Today’s Headlines: Tinubu Can’t Win 2027 on Rallies — Baba-Ahmed; Nigeria Must Come First — Jonathan

The National Chairman of the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP), Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, has dismissed the significance of campaign rallies and youth mobilisation in determining the outcome of the 2027 presidential election, insisting that President Bola Tinubu must ultimately secure votes to win.

Baba-Ahmed expressed confidence in his party’s chances in the forthcoming election while arguing that large political gatherings and public displays of support do not necessarily translate into electoral victory.

He spoke on Tuesday during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today.

The PRP chairman was responding to questions about the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), its campaign activities and the perceived strength of Tinubu’s re-election bid.

𝗡𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘆, 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝘀 – 𝗝𝗼𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has urged Nigerian politicians to place national interest above party loyalty and sectional considerations, declaring that Nigeria is greater than any political party and politician in the country.

Jonathan also called for national unity, stronger democratic institutions and greater commitment to good governance, saying former deputy governors had a responsibility to deploy their experience to promote national development.

He spoke on Tuesday at the 5th National Conference of the Forum of Former Deputy Governors of Nigeria in Abuja.

The ex-president, represented by a former Adamawa State Deputy Governor, Bala Ngilari, warned that ethnic, religious and regional divisions remained major obstacles to Nigeria’s political development.

The Archbishop of Onitsha and Metropolitan of the Onitsha Ecclesiastical Province, Most Rev. Valerian Okeke, has celebrated his 73rd birthday with inmates at the National Correctional Centre in Onitsha, Anambra State.

Okeke said the annual gesture was a way of showing love to the inmates, giving them a sense of belonging and expressing gratitude to God.

In his homily, titled ‘Necessity of Giving Thanks’, delivered at the correctional centre on Tuesday in the presence of inmates and other dignitaries, the archbishop said thanksgiving and gratitude to God were necessities.

He explained that thanksgiving was a virtue that made a person great before God, adding that the more one gave thanks, the more one was blessed by God.

The first Ebola case detected in Nigeria is the Bundibugyo strain, which is behind a major DR Congo outbreak, and the patient is a diplomat, an emergency meeting heard on Wednesday.

The case in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, was detected in a woman who had travelled from Uganda to the capital Abuja on October 3, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) said.

Since the Ebola outbreak was declared in the Democratic Republic of Congo in mid-May, the deadly viral haemorrhagic fever has spread to several countries across the continent, including to neighbouring Uganda.

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