Supporters of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, have defiled rains across the country on Saturday to fill up streets in PortHarcourt, Rivers State, Auchi, Edo State, Makurdi, Benue State and Afikpo, Ebonyi State, in a one million march rally.
Goldennewsng reports that the one million march rally has a large turn up of youths dressed in shirts crested the former governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi and his vice-presidential candidate, Yusuf Baba-Ahmed. Also, crested on the shirts is the party logo of the Labour Party.
The turnout of the supporters who are ninety percent youths across, PortHarcourt, Benue, Auchi and Afikpo is sending a political signal to the big political parties.
Peter Obi, Labour Party presidential candidate in the build-up to the party’s presidential primaries defected to the Labour Party citing ideological differences.
He was a former member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) which has Atiku Abubakar as its presidential candidate.
The popular choice of most Nigerian youths promised the youths that he wanted to take back the country from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the opposition PDP that was in power for 16 years and give back to them.
Peter Obi’s campaign promise of moving the country from consumption to production resonates well among the youths who see him as a saviour in a country ravaged by the corruption of the old political class.
In the 2019 general election, Peter Obi contested as a vice-presidential candidate under the PDP along with Atiku Abubakar, the incumbent presidential candidate of the PDP.
The supporters of Peter Obi who designate themselves as ‘Obidients’ have been accused to be only social media based.
In what seems like proof of their determination to see to the success of their candidate come 2023 general election, the Obidients started a one million march rally across the country for sensitizations of the grassroots people who are off the social media.
The first of the rallies started with Lafia in Nassarawa State, the train moved to Calabar, Cross River State, to Owerri, Imo State.
Peter Obi will be contesting the highest office of the country in February 2023 along with influential and more established political candidates and parties, Bola Tinubu of All Progressives Congress, a former governor of Lagos State and Atiku Abubakar of Peoples Democratic Party, a former vice president of the country, Nigeria.
