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A former presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress in the 2019 elections, Charles Udeogaranya, has warned Nigerians to heed the recent warnings of the World Bank and save Nigeria from an impending economic crash by electing the Labour Party, LP, Presidential candidate, Peter Obi as Nigeria's next president. The warning followed a release by the World Bank Group yesterday, in its latest Global Economic Prospects, GEP, which has downgraded Nigeria's growth projection for 2023 and 2024 to 2.9 per cent, as against the 3.1 per cent it had predicted for the country in June 2022. Udeogaranya, who conveyed his position in a statement issued in Abuja on Wednesday, said poverty do not recognise who is a Yoruba,  Fulani, Hausa, Igbo, Ijaw, Ibibio, Efik, Christian, Muslim or Atheist. " When the national economy crashes, everyone is severely affected, therefore, we must choose Peter Obi of Labour Party, who is clearly different from those that put us in this economic mess,...

ON the heels of the interactive session between Arewa Joint Committee, AJC, and presidential candidates, major southern regional groups and leaders are divided over toeing the same path, insisting the next President must come from the South. The groups, comprising Afenifere, Yoruba Council of Elders, YCE, Pan-Pan-Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, and Oduduwa United People Association, ODUPA, among others, cautioned against abandoning rotational presidency in 2023. They were not keen about doing what the AJC did in Kaduna, but were more concerned about the electoral process and where the next President should come from. However, PANDEF said plans are ongoing to have an interface with candidates from the South in line with the clamour for southern presidency. Some northern political leaders under the auspices of AJC had organised an interactive session for all presidential candidates. Held in Kaduna, last week, presidential hopefuls who participated include Kola Abiola of Peoples Redemption Par...