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)...
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A third candidate former governor of Anambra State and now candidate for the small Labour Party Peter Obi is due to launch his manifesto next month (AC Vol 63 No 15 Peter Obi shakes up the political class)...
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Their supporters worry about the adulation lavished on Peter Obi the Labour Party (LP) flagbearer who has seen a surge in support and is the candidate of choice for many particularly among young people (AC Vol 63 No 13 Tinubu summons the ghosts of Abacha's kleptocracy)...
Some critics argued that Nwafor was whisked away from the main engine room because he might object to attempts to sideline Peter Obi because he like Obi is Igbo...
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Wike has also received overtures from Peter Obi presidential candidate for the small Labour Party who is holding fundraising rallies in the United States this month (AC Vol 63 No 15 Peter Obi shakes up the political class)...
He has met with Peter Obi as well as the APC's presidential candidate Bola Ahmed Tinubu in Nigeria and in Europe...
A third option for Wike would be Peter Obi and the Labour Party...
But Peter Obi the geeky former governor of Anambra state is upending the political establishment's complacency about next year's presidential elections...