Tension rose in Benue State on Tuesday after suspected thugs allegedly attacked the convoy of the presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), Peter Obi, forcing his campaign team to retreat from an entry route into the state.
Speaking during separate television interviews on Tuesday, Okonkwo alleged that Baba-Ahmed was suffering from what he termed a “post-political identity crisis” following the 2023 presidential election, while also accusing Obi of failing to provide the leadership needed to sustain the Labour Party movement.
Obi appealed on Monday in Abuja during the commissioning of the 2027 presidential campaign office of Oyo State Governor and presidential candidate of the Allied Peoples Movement (APM), Seyi Makinde.
Obi, speaking in a preview of an interview with ARISE Television aired on Monday, said his administration in Anambra delivered measurable progress in key sectors and demonstrated the kind of leadership Nigeria urgently needs.
The parallel warnings came against the backdrop of growing political mobilisation ahead of the 2027 elections and renewed concerns about the ability of political actors and electoral institutions to guarantee a peaceful and credible contest.
Baba-Ahmed, who was the running mate to Peter Obi on the Labour Party ticket in the 2023 presidential election, said the major politicians seeking to unseat Tinubu had, at different times, been part of the same political establishment they now claim to oppose.
A former Labour Party chieftain and spokesperson for Atiku Abubakar’s presidential campaign, Kenneth Okonkwo, has delivered one of the strongest warnings yet over the consequences of a divided opposition in the 2027 presidential election.
Presidential candidate of the Nigerian Democratic Congress (NDC), Peter Obi, has hosted his running mate, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, and other candidates of the party at the Obidient Headquarters in Abuja, as the party intensifies efforts to expand its political reach ahead of the 2027 general elections.
Obi made the declaration in his Independence Day message titled “Nigeria at 66: Looking Back, Looking Forward”, in which he acknowledged the country’s abundant human and natural resources and paid tribute to its founding fathers and past leaders who, he said, sacrificed to build the nation.
Major political parties and their leaders, on whom rests the success of the much -anticipated G100 conference on the coalition of opposition political parties against President Bola Tinubu in the 2027 general poll, are singing discordant tunes, few hours before the gathering at the Yar’Adua Civic Centre in Abuja on Monday, August 31, 2026.
An Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in Uyo has dismissed a petition seeking the dissolution of a marriage that has lasted over 43 years, ruling that lack of love and mutual respect between spouses does not, on its own, constitute sufficient legal grounds for divorce.
