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The Labour Party (LP) is a social democratic political party in Nigeria. The party was created in 2002 and was previously known as the Party for Social Democracy (PSD) before changing to its current name the following year. Built on the ideology of social democracy, the party aims to promote and defend social democratic principles and ideals ...
The 2023 Nigerian presidential election was held on 25 February 2023 [a] to elect the president and vice president of Nigeria. [1] Bola Tinubu, the former governor of Lagos State and nominee of the All Progressives Congress won the election with 36.61% of the vote, just under 8.8 million votes to defeat over runners-up former vice president Atiku Abubakar (Peoples Democratic Party) and former ...
There are also a number of smaller parties, the largest of which are the Labour Party (LP), All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) and Young Progressives Party (YPP) including the African Democratic Congress (ADC), People's Redemption Party (PRP), Social Democratic Party (SDP), and eleven other parties registered with the Independent National ...
Labour Party (Nigeria) Olumide Osaigbovo Akpata (born 7 October 1972, from Edo South Senatorial district , Edo State) is a Nigerian legal practitioner and politician. He was a senior partner and the head of the Corporate and Commercial Practice Group at Templars law firm in Nigeria until his resignation on 31 August 2023 to enable him to pursue ...
Joe Ajaero was a research officer at the One Mechanised Infantry Division Nigerian Army, Kaduna, between 1990 and 1991 for his NYSC [8] He worked as a reporter/correspondent and assistant news editor at Vanguard from 1992 to 2001 before joining the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) as the Head of Training/Information between 2001 and 2005.
In 2016, about 25 affiliates left to form the United Labour Congress, but they rejoined the NLC in 2020. [11] [12] By the end of the year, it had 43 affiliates, which as of 2016 represented more than 4,000,000 members. [13] One of the strongest protest of the NLC can be traced to January 2012 during the President Goodluck Jonathan administration.
The Congress for Progressive Change filed an application to register with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on 26 March 2009, and received official approval and registration on 28 December 2009. [1] The majority of its initial members were formerly members of the All Nigeria People's Party (ANPP). [6]
The primary contender was former vice-president Atiku Abubakar of the People's Democratic Party (PDP). [33] Kingsley Moghalu of the Young Progressives Party (YPP), Yele Sowore of the African Action Congress (AAC), and Fela Durotoye of the Alliance for a New Nigeria (ANN) were other popular candidates who were all relatively young.