By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief) @CelestineOkaf11

The 2023 general election campaigns seem to have practically taken off on Monday, October 10, 2022, with the formal inauguration, in Abuja, of the Tinubu/Shettima Women Campaign Council of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Council flag-off in Uyo, Akwa Ibom state for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

By Alexandria Dominic-Chukwu

Andrew Okowa, Younger brother to the Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, has described supporters of Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, (LP), as ‘bunch of hungry and jobless guys’.

By Nahum Sule (Taraba State Correspondent, in Jalingo)

The presidential candidate of the New Nigeria People's Party (NNPP), Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has said he's an empirical politician who deals with grassroots mobilisation and not a social media politician.

By Dr Solomon Arase (former Police IG)

(A paper Presented At The 2022 6th Edition Of The Guild Of Corporate Online Publishers, GOCOP, Annual Lecture Series Held On Thursday October 6, 2022 At Sheraton Hotels And Towers, Ikeja, Lagos)

ELECTIONS:

"Election is the process whereby the adult citizens choose their representative to govern them (Afolabi 2018). Election encapsulates the mediating institutional and psychological process and anchors for citizens, as adults in an organized and routinised manner to express their choice among those who seek public political office. In the political realm, election is expressed as the formal display of preferences by the governed, either secretly or openly, with the aggregation of the choice collated and transformed into collective decision on who governs based on the majority of the votes cast.

By Nahum Sule (Taraba State Correspondent, in Jalingo)

The Aggrieved members of the Taraba State People's Redemption Party (PRP) have vilified the primary election which produced Alhaji Lateef Kolawale Abiola, the eldest son of Bashorun MKO Abiola of the June 12 saga, as the party’s flagbearer for the 2023 presidential election.

The Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has nullified the nomination of 12 House of Assembly candidates fielded by the African Democratic Congress and Action Democratic Party in Rivers State.

By John Hembe (Benue State Correspondent)

As the internal crisis in the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) appears abating, Benue state governor, Samuel Ortom, has issued what looks like an advisory ultimatum to the PDP National Chairman, Dr Iyorchia Ayu, to resign his job or beg for leniency.

By David Odama (In Lafia, Nasarawa State)

Nasarawa State Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Mr Francis Orogu, said on Saturday that despite the perceived disagreement in the party, the PDP would deliver the state to its Presidential Candidate, Atiku Abubakar, in the 2023 general elections.

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief) @CelestineOkaf11

The Media outfit of the Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Obi-Datti Media office, has raised alarm on activities of some hirelings of the opponents of the Peter Obi- Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmad ticket to make abusive and provocative statements against ethnic and religious groups in the country with the sole purpose of harming the growing goodwill of its candidates.

By Desmond Ukandu (Politics Editor)

The Coalition of Tinubu/Shettima Support Group has described as apt and strategic, the appointment of Former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Honourable Babangida Nguroje, as Director, Parliamentarian, North East of the Bola Ahmed Tinubu Presidential Campaign Council.

By Desmond Ukandu (Politics Editor)

A member of the Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Organization from Benue State, Hon Chille Igbawua, has said that the People's Democratic Party (PDP) will win all the elections in the state, adding that the Benue state Governor, Samuel Ortom, is equally favorably disposed to ensuring that all the candidates of the party emerge victorious without exceptions.

By Emmanuel Mogbede (Agency News Reporter)

The All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council has postponed the start of its campaigns earlier slated for Wednesday.