3,000 Borno Volunteers Begin Grassroots Campaign For Atiku/Okowa

No fewer than 3,000 volunteers are set to embark on house-to-house campaign by the Borno State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to secure votes for the presidential candidate of PDP Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and his running mate Ifeanyi Okowa in the 2023 presidential election.

The organisation responsible for implementing the strategy, Borno house-to-house for Atiku And Okowa, was launched at the weekend in Maiduguri.

The director-general of the organisation, Mustapha Shehu, said at its launch that the volunteers would campaign for the victory of the Atiku/Okowa presidential race and all other PDP tickets in the state.

Shehu said that 10 volunteers would operate under a coordinator, adding that the ward coordinators would be guided and monitored by a senior coordinator at the local government area level.

He said the list of the volunteers would be forwarded to the national secretariat of the party, to be fed into the database of its campaign organisations.

“We have observed that we can only win elections in Borno State through house-to-house campaigns,” Shehu stated.

“With this strategy, a volunteer will enter a household, meet the members of the household and directly persuade them to vote Atiku/Okowa as president and vice, Mohammed Jajari as governor of Borno, and all other PDP candidates down to the state Assembly level,” the DG explained.

Shehu warned the volunteers at the occasion to resist every provocation to incite violence during the campaign and the actual elections, alleging, “Wherever they (ruling APC) observe that they will lose the election, they will incite violence.”

He said the PDP adopted the house-to-house strategy in order to sanitise politics in Borno State.