Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 general elections, has agreed with his counterpart in the African Action Congress, Omoyele Sowore, that his honorary citizenship of Dallas in the United States, is useless. In an interview on Arise TV on Monday night, Obi also described the honorary citizenship he was conferred with as worthless, just as Sowore had said.
The African Action Congress has reacted to the decision of the Nigeria Labour Congress to hold its rally May Day rally on the streets of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. This comes as President Muhammadu Buhari’s government denied the workers’ union permission to use Eagle Square in Abuja. Emmanuel Ugboaja, General Secretary of the NLC, confirmed this in a statement signed on Saturday in Abuja.
A group of concerned civic space actors, family, and colleagues of human rights lawyer, Inibehe Effiong, have kicked against his transfer from the Ikot Ekpene Medium Security Custodial Center to the Uyo Custodial Center. Inibehe was jailed by the Chief Judge of Akwa Ibom State, Justice Ekaette Obot for alleged contempt.
Emefiele had reportedly picked the nomination form on Friday from the party’s organising secretary at the International Conference Centre (ICC) in Abuja.