PORT HARCOURT — The Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, and his running mate, Senator Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, have the support of leaders and representatives of former militants, as well as a new think tank of ethnic nationalities of the Niger Delta who are oil producers.
They warned against poll rigging and result manipulation in the region in a communiqué that self-proclaimed General Commander Tabu Obriki and others wrote for the constituent members of the Conference of Ex-Militants of Niger Delta for Industrial Rebirth (CENDIR) and Elder Timi Kaiser-Wilhelm Ogoriba (TK) for the Oil Producing Ethnic Nationalities for Good Governance (OPEN-GG).
The Obi/Baba-Ahmed ticket was approved by Oporoza House, the Ijaw Leadership Stakeholders Working Group, the Movement for Survival of the Ijaw Ethnic Nationality of the Niger Delta, the Ogoni Renaissance, the Urhobo Progress Vanguard, the Edo Posterity Summit, and the Isoko Equity Agenda.
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In part, the communiqué said: that we have diligently, clinically, and objectively investigated the political manifesto, character, competence, capacity, and virtues of the four main presidential candidates for the forthcoming Nigerian election on February 25, 2023.
“Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s presidential candidate, possesses the highest governance intelligence quotient, ingenious industrial competence, resourceful innate integrity, compassionate potentials, and the propensity to decisively implement practical solutions to the well-documented myriads of leadership failure, epic environmental degradation, and traumatic corruption that have hampered real development in our Niger Delta region for too long.
“We hereby passionately appeal to every ex-militant, youth group, women’s group, and leadership of ethnic nationalities of the region to come to terms with the justifications we have given above, having come to that unanimous and unequivocal conclusion.
“In light of this, we ask you to join us in delivering every piece of ballot paper that arrives on the soil, shores, creeks, cities, towns, camps, and hamlets of our Niger Delta region for Mr. Peter Obi and Sen. Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, his amiable running mate, as the next President and Vice President of Nigeria.
Atiku Abubakar of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), and Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP) were rejected for a variety of reasons by ethnic nationalities and ex-militants.