Presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the February 25 election, Peter Obi, has declared that his party would win the November 11, 2023 governorship election in Imo State.
He made the assertion in Owerri, the state capital at the flag off of the party’s campaigns for the poll. Obi said LP is known for “performance, excellence and credibility.”
Citing Abia State which the party controls as a product of good governance, Obi said the people of the state now have hope and were witnessing good governance because a “first class brain” who knows what he is doing is now the governor of the state.
He described Senator Athan Achonu as the only governorship candidate of the party in Imo State and Julius Abure, as the only dully recognized and authentic national chairman of the party.
Obi urged the people of Imo State to come out en mass and vote Senator Achonu as the next governor of the state on November 11.
He highlighted that the process that produced Achonu as the party’s governorship candidate in the state was credible.
According to him, “Abure is the national chairman of our party. We don’t have another chairman. LP will win Imo State.
Athan Achonu is the only candidate of the party and he is the best in Imo State. I am happy nobody has changed the process. I believe in process.
“LP wants to change Nigeria; we are asking Nigeria for the opportunity. Give us chance in Nigeria, there would be change. In Abia State today there is hope, that is what is called governance.
“We want Nigeria to have leaders that will do what they preach. We know what it takes to change Nigeria. That is why we are here. We know what it takes to change Imo. In Abia today, there is hope that is what is called governance. This is because a first-class brain who knows what he is doing is the governor there.
“I believe in process. Achonu emerged through the right process. Vote for LP and things will start happening.”
The governor of Abia State, Alex Otti, said he was the chairman of the panel that conducted the primary election that produced Achonu as the governorship candidate of LP in the state.
He urged the people of the state to vote for Achonu, and said that he was not even up to 100 days in office and good things are already happening in the state.
In his speech, the national chairman of the party, Abure submitted that he is confident that LP would form the next government in the state.
Abure said that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) had failed Nigerians and the people of the state in particular.
After receiving the party’s flag, Achonu promised to fix the state if he wins the governorship election.
Achonu said that on assumption of office as the next governor of the state, he would conduct local government election, fix the roads and the electricity, end insecurity and ensure that the civil servants and pensioners are promptly paid.
