to announce the 2023 results, stood by those mutilations at the post-election tribunals, and returned the snatch-and-run-with-it concoctions of the presidential election, numerous governorship and countless National and State Assembly results as winners against the actual landslide presidential victory of the Labour Party and similar victory by other opposition political parties at different tiers of the polls.


As his last achievement for the ruling APC, at the end of which President Tinubu gave him a parting send-off with the national award of Commander of the Order of the Niger, Prof. Yakubu Mahmood also successfully pulled off a historic pre-election heist to make rigging easier for the ruling party in 2027 by manufacturing out-of-the-world phantom records of new voters registration in President Tinubu's home state of Osun.


Mahmood awarded a record 393,269 new voters in Osun state alone against just 1,998 new voters in the entire five South-East states combined. Nearly half a million new voters in the single state of Osun which has a population of 4.6million citizens, and less than 2,000 new voters in all the five states of Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo which command over 36million citizens!


Labour Party, in particular, will forever remember Prof. Mahmood Yakubu's pretentious cooperation in matters of justice in political parties' internal leadership affairs. While pretending to follow due process in enabling Labour Party to resolve its Julius Abure led tenure rebellion, Prof. Yakubu Mahmood in another hand, in unashamed treachery, actually connived to betray justice for the party to the last minute of his exit. Prof Mahmood deliberately retained the name of the Supreme Court sacked Abure on INEC website as the party's national chairman, clinically sabotaged the Labour Party from participating in crucial elections throughout the country by unlawfully delisting the party from fielding candidates in the 2025 local government elections of various states, the Abuja municipal council elections coming up in 2026 and all other tiers of election across the country to the end of his tenure. Mission accomplished, national award received, evil done and dusted, APC's 2027 victory guaranteed! So they think.


As many Nigerians who are not yet under the collective hypnotism of APC's baptism of delusion, what rationale, except the opium of corruption harvest, made Prof. Yakubu Mahmood to retain on INEC's portal the defunct Julius Abure led leadership of Labour Party in spite of having the certified judgment of the Supreme Court and its corroborating interpretation of the Abuja Federal High Court, both of which unequivocally ruled that the Julius Abure leadership of the Labour Party had irreversibly ended?


That is the Prof. Yakubu Mahmood the Labour Party and 230million Nigerians remember, and history centuries away will also remember and wrinkle their noses at his final resting place.


For the Labour Party, the first all-important litmus test that the new INEC chairman, Prof. Joash Ojo Amupitan, will pass to prove that he has come to serve Nigeria in ernest of his oath of office is to remove the last dust and trace of Julius Abure and his defunct council members from INEC's portal and replace them with the Nenadi Usman led council which the statutory NEC of the party has submitted as its executive council. This will be in accord with the Supreme Court's judgment that the leadership of political parties is strictly the result of the internal decision and processes of parties. This also complies with both Nigeria's and global conventions which forbid leadership vacuum in the management of public institutions.


As Prof. Joash Amupitan steps into the shoes of his departed predecessor, he must realize that he is not only on the radar of Nigerians but the entire civilize world, the West and emerging democracies of the world which look unto Nigeria for good or bad examples.



Amupitan must prove to the world that he is not another election puppet out to serve the dictates of incumbents and ballot vampires for his personal enrichment at the expense of Nigeria's international image, global respect, progress and advancement, like most of his predecessors, but a true electoral umpire out to serve and save our country's long troubled democracy.



What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his soul? Nothing but eternal condemnation. Both the Holy Bible and the Holy Quran agree on this at Mark 8:36 and Q57:20 respectively.



Joash Amupitan, get off the gory road of power vapour and walk the glory road of eternity's favour.




Prince Tony Akeni,

Labour Party National

Publicity Secretary (Interim)

APC Government Owned the Terrorists: Nigerian Troops Rescue More Kidnapped Victims, Continue Onslaught Against Bandits in Kwara State

The Nigerian Army has said it's Troops of 2 Division/Sector 3, Operation FANSAN YAMMA, have sustained aggressive operations against bandits in Kwara State, leading to the successful rescue of three kidnapped victims at different locations within the Babanla Forest on Saturday, 11 October 2025.

According to the statement made available to the general public, acting on credible intelligence, troops deployed at the Patrol Base Babanla swiftly mobilised to a suspected bandit hideout and rescued Mrs Oluwabusayo Taiwo, aged 25, and her 3 years old son, Taiwo Irayomide, who were among the victims abducted at Oke-Ode on 28 September 2025.

The rescued victims are currently receiving first aid treatment at the Patrol Base sick bay and will be reunited with their family members in due course.

Also the troops while on routine patrol along a suspected bandit route, also rescued Mr Mohammadu Sani, known as Mai Shayi,* a 40 years old local tea seller from Garkarima. The bandits fled upon sighting the patrol team, abandoning the victim, who was found in a pool of blood. Troops recovered one dane gun and a cutlass from the scene. The victim is currently receiving medical attention at the Patrol Base sick bay.

The Commander, 22 Armoured Brigade, Brigadier General Ezra Barkins, commended the troops for their swift response and professionalism, while reaffirming that the Nigerian Army will remain committed towards ensuring the safety and security of all citizens and will continue to intensify operations aimed at restoring peace and stability across Kwara State and its environs 

It is on records that insecurities in Nigeria have been aggravated since enthronement of APC leadership in 2015. Beyond Boko Haram terrorism, the country has graduated to multiple non state actors terrorism by bandits , kidnapping for ransoms and Fulani herdsmen killing the defenseless and helpless citizens while the Tinubu led APC gangs keeps imposing taxes, devalued national currency, reduced the purchasing power of the people and keeps the country permanently as the global capital of poverty. The government has also crippled the opposition political parties in the country and silence critics 

APC Government Owned the Terrorists: Name of towns deserted In KWARA STATE Because of Bandits Attacks as at NOW (+Video)

These Are the Name of towns deserted In KWARA STATE By Band!t as at NOW

1) Ologomo Town

2) Ajegunle Town

3) AgbanTown

4) Alebe Town

5) Owode Town

6) Alasoro Town

7) Alawan Town

8) Bankole Town

9) Oreke Town

10) Ganmu Town

11) Babanla Town

12) Ayetoro Town

13) Budo Town

14) Arifowomo Town

15) Apata Olosun Town

16) Oreke Isale Town

17) Sagbe  Town

18) Olohun Tele Town

19) Oke Ode Town

20) Ilu Agunjin Town.

KWARA SOUTH IS  BLEEDING

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APC government came to Power in the year 2015 with empty rhetorics to fight and end Boko Haram terrorism but the party only succeeded in intriduciynore terrorists groups such as the Fulani herdsmen, bandits, megsl kidnapping for ransom and the current group unleashing terrors in the North Central of the country.

APC government has failed in the primary responsibilities of governance, protection of lives and properties but Tinubu led APC gangs only knows how to collect taxes, reduced the purchasing power of the citizens, sharing abject poverty for greater numbers of people.

 It is the constitutional duty of the President to protect lives and property — not to multiply taxes while citizens are fleeing their hometowns.

You cannot build national prosperity on insecurity.

When people abandon their homes, farmlands, and local economies out of fear, the foundation of governance collapses.

Security is not just a moral duty — it is the economic backbone of every stable nation.

How do you tax a farmer who can’t access his land?

How do you expect productivity from a citizen who sleeps in fear?

Every displaced family represents a shrinking economy — a town losing its workforce, a market losing its buyers, and a government losing its legitimacy.

Yet in this country, the death of Nigerians has become just another statistic — names reduced to numbers, headlines recycled like weather reports.

We mourn for a day, move on by tomorrow, and the government calls it “progress.”

Leadership without security is taxation without humanity.

While the government focuses on new levies and economic jargon, the real economy — the people — is dying in silence.

And those joining this administration to tell us it’s making progress are the worst kind of humans —

soulless defenders of failure.

They are like the Uruk-hai from The Lord of the Rings — bred for destruction, loyal only to evil, and blind to the ruin they serve.

To worsen it, they travel across the world gaslighting citizens —

telling the international community that there is no corruption back home,

while the nation they left behind bleeds from the wounds of theft, lies, and silence.

And the saddest part?

Many of you think you’re supporting your party while all this evil is taking place.

You defend the same system that is destroying your future,

clap for oppressors who wouldn’t spend a second living your reality,

and mock those who still dare to speak.

You cannot measure GDP when the ground itself is unsafe.

Until lives are protected, every new tax is blood money collected from the displaced and forgotten.

A serious government protects first, reforms next, and taxes last.

But in today’s Nigeria, the order is reversed — we are being taxed for a nation we can no longer live in.

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

 

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• 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

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

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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, 

Bandits on Rampage In Kwara State, Kill One, Abduct Stepbrother In Fresh Attack In Gbale Community, Face Resistance From Locals

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Armed bandits were reportedly on Rampage in renewed wave of attacks across Kwara’s riverine and forested communities, many of which have faced repeated kidnappings and killings in recent months.


According to the reports on Thursday, Bandits again struck Edu Local Government Area in Kwara State, killing one person and abducting another during an early-morning raid in Gbale community. Different eyewitnesses accounts confirmed that the attackers arrived around 2:00 a.m. but were met with fierce resistance from local hunters and vigilantes, who engaged them with superior firepower.

Overwhelmed, the gunmen retreated toward Bishewa settlement. In Bishewa, the assailants launched another assault, killing one of two stepbrothers in their home and abducting the other.

“They killed Ndako, the elder brother, and took the younger one, Audu, away,” a source told reporters.

The renewed wave of attacks has escalated tension across Kwara’s riverine and forested communities, many of which have faced repeated kidnappings and killings in recent months.

In response, the Nigerian Army has reportedly deployed a full brigade and heavy equipment to Kwara South and parts of Kwara North to flush out bandits from forest hideouts.

According to Rafiu Ajakaye, Chief Press Secretary to Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, troops were observed advancing through Oke Ode and Babanla in Ifelodun Local Government Area.

The operation, conducted under Operation Fasan Yanma, also covers the Edu and Patigi councils, where soldiers are combing dense forests frequently used by kidnappers for ransom activities

THE FALLACY OF A BLAMELESS GOVERNMENT: A TREATISE ON THE MISDIAGNOSIS OF NIGERIA’S PROBLEMS

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By Taiwo Akiniami

There is a growing movement in Nigeria, one that argues that “the problem of Nigeria is Nigerians.” They say, “Let’s forget government. Let’s focus on ourselves.” They point to the carpenter who cheats, the doctor who defrauds, the mechanic who lies, the teacher who neglects. Their conclusion? “The failure of the nation lies not in the state, but in the citizen.”

At first, this sounds noble. Indeed, citizens must take responsibility for their conduct. But when examined closely, this argument is both shallow and dangerous, for it exonerates government and erases the moral and structural accountability of leadership.

If those who govern us are not imported, if they are Nigerians, products of our culture, schools, and communities, then how do we separate “the people” from “the government”? When analysts say “Nigerians are Nigeria’s problem” yet conveniently remove government from their diagnosis, they reveal a deeper intellectual dishonesty: they seek to absolve power while condemning the powerless.

If we follow this logic, then let us take it to its conclusion:

If government is not part of Nigeria’s problem, then government is unnecessary.

Let us abolish the state, dismantle its institutions, and return to a state of nature where everyone governs himself, a condition we already seem dangerously close to in our present national reality.

But no sane society does that.

Government exists precisely because human weakness demands structure, accountability, and justice. To say “government can’t do everything” is true, but it is not a message for Nigeria, where the question is not what government cannot do, but what it has done in accordance with its constitutional duty to ensure the welfare and security of the people.

To now say “government is not responsible for anything” is not realism; it is tyranny wrapped in populist language and emboldening lawlessness.

THE VANISHING IDEA OF ACCOUNTABILITY

In mature democracies, opposition is the conscience of governance. In the United Kingdom, the opposition is not a passive critic, it is a government-in-waiting, armed with its own social, political, and economic programs. It presents viable alternatives to the ruling party, woos the people with ideas, and dissects every major policy, addressing the nation after each significant government statement.

In the United States, the pattern is similar. After every State of the Union Address, the opposition delivers its own formal response, line by line, policy by policy, offering citizens an ideologically grounded alternative vision of governance. Opposition is not rebellion; it is a pillar of democracy.

In Nigeria, there is no such balance. The President delivers an Independence Day address, and no opposition party steps forward to critique its economic assumptions, social content, or policy soundness. Instead, the duty of dissent has fallen to ordinary citizens.

Today, it is the people, writers, journalists, social commentators, activists—who constitute the only meaningful opposition left. And when private citizens dare to speak truth to power, they are branded “bitter,” “unpatriotic,” or “the problem of Nigeria.”

THE COLLAPSE OF TRUE DEMOCRACY

Our democracy has been emptied of opposition, accountability, and courage.

The ruling elite governs without scrutiny; the opposition sleeps without shame; and the people are told to be silent in the name of patriotism.

We are witnessing a democracy that functions like an autocracy, where citizens are blamed for corruption while the corrupt are celebrated. The public good has been replaced with private greed, and moral responsibility has been outsourced to the powerless.

THE TRUE DIAGNOSIS

Yes, Nigerians must fix Nigeria but that includes those in power: ministers, governors, lawmakers, civil servants, and local officials who shape policy, control budgets, and enforce the law. Leadership is not a separate species; it is drawn from the citizenry.

When you remove government from the analysis, you commit a grave intellectual error—you amputate the very organ that drives the body.

Reform must therefore begin from both ends:

A responsible citizenry, committed to integrity and civic duty.

A responsive government, bound by law, transparency, and justice.

You cannot cure a nation by blaming its patients while excusing its doctors.

THE PATH FORWARD

Let us rebuild a participatory democracy where government is not a deity but a servant; where opposition is not treason but patriotism; and where truth is not punished as disloyalty.

Let us teach our children that governance is not an escape from accountability, but its highest test.

A country that silences criticism in the name of peace is not seeking peace, it is postponing explosion.

Nigeria must now choose: either to confront its leadership failures or to keep blaming its victims.

5 Months in Marriage: A Lieutenant Colonel Set Ablaze by wife in Akwa Ibom State

A Nigerian Army officer Dr Samson Haruna was reportedly set Ablaze by his wife at Wellington Bassey Barracks, at Ibagwa, Abak Local government Area in Akwa Ibom State.

Lieutenant Haruna  was a new recruited military officer from Jos. He graduated as a medical doctor before joining the military and was commissioned in the army with the rank of lieutenant last year in 2024.

According to a report, he got married to his wife Mrs Samson Haruna in April 2025. On September 22nd 2025, they had a heated argument over her suspicion of him cheating on her and one thing led to another and she doused him with petrol and set him on fire.

He was barely 5 months in the marriage when the incident happened at Wellington Bassey Barracks, at Ibagwa, Abak Local government Area in Akwa Ibom State and was rushed to the military clinic attached to the barrack before being transfered to the university of Uyo teaching hospital where he died from his injuries.

 

His wife, a medical personnel (nurse) has been arrested and is in police custody waiting to be charged to court.

RIP Lieutenant Dr, Samson.

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.

LABOUR PARTY, ABURE-MAMA PEE SAGA: NIGERIA ACTIVISTS PROTECTION THROUGH "PROJECT YELLOW PAGE" NOW — LP Publicity Secretary

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To Nigerians, the Labour Party asks you to lace your boots for the journey to 2027... The attack on Mama Pee is not the last of its type but actually a specimen of things to come.

Just hours before going to press, in a country having an Inspector-General of Police and police personnel throughout the nation, Army, Air Force, Navy, DSS secret police and dozens of other armed services at federal and state levels with a combined manpower of over one million uniformed armed personnel, Alhaji Mustapha Adekunle, the chairman of the Lagos state chapter of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), who goes by the nickname Sego, openly threatened Nigerians in Lagos with death if they failed to vote for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2027 general elections.

"In a viral video he boasted on behalf of his mob's paymasters that the electoral bloodshed that brought Tinubu to power in 2023 shall be a child's play compared to what is coming in 2027. He was simply invited by DSS, patted on the back and let go, confirming the national alert which the Atiku Givus Obi 2027 (AGOBI '27) campaign coalition raised less than two weeks ago.

"So, Labour Party Obidients, coalition partners, progressives and freedom campaigners in every corner of our country, prepare to do what Comrade Asemota Igiogbe, the chairman of Edo state Obidient chapter, did. Wherever in Nigeria the vultures swoop on one of your own, the eagles must leave their nests. And land in swift, massive, unintimidatable and indomitable human deluge to work with lawful but unyielding determination to rescue their own as the Edo state Obidients demonstrated with Ms. Precious Oruche...

"The compilation of Nigeria's and Africa's first ever Yellow Page Directory of Human Rights Activists nationwide a critical answer against prepaid violence before the elections, organized ballot sabotage and similar tyranny projects of the APC junta between here and 2027...

In order to properly understand without bias the airport incident of Saturday September 27th between Ms. Precious Oruche, also known to many as Mama Pee, go back to the first video of their encounter that morning while on the check-in queue of the Air Max flight.

2.  Following the video closely and honestly, Ms. Precious started the Abuja airport encounter when she asked the Supreme Court sacked former chairman of Labour Party: "Are you not Julius Abure?... What are you doing with the Labour Party after you destroyed the 'party?" In reply Abure asked: "How? How can?"

3.  Very next to that, Julius Abure's younger brother, one John Abure, standing by his side in the video, escalated the encounter into combat mode by spitting the words at Mama Pee: "Are you mad?" to which Mama Pee replied in kind.

4.  Note that at this point, neither Mama Pee nor the "Are you mad" aggressor, John Abure, committed any crime. This is according to Nigeria law and standing court judgment. For avoidance of doubts one of several such judgments is cited below.

5.  In Bakare v. Ishola and Ibeanu v. Uba, the court ruled that calling someone a thief or ex-convict in anger amounts to “vulgar abuse,” not defamation. 

6.  In Prof. Farooq Kperogi's review of similar scenarios during the now quiet Deji Adeyanju-Peter Obi spat last August, the erudite United States based Nigerian professor stated, "Judges hold that such insults are commonly understood in our (Nigeria's) national culture as expressions of angered even if not factual claims, similar to what’s known as 'rhetorical hyperbole' in U.S. media law."

7.  In his essay _'Litigation Terrorism of Governors Ortom, el-Rufai, Mr. Fani-Kayode and (then Vice President) Yemi Osinbajo,'_ Prof. Kperogi drove the point home by stating that "prominent politicians who (provoked enough to exercise their constitutional right to do so) sue private citizens are cowards who derive strength from intimidating weaker targets and who treasure the privileges of being in the public eye but chafe (are uncomfortable) at the scrutiny that comes with it." (Farooq Kperogi, October 10, 2020)

8.  It will be recalled that one Abayomi Arabambi, a see-through double-agent serving the ruling party in partnership with Abure, the Supreme Court sacked chairman of the Labour Party, has since 2023 ceaselessly fabricated grievous, life-threatening allegations, including coup plotting treason against Mr. Peter Obi, NLC President Comrade Joe Ajaero and other high-placed leaders of the Nenadi led Labour Party. The reactionary supporters of the oppressive regime and freelance critics of Ms. Precious Oruche have been enjoying Arabambi's character assassination against Obi without a condemning word. Yet because of his large-hearted tolerance depths and sound knowledge of defamation judgments of the Nigerian justice system highlighted above, Mr. Obi has not dignified the Arabambi-Abure blackmail joint venture with one word, extremely dangerous as those allegations are.

9.  Under Nigeria's laws and global justice systems, the real crime committed in the entire Abure-Precious Oruche episode began aboard the Max Air aircraft at the Abuja end of the trip. It climaxed when the flight touched down in Benin and the Abures made good their threats of raw physical violence by mobilizing a mob of over fifteen youths against one woman, Mama Pee, all in broad daylight. 

10.  From Labour Party's investigations concluded on the night of October 2nd, the attacks were masterminded by John Abure, an ill-mannered combative character well-known for habitual death threats and diarrhea temperament against anyone who dare criticize his elder brother Julius Abure for the countless crises of the party, Labour Party ballot betrayals and candidate swindles during his chairmanship tenure.

11.  Labour Party investigations and interviews with airport staff at the originating Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport end, Max Air airborne staff and co-passengers of the September 27th flight tracked down in Benin and Sapele, stated that before takeoff John Abure made three attempts inside the plane to attack Mama Pee in her seat. The eyewitnesses said John Abure was held down with great commotion by other passengers, witnessed by flight attendants. At least three witnesses have vowed to testify in court with video evidence. 

12.  Similarly, staff and shop keepers at the Benin airport end testified witnessing with shock the violent attacks on Mama Pee and destruction of her phone in front of mixed public. Another set of witnesses here have also volunteered to testify in court with phone evidences.

13.  Eight of the thugs, undeniably contracted by the Abures for mayhem, were arrested by the Benin Airport police and detained. Two of them mysteriously disappeared after apparent conduit negotiations. The two who escaped rushed to Edo state police headquarters to scheme the detention of Ms. Precious in order to have the advantages of complainant and make their victim, Precious, the accused. But timely, effective mobilization and arrival of Edo state Obidient crowds at the police headquarters led by the movement's state chapter chairman, Comrade Asemota Igiogbe, and the sincerity of the Edo state Commissioner of Police, CP Monday Agbonika, who did a personal professional investigation of the incident, prevented the unjust detention of Ms. Precious. The Labour Party sincerely thanks the Edo state Police Commissioner and members of our Obidient family in the Heartbeat state.

14.  The Labour Party salutes our daughter in the struggle for a better Nigeria, the irrepressible Ms. Precious Oruche, known also as Mama Pee. If 5% of Nigerian youths who presently prefer thug crumbs in ruling parties have the outstanding courage against bad governance as Mama Pee, Peter Akah, King Dele Farotimi, Femi Falana (SAN) and other shining examples like them, Nigeria would have been free many years ago.

15.  We ask Ms. Oruche not to despair or let her spirit be dampened by the tiny few agents of oppression who prosper from misrule and widespread corruption of Nigeria, some of who cowardly troll her. She must keep the thought close to her chest always that many years, even centuries after the oppressors of today and their collaborating worshippers who are at ease with injustice are gone from the earth, Ms. Precious Oruche the Edo adopted Freedom Fighter will be remembered, printed and honoured in the history books of the freedom struggles of Nigeria, Africa and the world till Christ's return. 

16.  The deserted Abure-Arabambi APCLP and their Edo state trading post headed by Mrs. Elizabeth Ativie have vowed to prosecute Mama Pee with a fictitious bishop invented into the Max Air flight as their phantom witness. Labour Party wishes to encourage the Julius Abure APCLP to hurry up actualize their threats to prosecute Ms. Precious Oruche for mere verbal exchange with the Abures. We ask government to grant their wish and pray that they would not chicken out. This is so that Nigerians and the world could see how the Nigerian justice system works, and how much more severely government will prosecute the cowardly criminals who savagely attacked a lone woman, caused her bodily harm and destroyed her properties, including a prized phone. These are in addition to broad-day murder threats and ambush laid at Benin Airport by John and Julius Abure's thugs in the glare of staff and traveling public, evidences of which have been amply captured on camera.

17.  To the Abure-Ativie APCLP mob, the Labour Party will meet you in court and treat your multiple felonies against the Nigerian people with deterrent despatch. May the gods you serve give you sufficient courage not to back out.

18.  To Nigerians, the Labour Party asks you to lace your boots for the journey to 2027. Let it be known that the attack on Mama Pee is not the last of its type but actually a specimen of things to come.

19.  Just hours before going to press, in a country having an Inspector-General of Police and police personnel throughout the nation, Army, Air Force, Navy, DSS secret police and dozens of other armed services at federal and state levels with a combined manpower of over one million uniformed armed personnel, Alhaji Mustapha Adekunle, the chairman of the Lagos state chapter of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), who goes by the nickname Sego, openly threatened Nigerians in Lagos with death if they failed to vote for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2027 general elections.

20.  In a viral video he boasted on behalf of his mob's paymasters that the electoral bloodshed that brought Tinubu to power in 2023 shall be a child's play compared to what is coming in 2027. He was simply invited by DSS, patted on the back and let go, confirming the national alert which the Atiku Givus Obi 2027 (AGOBI '27) campaign coalition raised less than two weeks ago.

*Refer:* https://www.jungle-journalist.com/what-happened-in-2023-would-be-childs-play-lagos-nurtw-chairman-sego-threatens-voters-with-death-over-2027-elections/

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/09/atiku-obi-must-unite-or-prepare-to-hand-tinubu-a-second-term-coalition/

21.  So, Labour Party Obidients, coalition partners, progressives and freedom campaigners in every corner of our country, prepare to do what Comrade Asemota Igiogbe, the chairman of Edo state Obidient chapter, did. Wherever in Nigeria the vultures swoop on one of your own, the eagles must leave their nests. And land in swift, massive, unintimidatable and indomitable human deluge to work with lawful but unyielding determination to rescue their own as the Edo state Obidients demonstrated with Ms. Precious Oruche. 

22.  To serve this solidarity project in a coordinated, sustainable, result guaranteeing manner, there is need for Obidients all over Nigeria and beyond our borders to work together with the Labour Party and a civil society partnership project called "Nigeria Civil Rights Yellow Page (NCS-YP)." 

23.  The first in Africa and certainly the world, it is a democracy project being proposed to Labour Party by a coalition of civil society and electoral amendment campaigners which involves compilation and publication of a comprehensive directory of Nigeria's human rights, civil rights, environmental rights, women rights, children advocacy rights, internally displaced persons' rights activists and pro-democracy journalists throughout Nigeria, compiled LGA by LGA and state by state. 

24.  The novel Yellow Page directory is a critical answer against prepaid violence before the 2027 elections, organized ballot sabotage during the elections and similar tyranny projects of the APC junta between here and 2027.

25.  Designed to have both physical and online versions, the Nigerian activists Yellow Page shall be a constantly updated reference source from which to speedily rally rescue intervention, legal and general support in real time to activists, journalists and sundry citizens who are in danger in any part of the country. In 2027, Nigeria is going to need this directory more than the citizens of any country in the world. 

To be forewarned, is to be forearmed.

By Prince Tony Akeni, Labour Party National Publicity Secretary (Interim), October 4, 2025