Ahead of next year’s general election, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi on Thursday, campaigned at the Liberation Stadium in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.
Africa Today News, New York reports that Mr. Obi, a former governor of Anambra State, was at the rally with his wife, Margaret, and many other stalwarts of the party and presidential campaign council.
The musical duo of Peter and Paul popularly called P-Square where on ground to ensure that the crowd made up of LP supporters were entertained.
However, embattled ally of Obi, Doyin Okupe who the party’s Presidential Campaign Council insisted is still a member was absent at the rally on Thursday.
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Recall that last month, Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike promised logistics support for the campaigns of Obi; and his New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) counterpart, Rabiu Kwankwaso.
Wike, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has been at loggerheads with his party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar over the chairmanship of Iyorchia Ayu. Atiku, who has been to most states for campaigns, has not visited Rivers since the beginning of electioneering for 2023 general elections.
Wike has refused to campaign for Atiku and it is not clear whether he will support Obi, Kwankwaso or Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Meanwhile, Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike had yesterday stated that he will make his preferred presidential candidate known in January 2023.
The governor, who stated this on Thursday, said he will also campaign for his adopted candidate nationwide.
‘From January next year, I will campaign to my people whom they will vote for,’ Wike said when he commissioned the tenth flyover by his administration in the Obio-Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers.
‘So, all of you who have been in suspense, who have been saying all kinds of things, abusing me, wait. January is here.
‘Not only will I tell them (my people) whom to vote, I will move from state to state (for campaigns) and why they should vote for the person, nothing will happen,’ he said.
Following the PDP presidential primary in May where he lost out, Wike has been at loggerheads with Atiku Abubakar over the chairmanship of Iyorchia Ayu.