A few blocks from the family house of Namadi Sambo is the residence of Datti Baba-Ahmed. Both men share a few things in common. The former is an ex-vice president while the latter seeks to become the next vice-president of Nigeria...
...and they are both from Tudun Wada, a town in Zaria LGA of Kaduna state.
Born and raised in Tudun Wada, Sambo went on to build a career in architecture, then later served as governor of Kaduna, before eventually becoming vice-president under @GEJonathan following the demise of Umaru Musa Yar’Adua in 2010.
Thirteen years later, another native of Tudun Wada — Datti Baba-Ahmed of the Labour Party (LP) — is on the verge of rewriting history to become the second VP from the town.
Saturday’s presidential election will determine whether history will repeat itself or be forced to wait for much longer. Click for more 👉🏾 thecable.ng/nigeriadecides…
After six months of intense campaigning, political acrobatics and sometimes hard-to-predict machinations, E-Day is finally upon us.
The wave of rallies came at a frenetic pace while the antics of politicians and their supporters were on rapid display, leading to the much-awaited February 25.
The 2023 presidential election holds today and residents of Agulu community, in Anambra state, are gearing up for a poll that may seal their fate for the next decade. Agulu is the ancestral home of Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP).
Petty traders in the community were already awake to begin their daily businesses as early as 6:30 am. Farmers walked the community’s tarred roads interspersed by palm trees and cassava plantations as chirping creatures and hooting owls sang their tunes into first light.
FACT CHECK: Viral audio of Atiku, Tambuwal and Okowa plotting to rig election is doctored
An audio of Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), plotting to rig the general election that is hours away has gone viral.
In the said recording, Ifeanyi Okowa, vice-presidential candidate of the PDP, and Aminu Tambuwal, governor of Sokoto and director-general of the party’s presidential campaign council, could also be heard.
Checks by TheCable have found the recording to be deepfake.
Merriam-Webster dictionary defines deepfake as: “An image or recording that has been convincingly altered and manipulated to misrepresent someone as doing or saying something that was not actually done or said.”
It is less than 24 hours to Nigeria’s presidential election and Yakubu Isa, a resident of Abuja, the country’s capital, is still unsure of who to vote for. He said all the political candidates are cut from the same cloth and it doesn’t really matter who wins.
Although he admitted that some are better than the rest, he said seeing past the disguise is the true challenge.
On a good day, presidential elections in Nigeria are a straight fight between the candidate of the ruling party and that of the leading opposition party.
What many thought would be a head-to-head battle between Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) suddenly took a different turn when Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) joined the fray,...