Medical workers form group reaching out to the grassroots
By Jeph Ajobaju, Chief Copy Editor
More than 38,000 medical doctors and other health workers have formed a group called ‘Docs and Medics for Peter Obi’ to traverse the nooks and crannies of Nigeria and garner 25 million votes for the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP).
One of their tools is using free medical service to reach the grassroots in cities, towns, and villages, it emerged in Abuja on Monday.
The Obi camp also enlarged the same day with the defection to it by All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) National Women Leader Ada Nwanyanwu along with some other female politicians.
Nwanyanwu said she left APGA because “Peter Obi has the answer to the challenges facing Nigeria.”
DMPO Convener Uche Uzoukwu, a medical doctor, explained during presentation of working tools by three support groups at LP headquarters in Abuja how DMPO plans to deliver the 25 million votes in 2023.
“Nurses, doctors and pharmacists are coming together under the name Docs and Medics for Peter Obi. Politics is a game of numbers and everyone is important.
“Therefore, 11,000 doctors, 27,000 medics have come together and have formed even state groups,” he disclosed.
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Reaching the grassroots
“We are reaching out to the local governments and have moved down to the wards and leaders have been inaugurated.
“We are moving down to the polling units and have 500,000 to grow and encourage them to get in touch with 50 people as they attend to patients. With this, we can have 25 million votes,” Uzoukwu added, as reported by Vanguard.
“We want to deliver 25 million votes, by giving right to life and to be well, the votes can be gathered.
“Medical outreaches have been in place and are still being used. Community members at the outreaches are encouraged to vote Peter Obi with a promise that the exercise will continue once Labour Party wins.”
Uzoukwu said Obi has the capacity to tackle brain drain in the health sector and medical workers would stay behind after the 2023 vote to develop the sector.
He recounted how DMPO had paid for thousands of people in 26 states and 52 locations to register for Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) with Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
LP National Chairman Julius Abure said Nigeria has not experienced democracy since the return of civil rule in 1999 but enthused it will start do so from 2023 once Obi becomes President.
In his view, both the All Peoples Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are owned by those who fund them, not by the general public, stressing that he who pays the piper, dictates the tune.
Abure lampooned those who claim the LP has no structure, saying such narrative is buried by the rising popularity of the party.
