Peter Obi has told his ‘Obidient’ movement to vote for governorship candidates with character, competence, capacity, and compassion in the March 18, 2023, gubernatorial elections across Nigeria.
Obi said this during an interview on a television programme yesterday, while explaining why the party did not produce governorship candidates in most of the States in the forthcoming governorship election in Nigeria.
The LP presidential candidate said it does not matter if such candidates are members of the Labour Party, (LP) or not, insisting that the ‘Obidient’ movement would support good candidates from other political parties.
Obi had earlier said he was only challenging the process that led to the declarations of Bola Tinubu, candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC) as the president-elect in the February 25 presidential election.
Peter Obi while responding to questions when he appeared on the Arise Television breakfast show, on Monday, noted that he has no ill feelings against the APC presidential candidate, whom he described as “my senior brother”.
Obi was emphatic on his condemnation of the process, under which the election was conducted. He stated that the Labour Party remained convinced that the election “was carried out with disregard for law and due process, and with overbearing evidence of malfunctions, discrepancies, interference, intimidation, thuggery, alterations and criminality”.
He also stated that his support for Labour Party’s governorship and State assembly candidates in next Saturday’s election was 100 percent.
Obi said that all LP candidates who got the ticket through the normal process enjoyed his total commitment and support and urged the people to vote for them on Saturday.
