In order to coordinate efforts for the general elections in 2023, the Bayelsa State Labour Party chapter opened its state secretariat along the Isaac Boro Expressway in Yenagoa on Saturday.
The LP also launched a number of committees that had been formed previously for the party’s presidential campaign, as well as local government coordinators.
Speaking after conducting the building’s inauguration, Uduak Udoh, the LP candidate for governor of Akwa Ibom State, expressed faith in Peter Obi, the party’s presidential standard bearer, and claimed that Nigerians are clamoring for him.
Udoh, who was joined by Charles Ebong, his running mate, and Iniobong Nyong, the vice chairman of the Akwa Ibom LP, among other leaders, called Peter Obi “a man of proven integrity” who was capable of administering the nation well.
He said, “Everybody is yearning for Peter Obi. We know that he has what Nigeria needs. Nigeria needs a man of proven integrity, a man that can deliver. And who else do we have than Peter Obi? Nigerians want him. He talks about industrialisation; he talks about human capital development; Nigerians need someone who can eradicate poverty and Peter Obi would do that for us.
“He is not just saying it, he has done it before when he was a governor and we know he will do it again. We know his records, it is clean and he will do it for us.”
Alagoa Morris, the LP Presidential Campaign Council’s Bayelsa State Coordinator, stated in his speech that the party was making a lot of effort to persuade the state’s population that Peter Obi was the best candidate for the position.
He expressed his happiness at receiving a number of calls from people in other political parties who had promised to support the LP presidential candidate instead of their own candidates.
Morris, who called for sacrifice in order for Peter Obi to win the election, said: “We need to be free, and this nation needs to support the Peter Obi cause. This movement aims to liberate Nigerians from the corrupt political class there.
“So, people should vote their mind, and we are saying they should vote for Peter Obi because he has shown capacity, not only capacity, he is a leader who had shown exemplary conduct; he is not receiving a pension; Obi is one who paid all contractors who delivered in his tenure as a governor and also did not owe any pensioner. He did not owe.
“Nigeria need someone who can manage public finances efficiently; and the human capital development of Nigerians. This, Peter Obi, will give to Nigerians.”
Eneyi Zidougha, the Bayelsa State Chairman of the LP, also spoke in favor of Peter Obi, underlining that over 70 volunteer organizations were actively involved in the effort to ensure the party’s victory in the upcoming Presidential elections.
