INEC Twitter Handler Caught Liking News Post Against Peter Obi. Sparks Reactions

 Just look at INEC liking a post on Twitter where Peter Obi was called an opportunist. 

Just look at INEC handlers.

If Not For Your Father, Who Knows You? - Peter Okoye Tells Seun Kuti

 Singer Peter Okoye of PSquare has stated that Seun Kuti's music is irrelevant, IGBERETV reports.

According to him, if not for Seun's father, Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti, no one would have known Seun. 

Peter stated this on his Instagram stories as Seun called him "Talentless" artiste who failed in his solo music career. Peter had criticized Seun for saying that Labour party presidential candidate, Peter Obi is an "opportunist and not the messiah people think he is''.

Naira Swap: Customers Cook And Eat Noodle At GTBank In Aba

 A video has emerged where bank customers, who came to Guarantee trust bank in Aba Abia State to get cash at a bank in the state, decided to make themselves at home and this saw them being comfortable enough to cook.

They have turned the bank into a makeshift restaurant amid the prolonged cash crunch.

The residents arrived on the bank’s property with pots, various cooking utensils, and camping gas, and they immediately got to work cooking.

As other residents waited in line at the bank’s automated teller machines, they made noodles, which roughly four guys took turns eating.

Residents had been camped within the bank’s grounds for hours in the hopes of receiving some cash, according to a voice in the background speaking Igbo.

The individual claimed that they had been waiting for so long that they had to make a meal to eat as they waited to obtain cash.

Bayo Onanuga: Emefiele Has Lost The Battle, He Should Be Fired

 The director of media and publicity of the Tinubu/Shettima campaign council of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Bayo Onanuga, has called for the dismissal of Godwin Emefiele as the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria .

Onanuga made this call on Wednesday, February 8 via a tweet sighted by Legit.ng. 

Godwin Emefiele has been a subject of criticism since the implementation of the naira redesign policy. 

His tweet reads:
"The Nigerian people have won in the battle to make Godwin Emefiele and his CBN see reason that their 10 February swap deadline is grossly unreasonable and is sheer madness.

"And it is time for President Buhari to suspend this fumbling governor from office."

Onanuga has joined the long list of APC chieftains calling for an extension of the February 10 deadline issued by CBN for the circulation and usage of the old naira notes across the federation.

CBN naira redesign: What APC, PDP governors told Buhari in top-level Abuja meeting
With 16 days to go into the general elections, many chieftains of the APC believe that implementing the naira redesign at such short notice in the build-up to the election was not the best decision by the apex bank.

This development on the implementation of the naira note has also triggered a lot of rancour amongst the hierarchy in the APC with the suspicion that some cabal within the party was plotting to frustrate the presidential ambition of the Bola Tinubu, the flagbearer of the party.

In an interview, Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna state made it public that some cabal at the State House was behind the scarcity of the naira to discredit and sabotage Tinubu's goodwill.

These submissions by Governor El-Rufia were concurred by APC chieftain and former minister of aviation Femi Fani-Kayode.

Joe Ajaero Emerges New NLC National President

The Nigeria Labour Congress, on Wednesday, elected Joe Ajaero as its national president.

Ajaero, who until his emergence as president was the deputy national president of the labour union, made history by emerging unopposed as the union’s president.

Ajaero, who until his emergence was also the general secretary of the Nigerian Union of Electricity Employees, emerged as the NLC national president at the 13th National Delegates’ Conference of the labour union ongoing in Abuja.

The conference, which began on Tuesday, February 7, at the International Conference Centre, Abuja, and is expected to end on Wednesday with the election of new national officers for a four-year period, a report by The Niche NG says.

One of the delegates, Prince Emeka Kalu, National Vice President (South-East), Radio, Television, Theatre and Arts Workers’ Union of Nigeria (RATTAWU), who spoke to News Express, said, “History is already being made here. This is the first time a President of the Nigeria Labour Congress will be elected as a consensus candidate.”

Ajaero succeeds Ayuba Wabba, whose tenure as NLC national president ends Wednesday.

Born on December 17, 1964, in Emekuku Owerri-North, Imo State, Ajaero has been the NLC deputy president since 2011. He has been the general secretary of the NUEE since 2005. He was Research Officer One Mechanised Infantry Division Nigerian Army Kaduna between 1990 and 1991 (NYSC); Reporter/Correspondent and Assistant News Editor at Vanguard Newspapers 1992 – 2001; and Head of Training/Information, NUEE 2001 – 2005.
 

2023: What We’ll Do If Thugs Snatch BVAS – INEC

 Ahead of the February and March general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has revealed actions it would take if the Bimodal Voter Registration Systems, BVAS is snatched by thugs on election day.

The Commission’s Deputy Director of Information and Communications Technology, Lawrence Bayode said on Wednesday that the electoral body has a system meant to deactivate any BVAS that is snatched.

Bayode who spoke on Channels Television’s special election programme noted that “if a BVAS is snatched, we already have a system in place that can deactivate that particular BVAS.

The (hoodlums) cannot take over the accreditation process because the device is designed to push the accredited voters to the back end,” he said.

According to Bayode, if the thugs take the device to other places where they will manipulate the data on the device, the Presiding Officer, PO of the polling unit will report the incident.

“If such a thing happens, the PO reports and from the back-end, that device is deactivated so that the person who took away that device will not be able to do anything with the device,

Atiku Rejects Wike Stadium Offer

 The Peoples Democratic Party presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has said he is no longer interested in using the Adokiye Amesiamaka Stadium, Igwurita-Ali, Port Harcourt, for its presidential campaign rally in Rivers State.

The Atiku campaign council lambasted Governor Nyesom Wike, saying the governor could not be trusted, adding that "he wrote to us formally cancelling the approval. We also expect Governor Wike to write and not just stand on a podium during campaign and make statements that depict a very high-level of instability."

The rejection followed volte-face of Wike, which had earlier withdrawn the approval to use the stadium.

SaharaReporters reported on February 1, 2023 that Governor Wike's administration had withdrawn the initial approval of February 11.

It had been reported that the Rivers State sports commissioner, Chris Green, in a circular issued on January 31, explained that the decision was taken because of their discovery that the PDP was in alliance with some members of the All Progressives Congress in the state

the Adokiye Amesiamaka Stadium, Governor Wike must first write to the National Working Committee (NWC) of the PDP, the same way he did while revoking the approval.

“He wrote to us formally cancelling the approval. We also expect Governor Wike to write and not just standing on a podium during campaign and making statements that depict a very high-level of instability. At this point, Rivers people should be aware that they have an unstable leader.”