The Labour Party Presidential Campaign train makes a landmark stop on Tuesday December 20 in Akwa Ibom State, the State of origin of Margaret Obi, the wife of the party’s candidate, Peter Obi.
Obi, a faithful son-in-law of Akwa Ibom State, married Margaret many years ago and the marriage is blessed with two children.
Already, the State capital Uyo and the rest of the State are charged for their daughter and her husband who arrived the State on Monday for the momentous rally.
At the rally, Obi is expected to continue his message of taking back Nigeria and transforming it from consumption to production and eradicating poverty by creating job for the energetic youths of Nigeria.
A victory for Labour Party and Obi on February 25, 2023 means that an Akwa Ibom daughter will be the country’s First Lady and the people of the State is not taking it for granted.
Meanwhile, Obi, who spoke to journalists at an interactive session in Uyo at the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Akwa Ibom State Council Secretariat on Monday, said the conviction of his Campaign Organisation’s Director General, Dr. Doyin Okupe, over alleged money laundering would not break his resolve to be Nigeria’s President.
Obi said this during interaction with journalists in Uyo at the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Akwa Ibom State Council Secretariat on Monday said he was undaunted by the conviction and would continue with his campaign and allow the due process of law to take its course.
The Labour Party Presidential candidate said: “I am hearing about it (the conviction) just like you. I am still studying what is coming out of the Court and everything. I believe in the rule of law. It is not going to demoralise me.
“Today, when I arrived Akwa Ibom somebody asked me why I haven’t been using my aircraft because it has been grounded and all that, and I said to him that nothing demoralises me.
“In my life, I have never stayed where they dropped me, otherwise, I would have been where they dropped me before. This election, if they like, let them do anything about people who are around me. I will get there,” Obi said.
On the impression that he does not have political structure to win the presidential election, he said he was determined to dismantle the existing political structure in the country which encouraged corruption and has been spreading poverty among Nigerians.
According to him: “The structure they have today is the structure we want to destroy. It is the structure of criminality. It is structure that produced 133 million people living in poverty,
“It is the structure that produced 20 million out of school children. It is the structure that has made Nigeria surpass India in infant mortality. It is the structure that will destroy Nigeria and we want to destroy that structure”
The LP presidential candidate added that his priority would be how to secure a United Nigeria and pull people out of poverty.
He that said if elected president of the country come 2023, he would work towards the realisation of the Ibaka Deep Seaport in Akwa Ibom State, adding that “my problem is how to create a future and make Nigeria a productive and not a consuming nation.”
