They are all also people of colour.įor the first time in UK history, no white men will occupy any of the four “great offices of state”: prime minister, Treasury, foreign office and home affairs.īritain might even have got its first ethnic Indian occupant of 10 Downing Street. The leading cabinet lieutenants of Britain’s third woman prime minister share her right-wing ideology. This combination of pictures created on September6, 2022 shows (from top L to down R) Britain’s new Home Secretary Suella Braverman, Britain’s Foreign Secretary James Cleverly, Britain’s new Health Secretary Therese Coffey and Britain’s new Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng leaving 10 Downing Street after a meeting with Britain’s new Prime Minister Liz Truss in central London. “It must be on character, competence, capacity and determination to deal with the problems of Nigeria.” Posted on SeptemSeptemAuthor Solomon Elusoji Categories Politics Tags 2023 presidency, Labour Party, Peter Obi Leave a comment on ‘Nobody Has Given Me Anything’: Obi Denies $150m Diaspora Funding UK’s Truss Makes History With Non-White Top Team “Nigeria 2023 election should not be based on ethnicity, religion, connection, ‘my turn’, or any bias,” he said. Obi, who has received widespread support from many young Nigerians, called for the 2023 elections to be based on merit. If they believe in Nigeria and bring their resources, both in terms of their material, talent and energy, we will turn around the country.” The investment Nigeria needs to turn around is diasporans. “They are the most critical components of turning around Nigeria. And you can see from my conversation and everything that what I am doing is saying let’s get involved. “I am consulting Nigeria diasporans to know why they should be involved in the Nigerian electoral process. “It is not campaign, it is consultation,” he said. He said his meetings were not part of campaign activities.
Obi has been meeting with Nigerians across the world in recent days, travelling through Europe and the United States. Even in the Bible, Joseph who left later came back to feed his people.” Every country that was turned around, was done by the diaspora. “This is the energy, the capacity that we need to turn around Nigeria. But what they would give Nigeria, because we need them to turn around Nigeria. What I need is not what they would give me. Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi on Tuesday denied his campaign has received $150m in donation from diaspora sources.Ī group under the aegis of Tinubu-Shettima Connect had urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to disqualify Obi over the alleged funding as it violates the Electoral Act on campaign funding.īut speaking during a meeting with Nigerians in London, the former Anambra state Governor said the allegations were based on mere speculation.
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