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Governor Nyesom Wike has mocked the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, over former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s endorsement of Labour Party’s Peter Obi, ahead of the 2023 General election.   Atiku was vice president during the Obasanjo administration between 1999 and 2007. However, in his New Year’s day message on Sunday, …

The ex-president’s endorsement of Obi laid to rest, the debate about his position on the 2023 general election. In his usual manner, Obasanjo announced his support for the LP candidate in a letter titled, “My appeal to all Nigerians particularly Young Nigerians.” While Obasanjo’s endorsement of Obi has been a …

This is as Onanuga said the APC presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, won’t lose sleep over the former President’s “worthless” endorsement of the former Anambra State Governor. This comes after Obasanjo, in his New Year message to Nigerians on Sunday, January 1, 2023, described Obi as his mentee, adding that …

Advertisement Nigeria’s Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, departed Abuja on Saturday (today) for a three-day visit to Vietnam. The VP’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Laolu Akande, noted in a statement released today that Osinbajo would visit the Asian country for a high-level bilateral engagement in the South-East nation. …

Police Operatives have reportedly apprehended one Hassan Azeez, popularly known as Saudi, for setting his wife ablaze in the wee hours of yesterday morning. Naija News understands that the incident occurred in Ibogun Olaogun, Abeokuta which coincidentally happens to be the hometown of a former president of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo. …

Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere has called on the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to use the image of former President Olusegun Obasanjo on one of the naira notes to be newly designed. The National Secretary-General of Afenifere, Chief Sola Ebiseni, made this known on Saturday while reacting to the proposition …

Sowore described Obasanjo as the father that ruined Nigeria twice. Omoyele Sowore, the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) has described his Labour Party counterpart, Peter Obi as a lapdog of the former President, Olusegun Obasanjo.