Finally, NNPP Presidential Candidate, Kwankwaso Picks Influential Pastor As Running Mate
- As the 2023 election gathers momentum, NNPP’s presidential flagbearer, Rabiu Kwankwaso has reportedly picked Bishop Isaac Idahosa as his running mate
- The leadership of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) on Thursday made the announcement through a tweet via its official Twitter account
- Meanwhile, this decision was arrived at after the presidential hopeful was unable to convince Peter Obi to be his running mate
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An emerging report by Sahara Reporters indicates the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) has announced that its presidential candidate and former governor of Kano state, Rabiu Kwankwaso, has chosen Bishop Isaac Idahosa as his running mate for the 2023 general elections.
The party made the announcement on the official Twitter page of its campaign organisation on Thursday, July 14, where it tweeted:
“Our VP Pastor Bishop Isaac Idahosa from Edo State.”
Source: Twitter
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Bishop Isaac Idahosa from Edo State is the Senior Pastor of God First Ministry, popularly known as Illumination Assembly, with its headquarters at Lekki Light Centre (LLC), Ajah, Lagos.
The cleric who is also a gospel singer, writer, and motivational speaker is popularly known as ‘Prophet Talk Na Do’ by his followers.
Kwankwaso’s choice comes after he failed to get the presidential candidate of the Labour Party and former Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi to be his running mate.
Obi’s refusal to be Kwankwaso’s running mate also ended the two political parties’ alliance talks as they had announced earlier that they were in talks on reaching an alliance ahead of the 2023 elections.
2023: Atiku outperforms Peter Obi, Tinubu on positive ratio metrics
Meanwhile, a new study has revealed that Atiku has outperformed the two other major presidential candidates - Peter Obi of Labour Party and Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the ruling All Progressive Congress, APC - on positive ratio metrics on social media.
According to the report which adopted Artificial Intelligence tools to analyse 500,000 mentions of the candidates on both traditional and social media within a one-month period, it revealed that although Atiku got more positive sentiments from people than the duo of Tinubu and Obi.
This means that people who discussed the candidates said more positive things about Atiku Abubakar than they did for Obi and even expressed lesser positive sentiments about Tinubu.
7,000 youths set to join PDP, says PDP New Generation
In another development, the PDP New Generation has revealed that 7,000 Nigerian youths are set to join the PDP ahead of the 2023 general elections.
The group also revealed that it will commence a 5-day nationwide distribution exercise of PDP membership cards to the youths scattered all over the country.
This was contained in a statement sent to Legit.ng on Saturday, July 2 by Dare Glintstone Akinniyi, the spokesman of the PDP New Generation.
Source: Legit.ng
