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Frontline Presidential Candidate, Mr. Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim has declared his candidacy as the best fit to rescue Nigeria from the politics and practice of recycling leaders. The candidate who has emerged as a third force in the race towards next year’s presidential elections, said as a matter of fact that “while recycling of waste products might be good for the environment, it is bad for governance” He stressed at an interactive session with journalists at the weekend that the world has developed to appreciate the importance of recycling refuse and waste products, but cannot grow to the extent of accepting fading personalities as our potential rescuers. “What we need now is a new generation of leaders. We no longer need the cabal anymore. We cannot accept a situation where we accommodate multiple pension-receiving individuals. I mean those who have been living on government expenses in ages. It is good to retire these people and the time to do that is now”, Olawepo-Hashim state...

ANN Presidential candidate, Olawepo Hashim volunteers at a remote village in Kano, heart of Northern Nigeria. Mr Rights gathered that this silent campaign is what the ANN candidate, Hashim has been doing over the past 10 months without much publicity. He believes that a serious presidential campaign must be rooted in the grassroot before going on air and that is exactly what he has focused on. Watch the video of Hashim volunteers in remote village in Kano. https://youtu.be/LEZpUa62z2k

Dr.Jay Osi Samuels In this exclusive interview with Mr Rights, National Chairman of Alliance for New Nigeria (ANN), Dr. Jay Osi Samuels talks about the controvercy surrounding ANN presidential primary election. He also explained how the party was formed and the powerful forces trying to hijack the party. Dr. Samuels also clarified the party's relationship with Pastor Adeboye and issues that led to the current controversy. Please give us a brief introduction about yourself I am Dr. Jay Osi Samuels; a Medical Doctor by training, with specialization in Public Health, International Health Development and Health System Strengthening. I am from Edo state, born and bred in Ibadan, buttered in Lagos and I was based outside the country, United States presicely before returning to the country in 2016. I studied medicine at the University of Ibadan and I did my post graduate studies at Harvard University. There has been a lot of controversy regarding the formation of your party, Alli...

Mr Rights has gathered that People’s Trust, a mega party led by former president of Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Olisa Agbakoba (SAN), which has members and political groups, including the Third Force led by former president Olusegun Obasanjo has identified the Presidential candidate of Alliance for New Nigeria (ANN), Mr Gbenga Olawepo Hashim as a possible presidential candidate of the third force, sources claimed. The third force coalition is holding a meetings today and tomorrow in Lagos, Nigeria to resolve on the candidate of the coalition. In a statement by the party’s national secretary, Mallam Naseer Kura, the party’s first national convention, billed for today and tomorrow in Lagos, would be headlined by Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka. Recall that on 3rd October 2018, 593 delegates of Alliance for New Nigeria (ANN) at its national convention held in Abuja endorsed Olawepo Hashim as its authentic presidential candidate. The party also ratified its strategic Alliance ...

Dr Jay Samuel YO I first met Fela Durotoye, FD as he is popularly called in August of 2017. This meeting was brokered by Pastor Jim Bent who was introduced to me by Naseer Daura the erstwhile Interim National Secretary of ANN. I later found out that Jim and Daura have been friends from their days in the Nigerian Military School. My meeting with FD took place in my hotel room at the Four Points by Sheraton Hotel. This meeting that I thought would be a one-hour exploratory discussion to my amazement, started at 8pm and ended at well past midnight! After that meeting I was perplexed trying to make sense of all what we discussed. Two things that I could take away from that meeting was that FD wanted to court my friendship as a way of guaranteeing the ANN ticket and that he believes he is on a spiritual journey that had been ordained by God so he set out to bamboozle me with all sorts of revelations and prophesies to make me have no choice than to offer the ANN ticket to him right th...

The National Chairman of Alliance for New Nigeria (ANN), Dr. Jay Osi-Samuels has narrated how the party was rescued from highjackers and godfathers, saying it was not an easy task dealing with political and so called spiritual godfathers. " If i open my mouth and speak, Nigeria will boil'' he says. In a speech he delivered at the party’s national convention in Abuja on Wednesday, he said the party which is ideologically different from others suddenly found itself in the hands of godfathers, some of whom had hidden under the banner of church spiritual fathers. He further explained that forces of godfathers would have succeeded as a result of moles they planted in the party, but some genuine members within the fold stood up in defence of the party and its ideology. “Some powerful forces were surreptitiously working to disintegrate the party, they planted moles into the party and they almost succeeded in hijacking the structure of the party.” Dr. Osi-Samuels fur...

Alliance for New Nigeria has at its special convention and presidential primary  in Abuja on Wednesday expelled its former National Chairman, Dania Emmanuel and former Deputy National  Secretary, Mr. Osita Okonkwo from the party. Dania and Okonkwo were removed and expelled for anti-party activities. Recall that it has been reported that Dania Emmanuel and a former presidential aspirant under the party allegedly received hush money from the All Progressive Congress (APC) to compromise the party and stop Global Business man, Olawepo Hashim. The party, through a resounding voice vote of delegates from across the federation expelled the dou. The party also announced that it is now in strategic alliance with People’s Trust (PT) for the purpose of presidential and other political office for the 2019 general election. In addition to the Alliance with People's Trust, ANN also announced that 7 other political parties, which also saw the beauty in ANN's agenda are currently ...

Frontline presidential aspirant on the platform of the Alliance for New Nigeria, ANN, Mr. Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim, has emerged as the party’s candidate in the scheduled February 16, 2019 presidential election. Olawepo-Hashim won the party’s ticket at its national convention and presidential primary election held on the premises of Ibeto Hotel in Abuja with 593 delegates in attendance. The convention ratified his candidature through a voice vote following the earlier withdrawal of another presidential aspirant, Alhaji Ibrahim Eyitayo Dan-Musa.  Other presidential aspirants who had earlier indicated interest in the party’s ticket did not present themselves for screening by the party. The convention also ratified the strategic alliance between ANN and another political party, Peoples Trust, PT, in the single-minded mission to rescue Nigeria. Prior to the ratification of the candidature of Olawepo-Hashim, the convention had approved the expulsion of the suspended national chairma...

Pastor Dania Emmanuel, the suspended chairman of Alliance for New Nigeria (ANN) and Mr Fela Durotoye, a presidential aspirant under the party has been caught in a night club, celebrating the alleged N1.3bllion All Progressive Congress (APC) largesse. Recall that Fela Durotoye was alleged to have received N750million and Dania N250million from the N1.3 billion hush money said to have been provided by All Progressive Congress (APC) to halt the progress of Global Business man and frontline presidential aspirants under the banner of Alliance for New Nigeria (ANN), Mr Olawepo Hashim. Exclusive video of Fela and the suspended ANN chairman, Dania Emmanuel has been obtained at a night party, celebrating the APC largesse. https://youtu.be/U7tFhZlQDKY

The National Executive Committee (NEC) of the Alliance for New Nigeria (ANN) has dismissed as dubious, the National Convention of the party, held in Abuja September 29, to elect the party’s presidential candidate.  The party said after a meeting at the Bon Hotel Stratton that the convention for the election of a presidential candidate has only just been fixed for Wednesday, October 3, 2018, at a venue to be announced shortly in Abuja” The leaders called on “ANN members and the public to either ignore anyone parading him or herself as its presidential aspirant, or at best, be regarded as a jester” For the records, the National Executive Committee (NEC) said in the statement that the so-called Abuja 29th September convention was invalid because it did not comply with the Section 3, Sub-Section B (i) of the ANN Constitution.  The section states, “that the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the party shall convene the National Convention and appoint a Convention Organising ...

It has been exclusively gathered that All Progressive Congress (APC) has infiltrated Alliance for New Nigeria (ANN) with the aim of stopping Global Business man and frontline presidential aspirant, Mr. Olawepo Hashim. Olawepo Hashim who promised to create a $4Trillion economy for Nigeria is seen as a major threat by the rulling party, after the eloquent politician allegedly secured endorsement from middle belt leaders and generals led by Gen. TY Danjuma. A source close to the party revealed that, after Hashim got the nod of the middle belt generals last week, the rulling APC felt gittery and moved in quickly to halt his progress. Information emerged, on how an alleged N1.3billion hush money was deployed by All Progressive Congress (APC) through office of Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo to split Alliance for New Nigeria (ANN) on the eve of it's presidential primary, leading to the postponement of the party's convention. Investigation reveals that, the APC allegedly ...

“I AM STILL IN THE RACE ON ANN TICKET” Olawepo-Hashim The controversial convention of the Alliance for New Nigeria (ANN) supposedly fixed for today, Saturday, may have failed with the withdrawal of nineteen out of the twenty- six state chapters of the political party, while the majority chairmen have fixed Wednesday October 3 for the convention proper. The withdrawals announced yesterday followed the statement by frontline presidential aspirant, Mr. Olawepo-Hashim protesting the hurriedly organised convention by a faction of the party. Olawepo-Hashim however corrected impressions that he has withdrawn from the presidential race, saying he surely has not. “I am in the race. I have only pulled out of the hurried convention of the ANN fixed for today, Saturday, purportedly to elect the presidential candidate. I am still in the race for 2019 by the special grace of God” At a crowded press conference on Saturday, the nineteen party chairmen, who are NEC members, were joined by pa...

The attention of the Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim presidential campaign organisation has been drawn to the activities of some unscrupulous elements fronting for some powerful interests in the All Progressives Congress (APC). The intention of these elements is to destabilize the Alliance for New Nigeria (ANN) in order to use the party platform to further the interest of the failed ruling party, the APC. The said unscrupulous element, acting in alliance with a certain presidential aspirant who has been pretending to be campaigning for the office of president on the platform of the ANN, first launched a series of attack on the party in the build up to her congresses and national convention, which held in August 2018. With his fellow travellers, this so-called presidential aspirant also circulated disparaging remarks aimed at impugning the credibility of our principal in the social media, where he sustained a vicious campaign along with his hirelings. Having failed woefully in August to ha...

A vibrant ideological bloc and one of Nigerian political party, the Alliance for New Nigeria (ANN) has assured dismayed Nigerians to relax their minds about whether the outgoing President Buhari will hand over power since his defeat is now not only sure for the oppressed citizens but glaring to the president himself and the unpopular government he is leading. ANN in a statement by its spokesperson, Akinloye Oyeniyi, on Sunday in Abuja said it is aware there is a nationwide apprehension bothering on whether President Buhari will handover power should he lose the 2019 presidential poll, which it answered "capital yes" Going further, Oyeniyi said "Surely, we know Nigerians are sick of this present government which have not only failed in all critical sectors but have been keeping them in bondage for more than three years through its fascist regimentation of the country. "The ANN commends majority of Nigerians for their stance to withdraw their obedience to the ...

The political environment and calculations in Ebonyi State took another turn today, Thursday 6th September, 2018 as the Ebonyi State House of Assembly Minority Leader and honourable member representing Afikpo North-East State Constituency, Honourable Maria Ude Nwachi, defected to the Alliance for New Nigeria, ANN, from Peoples Democratic Party, PDP under which she was elected in 2015. In a statement to the press signed by the National Publicity Secretary of ANN, Akinloye Oyeniyi, the party said it is another epoch in the political history of our dear nation, Nigeria, as the nine months old political party produced its first serving political office holder in the person of Honourable Maria Ude Nwachi, the Member representing Afikpo North-East State Constituency and the Minority Leader in the Ebonyi State House of Assembly. The statement reads "Today Thursday 6th day of September, 2018 is a significant day in the political history of Nigeria and our dear party, Alliance for N...

The mutation of Olawepo-Hashim By Abiodun Adeniyi He rode to fame as a student union activist, and veered into advocacy as a graduate. He later resorted to public relations practice, and then detoured into oil. Then Gas, and now Energy. Soon, he got into politics: beginning as a presidential endorser, he moved into party administrator. And then he sought office as governor. A break followed, resulting into the expansion of a business, flourishing across Africa, in Europe and the Americas. Somewhat like a fairy-tale, sometimes incredible, his concerns have flourished, and the young, ever agitated mind of yesteryears, have become a risen man of today, with promising manners for greater heights. That’s the story of Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim, who lately revealed his paternal identity, through the origin of his father, Hashimi Abdullah’s as being Kebbi State born, and who’s now vying for the nation’s top job, the presidency. Olawepo-Hashim is not however your conventional busine...

MrRights present 25 points extracted from an interview by ANN presidential aspirants, Olawepo Hashim • The country we want to build is the country where your regional descent should not define you politically. • I’m completely a cosmopolitan person and we have a lot of Nigerians having dual citizenship. I don’t have dual citizenship. I have only the Nigerian passport. I’ve had the opportunity of taking citizenship of other countries but I had never done that. • What I’m saying is that you have people who were born abroad who could even contest to become British Prime Minister. So, why should that be a big issue in Nigeria? • The Nigeria of our dream is the Nigeria where any Nigerian can get up from anywhere and contest for public office. • I was just talking about Sir. Kashim Ibrahim running election in Benue – a Borno man in a predominantly Christian state, a Muslim and he was elected into the Northern Assembly. • You talk about Zik of Africa who was elected into the Western ...