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Reactions have greeted the pronouncement by the National Universities Commission (NUC), favouring the temporary shutdown of the higher institutions of learning, between the 22nd of February through the 14th of March. Eminent personalities which include Peter Obi of the Labour Party have lauded the National Universities Commission, (NUC), for the closure of universities and inter-university centres which it ordered. This will enable students who have been spread nationwide the opportunity to participate in the polls and exercise their constitutional rights to vote, as directed by the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu. With higher schools shut for the aforementioned period, it is heart-warming that everyone will be closed up in respective closets close by friends and families, and to a meaningful degree, the safety of lives is guaranteed. Obi on Twitter heartily welcomed this decision of the NUC to close universities ahead of the 2023 general elections, a directive the Education ...

Former presidential aspirant and PDP chieftain, Dele Momodu, on Tuesday, 6th February 2023, has stylishly come out to describe Nigeria's Party System as a ‘Two-Party’ one by referring to Peter Obi as a Third Force. On Channels TV’s ‘The 2023 Verdict’, he said, the Labour Party had aspired to become a ‘Third Force’ to bring change to the political landscape, but is ‘struggling’ because a presidential race is not a marathon and ‘takes time to build bridges’. “Usually, in many countries,” he had said, “you have two mainstream political parties and candidates. In the case of Nigeria, now we seem to have a third force, the fourth force is not doing much.” Even though he categorises Obi as part of the ‘leading candidates,’ stating them as Atiku, Tinubu, Obi, (note the arrangement), then others, the use of the term embeds much in portraying Obi’s ‘probable’ fate in the elections. What is a ‘Third Force’? Though originally used by the ANC in the 1980s/1990s with what is of no ‘concern’ in ...