DAILY RENDEZVOUS

Daily Rendezvous  A civil society group,  International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, has raised the alarm that the life of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, is gravely in danger as the group alleges that some Islamic Jihadist group have initiated a plot to assassinate Peter Obi. The group made this known is press statement, signed by the group's leaders and made available to Newsmen, over the weekend.  The statement reads in part, "The Int’l Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety) is strongly and unmistakably raising alarm and alerting the world especially the Office of the United Nations Secretary-General and Presidents of the UN General Assembly and the UN Security Council; the Papacy and the Governments of United Kingdom, United States, France, Germany, Canada, Italy, Japan, South Korea, India, Brazil, the European Union and its key Member-States as well as key local and international human rights ...

Daily Rendezvous A popular rights activist, Omoyele Sowore, has claimed that Bola Tinubu, an All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential aspirant, was flown to London in an air ambulance. Sowore claimed that Tinubu fled to London after he noticed that his presidential ambition was dead on arrival. Tinubu recently informed President Muhammadu Buhari of his intention to contest in the 2023 presidential election. The former governor of Lagos State, however, said he was consulting with relevant stakeholders across the country. But, last week, the APC National Leader traveled to London, where he is running his presidential campaign. Dismissing Tinubu’s claim, Sowore, in a Facebook post, wrote: “Three weeks ago you would think the election had been decided when Jagaban of Corruption, Bola Tinubu “declared” his intention to run but soon as he discovered that his ambition was dead on arrival, he took his ambulance and fled to London!.” Right now, it seems the Jagaban...

Daily Rendezvous Rivers state governor Nyesome Wike and the North's most influential power brokers in Nigeria, Northern Youth Leaders Forum (NYLF) has once again snubbed Atiku, Tinubu, and other presidential hopefuls, and has thrown the weight of its support on Sen. Bala Mohammed, the executive Governor of Bauchi state saying, he remains the best candidate to move Nigeria out of its current economic and security challenges. Comrade Elliot Afiyo, the national Chairman of NYLF said, the group's earlier endorsement of Bala Mohammed, has been justified and strengthened by the New Year message of the Rivers state governor, Nyesome Wike, who said PDP has the brightest chance of reclaiming power in 2023 only if the party fields Bala Mohammed as its candidate. Comrade Elliot Afiyo made this known at a World Press Conference held Wednesday in Lagos, Nigeria. Speaking on the reasons for the forum's endorsement of Bala Mohammed, Elliot said, "You may recal...

News Rendezvous Comrade Elliot Afiyo is the National Chairman of the unarguably most popular and influential Northern Youth Organization called Northern Youth Leaders Forum (NYLF) the umbrella body for some 42 Northern Youth Groups formed by the Northern Political, Religious, Traditional and Military Elites in 1990. NYLF is unarguably the most powerful and influential Youth Organisation in the North in particular and the Nation in general.  This Forum has been engineering the processes of determining who the President of Nigeria becomes since 1999. Comrade Afiyo is the third National Chairman of the Forum after Prof. Musa Danladi Musawa and Prof. Sadiq Usman Abubakar. He is also the Secretary –General of the Association of West African Monarchs and a Senior Pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG). In this explosive interview, Comrade Eliot opined that the former Lagos State Governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has the best quality from the southern part of Nigeria ...