Former Anambra state governor, Peter Obi has emerged as the presidential candidate for the Labour Party, LP, and will be on the ballot in the forthcoming presidential elections in February 2023.
The party held her convention on Monday, 30th May in Asaba, Delta State. While a total of 185 delegates had been cleared to participate in the primaries, a total of 98 votes were cast with 97 in favor of Peter Obi.
Obi became the strongest contender for the ticket after his closest rival Pat Utoi withdrew to support him. Following in Utomi’s lead were two other aspirants Olubusola Emmanuel-Tella, and Faduri Joseph. However, one aspirant, Mrs Olushola Emmanuel-Tella remained in the race.
After the INEC-monitored voting ended, the LP Returning Officer, Mr. Usman Aliu Abdulahi declared Peter Obi the winner of the presidential ticket.
Peter Obi joined the Labour Party after announcing his resignation from the PDP. Announcing his membership of the LP, Obi said he had chosen the party that he considers to be in line with his aspirations and mantra of taking the country from consumption to production. He further added that the LP is synonymous with the people, workers, development, production, securing, and uniting Nigerians as one family.
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After clinching the LP ticket, Peter Obi addressed the pressmen reiterating his plans to take Nigeria from consumption to production.
“If you listen carefully, you hear people talk about 100 million living in poverty. Why do we have insecurity as a problem? The number one thing to fight insecurity is to pull people out of poverty. When you have over 20 million out of school, then we have a problem, we will invest in education,” the presidential hopeful said.
Obi also added that his focus would be to ensure increased power production in the country.
“The reason we don’t have power in Nigeria is because our leaders have chosen not to do so. The first time this country borrowed money in September 1964 was when Tafawa Balewa wrote the World Bank for $82 million to build the Kainji Dam…. Fifty-eight years after, we are still struggling with 4,000 megawatts. As at today, Nigeria is owing $120 billion. Imagine if we had used that money for power, we would have be generating over 40,000 megawatts of electricity.”
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