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Moment James Brown appears on camera during Evang. Ebuka Obi’s prayer against ogbanje spirit

Nigerian crossdresser, James Chukwueze Obialor, better known as James Brown attends crossover service at Evangelist Ebuka Obi‘s church. Recall that the crossdresser and actress, Destiny Etiko were seen in a viral video displaying their dance moves at Zion Ministry church in Lagos.

James Brown James Brown and the actress spent a significant amount of time in the presence of their Maker. A significant event at Zion Ministry involved Evang Ebuka Obi, the church’s founder, leading a prayer for people thought to be under the influence of the “Ogbanje spirit.”

Evang. Ebuka Obi During this session, James Brown made an appearance on camera sans his wig, sparking a new trend. Netizens rushed the comment section with hilarious reactions. See reactions below: sir.cleef: “Okay this is not supposed to be this funny…that cameraman na goat😂😂😂😂😂😂” naustalgiabeats: “What is the issue? 😂😂😂😂 dem see ogbanje 😂😂” omoruyii: “Give that camera man a bottle of beer” john_cloud01: “The camera man and the instrumentalist will not make heaven 😂😂😂” _vinceobi: “Them dey hail James brown for church… how rotten nigerian society has become.” WATCH VIDEO:

Tinubu, Shettima, APC close defence in Obi’s Petition

President Bola Tinubu, vice president Kashim Shittema and the All Peoples Congress (APC) on Wednesday closed their defence in Mr Peter Obi and his Labour Party’s petition. Counsel for Tinubu and Shettima, Wole Olanipekun, SAN informed the presidential election petition court (PEPC) that they are closing their case after the testimony of their sole witness.

President Bola Tinubu flanked by VP Kashima Shettima and supporters Lateef Fagbemi, SAN for APC also informed the court that they have no witnesses and relied on the witnesses called by other respondents. Following the closure of their defence the five-member panel presided over by Justice Haruna Tsammani said the date for the final written addresses would be communicated. Tsammani assigned 10 days each to the respondents, seven days to the petitioners and five days for reply. Earlier, Tinubu through his counsel tendered some documents in support of their defence. The documents tendered are a letter from the Nigeria Police to the United States Embassy, dated February 3, 2003; letter from the United States Embassy to the Nigeria Police, dated February 4, 2003. Others are; US Visas and immigration documents between 2011 and 2021.
Others are; A copy of the Report of the Committee on the Location of the Federal Capital of Nigeria, certified by the Archives and History Bureau of the FCT. Tendered also are copies of Form EC 8D for Kano State in respect of the February 25, 2023, presidential election; and copies of Form EC 8D(A); copies of Form EC8D in respect of the presidential election of 25th February 2023. Also tendered and admitted were a list of registered members of the labour party and a membership list of LP for Anambra state to claim that Obi is not a member of the labour party. After the tendering of documents, Olanipekun called their sole witness, Senate Majority Leader Sen. Michael Bamidele to testify. Being cross-examined by Fagbemi, the witness told the court that the February 25 presidential election results for APC in Kano state were recorded with a shortfall of 10, 292 votes against Tinubu. He added that Obi‘s name was not contained in the membership list of the LP submitted to the INEC. Being cross-examined by counsel to Obi, Dr Livy Uzoukwu, SAN the witness agreed that there a report by the EU election observers in Nigeria and it was tendered through him in evidence. On whether the letter from the United States Embassy to the Nigeria Police, dated February 4, 2003 addresses issues of criminal allegation against Tinubu, the witness said the Nigeria Police letter to the US requested for search for general Criminal records against Tinubu.. He added that therefore the US letter which cleared Tinubu of criminal conviction was an appropriate response. Abubakar Mahmoud, SAN counsel for INEC told the court that they have no cross-examination. Obi and his Labour Party (LP) are petitioners in the petition marked CA/PEPC/03/2023 challenging the election which brought President Bola Tinubu into power Respondents are Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) president Bola Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima and All Progressives Congress (APC.)

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Obi’s counsel lambasts INEC over absence of witness in court

Dr Levi Uzoukwu (SAN), the leading counsel to the Labour Party (LP) and Peter Obi has blasted Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for showing a lack of preparation in defending its case at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPC). Uzoukwu made this comment on Monday, shortly after the court adjourned its resumed sitting, following the absence of INEC’s first defence witness.

Dr Levi Uzoukwu (SAN) The PEPC was forced to adjourn after the first of three witnesses scheduled to appear on behalf of INEC failed to appear allegedly on account of what the commission cited as domestic issues. Speaking to newsmen just outside the court, the LP lawyer said his camp has a strong case and are ready to move on with their case, unlike the INEC that has continued to show inconsistencies. “Given the contradictions and inconsistencies and what INEC has done; I’m sure they are not ready to defend this case. “I stand to be proven wrong, but I would wish that they defend this matter so that the public will see more things of what happened to this election,” he told Channels Television While reiterating that Nigeria has never had an election like the February 25th presidential poll, the legal counsel stressed that it is the INEC’s choice to either call a witness or witnesses, adding that he and his client the LP, are ready at all times. It would be recalled that at the mention of the case around 9:30 am, lawyer to INEC, Abubakar Mahmoud (SAN), told the court that although his client planned to call three witnesses within three days, the one slated for today was unavailable on account of domestic issues. Lawyers to other parties in the case – Livy Uzoukwu (SAN) for Obi/LP, Wole Olanipekun (SAN) for President Bola Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettma, and Lateef Fagbemi (SAN) for the All Progressives Congress (APC), did not object to the request by the INEC lawyer.

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“INEC deliberately delaying proceedings, refusing to provide documents we asked for” ― Peter Obi’s counsel cries out

"INEC deliberately delaying proceedings, refusing to provide documents we asked for" ― Peter Obi cries out

The Labour Party and its presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi on Monday alleged that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is deliberately delaying proceedings by refusing to provide the documents they asked for. Obi and the LP are petitioners in the petition marked CA/PEPC/03/2023 challenging the election of President Bola Tinubu.

Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi Respondents are Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) president Bola Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima and All Progressives Congress (APC). The LP and Obi told the Presidential Election Petition Court that due to INEC ‘s refusal to provide them the documents they asked for, they can’t go on with their case. Mr Jubrin Okutepa, counsel for the LP, told the court that all the documents his client asked for from INEC were not provided. ” We are bringing this to your notice for your intervention because we have done everything humanly possible. ” This afternoon, INEC released few IreV reports from Lagos and Gombe. ” These documents were certified since May 29. We have severally written letters detailing the documents we needed as proof of our petition. ” We have paid for most of these documents, “he said. He further informed the court that it appears that INEC was deliberately delaying proceedings. Mr Abubakar Mahmoud, SAN counsel for INEC, told the court that he received a letter dated May 15 from the petitioners and has not received any other letter after that. ” All the documents that the subpoenaed witnesses are tendering were provided by INEC. We never denied the petitioners any document. “I am a senior counsel and know the importance of this matter. They should stop this lamentation, ” he said. Mr Wole Olanipakun, SAN counsel for Tinubu and Shettima promised to ensure that a meeting between senior counsel holds to address the issues raised. The court urged them to come to a better understanding so that the proceeding can go on smoothly as they pledged in their spirit of cooperation. The petitioners through their counsel, Patrick Ikweato, SAN brought their seventh witness (PW 7) to come and testify. The subpoenaed witness, Loretta Ogah, is an architect with Amazon Web Services Incorporated (AWS) At the point of adopting her witness statement on oath, the respondents objected. Mahmoud, told the court that the petitioners just served them with the documents. ” I will not be in the position to examine the witness today, I need to study the documents ” he said. Olanipakun also objected to adoption of the witness statement. ” We are not saying that the witness should not go on with her evidence,” he said. The petitioners tendered the witness’s employment letter by Amazon and her resumé and were admitted in evidence. Also admitted were six reports showing the health status of AWS dashboard of cloud services in 33 regions and certificates of compliance. Meanwhile, the five-member panel led by Justice Haruna Tsammani adjourned until Tuesday for the cross-examination of the witness and further hearing of the petition.

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Court dismisses Peter Obi’s request to question INEC on technology deployed for 2023 polls

The Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) on Saturday dismissed the application filed by the Labour Party and Mr Peter Obi seeking an order to question INEC on the technology it deployed for the conduct of the general elections. Obi and LP are petitioners in the petition marked CA/PEPC/03/2023 challenging the election which brought President Bola Tinubu into power Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Mr Peter Ob Respondents are the INEC, President Bola Tinubu and Vice president Kashim Shettima and All Progressives Congress (APC). Ruling on the application, the five-member panel led by Justice Haruna Tsammani held that it lacked the jurisdiction to grant the request as it was brought outside the pre-hearing session and therefore incompetent. “It is an afterthought on the grounds that the pre-hearing period to file such an application elapsed on May 22. “I have not disputed the fact that they did not call the attention of the court during the pre-hearing session.”
“It is for the applicant to take a step towards the hearing of his motion on notice. The court cannot do that for him. “The petitioners’ counsel are very conversant with the provisions of the law and did not ask for an extension of time. ” They rather seek to employ the right to fair hearing as a magic wand to escape the consequence of their failure to comply with the law and blame the court for its inaction” the court held. The court also held that the applicants failed to disclose any extreme circumstance that stopped them from filing within the statutory time. In a unanimous decision, the court stated that motions cannot be heard at the hearing session and as such can be deemed as abandoned. ”Their application is incompetent and the court lacks the jurisdiction to entertain it and accordingly, the application is struck out.” It held. The petitioners, among other reasons for disputing the outcome of the elections are accusing the electoral umpire of non-compliance with the Electoral Act. Their concerns also included failure to transmit the results of the presidential election in real-time on the INEC results viewing portal as assured. In their effort to support the grounds of their petition, the petitioners had asked the court to permit them to question INEC. on the technology deployed to conduct the election including the quality of the ICT experts who oversaw the conduct of the election. In two applications, the petitioners through their lawyer, Patrick Ikweto, SAN, urged the court to order INEC to supply the names and other details of its ICT professionals that deployed electronic devices for the conduct of the election. Specifically, the petitioners maintained that given INEC’s reply to their petition, it should be compelled to answer 12 questions posed to them. President Bola Tinubu The added the date the electoral body conducted functionality tests on the system it deployed for the elections, as well as names and details of those that conducted the test. They further required INEC to answer the following questions: “Who created/deployed the four (4) Applications Patches/Updates to fix the HTTP 500 error that prevented the e-transmission of the results of the Presidential election on 25th February 2023? “What was the exact time of the occurrence of the technical glitch which prevented the e-transmission of the result of the Presidential election on 25th February 2023? “What time were the technological glitches fixed and or repaired? “What percentage of the result of the Presidential election was uploaded on the I-Rev on Feb. 25? “What percentage of the result of the Presidential election was uploaded on the I-Rev at the time of the declaration of the Result of the Presidential election on March 1?”

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“They are false, malicious and insensitive” – Saint Obi’s family reacts to rumors he suffered in his marriage

The family of deceased Nollywood thespian, Saint Obi, reacts to viral reports that he had suffered in his marriage prior to his death. A reports by one Mr Zik Zulu Okafor had described how the movie star had suffered maltreatment from his wife’s family before he died.

In a lengthy disclaimer, the family stated that the reports were simply false and malicious. Dissociating themselves from it, the family described Mr Okafor’s article as sad and unfortunate, emphasizing that the family is still morning and would like their privacy to be respected by all. Their write up read: “RE: DEMISE OF SAINT OBI (MR OBINNA NWAFOR) Our attention has been drawn to the publication by one Mr Zik Zulu Okafor concerning the death of our son, Mr Obinna Nwafor, popularly known as Saint Obi, and the accompanying negative commentary in social and other media portraying his widow in an unfair and most defamatory manner. This is in no way, shape or form an accurate portrayal of the Lynda that we know and relate with. The Nwafor family also views the said article by Mr Okafor as sad and most unfortunate. It was neither written in consultation with any member of the family nor authored with our consent or authority. We totally disassociate ourselves from it.

The views and allegations contained therein are entirely the opinion of the writer. They are false, malicious, and insensitive to the wife, children, and entire family he left behind. This is a mourning period for the family, and while we appreciate the condolences of friends, fans, and well-wishers. We ask that the family’s privacy be respected at this time. The funeral rites will be communicated to the public in due course. May the soul of our dearly beloved brother, son, father, and husband. Rest in peace. Amen”.

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Apapa gives Peter Obi’s lawyers 48-hour ultimatum over tribunal updates

Factional leader of the Labour Party, Lamidi Apapa, has given lawyers of the presidential candidate of the party, Peter Obi, a 48-hour ultimatum to brief him on the ongoing presidential election petitions tribunal. The ultimatum was given on Friday, May 12, after Apapa convened a parallel meeting of the National Executive Council of the party in Bauchi state.

The meeting was held after a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja ruled in his favour as the acting national chairman of the party. Justice Hamza Muazu who also said that he will go ahead to hear the substantive matter, adjourned the case till Friday, May 19, for further deliberation. Issuing the ultimatum to Peter Obi’s lawyers, Apapa said; “There is no doubt that I am now in charge. It has now been confirmed by the court that I have the right to be in charge until another order takes place. “As of today, I am the acting national chairman of the party and any other person that parades himself as the chairman is doing so illegally. “I want to invite all the lawyers that are in charge, representing Labour Party at the election tribunal, to give me updates in the next 48 hours because I am the one in charge and the one in the driver’s seat.” Congratulations to Pa Lamidi Apapa on his big win at the court. E ni sun!! https://t.co/YXD2PIaGEF — Daddy D.O🇳🇬 (@DOlusegun) May 12, 2023

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Peter Obi’s visit for apology, not reconciliation – Wole Soyinka

Renowned professor, Wole Soyinka has said that the reports that the visit by the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, was for reconciliation are simply inappropriate. In reports released online, the Prof said that Peter Obi had apologized for the bad conduct of his supporters, Obidients, who had dragged him online.

This was revealed in a statement by the Prof Wole Soyinka entitled “A visitation and the Allure of ‘Reconciliation’.” Soyinka said; “Before it gains traction and embarks on a life of its own, I wish to state clearly that the word “Reconciliation”, inserted into some reports of Peter Obi’s visit to me yesterday, Sunday, May 7. is a most inappropriate, and diversionary invocation. Let me clarify: I know the entity known as Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party. I can relate to him. I know and can relate to the Labour Party on whose platform he contested elections. There are simply no issues to reconcile between those two entities and myself. However, I do not know, and I am unable to relate to something known as the “Obidient” or “Obidient Family”. Thus, albeit in a different vein, any notion of Reconciliation, or even relations – positive, negative or indifferent – with such a spectral emanation is simply grasping at empty air.

During that meeting, attended by two other individuals only, the word “Reconciliation” was never bruited, neither in itself nor in any other form. It simply did not arise. By contrast, there were expressions of “burden of leadership” “responsibility”, “apology”, “pleading”, “formal dissociation from the untenable”, all the way to the “tragic ascendancy of ethnic cleavage”, especially under such ironic, untenable circumstances. Discussions were frank, and creative. The notion of Reconciliation was clearly N/A – None Applicable. It was never raised. The following should be understood, but never underestimated. What remains ineradicable from that weekend of orgiastic rave in the social media was the opening up of the dark, putrid recesses in the national psyche that we like to pretend do not exist. It invited – into minds seeking a grasp on reality – gruesome variations on images from Dante’s Purgatorio. A fathomless pit was exposed, at the bottom of which one glimpsed a throng of the damned, writhing in competitive lust for the largest of the gangrenous ladles in a diabolical broth. To peek over the edge of that pit for a prolonged spell was to turn giddy, with a risk of falling into the tureen of inhuman pus. To attempt to navigate one’s way, however gingerly, along a mat spread across the infernal abyss, is an invitation to moral suiciiide. “For the serious minded, I call attention to essays I have offered on the theme of Reconciliation based on Truth, and the ethical imperative of Restitution. There will be further elaborations forthcoming in DEMOCRACY PRIMER III – Bookcraft’s INTERVENTION series, now brought forward for publication on June 12, the watershed extorted from the current regime as the nation’s Democracy Day, “If, from here on, I now comply with entreaties from several valued, genuinely concerned directions, and ignore new provocations, however vile, it is only because I also approve of Mohammed Ali’s strategy of Rope-a-Dope, where blind menace is left flailing hopelessly at the disdainful manifest of Truth.”

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“Peter Obi’s petition against Tinubu is an effort in futility”

Delta North senator-elect, Ned Nwoko, has said the petition of Peter Obi against Tinubu is an effort in futility. According to Punch, Nwoko explained that once the President-elect is sworn in, the petition filed against him at the Presidential Elections Petitions Tribunal in Abuja, might not see the light of day. According to him, the Labour Party’s ‘’poor assessment of the situation and unrealistic expectations” led to its defeat. He said if the opposition parties had teamed up, they would have crushed the ruling APC in the election, given the ‘poor performance’ of the current APC regime, led by President Buhari. “Once Tinubu is inaugurated as President, he takes charge of everything. He becomes the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces; he orders them and uses them as he wishes. He appoints new Chief Justice upon recommendation by the judicial council. So, you see, it is almost impossible to stop him from completing his four years tenure.
Moving forward, the PDP and Labour Party have to come to terms and make next election more strategic. Natural alliance between both parties is the only way to save Nigeria from this inauspicious government.”, Nwoko noted.

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“Endless forgeries from APC” — Obi’s campaign team denies leaked audio with Oyedepo

The Presidential Campaign Council of Obi-Datti has denied the authenticity of a leaked audio recording between their Presidential candidate, Peter Obi, and Bishop David Oyedepo, the founder of Living Faith Church Worldwide (Winners’ Chapel).

The leaked audio, which surfaced on the night of April 1, 2023, purportedly features Obi and Oyedepo discussing ways to mobilize Christian voters in the South-West and areas of the North-Central states such as Kwara, Kogi, and Niger. Diran Onifade, who serves as the Head of Media and Communications for the Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Council, characterized the leaked audio conversation as a typical example of the numerous falsifications that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is infamous for. Obi’s Campaign Team on Leaked Audio with Oyedepo “It appears the All Progressives Congress’ desperation to grab and retain power by foul means has refused to go away more than a month after they have grabbed the election as they planned. “While we are toeing the constitutional path to retrieve our mandate, those who have truncated the wishes of the majority of Nigerians have recoursed to mischief and endless subterfuge to continue to hold on to what they know does not belong to them. “From the show of shame in Port Harcourt to the drama in the Ibom Air aircraft, both of which they contrived, they have now moved to the circulation of a deep fake audio file aimed at promoting religious tension in the country. “All these are meant to serve no other purpose than egregious mischief aimed at demarketing Peter Obi. If the goal is to create a credibility problem, the ploy has failed woefully. “Peter Obi has long been on record as the only presidential candidate who has urged the Nigerians electorate not to vote for him on the basis of religion or tribe. “We will therefore like to advice our beloved Nigerian people to remain focused on the task to take back the mandate we know was freely given to Peter Obi and Datti Baba-Ahmed through legitimate means. “That is more important than to expect those who ran election on forged credentials and even fake Bishops to stop faking. They cannot stop being fraudulent because that is who they are.”

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