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PDP’s claim about Obi’s victory in Anambra ridiculous – Ogene

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Afam Victor Ogene, Labour Party (LP) House of Representatives Caucus Leader,  has faulted the testimony of a witness of Atiku Abubakar, the People’s Democratic Party, PDP presidential candidate in the February 25, 2023 presidential election, Ndubuisi Nwobu, at the presidential election petition tribunal, describing it as watery, contradictory and admission of failure by the leadership of the PDP in Anambra state.

During proceedings on Wednesday, Nwobu who is Anambra PDP chairman and also the state collation agent of the party, alleged that “magic” happened to the votes of the PDP candidate at different collation centres.

The results of the election in Anambra, as announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission, indicate that Peter Obi, the Labour Party candidate scored 584,621 votes, Atiku polled 9,036 votes in the state, while Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress scored 5,111 votes.

Ogene, who is the House of Reps Member-elect for Ogbaru Federal Constituency, Anambra state, in a statement in Abuja on Thursday, said the integrity of the result in Anambra is cast in the fortress of the uncompromising will of the people of Anambra state to vote for their son, who is not only popular in the state, but has also been overwhelmingly accepted across the nation as the face of the new leadership that Nigeria deserve.

He said: “The allusion to ‘magic’ by Ndubuisi Nwobu in his testimony is laughable, because the only obvious attempted magic in Anambra, was the failed plot by Nwobu and his co-conspirators, to conjure electoral success, where they had abysmally failed to win the trust of the people, as a result of their less than transparent and transactional political philosophy that do not put to account the interest of the people.”

Ogene, said further that it was contradictory and self-indicting, for Nwobu to confirm that election results were signed at the polling unit and ward levels by all party agents, including those of the PDP, but inexplicably alleged that the same results which was announced by INEC, were products of ‘magic’.

He added: “Nwobu should be decent enough to admit that he failed woefully as the PDP chairman in Anambra state to mobilise support for his principal, Atiku, and also show integrity and good character by transparently giving the PDP national leadership and their candidate the true account of why he failed to achieve good result, despite the huge resources made available to them in Anambra state for the project, rather than playing the dishonourable role of a court jester.

“If I may ask, what was PDP expecting to achieve in Anambra state, given the manner the party and it’s principalities in the state muscled our revered leader, Peter Obi, out of the party, by plotting to disgrace him in his homestead, Anambra? Besides, what was Nwobu’s mission in the over 30 pulling units he visited on election day, as he admitted to the tribunal?

“As a party collation agent, was he supposed to be roaming round polling units where he was not registered as a voter? Nwobu should take his drama to the appropriate stage for such, as the tribunal is not the right arena for such ignoble performance of poorly scripted absurdity. If Labour Party and Peter Obi could win convincingly in a state like Lagos, a fiefdom of the APC candidate, Tinubu, querying Obi’s victory in his home state of Anambra, is absolutely hilarious and bewildering.”

 

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BREAKING: Mother of all strikes! D-Day, October 3! *Stockpile food, essentials – NLC, TUC   

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The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC)) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) on Tuesday, announced midnight Tuesday, October 3 as the date for the commencement of total strike by their workers to get the Federal Government accede to their demands to end the current sufferings of their members and Nigerians at large.

The two labour centres representing the organised labour in Nigeria, which arrived at the decision after they had met separately at their local levels directed their affiliates to mobilise for protests from October 3, saying they took the decisions were approved at the meeting of the joint National Executive Council of the two unions on Tuesday, September 26, in Abuja.

Joe Ajaero, President of the NLC, speaking on behalf of his group, while urging Nigerians to stock their homes ahead the total strike, bemoaned the situation where the government had ignored the demands of the workers, saying it “substantially failed to meet its demands after the removal of fuel subsidy,” added that adding that the grace period given by the two labour centres had expired.

The organised labour, is demanding wage awards for public workers and a new minimum wage, apart from the removal of tax exemptions and allowances to public sector workers, provision of Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) buses, the release of modalities for the N70billion for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and immediate reversal of all anti-poor policies of the Federal Government.

The union, which on September 5th and 6th, the NLC embarked on a two-day warning strike which led to the partial crippling of economic activities in some states and gave the government a 21-day ultimatum to meet its demands, is also demanding a stop to the increase in public school fees, the release of the eight months withheld salaries of university teachers and workers as well as the increase in Value Added Tax (VAT).

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BREAKING: Total strike looms! *NLC, TUC, finally meet, agree on action

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The Federal Government, may have finally lost the move to stop the impending strike by organised labour, or at least mitigate it by dividing its membership, following a meeting of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC), hitherto in disagreement over the issue.

In fact, the two bodies representing the junior and senior workers in Nigeria are reportedly meeting currently to announce a statewide indefinite strike, a move coming about three weeks after the NLC held a warning strike on Tuesday, September 5, and Wednesday 6, 2023, without the TUC, which it explained was to call attention of the FG to the painful suffering of Nigerians, particularly workers.

However, indications, suggests that having agreed to come to an understanding in the interest of the working masses of Nigeria, both camps, having also met separately in their different local organs, decided to hold a joint press conference at 3 p.m. on Tuesday to announce an indefinite nationwide strike in response to the FG’s failure to address the suffering and other socioeconomic hardships caused by the removal of subsidies on Premium Motor, PMS, commonly known as petrol.

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Tinubu will shock Atiku and his gang – APC *Why meeting with Biden didn’t hold

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Having met with Joe Biden, at a parley of the G20 group in India, it was unnecessary for President Bola Tinubu to hold another session with his US counterpart at the recent United Nation General Assembly (UNGA) in New York, the All Progressives Congress (APC), explained on Monday.

Felix Morka, spokesman of the party, in a statement, also explain other issues in a quick riposte to the attacks of Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who claimed that the POTUS avoided Tinubu at UNGA because he did not want to be associated with the putrid stains trailing his Nigerian counterpart.

Morka, National Publicity Secretary of the party, also dismissed Atiku’s claims through his spokesman, Phrank Shaibu that fuel subsidy, which the Tinubu administration said it has jettisoned having dismissed it as a drain on the nation’s resources, had returned through the backdoor, saying the payment of the mark up in the pump price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), in August, was to ensure stability.

Hear him: ”Shaibu’s claim that fuel subsidy is back is not correct. The government’s intervention to ensure some measure of price stability and predictability does not amount to the return of the ruinous fuel subsidy of the recent past.

“Lifting the Visa ban on Nigerians by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) authorities should ordinarily make any well-meaning Nigerian happy. Diplomatic rapprochement between Nigeria and UAE authorities is ongoing and details of outcomes will soon be made public.

“The matter of the proposed meeting with United States of America President Joe Biden does not even require elaboration. Having met with President Tinubu on the sidelines of the G-20 Nations summit in India, another meeting with President Biden during the United Nation’s General Assembly (UNGA) had become unnecessary and was not even on President Tinubu’s schedule, contrary to preliminary indications on the matter.

“Nigeria is facing pressing challenges that require focused efforts and undivided attention. Issues such as economic recovery, security of lives and property, infrastructure development, and social welfare demand continuous, sustained and innovative efforts.

“President Tinubu is committed to ensuring an inclusive, honest, transparent and accountable governance system. We encourage citizens to actively participate in democratic processes, ventilate their views, and contribute constructively to national conversations. As the discerning people that we are, we remain confident that Nigerians will continue to differentiate between genuine, constructive and development-oriented criticisms and those driven by self-interest, mercenary considerations and disruptive political agenda.

“While we urge Nigerians to ignore purveyors of fake news and other inanities, it is obvious that Shaibu and his likes will stop at nothing in their desperation to distort facts and give oxygen to their politically knocked-out principal. But that can only worsen his infamy in the light of the President’s determined commitment and strides to improving the social and economic conditions for all Nigerians.

“The PDP and all its agents of misinformation should know by now that no amount of sleazy propaganda, muckraking, lies, half-truths, misrepresentations, misinformation or disinformation will confer the presidency of Nigeria on their candidate.

“Nigerians have freely chosen our party, the APC, and President Bola Tinubu, to continue to steer the ship of state. And the President is making good his campaign promises to deliver purposeful leadership to remake Nigeria, open the economy to rewarding investments, promote inclusive growth, create jobs, secure lives and property and renew hope for a vibrant future.”

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