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Nigeria

Peter Gregory Onwubuasi Obi

Date of Birth: 19 July 1961
Place of Birth: Onitsha


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Opposition left outmanoeuvred

Unlike Labour's Peter Obi and the PDP's Atiku Abubakar Tinubu is a professional politician and obsesses over tactics...

Atiku's position has been supported by the Peter Obi-led Labour Party and the Nigeria People's Party (NNPP)...


Tinubu tightens grip, opposition regroups

An unintended consequence of the malfeasance on 11 November is that it has encouraged the two main opposition parties – the People's Democratic Party under Atiku Abubakar and the Labour Party under Peter Obi – to open discussions about cooperation and merger in the face of the APC juggernaut...


The end of Tinubu's beginning

The case brought before the Supreme Court by rival presidential candidates Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi challenging Tinubu's election had already been thrown out by the Elections Petition Court in September (AC Vol 64 No 5 Tinubu's last trick: from godfather to Kabiyesi)...


After Tinubu opened Pandora's Box

Also on 6 September Appeal Court judges in Abuja led by Justice Haruna Tsammani threw out an election petition filed by Peter Obi and the Labour Party arguing that Tinubu had won the presidency by corrupt practices and over-voting...

One of Nigeria's top private universities Baze is owned by Datti Baba-Ahmed Peter Obi's 2023 running mate...


Tinubu's team looks for shock absorbers

Despite some grouses from rival presidential candidates Atiku Abubakar of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) and Peter Obi of the Labour Party opposition politicians haven't organised any effective pushback to the reforms...


Asiwaju Tinubu the taxman cometh

Ending the fuel subsidy was a policy plank on which the top three candidates – Tinubu Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi – agreed...


Tinubu's last trick: from godfather to Kabiyesi

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)...


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