Today’s Headlines: Obi ​‌⁠‌‍⁠⁠‍‍‌⁠​‌‌⁠‌‌​Is Incorruptible–Kwankwaso, Emir Sanusi Visits Olubadan

Vice Presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), Rabiu Kwankwaso, has described the Presidential candidate, Peter Obi, as incorruptible.

Kwankwaso made the declaration on Saturday at the 5th convocation ceremony of the Skyline University of Nigeria in Kano.

Kwankwaso said the attribute is key and needed in governance of the nation.

“One thing I noted in the last few months that we have been working together, is that Peter Obi is incorruptible. He’s not somebody that you can go and start thinking of corruption around him, and that is very key in governance in this country,” he said.

The Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Rashidi Ladoja, on Sunday, called for concerted efforts to segregate traditional rulers from partisan politics to prevent politicians from taking arbitrary decisions whose consequences they do not fully understand.

He gave this advice while playing host to the Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi, at the Olubadan Palace, Oke-Aremo, in the Ibadan North Local Government Area of Oyo State.

Olubadan said, “We have a lot in common. And we have to find a way of insulating the position of the traditional rulers from partisan politics, failure of which they continue to take decisions whose consequences they don’t even understand.

“From history, we know that Kano has been there for more than 1,000 years. And for somebody to wake up and say he is going to break it doesn’t seem to be reasonable. We pray that reason will prevail in the Kano Emirate to restore what we used to know Kano for.”

‘Bamayi’ is a spiritual movement aimed at taking President Bola Tinubu out of power, according to the Spiritual Leader of the INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Ayodele.

In a statement by his Media Assistant, Osho Oluwatosin, Primate Ayodele said the chant “Bamayi” is not just a simple phrase but a spiritual effort to remove Tinubu from office.

On Friday Tinubu was booed by a group of angry youths at the Shehu Shagari Central Mosque in Abuja, after observing Juma’at prayers.

While leaving the mosque with his entourage, the youths chanted “ba ma so” in Hausa, meaning “we don’t want’.

Former Senate President and Chairman of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Adolphus Wabara, has warned the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to accept responsibility should Nigerias democracy suffer any setback arising from what he described as the systematic weakening of opposition parties.

Wabara, who expressed strong reservations over the recent Court of Appeal judgment in the PDP leadership dispute, accused the ruling party of benefiting from the protracted crises in opposition parties and warned that attempts to weaken political alternatives ahead of the 2027 general elections could undermine Nigeria’s democratic foundations.Nigerian Politics Coverage

He described the appellate court’s refusal to compel the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to recognise his faction’s position as a travesty of justice, insisting that the circumstances surrounding the emergence of the Alhaji Abdulrahman Muhammad-led faction raised serious questions about democracy in Nigeria.

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