Ahead of the inauguration of the President-elect Bola Tinubu on Monday, May 29, the Labour Party has urged its supporters and all Nigerians to continue to express their passions, emotions and frustrations, within the confines of the law, saying that justice shall prevail in the fullness of time. In a statement signed and released…
The Ogun state police command has arraigned the Publicity Secretary of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Oladayo Badmus, and a party Chieftain, Olayemi Idowu, before a Magistrate court sitting in Abeokuta for allegedly breaking into the state secretariat of the party. They were arraigned on Wednesday, May 17, on a three-count charge of…
Factional leader of Labour Party, Lamidi Apapa booed and mocked at the Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja. This happened after he and members of his faction fought over seats where Labour Party members were to sit for the court process. Lamidi Apapa who has been attempting to take over leadership of the…
A factional leader of Labour Party, Lamidi Apapa, was seen fighting over a seat in court today, May 17. Apapa who has been attempting to take over leadership of the party since the presidential election was concluded, got a favourable court ruling last week pending the determination of the party’s leadership lawsuit by a…
The Labour Party (LP) and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, have filed an application asking that proceedings of the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal be televised. This is coming after the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar filed for same. Addressing reporters after the court proceedings on Wednesday, May 10,…
A 26-year-old man died and over 200 people were injured in Naples during celebrations for Napoli’s Serie A win, national media said on Friday March 5. Vincenzo Costanzo, 26, from Ponticelli, died after being hit by shots fired in Naples’ central Piazza Volturno. Three other people were injured in the same incident in…
FKA Twigs with her boyfriend, Jordan Hemingway Singer FKA Twigs reportedly went out through the back door of a Met Gala after party when she saw her ex-fiancé, “Twilight” hunk Robert Pattinson and his new girlfriend Suki Waterhouse. Insiders told Page Six that the pop singer was happily partying at a starry party…
It looks like all is not well between politician Shina Peller and road transport chairman, Musilius Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo. Over the weekend, both men attended an event where MC Oluomo publicly snubbed Peller. The politician had arrived the party and was going about to greet his friends when he met with MC Oluomo….
Labour Party has reacted to President Muhammadu Buhari’s claim of opposition parties losing the 2023 presidential election due to over confidence, complacency and bad tactics. The Labour Party in a statement released by its acting National Publicity Secretary, Obiora Ifoh, said the President’s statement was another desperate attempt by the ruling party to seek…
Labour Party has reacted to President Muhammadu Buhari claim of opposition parties losing the 2023 presidential election due to over confidence, complacency and bad tactics. The Labour Party in a statement released by its acting National Publicity Secretary, Obiora Ifoh, said the President’s statement was another desperate attempt by the ruling party to seek…
The Labour Party (LP) has raised an alarm of Lamidi Apapa-led faction allegedly working to sabotage the petitions filed by the party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, and other members at the tribunals. The Comrade Julius Abure-led faction alleged that Lamidi approached election tribunals seeking to withdraw all cases involving the party’s candidates challenging the…
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Akin Osuntokun, Director-General of the Labour Party (LP) presidential campaign council has blamed the crisis rocking the party on the judiciary. Osuntokun who appeared on a Channels Television programme on Thursday, April 20, alleged that Nigerian judges now rely more on “technicalities, evasive tactics, and scapegoatism,” to take very crucial positions. He said; …
A female voter in the supplementary elections holding in Kebbi state, today April 15, claims the “broom” party gave her N3,000, two wrappers, and packs of pasta for voting for the party. Another lady said “the broom” party gave her the same as well as others for voting for them. Channels TV reports…
The Vice-presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, has declined the request of Prof. Wole Soyinka for a one-on-one debate on the outcome of the February 25 presidential election. Soyinka called for the debate while condemning Baba-Ahmed’s recent interview on Channels TV, where he called on President Muhammadu Buhari and the Chief…
The Imo State House of Assembly candidate for Owerri municipal constituency seat, Clinton Amadi, has been released from police custody. The Labour Party member, who was a lawmaker at the state House of Assembly between 2007 and 2011 was arrested on Monday April 3, at the state secretariat of the Independent National Electoral Commission located…
A Labour Party governorship aspirant in the forthcoming governorship primary holding in Imo State, Humphrey Anumudu, has died. He was found dead in his home in Lagos state on Friday evening March 24. Late Anumudu was reported dead in his Lagos home after returning from a meeting at the LP secretariat in Abuja. The deceased…
Popular Labour party supporter, Chude Nnamdi with Twitter handle @chude__, has regained his freedom after he was arrested in Onitsha, Anambra State on Saturday, March 18, 2023, and flown to Abuja for questioning. His arrest caused a debate on social media with many calling for his immediate release. It was initially alleged that the…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced that the All Progressives Congress (APC) won 38 out of the 40 seats in the Lagos State House of Assembly at Saturday’s elections. Mrs Adenike Tadese, INEC’s Head of Department Voter Education and Publicity who made the announcement on Tuesday, March 21, said the Labour Party…
Former Governor of Enugu State, Senator Chimaroke Nnamani, has lost his reelection bid in Enugu East Senatorial district to Labour Party candidate, Sir Kelvin Chukwu. The LP candidate polled 69, 136 to beat Chimaroke of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, who scored 48, 701 votes. Kelvin replaced his brother, Oyibo Chukwu, who was…