MaTaZ ArIsInG The Director-General of the Obi Presidential Campaign Organisation, Dr Doyin Okupe, has announced that the planned alliance between the Labour Party and the New Nigerian People’s Party for the 2023 general election is “dead.” “It has been dead for four weeks,” the LP vice presidential placeholder added. The LP had planned an alliance […] Read more
By Lasisi Olagunju (Published in MaTaZ ArIsInG on Monday, 4 July, 2022) A professor friend who works abroad is home-sick. He recently asked me: “I want to visit home. I am scared. What do you think? Will I be safe?” I didn’t know what to tell him. Those of us at home carefully select where […] Read more
MaTaZ Arising Claims that the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi does not have a structure ahead of the 2023 elections have been debunked. Speaking against the backdrop of submissions by critics that Obi only has social media presence but lacks any political structure in the real world, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInG Some candidates running for the highest office in the country have reportedly told the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) th… Some candidates running for the highest office in the country have reportedly told the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) that their academic credentials are missing. According to The Tribune, Bola Tinubu, presidential candidate […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInG Pastor Poju Oyemade deletes his tweet after many inferred it was directed at Peter Obi Poju Oyemade, a Senior Pastor and Founder of The Covenant Nation deleted his tweet shared last night after many inferred it was directed at Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi. Oyemade had talked about enthusiasm of youths which according to […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInG Purveyor of fake news, Joe Igbokwe surprised many on Thursday night, an All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, pulled down a Facebook post on two leading political figures in Nigeria. Igbokwe had posted that Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, who lost the presidential ticket of the opposition party to former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar […] Read more
By Bayo Aina After the strategic meeting between the NLC National President, Comrade Ayuba Wabba and the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, the arrangement is taking shape for the massive nationwide campaigns to take Nigeria back. (#TakeBackNaija). 176,640 units to be activated nationwide with party logo and materials for all citizens and working masses […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInG “If the party is now a one-man show, we will show them that we can resist it. We are with Wike 100 per cent.” Former Ekiti State governor, Ayo Fayose, has explained why he believes Nyesom Wike will never support the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar. Mr Fayose, in an […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInG The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) have pledged to support campaign to ensure that the Labour Party candidate, Mr Peter Obi emerges winner In the 2023 presidential election. The leadership of the NLC and TUC made the pledge in separate addresses on Tuesday in Abuja. The […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInG A Federal High Court in Abuja has declined the request for an interim order to restrain the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from accepting Bola Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar as the presidential candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a ruling on Tuesday, […] Read more
