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2023: Youth Groups Inaugurate New Political Movement

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Some youth groups across the six geopolitical zones of Nigeria have inaugurated a new political movement called We2GedaNG. The group said it is using the platform to address the country’s failed system.

Addressing journalists in Awka, on Saturday, an Oyo State lawmaker, representing Iseyin/Itesiwaju/Kajola/IWajowa Federal Constituency, Mr Shina Abiola Peller, disclosed that over 2.3 million youths across the six geopolitical zones have registered.

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Peller explained that the movement was formed to realise a new and unified Nigeria, with the youths as the driving force.

He added that the initiative was in partnership with the Reality Family Organisation and facilitated by the National Association of Nigeria Students and Civil Society Organisations with a view to achieving a more united Nigeria, irrespective of tribe, ethnic, and religious sentiments.

According to him, Nigeria is suffering from a failed economic and social-political system.

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He said, “Whether we like it or not, the country is suffering from a system failure, like; bad roads, poor education system and insecurity. One person can not solve the problem alone and which is why the We2GedeNG has come to assist by addressing the problems collectively.

“This is the time that we must develop a system that will strengthen unity and progress of our country. We have members from the APC, PDP, YPP and others across all zones.”

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The Chairman, Board of Trustees, Ibrahim Hussein Abdulkarim, said the movement was not just about them, but for the generations yet unborn.

He disclosed that the movement has also been unveiled in Kano State for North-West, Adamawa for North-East, Plateau State for North-Central, Akwa Ibom State for South-South, Lagos State for South-West and now in Anambra State, South-East.

In their separate speeches, the lawmaker representing Njikoka I State Constituency in Anambra House of Assembly, Timothy Ifediorama, and the National President, National Association of Nigerian Students, Comrade Sunday Ashafa, admonished the Nigerian youths to shun thuggery and violence come 2023, adding that the electorates should be re-orientated positively ahead of the forthcoming election.

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The PUNCH reports that they said the youths must come out from their shell and take charge of the country before it is too late.

 

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Coalition: Abure-led LP Gives Obi 48 Hours To Leave Party

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The Abure-led faction of the Labour Party has given the presidential candidate of the party in the 2023 election, Peter Obi, a 48 hours ultimatum to leave the party haven formally joined the coalition party.

This was contained in a statement signed by the faction’s National Publicity Secretary, Obiora Ifoh, in Abuja, on Thursday.

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He explained that the Labour Party under Abure’s leadership remains vehemently opposed to joining the coalition while dismissing members of the coalition as “power mongers whose only interest was self and not the people.”

The party warned Nigerians that the often mouthed ‘new Nigeria is Possible’ is a ruse and cannot be achieved with the assemblage of old, recycled, desperate and frustrated politicians in the coalition.

READ ALSO::Only A Formidable Coalition Can Salvage Nigeria, Says Peter Obi

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Ifoh said the party is aware that all those who mismanaged Nigeria over the years are the ones that gathered themselves in the coalition while noting that desperate politicians can’t birth new Nigeria.

He said, “We are aware of several nocturnal meetings between Peter Obi and some of our members, lobbying them to join him in his new party. We’re also aware that a number of them has refused to defect with him.

“Labour Party has consistently said it is not part of the coalition and therefore, any of our members who is part of the coalition is given within 48 hours to formally resign his membership of the party.

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“Labour Party is not available for people with dual agenda, people with deceptive persona. The party will not avail itself to individuals who have one leg in one Party and another leg elsewhere.

“People who in the morning they will claim to be in the Labour Party and in the evening they are in coalition.

READ ALSO: Peter Obi Condemns Tinubu’s Saint Lucia Trip

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“Nearly 70 per cent of the Nigerian population are youths who are tired of the old order, tired of gerontocrats deciding their fate. The new Nigeria that the youths are dreaming of, is not what can be realized from what we are seeing in the coalition.

“These people are opportunistic politicians who are only interested in relaunching themselves into circle of power, people who are desperate to continue holding on to power.

“The new Nigeria of our dream can only be realised through the Labour Party, and the party is willing to lead Nigerians along that trajectory.

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“I therefore urge all members of the party to remain loyal and keep the party structure intact ahead of future elections.”

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Only A Formidable Coalition Can Salvage Nigeria, Says Peter Obi

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The presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 elections, Peter Obi, has given his full support for the coalition of opposition parties aimed at ending President Bola Tinubu’s rule in 2027.

He explained that it was a fact that no single group can change Nigeria alone, hence the need for people to come together to pursue the goal.

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The former Amambra State Governor said this in a post on his verified X handle, on Thursday.

READ ALSO: Peter Obi Condemns Tinubu’s Saint Lucia Trip

He said this just as the Julia Abure-led faction of the Labour Party has given him 48 hours within which to formally resign from the party or risk expulsion.

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Obi in his post wrote, “Yesterday, the coalition members formally adopted the African Democratic Congress (ADC) for the 2027 Nigeria General Elections with Distinguished Senator David Mark serving as the National Chairman and H.E. Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola serving as the National Secretary.

“Our commitment is to sacrifice and work together towards the 2027 General Elections, ensuring that Nigeria gets a competent, capable, and compassionate leadership that will prioritise the nation’s future by putting the welfare of Nigerians first.

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“This decision was not made lightly. It comes from deep reflection on where we are as a country and what must be done to move forward.

“No one group can change Nigeria alone. To dismantle the structures that keep our people in poverty and insecurity, we must build bridges, not walls even when those bridges are uneasy. A New Nigeria is Possible. -PO.”

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I Don’t Owe Anybody Explanation On Truce With Fubara – Wike

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Federal Capital Territory FCT minister, Nyesom Wike, on Thursday, declared that peace has returned to his home state, Rivers, saying he does not owe anyone an explanation on the terms of the truce.

Wike disclosed this during a Media chat monitored in Abuja.

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According to him, several people had turned the crisis in Rivers State into an “oil well”, from which they were drawing illicit funds for their selfish interests, saying such fifth columnists are no longer happy that he has reconciled with the suspended Governor of the state, Siminalayi Fubara.

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