9m and the Labour Party's Peter Obi with 6...
In Lagos a candidate on the ticket of Peter Obi's Labour Party is challenging the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC)...
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The Lagos court endorsed the request from Peter Obi's Labour Party that all results sheet in the 11 March state elections should be recorded digitally by INEC officials and transmitted to the regional collation centres digitally...
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At one end of the stage stands the official winner Bola Ahmed Tinubu whose victory was announced in the darkest hour before dawn on 1 March; at the other the thwarted opposition candidates Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi who are railing against systemic electoral fraud and threaten legal appeals to the Supreme Court (Dispatches 28/2/23 Tinubu edges to Presidential win as opposition and activists dispute the results)...
If many of the local and international opinion polls on Nigeria's presidential elections on 25 February prove accurate then Peter Obi the multi-millionaire banker standing on the Labour Party ticket should be coasting to victory...
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2m votes and Peter Obi of the Labour Party with 25% or some 5...
On 27 February former President Olusegun Obasanjo a keen supporter of Peter Obi said that INEC should not accept any results without digital verification as this would contravene electoral law...
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Yet the naira crisis could disrupt all the frontline candidates in the presidential elections: Tinubu as well as Atiku Abubakar of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party and Peter Obi of the previously insignificant Labour Party...
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Ignoring exchange rate fluctuations Buhari's successor – whether Bola Tinubu (APC) Atiku Abubakar (People's Democratic Party) or Peter Obi (Labour Party) – could inherit an official debt stock more than double – in nominal terms – the N35...
Vol 64 No 2 |
- NIGERIA
- BRITAIN
Of Nigeria's presidential candidates so far to set out their stall at London's Chatham House think tank the Labour Party's Peter Obi easily won on points on 16 January...
Restrictions on vote buying could benefit the Labour Party's Peter Obi the least pecunious of the top three candidates...
Obi reckoned to have a substantial lead over Tinubu and Atiku by a slew of local and international opinion polls has much going for him (AC Vol 63 No 15 Peter Obi shakes up the political class)...