…With Obi, Nigerians will become more secured, no ASUU strike
Labour Party (LP) has said it is making special interventions, not only in making sure that registered voters in the region get their PVCs ahead of the polls; but also in many other areas that would boost voter interest in the region because of the strategic nature of the 2023 general election.
The Head, Intervention Team of the Obi/Datti Presidential Campaign Council of Labour party, Dr. Ifedi Okwenna disclosed this in Awka during a special meeting with members of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Anambra State Council, led by its chairman, Comrade Odogwu Emeka Odogwu, PhD at the Godwin Ezeemo International Press Center, NUJ Secretariat.
Okwenna said Labour Party is mobilizing to ensure that there is no voter apathy in the Southeast as feared by many. He explained that Obi is talented, intelligent, with best experience and team that will change all the key sectors of the country.
“We at the LP are making every necessary efforts to achieve good results at the polls. This is because, it will be wrong for other Nigerians to be lending their support to Peter Obi, while the Southeast will be found wanting, by not voting massively for the LP presidential candidate.
“We are traversing all the nooks and crannies; we have suspended sleep and rest to achieve this, and we are not relenting. In the next three weeks, presidential election will hold, and Nigerians will elect a president after their own heart.
“Nigerians needs a president with capacity, character, compassion, and who has the willpower to turn things around for the better, and the answer is in Peter Obi. Obi is one person among his contemporaries that can help Nigerians take back their country, and move it forward.”
“Voting the presidential candidate of the party, Mr Peter Obi to power will help to rebuild a new Nigeria where peace and security of lives and properties will be guaranteed.
“Obi’s administration would also reposition the education sector in such a way that the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) will never dream of embarking on industrial action.
“For all the Presidential candidates in this election, Obi is the most qualified. He is on the race because he has the character, capacity and competence to run. He is loved by all, very young and energetic. Obi is the only person among the four major contestants that can deliver on his mandate and take us to a new Nigeria of our dreams. You know how he turned the Anambra State throughout his tenure as governor
“New Nigeria is possible. Obi’s administration will be more responsive, create opportunities for all professionals, businesses and industries to thrive. Public officers will be responsible and responsive under his regime. All parts of Nigeria will be carried along because he does not discriminate. Nigeria will become more secured under his administration’ he stated.
The Coordinator, Diaspora Intervention for Obi/Datti presidential campaign council, Barr Franklin Nwakor, noted with regret that since the inception of the present democratic dispensation which started in 1999, the Southeast is yet to produce number one citizen of the country; while other zones have taken their turns at different times.
“By May, 2023, the North where Atiku and Kwankwaso are coming from shall have produced a president for about 10 years under Musa Yar’Adua and Mohammadu Buhari, as well as vice president for 6 years under Namadi Sambo.
“Southwest where Tinubu comes from, has produced a president and vice for 16 years in the last 20 years; under Olusegun Obasanjo and Yemi Osinbajo. The South-South has equally produced president for six years, and a vice president for two years within the same period, under Goodluck Jonathan.
The Southeast remains the only zone in Southern Nigeria yet to produce president for this country in the present democratic dispensation and, of course, since the end of the civil war in 1970,” he submitted.
Earlier, the Chairman NUJ Anambra, State Council, Comrade Odogwu Emeka Odogwu PhD thanked Dr Ifedi Okwenna and his team for considering NUJ Anambra Council as one of the first place to visit in the Southeast, and assured that their message of hope shall be spread to Ndigbo to ensure that voter apathy is curbed.
