Massive Obi Abuja rally driven by Obidients making voluntary donations
By Jeph Ajobaju, Chief Copy Editors
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“People are contributing money, N1000, N10,000 and so on to carry out rallies for themselves. People are donating their buildings and the people of Nigeria are gradually owning the Labour Party ….
“All these movements and activities you are seeing all over, Labour Party has no contribution to them.
“The people are mobilising themselves, they print the logo of the party themselves, they print campaign materials from their pockets and they are driving the process of the campaign by themselves ….
“They want to sack the looters, they want to change the status quo. They want to put an end to the activities of some people who have stolen from the common purse” – Julius Abure, LP Chairman
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Carpenters and vulcanisers and students and professionals in the Obidient Movement funded their mega march for Peter Obi in Abuja at the weekend, without input of one kobo from the Labour Party (LP), its National Chairman has said.
Julius Abure stressed the rallies for the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) on Julius Abure stressed the rallies for the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) on both sides of River Niger, from Kano and Nasarawa to Jos, and from Lagos to Abakaliki and Enugu, show the massive support of people in the grassroots.
Obi – who, for once, is not playing tribal politics – is gaining momentum across the land as farmers, artisans, and other hardworking citizens whose wealth and dignity are stolen and converted into bullion van politics to buy their votes and rig elections crave change.
Pat Utomi, a member of the LP, said on Arise TV a few days before huge and peaceful rally in Abuja, that the LP structure is bigger than those of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who are mobilising simply to rig the election in 2023.
“In every state of the federation, the NLC [Nigeria Labour Congress] has commissions … making 36 labour commissions. I still spoke to them two months ago. The TUC [Trade Union Congress] built its own,” Utomi said.
“Then above and beyond this, we have in the big tent groups like professional groups that are membership and have a commitment to a new order.
“We have other political parties that are part of this same big tent … the concerned professional societies that I talked about and almost all the support groups with their networks local, global in many cases, and all of those constitute structure.”
Vanguard reports that Obi’s supporters who morph into the ‘Obidient Movement’ marched in great numbers across designated routes in Abuja.
A coalition of Support Groups and well wishers began the walk from Unity Fountain in the Central Business District (CBD) through the City Centre to the City Gate on Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Road.
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Political party for the poor
“The rallies are not surprising, it is because the Labour Party has a people oriented candidate that will work for the people and that will effectively serve the interest of the party,” Abure explained, per reporting by Vanguard.
“Of course, the people must own the process, the people will fund the process because they say he who plays the pipe dictates the tune. And therefore the people are the owners of the party and that is why they are funding these activities.
“People are contributing money, N1000, N10,000 and so on to carry out rallies for themselves. People are donating their buildings and the people of Nigeria are gradually owning the Labour Party.
“And of course, you know that the Labour Party is a party for the poor, the artisans, students, market women, the down trodden, civil servants, hewers of wood and fetchers of water and the ordinary man in the street.
“They own the party and they form more that 90 per cent of Nigerians.
Sacking the treasury looters
“By the time campaigns start, you will see people campaigning for the party. All these movements and activities you are seeing all over, Labour Party has no contribution to them.
“The people are mobilising themselves, they print the logo of the party themselves, they print campaign materials from their pockets and they are driving the process of the campaign by themselves and that is what we are seeing.
“The people are now asking questions about how they are being ruled, they want to sack the looters, they want to change the status quo.
“They want to put an end to the activities of some people who have stolen from the common purse. The people have always been at the receiving end, but all those scenario are about to change.
“The party is the voice of the voiceless, and that is what you see in those rallies, that is what is replicated all over the nation.
“The Labour Party is changing the political narratives in Nigeria. This is happening for the first time.
“Nigerians have decided to take their destinies in their hands and have risen to the occasion by demonstrating their willingness to do the needful to take the nation out of the woods.”
Obi, LP don’t induce supporters with money, says Utomi
“Every meeting political parties have, people receive [money] … but for the first time in recent Nigerian history, the support groups [for Peter Obi] are the ones funding their activities,” Utomi added.
“I know for a fact hardly a dime has gone from the Peter Obi organisation to any of these movements you see around the country whether they’re called one-million, two-million or whatever march.
“All of those have been organic from the people. That hasn’t happened in Nigeria in a long time.
“Obi’s manifesto is ready and will be made [public] shortly, and the people will be happy.”