The Labour Party (LP) has picked a former council boss, Hon. Juliana Obetta Princess as its deputy governorship candidate for the forthcoming Benue State governorship election.
This came barely 48 hours after the party elected its governorship candidate, Mathias Byuan.

A grassroots politician, Hon Obetta served as a former executive chairman of Okpokwu LGA of the state and has built a career spanning community development and political mobilisation.

She has established a strong presence in grassroots politics and community engagement and served in president Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Organization..

Unveiling the deputy governorship candidate in Makurdi at the party’s secretariat along Otukpo road, Byuan stated that the candidate was unanimously elected by party members in the state.

According to Byuan, “We have consulted widely with party stakeholders across the state and today, they have unanimously elected Mrs Julie Obetta as the first female governorship candidate who by the grace of God, come 2027 will be the first female deputy governor of Benue State.”

The governorship candidate described the choice of the deputy governorship candidate as part of the party’s program to include women in governance in 2027.

Byuan promised that the party if given the mandate would turn the state from civil service to industrial state.

In a remark, Hon Obetta said she was overwhelmed by the honor as the first female deputy governorship candidate of the party and promised to mobilize Benue women who constitute significant numbers to vote for the party.

The presidency has expressed security concerns over comment against the presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Atiku Abubakar by a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal.

DAILY POST reports that Babachir, while announcing his resignation from the ADC on Monday, alleged that Atiku is a manipulator, stating that the outcome of the recently concluded primary election of the party was predetermined to favour the former vice president.

According to him, the primary elections at all levels were “massively rigged to favour Kachalla Abubakar Atiku”.

He alleged that results from the polls were “just written or rewritten to favour him and his coven”.

Reacting, Presidential spokesperson, Daniel Bwala in a post on his official X handle, said what the former SGF “said about the candidate of ADC, if verified is scary and will undermine the national security of Nigeria”.

According to Bwala, the plans of opposition leaders plotting to remove President Tinubu in 2027 had been exposed, stating that his principal remained the best candidate.

Bwala claimed that in the past two or three months, “these people were talking about how they were made from heaven as one indivisible and indisoluble coalition sent by God to come and rescue Nigeria; and alas all their intentions and plans have been exposed”.

He said with the allegations against some of the opposition candidates, the “choice for  2027 has never been more clearer. President Tinubu in all honesty is a million miles ahead of them”.

A mild protest erupted at the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, office in Abuja on Monday as Nollywood actor and House of Representatives aspirant, Emeka Ike, voiced his dissatisfaction over the outcome of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, primary election for the Abuja Municipal Area Council, AMAC, seat.

Ike, who recently declared his intention to contest for a seat in the House of Representatives, stormed the INEC office alleging irregularities in the conduct of the primary election. 

DAILY POST gathered that the actor lost the party’s primaries.

Addressing officials during the protest, Ike expressed anger over the electoral process, insisting that he would not remain silent over.

“We don’t have an address when the election is going on. I am an aspirant, I’m a Nigerian. 

“You won’t go away with this. I don’t do social media activism. INEC will not escape this,” he said.

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