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The Many Travails Of Peter Obi
The Many Travails Of Peter Obi
PETER OBI– The 2023 General Elections may have come and gone but the dispute over the credibility of the process continues to linger with barely seven weeks to May 29th, when the President-Elect is scheduled to be sworn into office.
However, following the intensity of Mr Peter Obi’s challenge, he, according to his party, has become a target of state-sponsored intimidation, blackmail, threats, invasion of privacy and other acts of subterfuge aimed at forcing him to abandon his legal challenge.
Perhaps for the first time in Nigeria’s recent political history, a leading opposition figure is allegedly being pressured by state actors to leave his homeland because his presence is said to be threatening national stability.
Only last week, the Department of State Security DSS, raised an alarm that political actors were plotting to orchestrate violence through “demonstrations and frivolous court orders” to stop the scheduled presidential inauguration on May 29th all in a bid to pave the way for an illegal interim government.
Within days, the Federal Government through the Minister for Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed in far away Washington DC, in the United States of America, accused the LP candidate and his running mate, Dr Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed of making treasonable remarks about the outcome of the presidential polls.
He was quoted by the State-owned News Agency of Nigeria, as saying, “Obi and his running mate, Datti Baba-Ahmed, cannot be threatening Nigerians that if the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, of the All Progressives Congress is sworn-in on May 29, it will be the end of democracy in Nigeria.
“This is treason. You cannot be inviting insurrection, and this is what they are doing. Obi’s statement is that of a desperate person, he is not the Democrat that he claimed to be. A democrat should not believe in democracy only when he wins the election.” The minister’s comments have put party supporters on edge.
A member of the LP Presidential Campaign Council who pleaded anonymity so as not to jeopardize internal investigations explained that the attacks against the candidate started as soon as the campaigns started.
He said, “We have since been made aware of the orchestrated move by the state to sabotage our candidate starting from our campaigns.
“They tried entrapment by stationing all kinds of women at hotels where our candidate lodged during the campaigns that failed.
“They have been going through records of his financial dealings and bank accounts. They’ve found nothing incriminating.
“They tried bringing up the Panama papers that also failed to stick, then they resorted to the oldest trick in the book-wire tapping.”
Speaking in a similar vein, the Chief Spokesperson of the Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council, Dr Yunusa Tanko, explained that the LP candidate has lately come under intense pressure to flee Nigeria.
He said, “Before, throughout and after the campaigns, it is on record that Mr Peter Obi maintained his commitment and focus on an issues-based campaign, about a New Nigeria that is Possible, a shift of emphasis from consumption to production, as well as a New Nigeria characterized by inclusion, justice, equity, fairness and prosperity.
“ He repeatedly stated that no one should vote for him based on tribe or religion, but rather on the assessment of Character, Competence, Capacity, Credibility and Compassion, to create a New Nigeria!
“Most unfortunately, in the past few weeks, Mr Peter Obi, the Labour Party presidential candidate in the February 25th, 2023 presidential election has been contacted by associates, elder statesmen, family and friends with concerns for his personal safety.
“These concerns have increased intensely in the last few days as immense pressure, has been mounted directly on Mr Obi to leave the country, no doubt, from sources allied to the All-Progressive Congress (APC) and its agents in the security services.
“ Mr Obi has been repeatedly and categorically told that he has a choice to leave Nigeria or face the prospect of being arrested on false charges of inciting insurrection in the country.
“It is difficult to fathom and regrettably unfortunate that state institutions have become part of a well calculated, deliberate and orchestrated campaign of calumny by the APC to discredit and delegitimize Mr Peter Obi and compel him to abandon his right to seek redress in court following the outcome of the last election which was adjudged both locally and internationally to have failed to meet any standard of credibility or fairness.”
Tanko further said, “As part of the grand design, they are circulating a fake doctored audio call. At no time throughout the campaign and now did Mr Peter Obi ever say, think or even imply that the 2023 election is or was a religious war.
“It is very sad and wicked the attempts to manipulate Nigerians. Our legal team has been instructed to take appropriate legal actions against media outlets that make themselves willing tools in the hands of APC’s malicious propagandists.
“Despite the public denunciation of the fake audio call, its contents have been translated into other Nigerian languages and circulated in most parts of Northern Nigeria with some of our Muslim clerics deceived and instigated to use the contents for their sermons at various Mosques during the usual Friday prayers.
“This is a dangerous development at a time when the APC led-government and the APC party which have been awarded undeserved and unfair victory should be more concerned in addressing the ethnic and religious frictions unfortunately created by the outcome of the elections.
“Yet unsatisfied but determined to cause more problems, Mr Lai Mohammed, who fancies himself as modern-day Goebbels is on a tour of some selected countries to present an alternative story about the 2023 discredited election, and from his first statement in Washington has assumed the role of the courts by stating that Mr Obi has no pathway to victory.
“This is a direct intimidation of the courts and a waste of Nigerian taxpayers’ money.
“There are many more campaigns of calumny against Mr Peter Obi planned for the near future both before and during the court process.
“However, we want to make it clear to the APC party, APC led-government and its agents that Mr Peter Obi, a widely travelled man, has no intention to leave the country at this time irrespective of the pressure on him and his family.
“He is determined as he had stated in his first and only press conference after the election to challenge the outcome of the election and the process has begun. It is his fundamental right!
“While we call on all concerned Nigerians and the International Community to caution APC and the APC Led-government to stop their nasty attacks, Mr Peter Obi’s focus and commitment to lawfully and peacefully retrieve our mandate to secure and unite our Nation, take Nigeria from consumption to production, pull millions of Nigerians out of multidimensional poverty, especially in the North and jumpstart prosperity through agricultural, industrial and technological revolution remains unchanged.
“He has continued to impress upon his supporters, the essence of the legal process and will not now or in the future encourage any violence against the state.
“He has absolutely no reason for this nor is he desperate especially as throughout the campaign, he called for a new Nigeria defined by opportunities for all, an end to poverty and criminality in government, especially corruption and an end to tribal and religious division and bigotry.
“It is for this reason that we appeal to revered religious leaders especially in the North not to be part of the grand design of the state apparatus to further increase the religious and ethnic divides in the country. Irrespective of the outcome of the court process, we have an obligation to strive for the peace and co-existence of all Nigerians.
“We call on President Buhari to rein in his desperate officials at all levels as their actions or inactions could lead to an unnecessary crisis in the country.
“Elections are over, and we are in court to retrieve our stolen mandate. We reiterate that we are doing so through all lawful and peaceful options in line with our legal system and constitution, and we continue to implore all Nigerians to remain peaceful and law-abiding.
“Those fixated with heating up the polity, creating divisions, tensions and hatred within and outside Nigeria should remember that Nigeria is our only country.
“Our focus should be on how to address the litany of challenges facing us such as deliberate non-adherence to the election process, the parlous state of our economy, unsustainable debt burden, lamentable unemployment and inflation, insecurity and multi-dimensional poverty. A New Nigeria is Indeed Possible and God will help us.”
Public affairs analyst and Executive Director of Civil Societies Legislative and Advocacy Centre, Auwual Musa Rafsanjani, expressed the view that citizens have a constitutionally guaranteed right to freely hold and express their opinions within the confines of the law.
He recalled that ahead of the 2015 elections, opposition political figures threatened to form a parallel government if the elections were rigged “Nobody accused them of committing treason.”
Rafsanjani cautioned politicians against heating up the polity in pursuit of political ends because in the long run, if there was a breakdown of law and order, the entire nation would be at the receiving end.
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2027 BATTLE: David Mark, Rauf Aregbesola Must Petition IGP Tunji Disu To Declare Dumebi Kachikwu And His Goons Wanted
2027 BATTLE: David Mark, Rauf Aregbesola Must Petition IGP Tunji Disu To Declare Dumebi Kachikwu And His Goons Wanted For Parading Themselves As ADC Leaders, An Act Capable Of Destabilizing Nigeria’s Fragile Democracy
*Nigerian media houses are also warned to stop overheating the polity with Kachikwu’s political shenanigans
As the rising main opposition African Democratic Congress (ADC) preps for its all-important, much-awaited, no-holds-bar presidential primary election today in Abuja, we enjoin the party’s leadership led by the mercurial and consumate political juggernaut, former Senate President David Mark to immediately petition the Nigerian Inspector General of Police, IGP Tunji Disu, to forthwith declare Mr. Dumebi Kachikwu and his goons, wanted, if they go on parading themselves as the leaders of the ADC.
Over last 24 hours, our team of eminent young political scientists and investigative journalists have with keen interest, religiously observed the resurgent conspiracy theories against the main opposition ADC, across the websites of various mainstream and online media platforms in Nigeria- Vanguard, Punch, The Nation, Peoples Gazette, et al. The headlines read: “ADC crisis deepens as Dumebi Kachikwu faction sacks David Mark-led leadership,” “ADC in trouble as Dumebi Kachikwu emerges Presidential candidate,” etc.
For Pete’s sake, we are shocked to the point of un-shockability that these jankara, jeunjeun, and they said, he said journalists in the Nigerian media have failed to understand that their attempts to side with the calamitous APC regime of Bola Ahmed Tinubu to manufacture these failed conspiracy theories against the main opposition ADC will come back to bite them all in the butt should Nigeria be transmogrified into a one-party state or an elected monarchy in 2027.
We are forced to ask: How soon did these media platforms forget that on April 30, 2026, the apex Supreme Court in a 5-0 unanimous ruling by the five-member panel led by Justice Mohammed Garba upheld that the David Mark-led ADC leadership remains the authentic leadership, thus, summarily asking INEC to recognize it, in toto? INEC had since obeyed the Supreme Court of Nigeria and has reinstalled the names of the David Mark led ADC leadership on its official portal (website).
These media platforms failed in their attempts to engineer crises within the ADC with the usurper, one Nafiu Bala Gombe. These media platforms failed in their attempts to engineer crises within the ADC with Mr. Peter Obi and his radical wing of the Obidient Movement Worldwide. Now, they are back again and have been hired by senior officials of the Tinubu regime to use the rascal called Mr. Dumebi Kachikwu and his goons to attempt to engineer conspiracy theories against the rising main opposition ADC?
Without much ado, we state unequivocally and emphatically that these hired media houses in Nigeria must stop their latest demonic paid agenda sponsored by Bola Tinubu and his goons. We state without mincing words that Mr. Dumebi Kachikwu is no longer a member of the main opposition ADC, as he had since been suspended and sacked for anti-party activities.
Respectively, the Honorable Justice Joyce Abdulmalik and Honorable Justice James Omotosho have both dismissed the suit filed by the so-called Dumebi Kachikwu faction against the Senator David Mark-led leadership in October 2025 and March 2026 for lacking jurisdiction to entertain suits regarding the internal affairs of the ADC. Let’s be guided with Section 83(5) of the Electoral Act 2026.
Enough is enough! Nigeria must not be morphed into a one-party state or an elected monarchy (the worst form of government), just to satisfy the ruinous agenda of one man called Bola Ahmed Tinubu, a man with alleged drug trafficking past in the United States of America. Bola Tinubu, a man with alleged controversies regarding who his parents were, his date of birth, elementary school, high school, college, and even employment background?
We conclude by stating emphatically that Bola Tinubu does not mean well for the Nigerian State and must not be allowed to coronate himself freely as the Ayatollah of Nigeria, come January 16, 2027.
All mainstream and online media platforms in Nigeria are hereby warned before it’s too late to navigate in such a calamitous whirlwind.
Ikenna Asomba is a political scientist and investigative journalist. He writes from the State of Illinois, United States.
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King Dokubo-Asari Storms Benin Republic for President Ramona Wadagni’s Historic Inauguration
Honouring Friendship: King Dokubo-Asari Attends Inauguration of President Ramona Wadagni in the Republic of Benin
Da Amakiri Tubo, Alhaji Mujahid Abubakar Dokubo-Asari, Dabaye Amakiri I, Amakiri Ekpeke, Amanyanabo of the Source, Elem Kalabari, was among the over 6,000 distinguished dignitaries from across the world who witnessed the historic transition of power in the Republic of Benin, as outgoing President Patrice Talon formally handed over leadership to the newly inaugurated President Ramona Wadagni on Sunday, March 24, 2026.
The colourful and historic ceremony took place at the Palais des Congrès de Cotonou, drawing world leaders, diplomats, royals, business figures and respected traditional authorities from different parts of the globe.
For Dabaye Amakiri, the occasion went beyond diplomacy and state protocol. President Wadagni is a longtime friend of the revered Kalabari monarch, and his presence at the inauguration was a demonstration of loyalty, friendship and enduring personal ties built over many years.
Alhaji Mujahid Abubakar Dokubo-Asari is widely regarded as a major stakeholder in the Republic of Benin, a country he has maintained deep ties with for more than two decades. He is the proprietor of the King Amachree International Children’s School and the defunct King Amachree University.
The King Amachree Children’s school has for many years been an international school with students coming from Congo, Togo, Ghana and Nigeria
Over the years, he has also established significant investments in real estate, hospitality and other business interests within the country, making the Republic of Benin a true second home to him.
In keeping with the rich traditions of ancient Kalabari royalty, the Amanyanabo of the Source did not journey alone.
His distinguished entourage included eminent Kalabari chiefs and respected personalities such as Se-Alabo EMI Membere-Otaji, MD, DSSRS, OON, Chief Executive Officer of Elscon Group and Deputy National President of Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture.
Also present were Se-Opu Alabo Dr. David T. Briggs, Deuin-Ala XII of Kalabari, Paramount Chief of the Ancient Deuin-Ala Chieftaincy House (1968), and Prince Tonye T. J. T. Princewill, Da OGO VI, Head of the Queen Elababene/Da OGO Group of Houses of the Kalabari Kingdom.
Speaking with journalists shortly after the inauguration ceremony, Dabaye Amakiri described the Republic of Benin as a place that has consistently shown him warmth, acceptance and friendship.
“The Republic of Benin has been a second home to me. I have always enjoyed the hospitality of the great people of this country, and I am here on the invitation of the President to honour him and this great nation,” he said.
Renowned for his deep respect for friendship, loyalty and longstanding relationships, Dabaye Amakiri is also known to share a close personal relationship spanning over three decades with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu of Nigeria.
Three days earlier, driving into the Republic of Benin via the Seme land Border, Dabaye Amakiri stopped over to exchange pleasantries with the new Deputy controller General of Immigration. Who was happy to receive the reverred monarch and graciously stepped out for a few minutes for photos with Dabaye Amakiri and his team
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Apostle Omotosho Marks 40th Birthday, 7th Church Anniversary Amid Jubilation
Apostle Omotosho Marks 40th Birthday, 7th Church Anniversary Amid Jubilation
CALABAR — Jubilant scenes filled the atmosphere on May 21 as family members, church congregants, associates, and well-wishers gathered to celebrate the 40th birthday of Apostle Omotosho Tope Joseph alongside the 7th anniversary of his ministry.
The colourful double celebration attracted religious leaders, dignitaries, and members of the Christian community, who described the occasion as a reflection of God’s faithfulness and the steady growth of the ministry over the years.
Among dignitaries present at the event were Pastor Dr. Elizabeth Aremu, the wife of Bishop Thomas Aremu, Assistant Director-General of the Department of State Services, Kolawole Sokoya, as well as other notable guests.
Speaking during the event, Apostle Omotosho expressed gratitude to God and appreciated everyone who contributed to the success of the celebration through prayers, gifts, goodwill messages, and physical presence.
He described his attainment of 40 years and the progress recorded by the church within seven years as evidence of divine grace and unwavering support from members and partners of the ministry.
“With a heart full of gratitude, I sincerely thank everyone who celebrated with me on my 40th birthday and our 7th Church Anniversary. Your prayers, kind words, gifts, presence, and overwhelming show of love made the occasion truly unforgettable,” he said.
The programme featured prayer sessions for Nigeria, prophetic ministrations, thanksgiving, and tributes from members and associates, who praised the cleric for his commitment to spiritual growth, humanitarian service, and mentorship.
Several speakers at the gathering described
Apostle Omotosho as a compassionate leader dedicated to uplifting lives and advancing Christian values within the community.
The cleric also appreciated his family, friends, church workers, and members for their steadfast support toward the vision of the ministry.
“Thank you to my family, friends, members, and well-wishers for standing by me and supporting the vision God has given us. May the Lord richly bless each and every one of you for your love, sacrifices, and continued support,” he added.
The celebration ended with a special thanksgiving service and renewed prayers for greater impact and expansion of the ministry in the years ahead.
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